What Does It Mean The Fixed Mode Is Dominant Among The Inner Planets

The Modes — Fundamental, Stock-still, Mutable

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Information technology's time in one case again for us to intermission out our charts — create one at the FREE horoscopes (natal chart) area at Astro.com if yous don't already *always* continue i handy at this betoken — and go in on that little table labeled CFM across the elevation, FAEW down the left side.

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So, if y'all await at my chart as a guide, that's 9 characters in the C cavalcade, 2 in the F cavalcade, and 2 in the M column. (Nosotros talked about what the FAEW rows mean in a recent Woo-Woo Wednesday on the elements, of course.) Today, we're talking nearly those CFM messages.

These are the modes (AKA the modalities or qualities): Fundamental, Fixed, and Mutable. (Those of you in my Aligned Advantage membership, you already know this from our recent deep-dive.) Fundamental signs include Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn. Fixed signs include Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius. Mutable signs include Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces.

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You know I always honey to apply loglines and storyfied examples to aid simplify the woo for you. 😉 Gear up for your romp through the modes? Here we go.

Cardinal-dominant folks are your leaders. (Hi. I'm Bonnie Gillespie. I accept nine — count 'em, Nine — Cardinal signs running around in my nautical chart. Could I have escaped a life of leadership? Nope. No freakin' way.) Cardinals can run into every bit bossy amid the wrong mix of people or as mobilizers of big movements when the correct souls are aligned for the work. When Cardinals put themselves beginning — which is Hard for them to do with all these notes they have well-nigh everyone else's choices, since they so easily see how everyone could have things easier if they'd merely do things a certain mode, correct? — and stay good for you past allowing for downtime and fantabulous travel and best conditions for their best selves, they are fabulous execs because they come across what needs to be done and they say so, delegating beautifully. But if at that place's non the right mix of people who Want their leadership or in that location'due south non enough cocky-care around to aid the Cardinal-dominant among us be our best selves, these are some really enervating mo' fo' know-information technology-alls.

Fixed-dominant folks are your upholders. Non afraid to get shit done, they're gonna roll up their sleeves and exercise the damn thing. Information technology's non a problem; it'southward a project. And once there's a way you like things done, that's the way it e'er is done. For life. It'south not dull; information technology's stability at piece of work. Loyal, dependable, patient, hazard-averse, and able to stick with a goal through to the end (perchance too long, in some cases), Fixeds tin feel like they're in a oestrus if they're not careful to observe all the sameness going on. That "loyal to a fault" phrase exists for a reason… the Fixed folks sometimes need a reality cheque to realize they've held upwards their finish of the bargain long later the other political party has left the building. When their self-intendance is ritualized, Fixed-sign people do very well at maintaining the slow-and-steady-wins-the-race pace that suits them just fine.

Mutable-dominant folks are your flow-ers. Not 💐 flowers; flow-ers. 😉 Not only do they do well with alter, they crave it. They require it. They inspire it in others when they're at their best. Adjustable, flexible, happy to oblige, but at times inconsistent in ways that claiming those effectually them, Mutables are nifty at helping others handle change by office modeling how okay it is to just get with the flow. On the other stop of the spectrum, they're not great with conflict (Because why stick effectually for a fight when you lot can just modify direction and avoid it altogether?) just they are bully with mediation. If their self-intendance isn't on indicate, they tin can be a footling doormat-like and they won't even detect that'due south what's happening, since they're made of something too fluid to experience the advantage others may be taking.

At present. If you're similar me, you IMMEDIATELY went looking for where these groupings brand, like, naught sense, right?

My eyes go to the grandma of the signs (Cancer) existence a Cardinal one. Welp, my very own grandmother was a truthful Rosie the Riveter, working on a factory line and helping with labor unionization after the war because she wasn't done changing the world subsequently the need for bucking rivets in the wings of a B-29 Superfortress was over. Many other women went dorsum home after WWII. A Cardinal sign? No. Likewise much leadership to lean into, homebody sign or not.

Side by side, I await at that most adjustable Air sign (Aquarius) being a Fixed one. Welp, when I think of the almost shape-shifty, fun-loving, everything-is-always-unlike, discrete Aquarius friends, I know i of the reasons they bring SO MUCH flexibility to the party is specifically because they require the earth around them to be incredibly consequent. It is Considering of all the Stock-still infinite around them that they are able to teach us how to have fun coloring erratically… within the lines.

And of grade, I think about that most structured and particular-oriented of the signs (Virgo) existence a Mutable one. Huh? How is it possible that a Virgo is Mutable? Almost the flip to the Aquarius case above, the Virgo admittedly adores order and pragmatism… because when everything is as it should exist, they experience so good going with the menstruation. These are surprisingly spontaneous creatures… but according to schedule.

Now that nosotros've addressed those "how does this fit?" examples, let's examine how these modalities make PERFECT sense.

Of course Capricorn is Cardinal. People with strong Capricorn in their charts — specially in those large personality-placements of sun, rising (Air conditioning), and moon — could not escape leadership if they tried. When everyone looks around the room to encounter who'southward going to take roll when the teacher is late for some reason, their eyes all land on the Capricorn, even before she has looked up from her paper to notice she's been chosen.

Of class Taurus is Fixed. People with potent Taurus placements are going to always go the piece of work washed. While this is true of World signs in general, the Taurus is the most dependable when information technology comes to seeing things all the style through… I mean, ALL the way through. And that ability to plow the field, no thing the weather, is what makes sure anybody has a harvest to benefit from.

Of course Pisces is Mutable. People with stiff Pisces placements will never surprise you with how surprising they can exist. Because they go with their gut 99.9% of the time, it's challenging to know what they'll do next — not because it doesn't brand sense, but because most others cannot run into the evidence that what they're going to practise is the adjacent correct move. But of course it is. It simply feels right.

Run across if y'all can start to notice what of your core personality signs (again, that's your Sun for the structure/ego; Rising for the interior/fashion; Moon for the emotional resonance/worldview) are more like your element (Fire, Earth, Air, Water) or more like your mode (Cardinal, Fixed, Mutable). Of course, you lot're all of it — and so much more than (and but like when we talked through the elements, we're at first going on quantity of placements, not quality, but as always the interior placements accept greater "pull" on how we're perceived by others in the globe), just only to go started with this, notice what is truthful for y'all.

I'm Cancer sun (H2o/Cardinal), Libra rising (Air/Cardinal), and Libra moon (Air/Cardinal). So… while I am definitely a Water sign with LOTS of Air (that's the dreaminess of Water and the chatter, quick brain, never-shuts-off-ness of Air), I'k then completely Fundamental in personality that the qualities Cancer and Libra share are way more visible than where those signs are different. But Cancers are "make you recollect it was your idea" Cardinals… and Libras are "charm y'all 'til you lot can't wait to practise the work" Cardinals. So my leadership is not like what you lot'd get from a more overtly bossy Aries or a more driven Capricorn.

Now you lot! Share in the comments below what you've learned at present that I've walked you lot through the modes! 🙂 And of course, we tin chat almost this more than deeply during this month'southward Zoom and beyond for those of y'all in Aligned Advantage.

Ooh, this is so much fun! Are you lot loving it?

So much leaderly love! XO