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This is pictorially represented by a man who is half horse shooting an arrow from his bow. This sign suggests the passage of consciousness from one state to another. It is a sign of vibration, transmutation, and interchange, on any plane to which its energies may be directed; and all the activities tabulated in the books as belonging to this sign and its corresponding house may easily be interpreted by applying this method. The diffusion and differentiation of Aries are unified and centralised in Leo, and transmuted into mental light in Sagittarius. Leo is the fifth zodiacal sign, and oriental works describe five ‘Life Breaths’ or currents of vitality flowing through the body, each one associated with a planet. Sagittarius is the ninth sign, and the nine Muses of the Greeks are so many modes of mind, the higher mind which manifests as genius and transmutes consciousness from the abstract mental state to the manifested physical brain, or which bridges over the gulf between life in the body and life out of the body. Hence this is the sign of the prophet. In its best interpretation, the activities of this sign are directed towards a higher state of existence, in which aspiration and devotion are the keynotes. The dual nature of the sign shows the objective and subjective halves of the intuitional consciousness, and between these two states the life forces are constantly vibrating. Its most distinguishing characteristic, perhaps, is its love of sport and travel, having the attribute of sympathy.

Aries is the architect, the pioneer, Leo the organiser, the vitaliser, Sagittarius the builder, the executant.