posted December 21, 2004 09:29 PM         

I'd love to know about my combo.

posted December 22, 2004 02:53 AM         

Note: The quotes are supposed to resonate with the person, and that’s why they preface the description. The images at the end serve the same purpose – they may not necessarily make sense to outsiders, or even to the person until much later.

Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Capricorn

The opposition to the ordination of women is just the same opposition as when we fought for the vote … I don’t mind people giving reasons, but not stupid prejudices.
VICTORIA LIDIARD

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.
WILLIAM JAMES

Themes
EARTH/EARTH Responsible; realistic; traditional; clear-headed; earthy; steadfast; self-demanding; autocratic; pragmatic; sophisticated; self-absorbed; ambitious; serious; conscientious; professional; self-controlled; fearful; authoritative.

You get to grips with reality like no one else! Pragmatic and purposeful, with your willpower completely mobilized towards success, you naturally aspire to a position of authority and power. And as you can keep your eye exactly on the main issue without getting distracted, you usually accomplish exactly what you set out to do.
Enormously capable, professional and ambitious, you were born with an old head upon your shoulders. Underneath your diffident, serious, responsible demeanor, however, is a thoughtful, caring soul who wants to be fair, efficient, and helpful.
You have a pathological need for security and authority, and you usually find some way of making sure that you are immune to attack. Perhaps early childhood experiences left you fearful or the power that adults wield, which made you feel impotent and servile. Second to authority, it is recognition that you require – recognition for your professional status, strength, abilities, wisdom and accomplishments.
You can be terrifically protective and helpful, and friends and family love you for your dependability: when you say you are going to do something, you do it. You are not so popular, however, for your habit of not letting them be strong sometimes, too. What you hate is appearing weak and not getting the respect and just rewards you feel should be yours. Consequently, you can sometimes overdo the responsibility bit and take on more than you should. Is it a sense of guilt that makes you volunteer for Atlas’ job? Could be, but you can exhaust yourself and end up resenting the amount you do.
One of your struggles is with timidity and lack of confidence, and at times with melancholy and depression. Early responsibilities or burdens test you and help to form your ambitious outlook and strong defenses – life somehow tells you that these are important.
You possess both the virtues and vices of having an excellent pragmatic mind. You reason things out with exactitude; you plot your way to the top through the thicket of duty and desires, safe roads and risky byways. You can apply your indefatigable spirit and resourceful intellect successfully to a wide variety of disciplines, but you will always need a challenge of some kind.

Relationships
You are prone to placing a disproportionate value on material acquisition, security, and personal control of your life. You may, therefore, try to build a safe citadel, materially and psychologically, from which you can lock out the mysterious, intangible, changeable dimension of life. That part of life both terrifies and fascinates you. You insist that all things have a ‘rational’ explanation and it is here that you can come unstuck, especially when faced with your emotional needs.
You in fact have a very strong need for love and companionship, but you are cautious and hold back until you feel that all the necessary ingredients for a successful relationship are present. You need constancy, security and, if possible, excellence, for you very much need to respect your partner. You can be a very sensual person, and once you have relaxed and feel loved, you will let down your defenses and reveal your private, bawdy sense of humor. When you learn to be easier on yourself and accept your imperfections as part of your own uniqueness, you will find that contentment and happiness are not so hard to come by after all.

Your Greatest Strengths
Thoroughness; dependability; the serious, attentive mental attitude you bring to all situations and concerns; protective, responsible attitude to others; commendable self-control; practical organizational abilities; persistent energies; shrewd common sense; indefatigable attitude to all obstacles and challenges.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Self-centeredness; lop-sided focus on self-advancement, which can ultimately make you lonely; tendency to ignore or reject the emotional and spiritual dimension of your life; propensity to wear too much defensive armor and to expect the worse; tendency to judge others from a position of pious, self-righteousness (try to lighten up and indulge in purposeless fun).

