Astrological signs are not signs. They are symbols.
The astrological signs are not signs actually, they are symbols. A sign is a simple thing, like a traffic sign. It just means one thing. A symbol is an image which has an impact on the human psyche and connects it to its own depths. It's a metaphor for psychic or spiritual realities. I keep coming back to this fundamental notion of "symbolic language". In my view, a major cause of misunderstanding in astrology comes from not understanding what symbols are and how they work, which is by showing analogies. The law of analogy is an esoteric principle which means that there is a similarity between the symbol and what it means. For instance, the Moon means woman. Woman and Moon have similar cycles, so they are symbolically connected. Now, in symbolic language, just because the Moon means woman.... doesn't mean that she will mean woman in all cases, and never mean anything else. The Moon is also like our dreams, we see the Moon and dream at night. The Moon is like the crow...