#Astrology

The zodiac begins with fire. Aries carries the gift of the start, the courage to go first, and the lifelong lesson of learning to finish.

The second sign turns the spark into something that lasts. Taurus carries the gift of steadiness, the love of the senses, and the lesson of letting go.

The third sign carries the gift of curiosity and the burden of its own quickness. Gemini is the zodiac learning to speak, and learning to land.

The fourth sign carries the gift of deep feeling and fierce care, and the lifelong lesson of the shell: protection that must not become a prison.

The fifth sign carries the sun itself: warmth, performance, and generous fire, with the lifelong lesson of learning to shine without needing the mirror.

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The sixth sign carries the gift of precision in service, and the lifelong lesson that perfection was never the assignment.

The seventh sign carries the scales: beauty, fairness, and the gift of the other side. Its lifelong lesson is finding the self that the balancing forgot.

The eighth sign goes where the others will not: depth, death, and rebirth. Scorpio carries the gift of intensity and the lesson of release.

The ninth sign fires its arrow at the horizon and follows it. Sagittarius carries the gift of faith in the distance, and the lesson of being here.

The tenth sign is the mountain goat with a fish tail: ambition with depth beneath it. Capricorn carries mastery, and the lesson of what summits are for.

The eleventh sign pours water it does not drink: vision for the many, distance from the near. Aquarius carries the future, and the lesson of the present person.

The twelfth sign swims in both directions at once: boundless feeling, porous edges. Pisces carries the ocean, and the lesson of the riverbank.

Fire, earth, air, water, crossed with cardinal, fixed, and mutable: the simple grid that organises all twelve signs, explained honestly.