posted March 27, 2003 09:27 PM              

SUN PISCES, MOON AQUARIUS

Quotes from others with your combination -
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.
-William Jennings Bryan

Film is an art form of uniting, in peace, that family of man of which we are part.
-David Putnam

Life will be richer and better for all of us if we will make a journey in truth along quiet pathways of philosophy.
-Manly Palmer Hall

Themes
WATER/AIR Mind and emotions; science fiction; humanitarian; receptive; friendly; charitable; moral certitude; missionarly zeal; progressive thinker; servant of universal concerns; versitile; sociable; easy going.

You are one of life's true humanitarians, an idealist through and through; often fundamentally out of step with the status quo and yet absolutely at one with the moral integrity of any issue. Somewhat aloof and elusive yet kind and considerate, you belong to the world, to your friends, and your causes. The secret and the mysterious fascinate you, but you want to know.
Beauty and truth will always dance and interweave through your life, and you may have some artistic leanings. You seek alliances with people who share your same Utopian dreams, but whoever you meet will not stay a stranger for long as you are friendly, open, and optimistic. Passionate convictions and moral certitude inspire your intellectual life and all your actions, and will involve you in various humane but probably unorthadox organizations.
Although you have a wide tolerance for all types of people, you come over strong when expressing and sometimes preaching your own views, and you may need to remind yourself that people will not always welcome your philosophical earnestness. But your idealism and sincerity are unmistakable, and hence, despite occaisional conversion tactics, you are usually loved and trusted.
Interested in what makes them tick, you easily get involved and absorbed by others, yet always manage to remain one step removed. This makes you a good psychologist, counsellor, or social worker, and you can relate emotionally whilst your brain is observing and adding it all up.
You are both intuitive and logical, a rare combination which can baffle others when they think they have got you pegged. One side of you is compassionate, artistic, and impressionable; another side is detached and philosophical, broad-minded and unconventional, dedicated to scientific truth and its application for the common good.
You have a quirky sense of humor and can accept the odd and outrageous as the norm. Hence you pick up a bizarre mixture of friends, and truly enjoy each individual. You are a real character and can be the life of the party; but you are also a bit unfathomable and can hide a world of woe, so deeply do you feel about so many things, both personal and collective.

Relationships
With most people, and especially with your loved one, you are tender, devoted, and understanding. You can tune into your partner easily, and it can seem that you take on his or her colouring and live your life according to his or her needs. In fact, however, there is a part of your soul that belongs only to yourself, and you will need time alone to explore your own thoughts and feelings and what you want to do with them.
You bring your humanitarian spirit, as well as your wit and wisdom, into your private life, and you will want to share your concerns with your partner in some way. Intellectual rapport is important, and so is the humour you share, which goes a long way in soothing and smoothing out problems. Emotionally you are loyal and honorable, but for you joy comes from many things - music, art, philosophy, and social involvement with your ever-growing circle of friends.

Your Greatest Strengths
Positive, friendly feeling for humanity; ability to learn with both left and right sides of the brain; gentle but articulate and persuasive self-expression; wide acceptance of the whole gamut of society; moral authority and trustworthyness; genuine desire to leave the world better than you found it.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Emotional gullibility; need to push moral concerns onto others; assumption that everyone feels as strongly as you do about whatever your current cause may be; allowing the woes of the world and a somewhat holier-than-thou attitude to get in the way of enjoying yourself.

Images for Integration
A musicologist plays the violin divinely as part of a demonstration of the theory of harmonics...A boy scout swims five miles in a campaign to raise money for the peace movement.

posted March 27, 2003 10:05 PM              

SUN VIRGO, MOON SAGITTARIUS

Quotes from others with your combination -
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
-Arthur Koestler

Many times a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by.
-Maurice Chevalier

Themes
EARTH/FIRE Intellectual enthusiasm; restless but controlled; great integrity; genuinely helpful; intelligent; quick wit; moralistic; critical; dedicated student and teacher; urbane; thinker and communicator.

Do you want fact or fiction? Do you want useful, upright, dedicated life or freedom to roam the universe? Your independent and inquiring mind may sometimes be at odds with your desire for neat, definite answers. Your spirit yearns for a concrete system which addresses all the moral, philosophical, and religious dilemmas that concern humankind. But you embrace ideas so passionately that reality could never live up to your expectations.
One side of you is truly expansive, restless, philosophical, and eager for adventure and learning, whilst the other is utilitarian, analytical, sensible, and hard-working. Inspired by large concepts and great achievements, open spaces and new people, you easily imagine yourself in all kinds of exciting places and situations. This side of you is courageous, optimistic, and usually ready to have a go.
Your Virgoan side, however, brings you down to earth. Sometimes it can make you despair at the seeming futility of attempts to "get it right", whether this is to do with your job, marriage, or holiday, or with the government, the Church, or other broad, humanist concerns. At such times, philosophical inspiration becomes philosophical resignation, and you soldier on, determined to figure out and then master the possible in order to improve your life - for understanding and improving life is what you are all about.
To marry thse two sides of yourself you need to become more aware of how your preconcieved ideas influence the way you experience people and events, and how they can set you up for disappointment. You have high standards, for yourself as well as for others, and can be quite critical of people who stoop to conquer, so to speak. If your beliefs are offended you can get high-minded and aloof, even though inwardly you are more often quaking than congratulating yourself.
Although you have a strong sense of propriety and duty, you love to throw out the rules and play truant more than once in a while. You love critical discussion, travel, and study. Your idea of fun is an impromptu hike or visit to the theatre, and you really come alive as the suave raconteur and the prim-and-proper eccentric in a gathering of amusing people.
Essentially you are a kind person, and sometimes very reticent about advancing your own deeply felt views. Your generous concern for others, coupled with your impeccable discretion, means that you could be adept at gestures such as quietly placing the perfect book in a friend's path, one that you guessed might assist in some important quest.
You need to nurture your vivid imagination and then anchor it with your capable, pragmatic side. Your visionary qualities and industriousness can take you far in many fields. Your Virgoan critical bent helps you to bring your Sagittarian dreams down to manageable proportions, and makes you realize that Earth is not such a bad place to make a journey.

