posted March 28, 2003 12:16 PM              

All poetry is putting the inifinite within the finite. ~~
Oh, to be in England/Now that April's here.
-Robert Browning

Themes
EARTH/FIRE Determined; forceful; strong desires; go for what you want; great panache; musical; artistic; energetic; enduring enthusiasm; independent; powerful; selfish; steadfastly ambitious; good at practical or technical skills; a leader.

Are you a wandering gypsy, a nature mystic, or a kind of Davy Crockett figure - king of the wild frontier, who aspires to become lord (or lady) of the manor? Whatever you do, you have the instincts of an artist and the mind of a businessman. You want fixity, permanence, power, and security, and yet you are ever the pioneer, looking for new frontiers once your territory gets too familiar and easy.
You want action, so you make things happen, throwing yourself into life. If something feels comfortable, however, you put your foot down and it will not budge. Instinctively tuned into your own needs and desires, you have extraordinary determination and unabashed self-interest, which probably carry you into the drama of your life at an early age. You do not wait around for the approval or permission of others - you are a self-starter and usually finishwhat you have begun. Direct and forthright, you call a spade a spade, and are so certain of yourself and your ideas and feelings that you do not easily stop to question your actions or how they could be improved. You want what you want usually plough pull-steam ahead to get it.
You love action and enterprise but you also need security and roots, and this can create a tension within you which manifests from time to time in impatience and intense irritability. At home you can be the benevolent dictator. You possess such a strong instinct to manage and control that the co-operative spirit you say you believe in - it makes good sense, right? - is usually put on the shelf. You were made to be captain of your own ship, but to prevent mutiny you have to learn how to treat others with more respect, kindness, and equality.
Your need for achievement, and indeed your talent for using your resources with inspiring innovation, is much stronger than your interest in human nature. Practical and hard-working, you just do not have time for people who moan or have complex emotional problems. With so much drive to conquer and establish, you will find it difficult understanding dreamier, more fragile types.
Uncontrolled passion and temper is hwat trips you up: you can express real infantile rage if pushed to the limit. But with more self-awareness, the same energy can go into creative endeavours and move mountains in the business world or in some artistic profession. Often you just want to sit on that mountain after you have got it where you want it, like Smaug the dragon sitting on his mound of jewels. You want to consolidate your position and use your resources to their maximum advantage - and then live off the interesr.

Relationship
Sometimes you seem to be the absolute epitome of the rational, sensible person, ready to invest only in what you can taste, touch, see, and add up; and yet at other times you are capable of acting from totally emotional concerns, and of expressing outlandish beliefs, fantastic ideas, and irrational behaviour.
Although you are romantic and loyal, given half a chance you will dominate most relationships. You are possessive and demanding, but can be generous, fun-loving, and exciting when you have found the right person to balance your big appetites. Home life is extremely important to you, and you want it to be a haven for enjoyment and creative hobbies.
In co-operative ventures you are quick to take charge, and you develop a following of subordinates who come to trust your competence and leadership implicity. But your raucous sense of homour and love of a party endears you to others. Quite simply, your personality stands out as vital, outrageous, and funny, but you will win more friends and influence more people if, paradoxically, you attach less important to personal conquests. If you can do this, you will be and inspiration to loved ones instead of a moody artist they have to put up with.

Your Greatest Strengths
Charisma; confidence; courage; indefatigable resilience; unswerving belief in yourself; organizational flair and a practical instinct for making your dreams come true.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Stubborness; tendency to be quarrlsome and to ride roughshod over others; self-centeredness; tendency to let emotionalism turn you into a bully.

Images for Integration
A pirate's chest full of gold is discovered, which adds to the already vast empire of Ghengis Khan...An orgy of love on a carpet of bluebells.

posted March 28, 2003 01:23 PM              

Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
-"Lady Lazarus", Sylvia Plath

Themes
WATER/AIR Intensely interested; magnetic socialbility; emotional; analytical; self-controlled gracefulness; shrewd observations; creative intellect; innate sense of justice; organizing ability; passionate honesty; pragmatic idealism; expensive taste; quietly ambitious; perceptive.

