This section is from the book "Astrology", by M. M. Macgregor. Also available from Amazon: Astrology.
This gives a love of public life, and a faculty for dealing with many people. It is artistic, attractive and harmonious, with a love of music, and a good tempered, witty, generous nature. Venus increases the home love and devotion, and tends to domestic happiness.
This nature is calm, active, self-complacent, restless, with an intense love-nature, and an inclination to nervousness. When perverted, it becomes underhanded, passionate, fretful and morbid.
This is an intellectual, careful, neat, economical, aggressive sign, with a love of exploration and reform, and a high ideal of domestic life. It has a strong desire to teach and elevate mankind, and also to domineer over others.
This adds courage, self-defense, love of science and wealth, and a tendency toward progress, conquest and war. It has an intense, almost animal instinct of love and protection for its children, and is sensitive and self-complacent in its nature.
This is a gainful, emulative sign, with a great love of knowledge, educational reform, science and culture. It is successful in teaching, lecturing and trading and is interested in the home and children, but lacks true domesticity. It is a variable nature, independent, reasonable, and always freedom loving.
This greatly increases the domestic love-nature, is aggressive and forceful, and gives courage in defense of home. It adds to the health and strength, is cautious, economical, tasteful, and sometimes lacking in frankness.
This gives an argumentative, mercenary, selfish impulse to Leo, with good business push and power, fearlessness, caution and self-defense. It is exceedingly domestic and indulgent, somewhat irritable, and inclined to be dissatisfied.
This is a contradictory nature, positive, pretentious, ill-tempered and intemperate. It lacks directness, and is somewhat inclined to forget its debts. It should not criticise in others what it does itself, and should practice self-control on its own passionate nature, instead of domineering over others.
This gives caution, shrewdness, perception, courage, self-preservation and a disposition to acquire wealth and protect its family. It has powerful foresight, magnetism, antagonism and revenge and is inclined to be selfish and passionate.
This gives a strong family love and great respect for blue blood and aristocratic connections. It is a somewhat selfish, passionate sign, with a leaning toward conventionality, and a liking for a public life. It should guard against its domineering tendencies and love of flattery.
This turns all the energies toward the home and family, making indulgent, unwise parents, with more love of wealth than education. It is an impatient, irritable, exacting sign, severe and law-abiding, and is successful in mechanics and manufacturing.
Mars here makes the Capricornus business nature, fiery, aggressive, industrious and active. It also causes a love for and indulgence to children, and an interest in education and science. It is very gainful, severe and unbending in business, and is usually successful, but occasionally loses its friends thereby.
This gives sociability, love of travel and making new friends, pride of appearance and conventionality. It should cultivate discretion and avoid meddling and making discord. It lacks domesticity.
This adds more courage to the anxious Pisces nature, and makes it severe and critical. It is kind and loving, but somewhat dissatisfied, and has an unfortunate habit of choosing antagonistic companions, which renders the domestic relations inharmonious. This sign lacks frankness, is easily angered, shrewd and proud.
This gives intellectuality and a love of beauty, magnificence, sublimity and stateliness. It is a proud, somewhat extravagant sign, original, imaginative and literary. Its self-control is good and it has a tendency toward law.
This is an energetic, hopeful, healthy sign, sensitive and prophetic, with a tendency to dominate everything else. It is exact, inspirational, afraid of pain and inclined to appreciate the good things of life.
This nature is lovable, brave, kind, humorous, gracious and just. It loves elegance, culture and knowledge, hag an indomitable will and a gift for oratory. It does not fear adversity and wins success through its sweet disposition.
This makes an ideal good-tempered, domestic nature, free, brilliant, industrious and just. It adds faithfulness, activity and a desire for wealth, increases the health and gives a strong love of children.
This is a harmonious, generous, self-controlled, healthy sign, with a love of position and appearances, and a dignified aristocratic carriage. It gives a love of music, much spirituality, a strong sense of responsibility and a somewhat domineering disposition.
This adds steadiness, endurance, good digestion, and a love of the good things of life. It is a persevering, sociable, harmonious, brilliant sign, with a love of display and a good deal of egotism. It is generally refined and well educated, sometimes passionate, artistic and discriminating.
This is a strong, self-controlled, dignified, harmonious, orderly sign, with artistic perceptions, idealistic love-nature and good executive ability. It is healthy, strong-backed and vigorous, kind to the struggling, severe to the overbearing, mild tempered and well beloved.
This gives a love of freedom and hatred of restraint, pride, conventionality and a deep regard for public opinion. It lacks domesticity and constancy and spoils its chances of success by domineering severity.
 
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