Gemini: James, "the lesser." Slow to accept the authenticity of the Messiah, but became the eloquent preacher
of the church in Jerusalem, and an active evangelist and exhorter. (Mutable: intellectual)
Cancer: Andrew, the sympathetic homebody, a follower of John the Baptist, whose first thought when he
discovered the Messiah was to run quickly and fetch his brother Simon. (Initiating: sympathetic)
Leo: John, the most beloved apostle. (Fixed: inspirational)
Virgo: Philip, always precise, calculating, enquiring, and practical. (Mutable: materialistic)
Libra: Bartholomew-Nathaniel, the innocently pure one "in whom there is no guile." The tactful, persuasive
evangelist. (Initiating: intellectual)
Scorpio: Thomas, the doubting skeptic, yet bold and courageous. (Fixed: sympathetic)
Sagittarius: James, the great teacher, who with Peter and John became the spiritual leaders of the early church:
the three fire sign types cooperating. (Mutable: inspirational)
Capricorn: Matthew, the tax gatherer, the politician, the one in authority in the governing seat in Rome.
(Initiating: materialistic)
Aquarius: Thaddeus-Jude, who considered the lot of the peasant, and sought to better the living and working
conditions of the masses; and who interrogated Jesus at the Last Supper as to how he would manifest himself.
(Fixed: intellectual)
Pisces: Judas Iscariot, who when he succumbed to temptation suf- fered severe pangs of remorse. (Mutable:
sympathetic)
Signs, The Symbology of Twelve. Dr. Curtiss characterized the evangelistic authors of the four gospels, in
terms of the fixed types of the four elemental groups, in this fashion:
.......Matthew-Aquarius........To Know.
.......Mark-Leo................To Dare.
.......Luke-Taurus.............To Do.
.......John-Scorpio............To Keep Silent.
In the Book of Revelations we read that by the River of Life grew a Tree of Life and of its twelve manner of
fruits whereby it yielded a different fruit for each month of the year.
Elsewhere in the Bible, which is a great repository of astrological truths, we find God referred to as the Logos,
out of which went four rivers. In Abraham's effort to restore the Logos, we find the symbol of an earlier
Trinity: Abraham, the spiritual father; Isaac, the thought concept; and Jacob, the physical externalization.
Jacob's twelve sons were the chiefs of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. These are listed at birth in Genesis XXIX,
and again shortly before his death (Gen. XLIX). Ezekiel lists the tribes in the distribution of land, substituting
Manasseh and Ephraim, as perhaps the sons of deceased fathers, Joseph and Levi; yet in the last chapter in
listing the Temple dates he employs the names of the twelve sons, as recounted in Genesis. The symbolic