Are you charmingly cooperative or emotionally demanding? Do you seek comprimise or readily take revenge when your fairness is abused? You very much want to be kind, supportive, and adaptable and to work for a better and more beautiful world, yet you will learn that difficult decisions and firm tactics are needed to defend the decency you desire. However diplomatic you can be, you will never compromise your dignity.
Although you optimistically hope for the best, you can be shrewdly understanding of the mad and ugly of life. Your challenge will somehow involve engaging whole-heartedly with life as you find it, whilst not allowing disappointments to tarnish your idealism significantly. Injustices shock you but, oddly enough, tned to bring out the best in you, as you need to have access to the dark and terrible to be able to put the boot in, so to speak. The admiration and respect of your colleagues means a great deal to you, and you can do wonders in getting any group to work together. But let us not kid ourselves; you are also a pretty tough cookie, and if you cannot charm your way through the prize, you can certainly turn on the pressure.
Because you like, even need, to be liked, you may find it all too easy to say "yes" when you mean to say "no", until you swing to the other extreme and say "no" when you mean "yes". You exude charisma and capability and people readily depend on you. In fact, you can charmingly agree to do almost anything, but somehow what you do not want to do does not get done.
If you allow your instinct for compromise and your desire for affection and harmony to cover up your more forceful, dictatorial side, you can end up hating yourself. Admitting you really cannot stand some people (and that perhaps some may feel the same about you) is probably as good a way as any of getting in touch with your real power.
You have a vivid imagination, a keen sense of drama, and probably rhythm, too, and if you take off in an artistic direction you can develop a very subtle yet eloquent manner of self-expression. But your best skills tned to involve people and ideas, and you will feel at home teaching or organizing. You can be a charismatic showman with a dramatic, eloquent delivery.
Although you may begin life on the gullible side, your savvy soon develops and you can become a natural psychologist, able to see into other people's motives and how best to get them to cooperated. You have passionate views but will defend them with clear, rational principles. You are a thinker and an idealist, defending justice and standing for excellence; but your animal instincts to do not miss a trick, so that your estimation of "correct behavior" always has a kind of ironic mercy about it. You aspire for the good in life and in people, but you are never very suprised by the foibles of human nature.

Relationships
Close, happy relationships are essential for your wellbeing. You need to belong to someone, to give and to feel that your presence in his or her life makes a big difference. Your passion and charm combine to make for a paradoxically intense but reasonable approach to love.
You are romantic and generous, and your capacity for intense possesiveness can sometimes be disturbing to your more rational, idealistic need for harmony and equanimty. Your openness and tenderness help you to grow through love's trials and tribulations, and you tend to be open to negotiation on most things. This, coupled with your intuitive sense of what your loved one is feeling and needs, makes you a very engaging, attractive partner, and very prone to getting the best out of partnerships of all kinds. What you may have to come to terms with is just how dependent on others you really are, for you think you are independent but in reality you get well and truly hooked when your heart is involved.

Your Greatest Strengths
Shrewd intellect; steady warmth; suave adaptability; commitment to fair play and personal honour; ability to perceive feelings and think on your feet, and to pursue what you believe in with organization, commitment, and artistic fervor.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Overdependence on others; tendency to resort to manipulation when you feel insecure, and to assume you are being impartial and fair when emotional need is really dictating your behavior.

Images for Integration
A passionate poet leads the "Poets for Peace" mass demonstration...A criminal lawyer auditions for the lead part in a new play about heroes of the WWII resistance movement.

posted March 28, 2003 02:34 PM            

Thank you so much for including me. That was very sweet and I appreciate it!!!!

