Zodiac Quiz

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Aries characteristics

Bold, Courageous, energetic

Machiavellian ideas

Chapter Eight- "the ends justify the means" or power and control are the objectives of a prince, not compassion or love. You must have ethics, but they aren't Christian ethics

Existentialism

Chapter Eleven-the philosphy of uncertainity and the idea that one's choices make up the person they are as well as a disbelief in any afterlife

Materialism

Chapter Five-the view of the world that all aspects of life can be explained in terms of matter and its properties in time and space

Old Testament Theology

Chapter Four-the idea/belief that there is one God, and He alone can judge and smite those who turn away from His word. He is pacified by regular sacrifices

Hypocrisy in Religion

Chapter Nine-the idea that organized religion is a sham as everyone goes through the motions and don't actually believe.

Orphism

Chapter One-the mystical Greek religious cult that derived from the story of Orpheus. It was influenced greatly by Pythagoras and Plato

Christianity/ New Testament Theology

Chapter Seven-the belief that their is a loving God, who wants to erase your sins and spend all of eternity with you. You should try to be as holy as Him.

essence-existence

Chapter Six-the idea that the characteristics of a ting (say, mortality) define the essence of the thing (say, a human)

Nietzchean philosophy

Chapter Ten- the belief that all religion make its followers into sheep and the best way to live was to become the best man you could be, or "ubermensch", while not being subdued by a repressive society

Sophists

Chapter Three-a professional class of wandering teachers who charged for their services and spun philosophy to work for any political situation. Hated by Plato

Empiricism

Chapter Twelve-the theory that all knowledge is derived from experience rather than reason

Solipsism

Chapter Two-the philosophical theory that only the self can be proved to exist. There is no world beyond one's own experience, and other people are just fragments of your imagination

Libra characteristics

Companionable, diplomatic, pleasant

Aries facts

Ram March 21-April 19 fire Associated with Mars

Nihilism

also Chapter Five-the view that their is nothing to hope for, nothing to believe in, and nothing to be done about life.

skepticism

also Chapter Six- the denial that knowledge or rational belief is possible about any subject matter. The only things to be believed are what your perceptions tell you, and those are highly misleading, so nothing can be known about anything. Pyrrho of Elis founded it

Capricorn characteristics

ambitious, cautious, practical

Sagittarius facts

archer November 22-December 21 fire associated with Jupiter

Pisces characteristics

artistic, emotional, sensitive

Taurus facts

bull April 20-May 20 earth associated with Venus

Gemini characteristics

changeable, talkative, intelligent

Leo characteristics

cheerful, powerful, proud

etymology of the word zodiac

comes from the greek words for "cycle" and "life", possibly meaning "circle of little animals"

Taurus characteristics

conservative, possessive, loyal

Cancer facts

crab June 21-July 22 water associated with the Moon

Aquarius characteristics

curious, outgoing, independent

Cancer characteristics

emotional, patriotic, home loving

epistemology

exploration of the nature and origin of knowledge

Pisces facts

fish(es) February 19-March 20 Water associated with Neptune

Capricorn

goat December 22-January 19 earth associated with Saturn

thirty degree arc for each constellation can show what?

influence of the planets over the person. The closer the individual is to the edges of the arc, the less they show characteristicss of their horoscope sign. The more closer to the center, the stronger their personality is that of their sign.

Leo facts

lion July 23-August 22 fire associated with the Sun

Virgo characteristics

modest, practical, tidy

the shape of the sky's belt/cycle

reminded early peoples of a snake biting its tail (ouroboros). This means that the cycle never ends and thus everything in the cycle is connected naturally

Libra facts

scales September 23-October 22 air associated with Venus

Scorpio facts

scorpion October 23-November 21 water associated with Pluto

Scorpio characteristics

secretive, intense, possessive

Sagittarius characteristics

spiritual, generous, restless

"born under a sign" means what?

that the individual knows the exact position of the sun at their time of birth.

Exact horoscope specifications

the distance of planets to the longitude and latitude of your birth at the specific (Greenwich Mean) time of your birth

aesthetics

the exploration of the meaning and nature of beauty

logic

the exploration of the nature of reasoning and validity of arguments

metaphysics

the investigation of the ultimate nature of reality, like time and space and the existence of God

Astrology's three sources of information

the planets, the sign of the zodiac,and the twelve houses that range from the 360 degree rotation of the sun

ontology

the study of existence, characteristics of being, and different ways of being in the world

ethics

the study of the nature of good and evil

twelve houses explination

the twelve houses starts and ends at dawn and works through as the sun moves. Each house rules for 30 degrees of the day, or when the sun moves 30 degrees, and then another, and then another...

Gemini facts

the twins May 21-June 20 air associated with Mercury

Virgo facts

virgin August 23-September 22 earth associated with Mercury

Latin motto for the twelve houses

vita, lucrum, Fratres, Genitor, Nati, Valetudo, Uxor, Mors, Iter, Regnum, Benefacta, carcer---- life, money, brothers, parents, offspring, health, wife, death, journeys, kingdom, friendship, prison

Aquarius facts

water bearer January 20-February 18 air associated with Uranus


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