The intersection of personality type and astrology always interests me (typestrology, if you will). So I was intrigued to discover that Dane Rudhyar describes the 12 zodiacal types in his book An Astrological Triptych. He posits that we have a…
Now we come to the fourth and final temperament: air (or sanguine). John Frawley summarizes the four temperaments as follows: "The sanguine [air] wants to think; the choleric [fire] wants to act; the melancholic [earth] wants to have and to…
The choleric tempermanet is traditionally associated with the fire element and therefore correlates to quick action, courage, ambition. On the less beneficial end of the spectrum, when imbalanced, there can be anger and insensitivity. The choleric temperament relates to the…
The "Big 3" in an astrology chart are the Sun, Moon, and Rising signs. In an ideal world everyone would know what their Big 3 are. Temperament also has a Big 3: Rising sign element, Moon sign element, and Season…
The word phlegmatic probably immediately brings to mind phlegm and respiratory illnesses. In traditional medical astrology phlegm was associated with the water element and, when in balance, was believed to to lead to a calm and placid disposition. By the…