Relationships
In close relationships you need mental affinity and plenty of space, and the only thumb you want to be under is your own. Sentimental and idealistic rather than romantic, you are genuinely humanitarian and seek to show your feelings in practical ways. You tend to look for paragons of perfection, and disillusionment occurs when you meet, repeatedly, the huge gap between the ideal you fall in love with and the actual flesh-and-blood person.
You are a curious mixture of egalitarian and elitist sentiment, and tend to believe in an absolute hierarchical order of things. It makes rational sense to you, and it frustrates you when people cannot see the sense of things the way you can - it is so obvious!

Your Greatest Strengths
Fine intellect; ingenuity and perception of essentials; combined realism and optimism which makes you an excellent teacher; the way your pragmatism brings your vision down to earth; friendliness and readiness to serve, help, and guide.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Moral certitude; desire for "reasonable" answers in the face of human suffering; lack of empathy and tendency to judge those who appear to live without guiding ideals - Socrates said "the unreflected life is not worth living", and he may have shared this Sun-Moon combination.

Images for Integration
A bespectacled librarian locks the door at closing time and transforms into Superman...An anthropology class goes on a field trip.

posted March 27, 2003 10:47 PM              

SUN AQUARIUS, MOON CANCER

Quotes from others with your combination -
The best prophet of the future is the past.
-Lord Byron

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
-John Ruskin

I am aware of very song gregarious tendencies in myself. My natural disposition is to be very easily influenced...and above all by anything collective.
-Simone Weil

Themes
AIR/WATER Humanitarian; vivid imagination; idealistic; compassionate and helpful; social conscience; companionable; popular; lofty emotions; progressive thinker but emotionally old-fashioned; a sensitive individualist; democratic spirit; the kind-hearted rebel; the friend of the people; the poet and the social worker.

Are you the sort of person who sets out to buy a book on home-made wine but returns with a treatise on the future of modern society? And why is it that when you feel like putting your feet up by the fire with cakes just like mum used to make, you end up spending the evening at the local charity or activist meeting? It is something to do with your fondness for folks and the warm popularity that this brings you. You cannot help getting involved in some way because you were born with a very developed social conscience. You possess a healthy self-respect and feel that others deserve the same, no matter where they come from.
Although you may have eccentric ideas, you are blessed with the common touch; you can listen with great perception and respond with understanding and sensitivity. Your heart yearns for shared intimacy but your head pursues objective truth and collective concerns. Although you have a logical, scientific mind, you are actually drawn to things because of your great feeling for them. It is this personal feeling for larger causes and for the family of man that you are able to communicate to people, and therefore you are capable of truly motivating the masses.
When at peace with yourself, you possess a most pleasantly paradoxical personality, for you are a friendly, modern, future-oriented visionary whose inspiration derives from the cradle of the past. Wherever you have belonged - in terms of family, community, or nation - you will carry it with you as a central inner drama into your future.
Traditional values inform all you do, even if you are not consciously aware of them, and irrespective of whether you kick against them or embrace them utterly. It is easy for you to get attached to beliefs and to remain unaware of the influence of your security needs; but one of your potentially great strengths is holding and honouring the best values from the past without becoming a slave to them, for your Aquarian spirit is two steps ahead of everyone else, and must feel free to add its unique contribution.
You come to your own where the personal and impersonal meet, where your personal feelings, lofty ideals, and social conscience can work fruitfully together. You will aim to justify your love of something by studying and analysing it, and finding out how it is valid for others. In this way, you often end up universalizing your personal experiences and turn them into a cause, into a mission. Your best creativity hinges on the acknowledgement that you are not only the past but also the future; not only collective but also personal; not only an observer, but also a passionate participant in the panorama of life and human history.

Relationships
Your conscious Aquarian side has a charmingly naive, detached way of studying and scrutinizing others, as if each person were a fascinating object d'art in a museum. Underneath the cool, friendly veneer is a very vulnerable, clannish, possessive heart which needs lots of affection and a sense of belonging. You can be moved to tears by a memory but then seemingly indifferent to the emotional needs of your nearest and dearest - if they are too cloying.
Needing space but also a cosy niche where you are the "special one", you are not always the easiest person to live with. Basically, you suffer from the "freedom-closeness" dilemma: you want emotional security but also freedom to do your own thing, to keep a few doors open. You think you are independent but old behavior patterns will shape your responses to loved ones more than you care to admit. The more you become aware of this, the more freely you will be able to give and receive love without the nagging suspicions and fear, and without the knee-jerk escapist reaction. Your romantic soul can relax, open up, and enjoy the human exchange that is so vital to your well being.

Your Greatest Strengths
Genuine warmth and capacity for intelligent kindness; far-reaching imagination; devotion to both truth and the uplifting of human life; ability to express universal insight through personal images.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Unconscious prejudices; ability to rationalize irrational actions; a tendency to get absorbed in abstract causes which cuts you off from your feelings and keeps you emotionally immature.

Images for Integration
A social worker bypasses bureaucracy to save a mother and child...A childhood memory becomes the basis for a new world order.

posted March 27, 2003 11:32 PM              

SUN ARIES, MOON SAGITTARIUS

Quotes from others with your combination:
Man's main task is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
-Erich Fromm

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so we can keep it out of as many things as possible.
-Sean O'Casey

Habit is a great deadener.
-Samuel Beckett

Themes
FIRE/FIRE Visionary; highly-strung; explorer; impatient; emphatic; talkative; confident; intense moral certainty; exuberant; optimistic; big-hearted; fun-loving; prone to exaggeration; outspoken; competitive; friendly; an adventurer.

