Full context:   In the element-based Zodiac that we consider "classical", the twelve signs move from Aries to Pisces according to a double series both elemental (Fire, Earth, Air, Water) and modal (cardinal, fixed, mutable). Hence, with Aries are associated the attributes of Fire in cardinal mode, with Taurus Earth in fixed mode, with Gemini Air in mutable mode, with Cancer Earth in cardinal mode ... Elements and Modes are defined by the following trivial qualities: FIRE: combustion, expansion, animation EARTH: heaviness, condensation, fixation AIR: diffusion, dilatation, impregnation WATER: absorption, dissolution, fluidity