Motivational Style by Sign
Working with the energy of the universe is easier than working against it.
There are a lot of great articles on Medium about how to motivate yourself or others to do any number of things. Our will and what makes us move — what motivates us, is a key thing to know about ourselves. How to motivate others is often a topic of interest as well, and this can seem an even more illusive task, something that is a special skill for the likes of Matt Foley or Tony Robbins.
While I’m all for good suggestions and time honored tricks of super successful people, I’d like to throw my hat in the ring if I may and give a little astrological perspective on the subject of what motivates us. Astrology is an energetic language after all, and this type of perspective takes into account not only what works to motivate people, but how people are motivated differently.
The twelve signs of the zodiac are all combinations of an Element (Fire, Earth, Air or Water) and a Modality or Quality (Cardinal, Fixed, or Mutable). The element is modified by the quality, and each sign represents a way (mode) that a certain energy (element) moves.
For example, Aries is Cardinal Fire. It is the kind of fire that begins things, the strike of a match, the spark of life. While it is very easy to imagine each of the elements, Fire for example, there are different…
