Another booboo... The four corners of the earth.

In trying to write from memory when I havent actually looked at it in a long time, I inadvertently set the wrong seasons to the wrong zodiacal signs. Not that big a deal at this point. Easily corrected but it is always a confusing issue trying to determine/remember which of thesystems to use when assigning the seasons to the twelve signs of the zodiac and trying to remember their order without looking at the chart. Which I obviously cannot do yet. Anyway, there are two ways to view it. First, which is the most widely used, today as much it was in ancient Greece and Europe, is the solar determination. That is, which sign the sun is in during the specific season. For instance, the sun travels across the sky with Virgo, actually in Virgo, during the Sept/Oct season then passes through Libra and Scorpio in Nov/Dec. However, this was not necessarily the way the early inhabitants of Mesopotamia reckoned the seasons and associated signs. Instead the month/season was associated with the first fully visible sign on the western horizon after sunset, as that sign was setting just after sunset. In this light the signs are seen slightly different.

• Winter = the water man (Aquarius) associated with the rainy season.
• Spring = the Bull (Taurus) associated with new life. When the sun appears in the sky more and more.
• Summer = the Lion (Leo) associated with power and the abundance of resources.
  
• Fall = the Scorpion (Scorpio) associated with death when the sun appears in the sky less and less.

Otherwise the four cardinal points are considered those that occur at the solstices and equinoxes. They are also the portals, or houses in which the sun can be found during that time, so that the sun rises and sets in that sign. Each month the sun moves through a different sign. The solstices are the two times a year when the day/night is longest (summer and winter). The equinoxes are the two times in a year when the day/night is the shortest (fall and spring), the switch from mostly dark to mostly light or vice versa. The equinoxes are considered to be like dusk and dawn, the point after which either the day (winter equinox to summer equinox) or the night rules the respctive part of the year (summer equinox to winter equinox). The cardinal signs are different for these four points. They are Aries (Spring equinox), Cancer (Summer solstice), Capricorn (Fall equinox), Libra (Winter solstice).

Anyway hope that clears it up. I will scan for any other errors.