Your ability to radiate warmth, enjoyment of living, and an effortless resilience to the ups and downs of existence makes you one of life's irrepressible winners. Your intense vitality and independence is hard to keep up with, and loved ones will have to fasten their seat belts, expect the unexpected, and enjoy and adventure in order to appreciate the whole of your BIG personality.
You are dynamic, highly enthusiastic, fabulously gregarious, and your visionary qualities plus the sheer energy you generate make it easy for you to rally support around any number of exciting projects and pet causes. You are restless and require lots of movement and space - to you, life is one big journey, one large adventure that holds many exciting possibilities. Delightfully refreshing to meet, you cannot help but exude a joie de vivre and inner commitment to life which can inspire and motivate others to action; and this is never so true as when you are engaged in intellectual exchanges and arousing public interest in moral and social causes.
Outspoken, intensely honourable, and deeply intuitive, you are essentially more interested in the future and in making sure it will be exciting than in finding security in the humdrum routine of daily living. Your focus on large ideas could take you into law, religion, or academia. It also takes you often into the realm of speculation and risk-taking; you "sense" that a particular solution is right and will magically unlock the door to a brighter future, even though it appears flagrantly inappropriate to other, more practical souls. In other words, you often bypass the logical, step-by-step thinking process of the left-brain because of your capacity to perceive instantly the essence of any given situation. Your hunches are more real to you than a set of mundane facts. To you, life must be game well-played (even if not always won), a challenge to the imagination and a test of your deep, creative, innovative spirit.
This intuitive approach to life can, however, create some instability for you and your household. Being true to your visions - doing what you want to do - takes priority over completing mundane tasks, and the result in your day-to-day life can sometimes be chaos. But even in failure, your honour is likely to stay intact for "nothing ventured, nothing gained" is what you say; "it is the idea that counts", and things will "all come right" in the end. You are an incurable optimist, very noble and a touch arrogant as well. One of the most important things in your life is being able to express yourself freely and without inhibition, for honesty and fair dealing are virtues that are nearly gods to your inner life.

Relationships
Emotionally you are ardent, uncomplicated, warmly spontaneous, and in love with the experience of falling in love. You give yourself wholeheartedly, but at the same time you can be pretty restless and impatient, eager to jump the fence if you feel stifled with someone.
More aware of your own feelings and needs than those of others, you can get wrapped up in ideologies and hold forth about some "ism" at inappropriate times (when all that your mate requires a cup of tea). Practical duties weigh on your spirit, so you need to know that there is room for movement and new adventure in your relationship.
Quite frequently you need to just drop everything and go camping, get on an airplane, go to a party, or take up a new hobby. You have got to enjoy yourself! The great thing about you is that you can swing from the depths of philosophical sobriety to the heights of bawdy fun in the twinkling of an eye.

Your Greatest Strengths
Contagious optimism; entrepreneurial spirit; powerful influence on others. You need challenge, stimulating work where there is scope to let your intuition play with ideas. Just remember that generalities need details, inventions need practical working out, and that remaining in the realm of limitless possibilities will not get the job done.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Grandiose philosophizing; moving around and never landing; insensitivity to human feelings; impatience with the limitations of the material world; total self-absorption to the extent that your capacity for relating remains childlike; and a tendency to let your daredevil side sabotage your material security.

posted March 28, 2003 12:13 AM              

SUN LIBRA, ARIES MOON

Quotes from others with your combination -
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
-Dick Gregory

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
-e.e. cummings

Themes
AIR/FIRE Sociable; lively, restless; willful; entertaining; independent but needs others; self-development through relationships; diplomatic; enthusiastic sense of justice; influential; convivial and convincing; controversial; cheeky, fun-loving; romantic.

You are the peace-making crusader, the champion of your team, the feisty but cool-headed idealist who has spunk and courage. With your high energy levels and great ideas, you are good at initiating projects - and parties! - yet you rely on others to help you bring your plans into being. You need to be actively engaged in life and to be working towards something - often with an unusual or eccentric twist to it. Although you inwardly feel yourself to be strongly independent, you are easily jolted by emotional conflict and criticism from others. The latter can truly throw you off beam.
You can be a lively and sensitive companion, capable of bringing optimism, an exciting sense of challenge and great expectations to joingt enterprises. Your gentle, diplomatic manner can, however, suddenly break down in the face of opposition as, contrary to appearances, you do not budge on issues when you have really made up your mind.
How do you balance your aspirations for social harmony with your strong, me-first, impulsive personality? You need others, but you want to be left alone. Other people's experiences and opinions stimulate and feed you intellectually, but you feel you have to do things your own way in the end anyway. You want love, respect, and friendship, but you can be hard to live with at times because you chafe at the mundane constraints of everyday life. When you feel hemmed in you may get restless, argumentative, and falut-finding. It is a combination of your Arien rashness and your Libran search for the ideal: you want the best but resent what you have to sacrifice to get it. You feel independent and have a strong need to define yourself, but you discover that other people help you to do just that. Love them or hate them, people must be in your life, and personal relationships will provide an important path to your growth and self-development.
There are usually gender issues with this combination. If you are a woman, you may not be satisfied with traditional female roles. You are outspoken and ambitious, and will seek some creative form of expression for your fine intellect and potential artistic skills. For a man, this combination confers refinement and elegant persuasion to all your arguments, so that with strategic manuevers you learn to manage people beautifully and get exactly what you want.
Regardless of sex, you can be amazingly companionable, enthusiastic, influential, and deeply romantic - so much so that, when your passions are spent, your romantic ideal keeps you gallivanting from one partner to the next. A stable emotional life is what you require in order to grow. You must try for a workable alliance within you between your need for dominance and your need for intimacy and partnership. Sacrificing some of your freedom for the sake of the greater good (such as your relationship) is one of the main themes that will crop up in your life.