You're the best!

posted March 29, 2003 04:17 PM              

The human body is private property.
-Jonathan Miller

Themes
WATER/WATER Intensely emotional; perceptive; self-protective; self-centered; secretive; investigative mind; romantic; sensual; magnetic; dramatic; compelling personality; possessive; resourceful; tenacious; daring.

Are you soft and sentimental but sometimes as sharp as a surgeon's scalpel? Do you long for devotion, security, and recognition, but privately ward off any threat to your personal freedom?
You are brooding emotion incarnate, very subjective in your outlook, a trifle overprotective and suspicious, and fully confident that your intellect and perceptive powers will enable you to make rapid progress on the upward path. Tenacious determination to prove yourself and secure the dignity and position you feel you merit makes you often appear formidable, proud, and haughty; but whilst you are capable of going to great lengths not only to survive but to win, there really is not an unkind cell in your body. You genuinely care about your world and the people in it, and your humanity is strong and potent, reaching out to help and transform the darker corners of human existence.
If you are part of the establishment you will defend it to the death. If you are an outsider you will attempt to probe into every social assumption and reveal the truth behind the facade, the mysterious behind every commonplace occurrence. The secret and emotional are everything. You love suspense and mystery, and are drawn to understanding and grappling with the dark side of life, the inordinate and the ugly, in order to see the redeemable, transforming spark of life that lies behind it.
Deeply fascinated by what makes people tick, you have something of the detective and psychoanalyst in you, which could manifest powerfully in medical or psychological work. But even if you do not pursue those paths, a part of you will always be preoccupied with hidden realities and creatures from "inner space". You guard your own inner space with great vigilance, and you likewise respect other people's privacy. You truly come alive, however, when you have been entrusted with a secret or given a search warrant to look inside a troubled mind (or bank account). All your analytical powers become concentrated and uplifted by your reverential, single-minded, determined attitude to discover the truth.
You are unafraid of the dark and undaunted by the truth. If you work in a healing profession, you bring a genuine caring concern and gentle intensity to those ailing in a psychotic underworld. You can contribute the love and wisdom of the tender mother together with the exacting discipline of the doctor or policeman. Under your scrutiny and guardianship all your creative projects should flourish, whatever they may be. Just remember, you have the temperament of a fanatic (as do most outstanding artists) so try to loosen up a bit and learn to let go. Your loved ones will not run away from you - they will love you more for the trust you give them.

Relationships
Emotionally you are somewhat complex because you want both security and intrigue, and the two do not really go together. You need to feel special and adored, but you also like to live on the edge. Sometimes you are so deeply engrossed in your personal feelings that your survival instinct can suffocate the loved one you are trying to protect (or hold on to).
Your emotional control may be strong, but no matter how you try to hide and protect yourself, your feelings exude a powerful message and very tangibly affect the atmosphere - and moods are something you have in abundance. If you feel threatened or insecure, a brooding, hard-bitten mood can take over and will only be appeased by bags of affectionate reassurance (and expensive gift might help, too). Indeed, you probably have lavish taste, but you also have an original wit and satirical sense of humour, which, along with your natural dignity, has a compelling influence on others.

Your Greatest Strengths
Personal magnatism; emotional strength and courage in times of crisis; acute perception and analytical imagination; intensity of your devotional nature and commitment to others; caring, healing capacities.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Defensiveness, moodiness, and possessiveness; proneness to react with fanatical prejudice, cling to the past, and to live through other people if your own creative aspirations have not been developed.

Images for Integration
Under a full Moon, an exorcist performs a life-giving ritual; the possession fades away and a child's life is saved...Whilst preparing his genealogical tree, a young man discovers the lost grave of his great-great-grandmother.

posted March 29, 2003 04:18 PM              

If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.
-Robert Lowell

Themes
WATER/AIR Fanciful; eccentric; humorous; poetic, intuitive; love of language and symbolic logic; wordy; expressive; lack of confidence; intellectual versatility; alternating sociability and shyness; blow with the wind; quick thinker; temperamental; nervous; talkative; eternal youth; fun-loving.

