"Rulership and dignities are various pairing associations traditionally drawn by astrologers between each particular luminary and planet, on the one hand, and each particular sign of the tropical zodiac, on the other.

"These reprocess and filter planetary energy. The signs themselves reveal psychic patterns and life-potentials which, when functioning freely and openly, are all balanced and whole in themselves, and have their own ways of manifesting completeness and enlightenment. But they each have characteristic ways of becoming obstructed, corrupted, twisted and hampered as well – and these aspects of the human psyche, and of society and civilisation, we are all nowadays well accustomed to.