“I am sorry to be the first to leave you,” said Harold, “but I am strongly attracted this way.”
“Really, are you?” exclaimed Ione. “I don’t feel attracted toward it in the least, and I should think I would, loving you as I do.”
“Not at all! Not at all!” responded the Brother. “That has nothing to do with it.”
“Well, good-bye, we will soon join you in the temple,” they cried as they walked toward the second entrance. Over this door they saw the head of a bull and the second sign of the Zodiac called Taurus, while two ferocious-looking bulls stood on either side of the entrance. No one seemed inclined to pass through here.
Over the third entrance they saw the carved figures of The Twins symbolizing the third sign, Gemini, but all passed by.
As they approached the next door, however, Ione said, “I feel decidedly attracted this way,” and entered the door over which was to be seen the Crab, symbolical of the fourth sign, Cancer.
As Ione passed through the doorway, the Princess said, “I wonder what sign will attract me.”
“I think you will like Virgo best,” replied the Brother, and so it proved, for they all passed the fifth door over which they saw the Lion and when they neared the sixth entrance, that of Virgo, represented by a beautiful carved figure of a virgin, the Princess said, “You are right, Brother, if this is Virgo, for I want to enter here, so good-bye.”
After leaving Virgo, they passed the door over which was seen the scales or balance representing the seventh sign, Libra; the one over which a huge serpent was curled, representing the eighth sign, Scorpio, one over which was to be seen the Archer, with his bow and arrow, the ninth sign, Sagittarius, then past Capricornus, symbolized by the Goat, on to the eleventh sign, Aquarius, the Water-Bearer. Here the Prince paused. “This is my sign,” he said, “for it is the first I have felt drawn toward.”
“You are right,” replied the Brother. “It is yours and I will enter with you and see what the others think of their respective signs. You have made the complete round of the signs with the exception of the twelfth, Pisces, which is symbolized by the Fishes.”