Do you sometimes say what you feel before you have even thought it? Do you consider yourself a rational, sensible person whose willingness to look at the whole spectrum of views sabotages your confidence? You think with your heart and feel with your head. Trying to make those lines of communication hook up inside you can sometimes feel like trying to solve an unsolvable maze.
At your best you are the epitome of feminine intuition - acute perceptions and a rich imagination enable you to respond to people and situations with accuracy and subtlety. But at your worst you use perverse inflexibility to mask your indecision and lack of confidence. There is something about you which is eternally youthful, magically spontaneous, and vividly expressive of the ideas and images that inspire you. You are full of hopes and wishes, plans and schemes, interests and hobbies, things you "might do" if...if you do not have a change of heart mid-stream. For you, the answer is always blowing in the wind, and you are the original weather-vane personality.
Extremely sensitive, sympathetic, and receptive to others, you delight in congenial companionship and can be wooed into intimate confidence easily. Your natural emotional inclination is to trust, to feel at one, to relax and let down your barriers. You are fascinated by people and know no strangers, although at the same time your receptivity and vulnerability at first make you timid. You test the water before you jump in, but all the same you are like the child who just cannot wait to have a good splash.
Inwardly you have a kind of running commentary on how you are experiencing people and situations, and you tend to think on your feet and to find out what you are really feeling whilst talking out loud. You have a love of images and words, and can be seduced by the sound of your own voice; but although you may often sound impressive and clever, you are not nearly as stable and self-assured as you seem. You do not exactly make it up as you go along, but you have to keep yourself from going down blind allies and pursuing red herrings. You easily get worried, nervous, doubtful, and disoriented, and need to take care that negative thought patterns do not consume all your creative energy.

Relationships
A strong, unwavering partner is good for you, as stability is the thing you lack. Affectionate and playful, you love the romantic word-play of relationships, and will evaporate like an ephemeral undine under the dead hand of a rigid, possessive love. Variety, poetry, romance, and light-hearted fun is what you want - and plenty of tenderness, for you are ultra-sensitive and can your feelings hurt easily through misunderstandings. You need intellectual rapport and emotional sensitivity, and if you begin to lose interest you can develop a roving eye.
You can unwittingly become overdependent on your partner to supply interest, stimulation, and, ultimately, purpose in your life. Boredom is often a sign that you need to take yourself more seriously. You need a variety of friends, but you also need to apply your own talents in committed ways. Your strengths and talents find an excellent outlet in music, painting, and acting, as well as areas that require quick thinking, diplomacy, and playing the host. You can adapt yourself well to almost any sphere of endeavor if you practice staying in tune with what you really think before jumping into action.

Your Greatest Strengths
Potential creativity of your intellect and imagination; ability for fun and mimicry; diplomacy and appreciation of a wide variety of people; fluency and original self-expression; forgiving nature; open, childlike attitude to life.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
A lack of confidence in who you really are; tendency to vacillate and skim the surface; to be fickle and uncommitted in relationships; proneness to wallow in daydreams, self-doubt, and self-pity; and to love according to an ever-changing, relative morality.

Images for Integration
A child grips his magic red balloon as it lifts him into the sky and over the sea onto an island of eternal beauty...A schoolboy daydreams of heroic deeds during a class on the romantic poets.

posted March 29, 2003 08:18 PM              

Gemini/Capricorn/Scorpio??

posted March 30, 2003 03:57 AM              

Jacqueline

posted March 30, 2003 04:57 AM            

It's right on the money, like Fajita said

"The human body is private property."

posted March 30, 2003 09:46 AM              

If you don't mind, would you do it for my gf as well?

posted March 30, 2003 06:35 PM              

Aries Sun, Aquarius moon & Gemini rising

posted March 31, 2003 07:50 PM              

I've loved reading your posts! I have my Sun in Leo, my Moon in Scorpio, and my ascendant is Cancer. Would love to hear your thoughts...

