Cardinal

Cardinal is the modality of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, the four signs that open the seasons of the year. It is the mode of initiation — the impulse to start, to set things in motion, to break inertia and move first. Cardinal energy is active and outward, leading rather than maintaining, drawn to the threshold where something new begins. Its strength is momentum and direction; its difficulty is the staying power to finish. It is the founding gesture, the spark that gets a thing underway.