The associations of 12 signs are listed below [1]. The associations mostly emphasize the signs’ virtues. The Zodiac Journey step that corresponds to each sign was indicated within parentheses [2].

♌︎ Leo: enlightening, honest, loyal, confident, noble, animating (ordinary world)

♍︎ Virgo: digesting, analyst, utilitarian, organizing, optimizer, meticulous (call to adventure)

♎︎ Libra: justice, democratic, diplomatic, discussing, methodical, indecisive (refusal of the call)

♏︎ Scorpio: decisive, fighting, effective, deepening, concealing, extreme (meeting the mentor)

♐︎ Sagittarius: inspiring, propagating, sublimating, militant, poet, dreamer (crossing the threshold)

♑︎ Capricorn: structuring, suspicious, testing, trustable, coldblooded, (self)critical (tests, allies, enemies)

♒︎ Aquarius: cloudy, opening horizons, updating, stable, progressive, neutrally questioning (approaching the inner cave)

♓︎ Pisces: emotive and sensing, intense and fluid, dispersed to qualities, seeking meaning, containing by believing, assuming contradictions (the ordeal)

♈︎ Aries: quick, spontaneous, frictional, sparking, driven, irregular (seize the reward)

♉︎ Taurus: unhurried, sensual, pleasured, organized, consistent, trust-evoking (the road back home)

♊︎ Gemini: curious, flexible, distributed thinking, tolerates contradiction, witty, young spirit (resurrection, atonement)

♋︎ Cancer: caregiving, emotional, cautious, vulnerable, lifeblood, womb (return with the elixir)

Now let’s explain how the signs relate to the steps so that the dialectical relations of the said virtues shall be clarified:

♌︎ Leo: That fairy tales are often about either a prince or a princess emphasizes that the ordinary world has a noble inertia.

♍︎ Virgo: The prince or princess initially reacts to the call to adventure by meticulously ignoring it: (S)he can nicely digest anything and everything, except that call!

♎︎ Libra: When the prince or princess can no longer ignore the call, (s)he will open it to discussion and have dialogues with many people in order to accumulate occasions (or excuses) to avoid the adventure.

♏︎ Scorpio: When the hero(ine) meets the mentor that shall guide him/her, (s)he becomes deeper and more decisive because (s)he is no longer unarmed.

♐︎ Sagittarius: Having the mentor by his/her side, the hero(ine) jumps into the adventure and dares to surpass the thresholds that (s)he encounters.

♑︎ Capricorn: Against the difficulties of the special world, the hero(ine) must recognize friends and foes and establish strong relationships.

♒︎ Aquarius: In his/her progression there comes a moment when the hero(ine) falls into the large reservoir called the belly of the beast and loses his/her ground.

♓︎ Pisces: To confront his/her own spiritual bases and to traverse his/her own fantasmatic contradictions will be the hero(ine)’s greatest ordeal.

♈︎ Aries: Immediately after the confrontation the hero(ine) must quickly escape the belly of the beast; the faster (s)he acts, the less (s)he loses and the more (s)he gains.

♉︎ Taurus: After the escape the hero(ine) embarks on the road back home with confident steps, the walk is long and there is no need to hurry.

♊︎ Gemini: On the way home the hero(ine) takes a break so that (s)he can inscribe the confrontation that (s)he experienced into his/her spirit, in order to be accepted to the old home as a new self.

♋︎ Cancer: After completing the confrontation and arriving home the hero(ine) will have achieved his/her actual aim which was to bring the elixir. Now (s)he is ready for the next adventure.

(Turkish)

Işık Barış Fidaner is a computer scientist with a PhD from Boğaziçi University, İstanbul. Admin of Yersiz Şeyler, Editor of Žižekian Analysis, Curator of Görce Writings. Twitter: @BarisFidaner

Notes:

[1] I watched this chat of astrologers to gather the associations: (1) (2)

[2] See “The Zodiac Journey” (diagram below)