Relationships
Relationships are central to your life, and there are probably many times when you depend on your partner more than you care to admit. You love the ritual of love - the romance, the excitement, the courtship, the suspense - and the the fight! If the spark goes out of your relationship, you will look elsewhere for a thrill. You tend to get impatient with the idea that you might have to do a bit of growing up and create some of your own excitement yourself, but your emotional life will improve - in depth and consistency - if you do.
Too much insistence on having your own way will tend to cut you off from your ability to make sound judgements, and from your deeper needs as an individual. You require companionship, and to discover that you can still be true to yourself in a relationship of equals.

Your Greatest Strengths
Your combined personal strength and diplomacy which wins people over; desire for justice and commitment to defending the underdog; quick mind and persuasive use of argument; strong aesthetic sense; daring spirit and courage in trying new things; ability to bring warmth and adventure to all your relationships.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Difficulty in reconciling your need for independence as well as dependence on others; awkward stubborness when you have reached your limit; tendency to sabotage your chances for harmony (which you badly need due to your strong competitiveness); inclination to make rash judgements when you think you are being astute.

Image for Integration
A little girl and a little boy barter whilst playing on a see-saw. She wants his toy gun; he wants her ice cream cake. They decide to share.

posted March 28, 2003 12:50 AM              

SUN PISCES, MOON ARIES

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

Every day in every way, I am getting better and better.
-Emile Coue

Themes
WATER/FIRE Romantic; independent; sensitive; affectionate; adventurer; big talker; understanding; touchy; quarrelsome; humble but self-centered; fun-loving; moody; vivid imagination; artistic; willful; nervous; quick thinker.

Are you a sensitive, introverted poet, or a confident explorer and crusader for the truth as you see it? Sometimes you feel passive, dreamy, private, and emotional, preferring to observe the world around you from your inner sanctum whilst you let your keen intuition absorb data and form opinions and preferences from a position of safety. Other times you express your self-sufficiency and alert, analytical mind in no uncertain terms, and suprise people with your sudden authority and independence.
You exude an easygoing but gutsy sort of exterior which protects a very emotional, sensitive heart. Very much your own person, you are courageous enough to explore ideas, people, and different avenues of self-expression, and you do not shrink from claiming your rights and declaring what you want. But you are also sympathetic and yielding when emotional harmony is what you want (which is most of the time), and certainly friendly comaraderie and relations are essential for your wellbeing.
You are a curious mix of the meek and mild, and the militant. You can be defensive and moody, tempermental and argumentative if your fragile ego is disturbed or if you are defending a pet cause. You know what you know and demand to be heard. This trait can cause a lot of ups and downs in your close relationships, for though you thrive on intimacy and affection, you tend to rock the boat the minute you think your loved one has assumed your compliance on some issue. You feel with your ego and think with your heart, which makes your reactions a bit biased. If, instead of reacting so quickly, you could slow down and respond reflectively to friends, lovers, or imaginary opponents, the inner calm that you need so much would not be threatened.
In fact, your selfishness is not as gargantuan as it sometimes seems, and you are really one of the most gentle souls around. Your creative conflict is to do with the fact that you are partly a "me first" person and partly an "I'll do anything in the world for you" sort of person as well. The extreme paradox between romantic vulnerability and forthright assertiveness keeps you pretty restless and your imagination easily aroused.
Essentially easygoing, adaptable, readily imposed upon because of your kindness and helpfulness, you may often feel you must defend the know-it-all maverick individualist inside you who wants to be recognized as the winner, the hero, the best. Ultimately you combine gentleness and spunk, imagination and energy, compassion and frankness. You are a quietly theatrical virtuoso, unselfconsciously in tune with people as well as with your own substantial talents and the joy they bring you.

Relationships
One of the most romantic of all Sun-Moon combinations, you yearn for the bliss of union and then, when you have found him or her, you throw yourself impeteously into a relationship. You can be sweet, self-sacrificing, and sympathetic, but then you suddenly pull away, pick a fight, or in some way reclaim your sense of self. You are moody and not always easy to live with, but you would not wilfully hurt your loved one, and are always ready to forgive.
You may remain something of an enigma to your loved one, but he or she can usually boast that you are a devoted friend, a lively companion, and a romantic artist who can turn any adventure into a song or poem. You may in fact find that music is your best medium, as it helps you to soothe the emotional flare-ups that disturb your repose.

Your Greatest Strengths
Quiet charisma; warmth and optimism; frank spirit and jovial fellow feeling - combined with sensitivity and impetuousity, which makes you fun to be with; ability to enter the race whilst at the same time encouraging the very best in your opponents; capacity to laugh at human nature and bounce back.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Fear that your abilities and worth will not be noticed, making you go overboard in your efforts to win; tendency to be touchy and argumentative and to take yourself too seriously; inclination to be at the mercy of emotional fluctuations between selfishness and consideration for others, and the inner frustration when to do one seems to totally deny the other.

Image for Integration
In tattered rags, the small, obscure young servant named Arthur pulls the sword from the stone and becomes king of Camelot.

posted March 28, 2003 01:32 AM              

Doin' what comes naturally.
-Annie Get Your Gun, Irving Berlin

Themes
EARTH/EARTH Sensuality v. self-control; love of nature; practical; supportive; seeks certainties; slow and steady; deep calm v. explosive anger; good business sense; natural counsellor; dry mischievous humour; dictatorial; possessive; unflappable.

