The Three Modes or Qualities: Cardinal, Fixed, and Mutable signs

The Mutable signs are Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces.

Each sign on the mutable cross has a flexible, changeable, adaptable, and suggestible nature. The mutable quality goes with the flow better than other signs. 

The mutable signs are good with relationships and the details of day-to-day life. Mutable signs are very good at multitasking (doing many things at once). But they also tend to struggle with distractions. They may scatter their energies. They may lack the focus to move decisively toward a goal. When a chart has a preponderance of mutable signs, the person tends to have excess nervous energy. This nervous energy makes it difficult for the person to settle down.

The Sun’s passage through a mutable sign represents the final month of any season. Late summer, for example, when the leaves begin to fall, and the weather becomes more changeable as we begin to slide into the next season. Mutable signs pick up the quality of these seasons of change.

• Gemini, the mutable air sign. Their mental flexibility that gives them intelligence and the ability to grasp new ideas and handle a lot of information.
• Virgo, the mutable earth sign. Virgo is the ultimate multitasker. Virgos are helpful, versatile, and attentive to the details.
• Sagittarius, the mutable fire sign. Sagittarius has a talent for seeing the “big picture” in any situation. Good with philosophy, good at inspiring others.
• Pisces, the mutable water sign. Pisces is flexible on the emotional level. Their impressionability makes them so sensitive that they often feel other people’s feelings.

Putting it to the test

Count up the total number of planets in each mode in your chart. Give an extra count to the Sun, Moon, and Ascendant. Some charts have the planets balanced among each of the three modes. More often, a chart is heavy in one mode or the other.

Count up the number of planets in each mode in your chart. How do your totals describe you as a person?

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