I have been preparing a lot of birth charts of families lately. Most members of the family have a predominant astrological element of either Earth, Air, Fire, and/ or Water. What interests me are the people with an element missing and yet that one element is predominant in the rest of the family. These are the outliers who swear they must have been adopted. I have a client who has no planets in air signs in his chart, but both parents were air signs. He spent his whole life not feeling cared for with not enough cuddling. He didn’t get that from his cool rational parents; an Aquarius father and a Gemini mother. So what does he do? He keeps marrying air types and it doesn’t work for him. He is familiar with that element so he is attracted to it, but it doesn’t feed him.
Another client has no planets in water in his birth chart, but his parents were water signs, a Scorpio mother, and a Cancer father. He felt like he was drowning in an emotional soup. He was sent to a psychiatrist when he was young because his family didn’t understand his cool distant way of reacting to his feeling type family. He is an air sign and married an air person and so was able to find a comfortable environment for himself. He gets along with his parents quite well now, having learned how to relate to water signs because of his knowledge of astrology. If you know nothing else in astrology, it’s important for all relationship interactions to know the elements.
Look at the elements of the planets in your birth chart and your friends and family. Earth signs are Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn; Air signs are Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius; Fire signs are Aries, Leo,
and Sagittarius; and Water signs are Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces.
Read a description of the elements here
Janet Kane
http://www.mythiczodiac.com