The signs of the
Zodiac as seen through a different twist
Excerpt taken from and reorganized in Astrological order. Dane Rudhyar's
The Astrology of Personality:
Note:
Generative is operating in terms of
spirit.
Concentrative is operating in terms of
soul.
Distributive is operating in terms of
mind.
"Generative Fire
Aries is the starting-point of individual selfhood.
Concentrative Earth
Taurus operates in terms of
soul. It gives substance and depth to the Aries impulses.
Distributive Air
Gemini operates in terms of the
mind. It exteriorizes and interprets the individual impulsion of Aries, once focalized and insubtantiated in Taurus.
Generative Water
Cancer operates in terms of
spirit. It is the power that gives birth to concrete selfhood, that creates a concrete basis of operation-a home-for the individual
self.
Concentrative Fire
Leo refers to the creative release of
self, by means of which the soul knows itself whole and god-like.
Distributive Earth
Virgo operates in terms of
mind. It spreads the release of self of Leo through space, where it is seen as a mass of polar energies (The Virgin of Light). Discrimination is aroused in the mind as the problem of dealing with
polarities, with light and shade, arises.
Generative Air
Libra operates in terms of
spirit. It is the power that gathers and communalizes the emanations of individuals.
Concentrative Water
Scorpio operates in terms of
soul. It concentrates and sustains the collectiving urge of spirit-Air (Libra), the impulse toward "re-birth of Christ."
Distributive Fire
Sagittarius is that fire which blends, synthetizes and universalizes all elements and energies prior to the
Christ-birth -the birth of the
universal being.
Generative Earth
Capricorn operates in terms of spirit. It is the power of incarnation, the power to assume a body-from the point of view of the involving spirit.
Concentrative Air
Aquarius operates in terms of soul. It gives vitality and momentum to the
spiritual Earth (Capricorn). It is the breath of the collective soul.
Distributive Water
Pisces operates in terms of
mind. It effects the synthesis of energies that were brought to creative focalization in Capricorn, and vitalized in Aquarius."