TRIPLICITY
, or Trigon, with Astrologers, is a division of the 12 signs, according to the number of the 4 elements, earth, water, air, fire; each division consisting of 3 signs, making the earthly Triplicity, the watery Triphcity, the airy Triplicity, and the fiery Triplicity.
Triplicity is sometimes confounded with trine aspect; though they are, strictly speaking, very different things; as Triplicity is only used with regard to the signs, and trine with regard to the planets. The signs of Triplicity are those which are of the same nature, and not those that are in trine aspect: thus Aries, Leo, and Sagittary are signs of Triplicity, because those signs are, by these writers, all supposed fiery.
The signs in each of the four Triplicities, are as follow:
| Earthly. | Watery. | Airy. | Fiery. |
| <*>Taurus. | <*>Cancer. | *pGemini. | G Arics. |
| Virgo. | Scorpio. | Libra. | W Leo. |
| <*>Capricorn. | Pisces. | Aquarius. | Sagittary. |
TRIS-Diapason, or Triple Diapason Chord, in Music, is what is otherwise called a triple eighth.
