arcanetrivia: a light purple swirl on a darker purple background (ravenclaw (rowena))
Everyone knows (everyone does know, right? If you didn't before, you do now) that the four Houses correspond to the four classical elements: Gryffindor - Fire, Ravenclaw - Air, Slytherin - Water, and Hufflepuff - Earth. This makes it really easy to map the four fixed signs to the houses too: Leo, Aquarius, Scorpio, and Taurus, respectively. Just for kicks I thought I'd try plugging in the cardinal and mutable signs, assuming that it would not be straight elemental lines (Aquarius is Ravenclaw, yeah, but I see Libra as more Hufflepuff. etc). The mutables fell in pretty easily, I thought, but I am having a devil of a time with the cardinals.

RavenclawSlytherinHufflepuffGryffindor
FixedAquariusScorpioTaurusLeo
MutableVirgoSagittariusPiscesGemini
CardinalCancer? Aries?Capricorn? Aries?LibraCapricorn? Cancer?

Libra for Hufflepuff seems reasonable to me, but my conceptions of Aries, Capricorn, and Cancer don't seem to fit in well in any arrangement of Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Gryffindor. I'm not quite sure about Gemini in Gryffindor, either; it kind of fell there by process of elimination. Goes to show you can take an analogy too far, I guess.

Just curious what others' thoughts were.

eta: Wonder if thinking about the ruling, exalted, etc planets might illuminate this. Could be an interesting exercise when I'm not supposed to be working.

eta2: Things people have said here and on DW are convincing me Capricorn pretty much has to go with Slytherin. People keep suggesting Aries for Gryffindor but 1. I was trying to work it out so that each house would have signs of three different elements, and 2. that leaves Cancer in Ravenclaw which I find hard to understand. The reverse isn't really better. Neither Aries nor Cancer makes much sense for me in Ravenclaw and I have a hard time with Cancer in Gryffindor too. Mrr. I dunno, as I said, maybe this whole analogy doesn't bear out well past the level of the Fixed signs.

eta3, almost 13 years later when I was poring over old posts in some of my more unusual tags: It seems pretty natural, if maybe not quite to the level of "DUH", now, to have the cardinals be Ravenclaw - Aries, Slytherin - Capricorn, Hufflepuff - Libra (as previously determined), and Gryffindor - Cancer.

Date: August 3rd, 2011 12:10 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] elf
elf: Crowley's Queen of Wands (Queen of Wands)
Slytherin Capricorn. (Snape's officially a Capricorn, for one thing.) All the Caps I know, male and female, are born social managers, often including a healthy dose of manipulation. (I maintain that Snape's mislabeled as a Cap; he's obviously a Scorpio whose birthday got fudged somehow.)

That sets Gryffindor as Cancer and Ravenclaw as Aries, and I can see that; Cancers often have a defend-the-homefront mentality that would go well in Gryffindor, and the cutting-edge, must-be-first Aries attitudes can lead to strange research topics.

Date: August 3rd, 2011 03:08 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] venturous
venturous: (firebird)
I'm totally elements-oriented, so I'd keep the elemental assignations:

Mutable: Ravenclaw-Gemini, Slytherin-Pisces, Hufflepuff-Virgo and Gryffindor-Sagitarious
Cardinal: R-Libra, S-Cancer, H-Capricorn, G-Aries
I can make a case for all of these.

Date: August 27th, 2011 02:18 pm (UTC)From: (Anonymous)
I guess the reason why you're having a hard time placing Capricorn is because they could easily fall into either category :)

True, we Cap's can be manipulative and very into social standing, but there's the fact that we can be fearless when we want to (what good are horns if you're not gonna use them?)

And plus, I can't imagine myself in Slytherin (I was placed in Gryffindor in Pottermore).

Date: August 2nd, 2011 09:33 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] reg-flint.livejournal.com
Looks like I'm a mutable Slytherin. How oddly accurate.

Date: August 3rd, 2011 04:01 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] reg-flint.livejournal.com
I checked out your personal journal. OK if I add it to my circle (pun fully intended.) I'm valkyriekat over there so you know who I am. I shall wait for a yes.

Date: August 2nd, 2011 10:59 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] drinkingcocoa.livejournal.com
For the Aries folks I know, Aries and Gryffindor are compatible. I think of Capricorn as Slytherin because of Snape's birthday. The Cancers I've known have been faithful folk, so I'd put them in Hufflepuff, and Libra with the scales reminds me of thoughtfulness and Ravenclaw.

Just playing along. ;-)

Date: August 3rd, 2011 02:18 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] rattlesnakeroot.livejournal.com
I think of Cancer and Capricorn as Slytherin, but that's because Snape and Voldemort are both Slytherins, and I'm a Cancer. *LOL*

But I can see how both could be Hufflepuff too since clearly water and earth are necessary for gardening - a Huff pursuit. And Capricorn/Cancer are associated with home and family, too, as well as traditions.

I think of Capricorn people as very low-key and subtle, often shy and retiring, but also protective. My Capricorn brother has all those traits, and a scientific mind - he's an engineer. But he also became an executive at an early age, so ambitious definitely. Not the power-happy kind of ambition, but the "I want to be in control of my destiny" kind of ambition.

I think Aries should be associated with Gryffindor. Hot-Headed.
Edited Date: August 3rd, 2011 02:19 am (UTC)

Date: August 3rd, 2011 06:51 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] cabepfir.livejournal.com
I'm a really banal Ravenclaw Virgo with all typically Virgo characteristics.

As for the rest, I don't know enough, but I'd match Aries and Gryffindor as well, Capricorn and Slytherin, but this leaves Cancer and Ravenclaw and... I don't know.

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