Image for Integration
A hoary old grandfather sits in his chair with his grandson on his knee. He gives him a gift for his 7th birthday – a first edition of Pilgrim’s Progress.

posted December 22, 2004 03:17 AM         

Sun in Taurus, Moon in Cancer

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
TITLE OF BOOK BY DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK

You can’t tell people they must consume less when their children are hungry. We, the unfortunate people, must consume less so that they can consume more.
DAVID ICKE

Themes
EARTH/WATER Sensitive and determined, or easily hurt and obstinate; nourishing; resourceful; the world is my family; likes to be thought well of; fertile; creative; imaginative; sensual; romantic; enduring loyalty; tenacious.

Whether you are male or female, and whatever you do – be it in business, catering, the caring professions or indeed at home – you are undoubtedly one of the great ‘mothers’ of the world. You have a strongly protective, sensitive, and nurturing approach to all that you do. But are you a self-sacrificing Earth Mother who lavishes endless loving care upon your offspring? Or are you a strict Scottish nanny concerned that children learn from an early age to be strong and self-sufficient? Are you an emotional, indeed sentimental mum, or are you practical and common-sensical? When you connect both these sides of you, like Dr. Spock of baby-book fame, you can become the ideal parent, teacher, and friend. Immensely sympathetic, understanding, and supportive, you are able to encourage and bring out the best in those people and organizations you care for and with whom you come into contact.
Your strong sense of value gives you an excellent business and economic sense, enabling you to spot a bargain and to conserve and build up your financial resources. This is assisted by your capacity for getting others to feel protective towards you. Whilst you tend to lack the more dynamic get-up-and-go self-confidence of the classic entrepreneur, you have nonetheless a quiet determination that gets you wherever you want to go.
Your home, and no doubt your evergreen garden, will be especially important to you and you will make your ‘nest’ both secure and comfortable. You are naturally a good neighbor, and although you tend to be a rather quiet, private, and indeed secretive person, you do feel a sense of responsibility for those around you. This can mean that you are the child who ends up looking after your parents when your brothers and sisters are off doing their own thing.
You are strongly sensual and tend to be rather allergic to ideas and theories. You think best in pictures and symbols and by simply doing and experiencing things, and getting a feel of how they work. You are naturally creative and artistic with a strongly lyrical, musical, and poetic bent. You can get swept away on a soaring melody, or by a particular nuance of color, scent or texture. You can use your body as a barometer, for it will tend to reflect faithfully your inner moods and emotions.
Childhood was, and probably still is, enormously important to you. In an often threatening world, you may well seek to retreat into the secure and familiar. This may lead you to seek out a steady, routine occupation that offers long-term security rather than something that can feed your rich imagination.
When these two sides of you are working in creative tandem, this is an immensely caring combination. It is an ideal mix for anyone in the caring, counseling, or nursing professions or indeed in any kind of work where the care and nourishment of others is the central preoccupation, such as infant-school teaching, catering, and hotel work.

Relationships
Emotional relationships and family are central to your well-being. You are strongly domestic, and your capacity for intimacy and nest-building blossoms when you have found the right person. You long for the total union, and once you have taken the plunge, you will invest all your rich and supportive energy into your relationships. You need to be sure of your ground, however, before you will commit yourself. Your romantic and possessive qualities make for stability and endurance.

Your Greatest Strengths
Nourishing, protective, and diplomatic approach; reliable, sustained, supportive concern for others; capacity to translate emotional experience into works of art.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Tendency to carry the world upon your shoulders; sensitivity to real or imagined insults; stubborn prejudices; a narrow preoccupation with your own approach to life; lack of sympathy for ideas and theories which are outside your experience.

Images for Integration
A baker undertakes to feed an orphanage … Dr. Spock teaching mothers how to bring up their children … Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.

posted December 22, 2004 03:40 AM         

Sun in Taurus, Moon in Sagittarius

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

There is no such thing as a great talent without a great willpower.
BALZAC

Themes
EARTH/FIRE Magnetic instability; grounded yet high-flying; adventurous yet conventional; practical; persuasive; inspired; sees possibilities and seizes them; dedicated; hard-working; sense of the absurd and paradoxical.