Is life for you a delight and pleasure to be enjoyed, or a practical affair to be managed and organized? You can be torn between a lazy, sensual self-indulgence and a deliberate, even stoic, self-control; between an almost mystical love of nature and a matter-of-fact cost accountant's approach to life.
You are naturally a sensualist, with a keen, raw enjoyment of the tastes and scents of foods, the sounds of music and the countryside, the textures of things, the visual delights of life and art. Yet you seek to be in command of the changing material world, and that includes your own body, a tendency that can lead you to deny your own feelings and desires - for above all you seek certainty and security for yourself and your loved ones.
In all you do, you want to get down to basics, to the practical certainties and self-evident realities. You want to define things, lay foundations, and simplify. You can become impatient with abstract theories and yet be as rigid and dogmatic in the way you believe things should be done as any theorist. Your criterion is: does it work? You are a hands-on teacher who believes in the power of experience and in what you can directly see for yourself.
You have a deep understanding of some of the basics that make the world go round, such as pleasure, sex, security, and money. This makes you excellent at business matters and equally gives you a gift for therapeutic work and counselling. You are at your happiest and most creative when you are doing work that both expresses your loving care of others and brings pleasure, and yet also produces tangible results.
Whilst you very much live in the here-and-nnow, you also like to feel that the foundations you are laying will be of permanent value. You have the rare gift of real common sense, and whether in the area of psychology, business, art, or science, you can always be depended on to offer sound, well-grounded, straight-from-the-shoulder insights. You have a rather slow, steady, dependable approach to things, and a quiet, even shy, manner. This can make your dry, tell-it-as-it-is, often bawdy sense of humour all the more suprising.
You are a deeply grounded individual with great reserves of practical kindness, and your sheer sanity and stability can be enormously reassuring to those who know you. In consequence, you can become the proverbial rock to your friends, on whom all depend. Your tea is served in mugs, not cups, in the kitchen, not the sitting room. You enjoy what is in front of you and you deal with the problems, often those of other people, with a quiet stability and directness of spirit. All this makes your occasional outburts of seemingly uncontrollable rage all the more mystifying. Such rages, when they occur, are the consequence of all your habitual calm and desire for order which demands that you keep the dark side of life at bay. Hence, when your accumulated angers and irritations do break through, you have little experience of coping with them.
Because you can be so understanding and supportive of others, the great risk for you is that you will be treated as Atlas, the support of the world, so that your own needs are constantly neglected. When this happens you may find yourself retreating into illness to attreact the attention and support that you need to recieve.

Relationships
As a strongly earthy, sensual type, sex is likely to play an important part in your relationship, yet you are not inclined to play the field. On the contrary, you tend to be solidly, stolidly faithful, for what you want in relationships is security, stability, and, as in all things, certainty.
You can offer total dedication and loyalty but you will expect the same in return. You expect possess your mate and to be possessed for always. Once this is agreed, you become a living demonstration that true love and devotion is centered in the will rather than the heart.

Your Greatest Strengths
Kind, calm, supportive approach; logical mind; realism and practical skills; ability to call a spade a spade, and to bring a sense of order, stability, certainty, and security to your world.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Lack of contact with your own anger which can erupt directly or indirectly as passionate hatred; possessiveness; lack of imagination; rigidity and stubborness; intolerance of those with whom you disagree.

Images for Integration
A successful baker is surrounded by delighted children eating fresh bread rolls...A loving teacher resolves an angry dispute.

posted March 28, 2003 01:35 AM              

SUN AQUARIUS, MOON TAURUS

A hungry man is not a free man.
- Adlai Stevenson

Only by transcending the everyday, by seeing human life in larger terms, can the individual escape the slow strangulation of "permanent errors".
- E.G. Price

Themes
AIR/EARTH Eccentric entrepreneur; level-headed; security vs independence; tencacious; pragmatic intellect; logical; kind-hearted; generous; ambitious; capable; friendly; self-indulgent; humanitarian; peace-loving but strong-willed

You are as peaceful and sensual and Ferdinand the bull lazing on his grassy hill, but potentially as idealistic and broad-minded as the Spectator of all time and existence. You are independent, reasonable, and dedicated to self-development and honourable values. Underneath, however, your habits and assumptions are firmly rooted in the status quo and in the permanence in your life of all those things that make you comfortable, happy, and secure.

You may see yourself as an open-minded, progressive thinker. It is quite likely that you are a reformer, at least in temperment. If so, your raison d'etre is the protection and enchancement of basic human needs: economic security; the maintenance of physical and mental health; an aesthetic, perferably green environment; and the simple sensual pleasures of living.

You are extremely individualistic and pretty set in your ways. A deep inner sense of contentment and self-satisfaction can make you appear a trifle smug. Even when you are feeling unconfident, your basically high opinion of yourself impresses others and sees you through rough times. Valuing peace as much as you value your own ideas makes you a natural diplomat: gracious and sympathetic, yet practical, reasonable, and detached.

A happy union of emotional and intellectual natures within you lends weight to your views and inspires confidence in others. You therefore make a good leader or executive, even though you are not really interested in selling youself or having power over others. But you are certainly not interested in anyone having power over you either. In fact, your refusal to conform may become your traditional way of preserving your position. As a result, you are one of the most indomitable and stubborn members of society, even though you are ever so nice at being just that. You like yourself just fine that way and, all in all, you enjoy being yourself.

If there is a conflict within you it is between home comforts and your future-oriented insight and thrust. Part of you is deeply nostalgic for the past; the background mood of your personality is coloured with vivid feelings and deeply imbedded experiences and values. Another part of you, however, analyses the past in order to learn from it. You feel yourself to be very deeply attached to your roots, but you know you are more than that.

You are excellent at making sense of individual human patters and needs, which enables you to push the world gently forwards in healthier directions. You might do this by, for example, becoming more aware of green issues, spiritual growth, and complementary therapies. You are also quite likely to be very involved with art in one way or another, with a social world filled with artists and eccentrics. Whatever you do, you bring a potentially powerful blend of idealism and realism to any project or relationship, be it commercial, artistic, or philanthropic.

