What is an earth sign?
The earth signs are the practical doers. Earth signs are how you consume the world. Earth signs are like the Earth: everything that grows, everything that you feel and everything that is sensual comes out of one of the earth signs. The first of the earth signs is Taurus. Good old Taurus. Taurus wants to consume what's made of the earth. If you've made music, let's sit down and listen to it. If you've got food, let's enjoy it slowly. Taurus is about consuming the earth, and wherever you have Taurus in your chart, there's a part of life you want to consume. You actually want to get there. That's why Taurus also rules money. It's the real down to earth, practical sign. The second of the earth signs is Virgo. Virgo in the northern hemisphere coincides to when you bring the crops in. After the heat of the summer, you have to harvest the crops, and that's what Virgo does. Virgo is about the practical application of having made use of what you've got. That's why people find them critical and perfectionist. They have to get everything exactly right. They have to feel they've got the value out of it. Virgos look at the minuscule detail and think, What have we got? That's why it's an earth sign: it's the practical way of using what you've got. The last of the earth signs is Capricorn. Whatever we've got, wherever we've created in the world, Capricorn wants it. It wants to rule it, it wants to be the king. Capricorn is the earth sign that sees the value of everything and it's got have to get the biggest share of it. Capricorn doesn't want the wrapping paper, it wants the present. A Capricorn will also look at the price tag, not what you wrapped the present up in. That's why it's an earth sign. It's all about what is real, what is actually there. People with a lot of earth in their chart are said to be grounded. People without earth in their chart are said to have their head in the clouds. It's all this terminology that makes up an earth sign. That's what earth signs are about: are you actually getting anything out of it, or is it all airy fairy, pie in the sky?
