The sixteen figures

Each figure is four lines of one or two dots, standing for Fire, Air, Water and Earth from top to bottom. A single dot means the element is manifest, a double dot that it is latent.

• Puer (Boy)
  Energy · Mars · Aries
  A rush of raw, forceful energy: courage, conflict and sudden change. Puer acts first and thinks afterwards, with all the drive and all the recklessness that implies.
• Amissio (Loss)
  Loss · Venus · Taurus
  Something slips away: money, opportunity, a relationship, or simply a burden. Amissio is the open hand and the bag turned upside down, and it can also mean generosity.
• Albus (White)
  Peace · Mercury · Gemini
  Calm, clarity and a clean slate. Albus favors thought over force and quiet progress over drama, but it is gentle and often needs help from other people to carry things through.
• Populus (People)
  Stability · Moon · Cancer
  A crowd, a gathering, a great deal of something. Populus is entirely passive and takes on the character of the figures around it: fortunate beside good company, unlucky beside bad.
• Fortuna Major (Greater Fortune)
  Power · Sun · Leo
  Deep, lasting success that grows from a solid foundation. The road may start hard, but Fortuna Major presses ahead and wins through steady strength rather than hurry.
• Conjunctio (Conjunction)
  Interaction · Mercury · Virgo
  Forces coming together: meetings, links, partnerships, crossroads. Whether the meeting helps or harms depends on the company Conjunctio keeps in the chart.
• Puella (Girl)
  Harmony · Venus · Libra
  Grace, affection and pleasant company. Puella brings real happiness, but it is a fickle, charming figure and its gifts may not last.
• Rubeus (Red)
  Passion · Mars · Scorpio
  Hot, fierce, uncontrolled feeling: desire, appetite, anger and violence. Old manuals call it good in what is evil and evil in what is good.
• Acquisitio (Gain)
  Gain · Jupiter · Sagittarius
  Taking something in: profit, achievement, a goal reached. Acquisitio is the bag held open, and it is among the best figures for success.
• Carcer (Prison)
  Isolation · Saturn · Capricorn
  Walls, limits and delay. Carcer binds, restricts and holds things in place. It can mean confinement or greed, but also security and protection.
• Tristitia (Sorrow)
  Sorrow · Saturn · Aquarius
  Downward movement: low spirits, low vitality, lowered hopes. Tristitia is the figure of heaviness, but also of roots sinking deep, patience and endurance.
• Laetitia (Joy)
  Joy · Jupiter · Pisces
  Upward movement: rising spirits, rising fortunes, recovering health. Laetitia is optimistic and warm, and favorable in nearly every kind of question.
• Cauda Draconis (Tail of the Dragon)
  Ending · South Node · Sagittarius
  Completion and letting go. Cauda Draconis closes a chapter, bringing some good with the bad and some bad with the good, and clears the way for what follows.
• Caput Draconis (Head of the Dragon)
  Beginning · North Node · Virgo
  Fresh starts and new possibilities. Caput Draconis tends to take on the character of its neighbors, and often promises a good result after a shaky beginning.
• Fortuna Minor (Lesser Fortune)
  Swiftness · Sun · Leo
  Quick, borrowed success that comes and goes. Fortuna Minor favors speed and a fast start, but warns that what you gain may not stay.
• Via (Way)
  Change · Moon · Cancer
  The road: movement, travel and change in every form, outer and inner. Via is neither good nor bad in itself; it simply means things will not stay as they are.