Relationships
You can be quite loving and romantic, as well as solid and dependable. Even though you have a strong sense of your self and your independence, you do enjoy life more with someone at your side, but it must be someone you can respect intellectually and aesthetically.

Although you can be very stubborn and set in your ways, you will always be open to discussing problems rationally and harmoniously. At times you may be just a little too maddeningly rational for your own good, and prone to be aloof and detached when emotional protests get too loud. But you are devoted (even possessive and maybe jealous - although you would dispute this) to your loved one, and will instigate the slow process of change and adjustment if you can see that doing otherwise would threaten your happiness and security.

Your Greatest Strengths
Infinite patience and common sense; reliability and loyalty to loved ones; courtesy and broad, philanthropic approach to people; ability to combine your distinct individuality with sensible, realistic thinking; dedication to grounding your inspirations with persistent efforts.

Greatest Weaknesses
Smugness and inertia; arrogance and stubborness; a reluctance to listen to other views; being too logical and detached in emotional matters; riding roughshod over others in order to achieve your ambitions.

Images for Integration
A country girl seeks a conventional life with an unconventional young man in the big city...The resident caretaker of a "New Age" community sips his Beaujolais as he systematically does the year's accounts.

posted March 28, 2003 02:11 AM              

If you can actually count your money, you are not really a rich man.
-J. Paul Getty

Themes
FIRE/WATER Moralistic intensity; confident; judicial and exacting mind; emotional fervor; sensual; satirical; socialble, serious; fiercely loyal; vivid imagination; powerful desires; keen instincts; the victory of optimism over despair; entrepreneurial spririt.

Innocence coupled with a splendidly dirty mind - that's you! You optimistically look to new experiences as you love to learn, to respond to challenges, to feel stimulated and alive. But you also have a shrewd sense of both your own powers and your limitations, your need for security, and the needs and motivations of other people.
You combine warmth and hopefulness with emotional reserve; an eager morality with ever-present awareness of primitive proclivities - desires, jealousies, obsessions. A vivacious intensity exudes from every pore, although you are very capable of deliberately restraining your affections if you think it appropriate.
You are sensitive to situations and people, sizing up the atmosphere and hidden signals therein, and this makes you a good detective and an astute judge of people. It is not that you are paranoid, although you can be suspicious enough about hidden motives; it is just that you are no fool because you know well the inner struggle between triumphant faith and the downward pull of black moods. You are fairly clear about your own standards and ideals; in fact, you have a strongly judicial temperment and register people's actions and words very vigorously. No one gets away with anything in your presence.
In many ways, you are the passionate philosopher, actutely aware of the seriousness of life and the urgency of primary issues: good versus evil, freedom versus oppression, hope versus despair. And this makes you a profound and fascinating companion, never light-weight but always ready to experience the heights and the depths because you know you are going to learn something important.
You would make a good barrister as you love grappling with demanding moral issues or anything that pushes your wits to their limit. You may also be found in politics or social work, where your personal feelings about social concerns can find expression.
Whatever you do, you think and feel passionately about things, and you will approach your relationships and career with the intensity of an artist. Your controversial and exacting mind enjoys a good argument, and you are likely to stir things up if you feel bored, or if ou smell complacency creeping in.

Relationships
Given the choice, you would want an intense life in which you could often drive yourself to the edge. In love, this tendency makes you volatile and unpredictable, but 100% involved - and you demand the same commitment from your partner. Extremely passionate, needful of intimacy, and capable of lasting loyalty, you are either a deep, dark enigma to your partner, or a jovial companion ready for adventure.
Part of your creative dilemma is your inner swing from possessiveness and dependency to a fiery, independent stance which says, "I can do it myself - I'm the world's best survivor!" This attitude is great for climbing Mount Everest, but not very conducive to intimacy. And a lack of humility can wear a bit thin as well. You are always biting off a bit more than you can chew and then defiantly pushing full-steam ahead to prove others (and to yourself) that you have heroic qualities; and you want heroic excitement in your lover, too, although a sensible, down-to-earth type will help to balance your intensity and imagination.
If you can lighten up a bit and direct some of your emotional intensity into creative hobbies, relationships will go more smoothly, and your potential as a compassionate, humorous, and wise individual can be realized.

Your Greatest Strengths
Magnetic charisma; emotional commitment and dedication to life; courage and resilience in the face of pain or fear of the unknown; powerful intellect and talent for investigation; spontaneous honesty and thirst for self-knowledge.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
A rigid, overly-critical attitude to weaker souls; a tendency to become over-zealous about your loves and hates; proneness to proud retaliation and condemnation of contrary views; a rebellious tendency to create trouble when bored.

Images for Integration
A missionary sees himself as a secret agent for God...A psychiatric nurse and a criminal cross-examine each other.

Ascendant: Leo: http://www.elbertwade.com/page102.html

posted March 28, 2003 02:48 AM              

Then I thought of the whole world. Who cares for its travail and seeks to encompass it in like lovingkindness and peace?
-Hugh MacDiarmid

Themes
FIRE/WATER Modest yet proud; great integrity; compassionate and concerned; poetic imagination; one who can feel poetry and understand philosophy; eccentric; warm friendliness; highly emotional; strongly devotional and idealistic; enthusiastic; extravagant; creative inner world.