Are you Speedy Gonzalez or the Slow and Steady Plodder? Are you a brilliant wit or a dull, straw-chewing fool? A slothful, fleshy materialist or a wide-eyed, soaring-spirited gypsy wanderer? Are you a gambler or banker? Conservative or radical?
You are torn between an instinct to roam free and a determination to find security and make a solid, lasting contribution to the world. As you repeatedly change horses in search of both ultimate certainties and high-spirited adventure at the same time, you can find yourself deeply divided and uncertain. You seek to earth the Fire from heaven and put it to work, but you find all too often that it will not let you rest.
In your search for stability and security, you become a farmer and are immediately confronted with the changing seasons. You embrace the solid certainties of geology and are hit by an earthquake. Feel the solid Earth move! You seek certitude and permanence, yet your endless enquiries constantly confound yesterday’s certainties. When you get your own uncertainties together (by accepting you want the best of both the changing, and the unchanging worlds), you can be a brilliant teacher, conversationalist, counselor, entertainer, wit, creative artist, or entrepreneur – in fact, you can be anything you want. Once focused, you can be a human dynamo, and wonderfully humorous, witty, and entertaining with it.
As you will have discovered, your quest for solid material certainties does not make a happy bedfellow for your yearning for excitement and larger religious and spiritual understanding. In one way or another, be it through philosophy and the spiritual quest or through writing, music or art, you will need to put together and formulate a total vision of the universe which is based on unassailable facts yet satisfying to your idealism. Constantly seeking, you are a natural agnostic, applying the criteria of science to counter woolly speculations, yet at the same time highly skeptical of the limited and statistical pronouncement of unthinking science.
The danger, if you do not marry these elements within you, is that you will swing from one to the other and undermine the virtues of both. A restless changing of jobs, careers, partners, visions or aspirations can leave you drunk with your own spinning. When you deliberately try to remain sober and commonsensical, it seems to make matters worse for there is something of the gambler in you. This all-or-nothing streak can temporarily overcome your natural caution and enable you to burn your bridges (though you will usually ensure there is something tucked away for a rainy day). You feel an impulsive need to do things on a grand scale, to live with commitment, to feast on the world, and to understand what it is to be alive in all possible ways.
You seem called both to explore the reaches of the imagination and to build secure foundations. You can bring the far-reaching visions into manifestation, and these visions can inject your conservative desire for stability and security with flair and color. Your vision of tomorrow and the larger world can give spice to any project you undertake. You see endless possibilities and want to make them real. In this you can be the natural entrepreneur who can see economic opportunities at every turn, an inspiring counselor and teacher, and a stimulating companion in whatever you do.

Relationships
You need strong relationships, and you are an excellent, warm, supportive, and generous friend. No sooner have you settled down, however, that you find yourself restless. You can flit and flirt from one delightful partner to another, yet casual relationships leave you feeling hollow. Your ideal partner will be warmly supportive and traditional, yet unafraid of new adventures and ideas. You are a live wire yet a homebody, and any relationship must somehow contain both elements if it is to succeed.

Your Greatest Strengths
Down-to-earth capacity to marry common sense and inventive imagination, inspired flair and a matter-of-fact realism; enthusiasm with practical politics; a good, if at times, wild business sense.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Restless instability and craving for excitement; reluctance to be tied down; infuriating unreliability just when you seem to have mended your restless ways.

Images for Integration
A monk builds a cathedral whilst contemplating the infinite reaches of the universe … The prodigal son returns to the home farm … Balzac’s La Comedie humaine … Brahms’ Violin Concerto.

posted December 22, 2004 04:21 AM         

Sun in Leo, Moon in Cancer

Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures out!
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
HILAIRE BELLOC

The secret is to be true to yourself.
BERNICE RUBENS

I don’t want to live – I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Themes
FIRE/WATER Emotional; vulnerable; ardent; self-dramatizing; funny; poetic; intuitive; individualistic; big-hearted; love of family life; sociable; sensitive; understanding; maternal/paternal; proud; colorful and receptive personality.