Maggie

posted April 02, 2003 03:57 PM            

I just want to say what a great and very kind string you've started here. The time you have taken is very much appreciated and I'm sure I speak for everyone
Sue

posted April 04, 2003 01:33 AM              

A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.
-Stendhal

Themes
AIR/EARTH Intellectual; puritanical; studious; devoted researcher; social worker; helpful; kind-hearted; common sense; emotionally naive; detached; clever; sense of propriety; truth-seeker; innovative mind; rebellious yet conventional; radical yet uptight.

You are a purist in heart and mind, a streamlined self-styled individual whose special eccentricities express themselves paradoxically in a worthy, utilitarian world view. Efficiency and happiness are nearly always synonymous for you, and you are perhaps happiest when others agree with your cleverly reasoned arguments on "questions of principle". You then feel appreciated, maybe even loved.
Emotional experience baffles you somewhat as you are first and foremost an intellectual, and rely on your formidable mental powers to solve any kind of problem. Some of your greatest strengths are your objectivity and ability to carefully think things through and convince others of the utter reasonableness of your position.
Your mental outlook tends to be dispassionate, pristine, humanitarian, and based on facts and practical considerations. Extended to the world of emotions and feelings, however, this approach can be hygienic, cold, and aggravatingly "goody-goody". Your emotional detachment may create misunderstandings, for despite your seeming self-sufficiency you really need affection and intimacy much more than others realize.
Your Virgoan Moon seeks to analyze and organize your inner life, your instinctive responses, and reactions to your environment, and your need for security and nurturance. You therefore do not welcome emotional chaos into your highly categorized mindset. You need method, routine, and clarity to feel right, and so you become very adept at pushing out all unpleasant and unrecognizable aspects of your emotional world. Your Aquarian Sun is very idealistic anyway, and so on the surface will co-exist happily with your Virgoan side which beavers away industriously, working out all the fine details of the larger ideals you espouse and on which you base your life.
Your happiness would be nearly complete if you could find a method, a kind of mathematical formula, which would allow you to be both the unconventional eccentric and the sane, sanitized, law-abiding citizen. There is something about you that cherishes the traditional recipes for happiness in the family and society. Curiously, however, you find they are not for you because you are different - a gregarious loner, with exquisite flair but a hypercritical nature which can sting.
You have an excellent mind, and when you get the nub of things your instinct is to render your superior understanding practical and beneficial to others. You may enjoy the world of computer technology where your instinct for logical systems will flourish; or you may be a zealous and capable social reformer, as the whole business of health comes naturally to you. Fascinated by the relationship between mind and body, and the laws that make for efficient, harmonious living, you will tend to advocate a proper diet, regular exercise, and mental fitness.

Relationships
Intimate relationships can pose a real challenge for you. Although you are devoted and kind-hearted, you do not feel comfortable with overly demonstrative shows of emotion. You show your feelings in friendly, practical ways.
In a sense, you are a bit naive when it comes to love - utterly pure and sincere in your affections, but unsure about what to do next. You are innately independent, even eccentric, but you blossom with a little emotional excitement and nourishment. Basically, you need a gentle response in order for your emotional confidence to develop, and when it does you make the most loyal and altruistic of mates.

Your Greatest Strengths
Mental dexterity; capacity for detailed research; objective reasoning and critical analysis; refined aesthetic sense; willingness to help and to do what needs to be done; genuine kindness; devotion to ideals.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Tendency to be obsessed with sanity and order; an overcritical, nit-picking attitude to people in relationships, in an assumption that life is about "functioning" and that emotional conundrums can be solved by a mathematical formula; your tendency to take yourself and what you know too seriously.

Images for Integration
A psychiatrist makes an accurate analysis of a neurotic's symptoms and then works patiently, devotedly, consistently to facilitate the patient's return to health...Aliens extract human genes to breed and rebuild the human race on a planet of superior design...Inspector Maigret.