Do you love the warmth of the social and artistic limelight, and yet often shun it because you sense it is fickle and will ultimately hurt you? Are you a stunning show-off or a modest help-mate? A lion or a lamb? A plutocrat or a plebe?
You have star quality but privately prefer to be a wallflower. You have a strong need for excellence and social approval, yet you honour your own private, individual values more - and perhaps even come to expect there to be a conflict between your moral integrity and the demands of your audience.
Very impressionable and easily moved, you are a mixture of self-assured certainty and oversensitive, confused uncertainty. Sometimes self-denying and withdrawn, other times autocratic and willful, you have a great longing to belong as well as a strong need to be actively useful. When you can combine these two sides, you are one of the most poetic and creative of all combinations with a spontaneous and childlike delight in the world, and immense sense of fun, and a capacity to translate experience into words and colourful images.
You can sometimes feel torn between your desire for plenty of peace and privacy and your need for worldly success and the affection and approval of people that you love and respect. You have an essentially artistic temperment and need to learn how to be your own best friend - how to look after your own best interests - as you are so easily drawn towards looking after others.
Whether or not you are overtly religious, there is a strongly reflective and devotional side to your nature. You may even feel that it is nothing less than every human being's duty to realize his or her immense spiritual potential. At the same time, you never lose your compassion for people and their problems and failures. You know yourself how you go through phases of striving and then retreat, successful self-expression and then, perhaps, a refusal to play the game if the cost to your integrity is too high. You can be severely shaken by the ways of the world, and yet it would be unhealthy for you to relinquish your active role altogether.
Full of ardour and deep feeling for life, you are the lion-hearted mystic; the gentle king; the gullible sweetheart who would not harm a fly; the flamboyant, fiercely loyal friend who will share others' sorrows and successes with equal intensity. You are courageous in the face of difficulties, ever true to your word through thick and thin, and dignified and hopeful even when pain absorbs you utterly as it is wont to due quite often.
Changes of mood are your way of life, and if you can make them fodder for your creative imagination, they will serve you well.

Relationships
Compassionate love is central to your way of being. Intensely charismatic and emotionally available, you literally pour yourself heart and sould into your personal interests, your career, and your relationships.
At heart you are a total romantic and also a dreamer, and you may give your all for someone who turns out to be not what you think. Your desire both to dominate and be dominated can make for some tension. You may also find the more humdrum aspects of human relationships a bit of a treadmill, and, if you do, you can withdraw into your own world or wander off to greener pastures.
You can never feign what you really feel, and that can cause you some anguish as you hate the idea of hurting anyone. As well as needing lots of affection, you also need to be understood; but this is unlikely to happen. Once you accept this, your emotional life will be more satisfying.

Your Greatest Strengths
Rich, artistic imagination; theatrical sense of both the beauty and tragedy of life; emotional sensitivity and generous, caring qualities; commitment to your individual ideals and morals; openness to life, whatever it may bring.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Subjectivity; moodiness; proneness to dejection; tendency to over-dramatize your life with you playing the victim; a kind of divine disontent in romantic affairs which keeps you emotionally unsettled, wondering if you will ever really be happy.

Image for Integration
The Wizard of Oz gives the Lion a heart and he becomes King of Oz.

Ascendent: Taurus: http://www.elbertwade.com/page99.html

posted March 28, 2003 03:30 AM              

Well, if I called the wrong number why did you answer the phone?
-James Thurber

Themes
FIRE/FIRE Frank; forthright; big talker; picaresque adventurer; intuitive certainty; irreverence for the classic and antique; impatient; energetic; blunt but sincere; habitually hopeful; emotionally demanding; courageously idealistic; passionately honorable; the entrepreneur; the kind-hearted rebel.

Are you a restless, impulsive go-getter, out to further your own interests, or does that missionary inside you call the shots with theatrical moral fervour? Do you look for patterns of meaning in the chaotic dance of life, or are you too busy dancing and enjoying the spotlight to notice?
You are a big-hearted person with a vivid, far-seeing imagination and a very strong desire to succeed. Your driving instinct is to explore, to create, and to act. Running large enterprises - whether it is a multi-million dollar business or a large and noisy family - is probably your cup of tea. You relish anything that offers challenge, adventure, and scope for originality.
Basically, you are a plain-speaking, independent-minded, warm-hearted extrovert. You can talk up a storm and brew up a lot of enthusiasm - in yourself and others - for your exciting ideas; but you will often give the impression of possessing great knowledge about something when, in fact, you have not even covered the most basic details...yet. In other words, you are quite capable of delivering the goods, but you may have to fall apart a few times before you realize that what is missing is patience and sticking to a practical plan of action - and all the boring details therein.
Champion of the underdog but first in line when it comes to receiving prizes, you may not always be sure whether you are in it for yourself or for the good of the cause. In fact, you have a healthy and, if anything, over-sized ego which finds little conflict between morally sound altruism and blatant self-interest. Whatever your field of enterprise, however, you put in enormous energy, and you can keep up quite a pace with all your planning and organizing, wheeling and dealing.
Although you may seem to be competitive, what actually keeps you going is a kind of intense, childlike faith in yourself and your ideals. This enables you to express yourself like a firebrand, a bright star shining amidst the routine of earthly existence; and if you do compete with others, you will always respect anyone who beats you fair and square. In fact, you will thrive on a certain amount of challenge and creative conflict.
You need a lot of freedom to do your own thing, yet you also have a deep-rooted commitment to helping others make the world a better place. You are a natural egoist, but you do not like to acknowledge facts that are unflattering. This will be accentuated if you do not gain a modicum of personal success in your career as you do need to achieve something and to feel appreciated as an authority in your particular sphere.
Your weak spots are your temper, irritability, insensitivity to more vulnerable and emotional individuals, and your tendency to exaggerate. When things go wrong, you either wail like a misunderstood artist or fall into real dejection. Your over-riding zeal never wanes for long, however, and you can continue knocking on closed doors a lot longer when you have decided on the best way forward.
A person of exemplary moral integrity and philanthropic propensities, you are a believer in principles. No matter how often your bubble might burst, you will never give up your conviction to lead a life based on your own inner truth. People therefore trust you, and have good reason to do so. Your own purposes are never far from your mind, and your own earnestness and honesty make you a person people respect and admire, no matter how impractical you might be.