Are you the loveable, radiant star of the show, or are you too busy in the kitchen making pate de foie gras to play elegant host or hostess? Are you domineering and self-assured, or impressionable, moody, and shy?
You may sometimes want a safe, simple life where you feel emotionally contained and able to pursue your own creative interests. Then, however, the compulsion to strive for a more central, leading role rears its head, and you know you have it in you – so out into the spotlight you go. So immense is your creative energy as well as your warm feeling for others that you can become both the artistic-homemaker and the home-loving artist/writer-entrepreneur. Your personality is large and welcoming, colorful and theatrical, because you have such an uncanny knack of dramatizing your vivid impressions and selling yourself in the most genuine, heartfelt way.
Both the paternal and the maternal urge is strong in you. You need to use your will to project and establish your identity to the world, and to use your instincts to nurture and protect your emotional and material security. The Sun and Moon are in their ‘home’ signs here, so that potentially you have that creative vision of Apollo and the lunar wisdom of Diana all rolled into one. This can make you pretty overpowering at times, and indeed you need a partner and a family on whom you can lavish your emotions.
Your bearing is often aristocratic, sometimes haughty, oversensitive, and self-absorbed, but you always seem to have enough affection to go around so that no one feels left out. You also manage to remain approachable and compassionate because you are so aware of your own vulnerability and need to be loved. Thus you make a warm and understanding friend, and you enjoy expressing your feelings with original flair and thoughtfulness. You are protective, possessive, and utterly devoted to your ideals. Deeply honorable and dependable, you bring an attitude of devotion and romantic style in all you do.
You may have a good head for business because you possess an instinctive knowledge of security needs as well as a shrewd understanding of people, their desires, fears, and foibles. Your refined taste for comfort and beauty is part of the impetus for success – you know your own mind and do not easily budge from your preferences and high standards. Aesthetic sensitivity is strong, and combined with your innate tenacity and quiet ambition means that you could be quite successful in the arts.
You are a true romantic with a deep need for love and belonging. Your vanity makes you fairly sensitive in emotional matters and your moods could drive your partner crazy at times. You can sometimes play the dominant role, sometimes the passive one. Whether or not you apply this versatility very much depends on how you are feeling when the get up in the morning.
Even though you readily turn a bright face to the world, you do not always feel confident and strong. You have a lively sense of individuality, but your potency is sometimes too dependent on emotional familiarity, and the range of your self-expression too circumscribed within repetitive emotional patterns. Inwardly you shy away from encounters with the big, bad world, and early in life you may need to find ways of handling challenges that normally push the panic button. This will not be hard for you because your creative drive is tremendous and your individuality needs recognition.
You may sometimes play a game with yourself in order to get going, but ultimately, you learn that you take your security with you wherever you go. Intuitively, you discover how to master the wide range of life’s funny situations by trusting your gut reactions and developing a superb sense of humor.

Your Greatest Strengths
Vulerability; openness to others’ experiences; deep sense of integrity and personal loyalty to standards and to loved ones; rich imagination and colorful expressiveness; hugely creative spirit.

Your Greatest Weaknesses
Engulfing emotionalism; tendency to be so self-absorbed that you drown out or distort all signals from the environment; proneness to sulk when you do not get your way.

Images for Integration
A young child sits on a throne, and with great dignity and tenderness, crowns his father and mother king and queen … A man and a woman walk hand in hand along the edge of the sea at high noon on a summer’s day.

Famous Personalities
Ethel Barrymore (actress), Hilaire Belloc (writer), Clara Bow (actress), Claude Debussy (composer), Guy de Maupassant (writer), Zelda Fitzgerald (writer and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald), Llewellyn George (politician), Evonne Cawley (tennis player), Robert Horton (actor), Omar Khayyam (poet), Princess Margaret, Annie Oakley (markswoman), Ira Progolf (psychologist), Kenny Rogers (country singer), Bernice Rubens (novelist).

NOTE: The book didn't seem to list a separate section on "Relationships," but I think the gist of it is already captured in the description above. Enjoy!

posted December 22, 2004 06:10 PM         

Very much appreciated