ELEMENTS
FIRE: ARIES, LEO, SAGITTARIUS EARTH: TAURUS, VIRGO, CAPRICORN AIR: GEMINI, LIBRA, AQUARIUS WATER: CANCER, SCORPIO, PISCES
The abundance or lack of elements within us contributes greatly to our personalities. To truly understand ourselves, we need a detailed look at how these elements influence our personal lives, daily routines, and even our career choices. Essentially, they shape our entire lives. By recognizing the elements that amplify our positive traits, as well as those that trigger undesirable behaviors we wish to change, we can gain valuable insights. The key to this understanding lies in analyzing the elemental composition of our personal ‘maps,’ revealing both our strengths and weaknesses.
This knowledge empowers us to enhance our strengths and effectively address those aspects of ourselves we find challenging or wish to modify.
Fire Element:
Confidence, ego, creativity, joie de vivre, enthusiasm, excitement, intense emotions, active, lively. Excess fire can lead to overconfidence, while a lack of fire can result in a lack of enjoyment in life and low energy. Fire signs are seen as representing passion, love, and ego, embodying the energy that warms, enlivens, creates, and shapes. They are cheerful, enthusiastic, passionate, strong, and honest individuals with high self-confidence. They love to move freely and can become impatient around sensitive or gentle people. They may experience issues with those dominated by water or earth signs, disliking the emotionality of water signs and the heaviness of earth signs. The destructive power of fire is interpreted at a higher level as rebirth, much like the phoenix rising from its ashes. The symbol of fire signifies purification, cleansing, and understanding the highest degree of spirituality with true enlightenment. In a way, it can be described as understanding through burning.
Earth Element:
Stability, reliability, understanding the world, adapting to systems, and making things concrete. Too much earth can lead to a lack of imagination. In some cases, excessive earth can make someone stingy and rigid. A lack of earth can make it difficult to achieve goals. They may not know how to approach things in life. People with a strong earth presence are positively characterized as practical, materialistic, grounded, security-conscious, realistic, productive, resilient, perfectionistic, organized, patient, reliable, consistent, meticulous, and humble. Earth signs are skeptical of more lively, quick-witted, and active people. They keep a bit of distance from air signs. The fast pace of fire signs can bother them.
Air Element:
Communication, relationships, knowledge, socializing, superficiality, and curiosity are words that describe these individuals. When air is too dominant, a person can be arrogant and overly intellectual. They may know many people but not be close to anyone. They may constantly research and be very talkative. They might be atheists. A lack of air can lead to antisocial behavior, difficulty expressing oneself, and learning difficulties. Air signs are associated with analysis, examination, ideas, intellect, and thinking. They are intellectual, observant, distant, indecisive, talkative, enjoy exchanging ideas, cooperative, changeable, and airy. People with excessive air can be indecisive, unstable, fragile, superficial, scattered, and live solely in their minds, lacking emotion. A lack of air can result in someone who is not impartial, closed to new ideas, and unable to look at themselves and their actions objectively.
Water Element:
Emotions, intuition, spirituality, nurturing, growth, compassion, sensitivity, mercy. An excess of water can lead to subjectivity, a disconnect between the imagination and reality, and a belief in supernatural powers. A lack of water can result in a merciless, harsh, and cruel personality. Water signs have fluctuating moods. They are easily hurt, emotional, protective, mysterious, adaptable, passive, and intuitive, with a strong imagination. Their sensitivity and vulnerability are extreme; they must control their emotional reactions and interpret them appropriately, or they can become unstable and easily affected by the slightest breeze. People lacking water can be insensitive, anxious, insecure, overly controlled, and out of touch with their inner world and depths. Water signs should understand the true nature of their emotions and desires, go through slow and painful processes to confront their real impulses, and thus find happiness.
ELEMENT DOMINANCE IN THE BIRTH CHART
The dominant and deficient elements in our birth charts are astrological factors we examine to analyze personality. Some individuals have a single dominant element, while others have two or three. In some charts, all four elements are equally distributed. As we always say, each person’s birth chart is unique, like a fingerprint.
Fire & Earth: These individuals are confident, courageous, and have a good understanding of life. They are very successful in their careers and achieve their desired professions. They are very strong and live life with 80-90% energy. They have resolved material and spiritual matters in their lives and live in security.
Fire & Air: These individuals are charismatic and attention-grabbing. Everyone admires them and wants to be their friend. They are radiant personalities. Desk jobs seem boring to them, and they prefer exciting careers. They want to live life to the fullest.
Fire & Water: This is a very contrasting and challenging combination. Their lives are like movies. They experience everything intensely. They love passionately and argue fiercely. They make quick decisions and cut things off abruptly. This combination brings extreme intensity and their passions run deep. They view things through the lens of their ego.
Earth & Air: These individuals are very intelligent and have a realistic perspective. They are like machines, constantly striving to make everything useful. They excel in accounting, finance, and mathematics.
Earth & Water: They live in their own world and have a melancholic nature. They are deep individuals prone to depression. They think a lot and easily handle difficult and boring tasks.
Air & Water: They experience a conflict between reason and emotion. It’s a contradictory combination. They often find themselves torn between their feelings and logic. People love them. They are both good listeners and genuinely understand others. They become marketing geniuses. In some charts, there is a high probability of experiencing psychological issues.