The last article dealt with the water signs which the ancients used as an allegory for the emotions. Water, like emotion, is formless and can overwhelm us like a flood. It takes the earth to give shape and structure to any body of water like a lake or the banks of a river. The ancients assigned the Earth signs to balance or counteract the Water signs of emotions.
Sacred geometry is prevalent in the arrangement of the signs.
The Fire and Air signs are future oriented while the Water and Earth signs are past oriented. The ancients called them male or female. They are evenly distributed as alternating pairs of past and future around the zodiac circle. Each element has three signs that are always 120 degrees apart to create four triplicities. The symbol of Capricorn is the figure of a goat with the tail of a fish.