Chapter XIV. Tropical, Equinoctial, Fixed, and Bicorporeal Signs

Amona the twelve signs, some are termed tropical, others equinoctial, others fixed, and others bicorporeal.

The tropical signs are two: viz. the first thirty degrees efter the summer solsticc, which compose the sign of Cangers and the first thirty degrees after the winter solstice, composing the sign of Capricorn. These are calted tropical, because the Sun, after he has arrived at their first points, ‘seems to turn, and to change his course towards a contrary

latitude * ; causing summer by the turn he makes in Can- __

cer, and winter by that which he. makes in Capricorn. There aze also two equinoctial signs: Aries, the first

# En other words, the Sun then begins to diminish his dectination, which, at the first points of the said signs, is at its greatest amount.

_after the vernal equinox 3 and Labrs, the first after thre au. tumnal equinox : they are so Called, because the 8un, when im the first point of cither, makes the day and night equat.

Of the remaining eight signs, four are fixed, and four bicorporeal. Those signs, which severally follow mnmediately after the two tropical and the two equinoctial. signe, are termed fixed, because, during the Sun’s presence in them, the cold, heat, moisture or dryness, of the season, which

commenced on his arrival in the preceding tropical or equtnoctial sign, is then more firmly established -—not, however, that the temperament of the season has in itself actually increased m vigour, but, having continued for some tithe in operation, it then renders all things more strongly affected by its mrfluence.

The bicorporeal signe severally follow the fixed signs ; and, being thus intermediately placed betweeh the fixed and the tropical signs, they participate in the constitutional properties of both, from their firet to their last degrees.