Relationships
Intimate liasons are not your strong suit. Although your are certainly romantic enough, you tend to lack the patience or willingness to listen that is so important where understanding other people's needs are concerned.
You need someone you can respect and who stimulates you, but you need to be careful that you see the real person instead of the royal consort of your romantic imagination. You may be attracted to watery or earthy types who help you to slow down and feel more comfortable with your ordinariness and emotional needs. Life with you, however, will always contain some suprises, so your partner will have to undertstand your gregarious instinct and need for creative space.

Your Greatest Strengths
Infectious enthusiasm; absolute honesty; courage and leadership abilities; intuitive mental gifts; exceptional moral integrity.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Impatience; dislike of details; insensitivity to the more subtle nuances of human relationships; neurotic need to be affirmed as the biggest and the best; black moods when things go wrong.

Images for Integration
He who would be King postpones the coronation for a trek through the Himalayas...A mature student discovers her political convictions and debating talents through confronting the corruption of academia.

posted March 28, 2003 04:07 AM              

I am the incarnation of everybody and the zones of reassurance. I am the obstritician of good fortune. I live in the social cages of joy.
-Thomas Merton

Themes
AIR/FIRE Great gentleness on the surface and strength within; fearless defender of principle; wise and generous in helping others; fount of wisdom; integrity; visionary; artistic; renaissance man/woman; friendly; trustworthy; despotic; arrogant; emotionally idealistic; romantic; chivalrous; creative imagaination.

Are you a democrat or a despot? An individualist or a social being? An egalitarian or a snob? Probably all of these, in your own warm and wonderful way. You have a proud, regal, magnanimous disposition, a fine intellect, bags of personal flair, and you invest much passion and fervour into all your personal relationships - of which there will be many.
A strong sense of your own individuality and ideals is what you exude to the world, and others know they are dealing with a person of deep integrity and honour. They will also be affectionately aware of your vanity and spasmodic imperiousness, but will love you nonetheless; for despite your autocratic ways, your need affection and admiration makes you vulnerable, approachable, and very human.
You need friends and cn make a real family of them. Generous, encouraging, able to make everyone feel they are special, you have a way on ennobling whomever and whatever you touch. Great gentleness and respect for the heights of the human spirit, coupled with enormous inner strength, make you in your best moments a veritable fount of wisdom and inspiration, full of the type of friendly charity which accepts, embraces, and forgives human inconsistencies. Likewise, however, if your dignity is offended or your generosity and talents go unappreciated, you can be difficult, retreating into a sulky silence and pious dismissiveness. At these times you are stubborn, unbending, and arrogant.
You are a romantic and a visionary at heart, and a good performer, too, fully aware of your effect on others. Not that anything you do is feigned, for the purity and depth of your feelings - your inner "truth" as a human being - is what motivates you and touches others. But you possess tremendous creative flair and artistic sensitivity, and, quite simply, you are a ham. All this combined with your fervent self-belief and noble ideals makes you a real character in any circle. You have a broad intellectual outlook and a lively, fertile imagination. You are a natural leader, communicating from your heart in clear, honest, straightforward ways.
You could be a social reformer, radiating a powerful commitment to uplift and improve the quality of life for others, but your humanitarianism and your egoism can get mixed up. Sometimes you care very much about exterior things and how you are being received, and other times you are completely uninterested in convention, manners, and protocol.
You rebel with flair and style - nothing mediocre or ordinary for you. You are truly gregarious and interested in the welfare of people, but it is still your show and your myth you are living out, and your desire is to grow into and express as much of your (glorious) self as you can. You can make categorical decisions for the greatest happiness of the people in your kingdom. Your validity and meaning as a unique individual is ultimately linked with the role you play in your larger network of friends and colleagues.

Relationships
Romantically you are trusting, passionate, and loyal, and you thrive on warmth and affection. Love plays a big part in your life, an you tend to need a real adoring mate.
You are a tender-hearted idealist, a potential romantic poet whose predisposition is to see the best in people, wanting to believe that they are as good and trustworthy as your ideal; but when they are not, you are deeply disappointed, and you feel your personal misfortunes as monumental tragedies. Channeling some of your self-dramatizing powers into creative avenues - such as theatre, art, or music - may help stablize your emotional life.

Your Greatest Strengths
Radiant humanitarianism; enthusiasm for new and original ideas; integrity and trustworthyness; unique blend of rational logic and romantic imagination; openness and helpfulness to others.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Vanity and the need to be loved; tendency to glamorize people so that you cannot always see their true colors; arrogance and stubborn need to control; inclination to get carried away by romance and adventure and forget to come down to earth.

Image for Integration
A modern actress takes a bow, then leads the audience to a political demonstration.

posted March 28, 2003 04:17 AM              

I'ma done for now (once I started, I just didn't stop).

G'night, g'night.

posted March 28, 2003 04:47 AM              

Ahem, some of my themes to be aware of:

highly-strung; explorer; impatient; emphatic; talkative; confident; intense moral certainty; exuberant; optimistic; big-hearted; fun-loving; prone to exaggeration; outspoken; competitive; friendly; an adventurer.

posted March 28, 2003 05:11 AM              

I'm Sun=Aries, Moon=Cancer, Asc=Pisces

OOPS - I'm so sorry about how I wrote it

(i'm just going to slink away now)

posted March 28, 2003 06:20 AM              

(I rather like the Frederick the Great comment heehee)

hehe...here's one from one of my fave people with Aqua Sun/Leo Moon:

"If I would believe what I read about myself, I would hate my guts too. " -Zsa Zsa Gabor (Aqua Sun/Moon Leo/Mars Aqua/Venus Cappy like me )

You're a doll, Proxy Dahling!!

Fajita, NewEvil-those descriptions are definitely you to a "T"!

"A Hungry Man is not a free man" LMAO

posted March 28, 2003 06:40 AM            

Me: Sun Cancer, Moon Scorpio, Asc. Leo

posted March 28, 2003 11:30 AM              

Juniperb & morgana - Ya'll are on me list