Fire with Earth
Phoenix
Key words: Energetic, dominant, enthusiastic, extrovert, active, impulsive, sociable, achieving, practical, realistic, conventional, restrained, organized, thorough, dependable, adaptable, purpose, and transforming.
The Phoenix exhibits the characteristics of the Fire sign being energetic, active, confident and assertive. They are goal-centered, forward-looking achievers who thrive on challenge. They set high standards for themselves and others and display a steady determination in getting things done. Whatever they do is done with great style and grandeur.
The secondary Earth component imparts a pragmatism and realistic attitude that ensures a Phoenix is extremely productive in its chosen field of operation. It also means that a Phoenix is a doer and the Fire primary means that they like to see immediate results from their efforts. They learn best from doing rather than through books and are quickly bored by routine. They enjoy creative enterprises and crave challenge. Achievement is therefore the primary focus for a Phoenix and this cannot be managed with premature action and bad planning. It is the Earth element that provides the restraint that makes the energy of Fire effective in this type for it contains the pragmatism that allows ideas to become reality.
The secondary Earth component imparts a pragmatism and realistic attitude that ensures a Phoenix is extremely productive in its chosen field of operation. It also means that a Phoenix is a doer and the Fire primary means that they like to see immediate results from their efforts. They learn best from doing rather than through books and are quickly bored by routine. They enjoy creative enterprises and crave challenge. Achievement is therefore the primary focus for a Phoenix and this cannot be managed with premature action and bad planning. It is the Earth element that provides the restraint that makes the energy of Fire effective in this type for it contains the pragmatism that allows ideas to become reality.