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    The interpretation of your astrology chart begins on the
following page.
 
    You will find that the interpretation of your chart is
written in simple language, uncluttered by astrological jargon.
If a statement appears to contradict another statement, then you
exhibit these opposite qualities at different times in your
life. For example, a statement that you are highly sociable and
gregarious and a statement that you prefer solitude seemingly
contradict each other; this means that you vacillate, and need
both sociability and solitude at different times.
 
    The astrological factor that the interpretation is based on
is also given. The astrological factor is given for the benefit
of astrologers and students of astrology. If you are not a
student of astrology, then obviously the factor will not be
meaningful to you, and you can ignore it.
 
    If you find this interpretation of your birth chart
interesting and informative, you might want to discuss your
birth chart with a professional astrologer to learn more about
the astrological influences on your life.



    Your birth chart interpretation is based on the positions of
the planets at the time of your birth. For the benefit of
students of astrology, these positions, along with other
technical information, are listed below:

Sun        4 Pis 12              Pluto     29 Can 41
Moon      23 Ari 05              N. Node   12 Sco 02
Mercury    8 Pis 07              Asc.      28 Gem 04
Venus     18 Cap 52              MC         4 Pis 04
Mars      15 Sag 14              2nd cusp  18 Can 11
Jupiter   12 Pis 26              3rd cusp   8 Leo 57
Saturn    15 Ari 23              5th cusp   7 Lib 24
Uranus    14 Tau 17              6th cusp  18 Sco 53
Neptune   22 Vir 27

Tropical  Placidus   Standard time observed

Aspects and orbs:
Conjunction  :  7 Deg 00 Min     Trine         :  5 Deg 00 Min
Opposition   :  5 Deg 00 Min     Sextile       :  4 Deg 00 Min
Square       :  5 Deg 00 Min     Quincunx      :  3 Deg 00 Min
Conjunct Asc :  3 Deg 00 Min Above,  5 Deg 00 Min Below
      

     
Section 1: General Characteristics

     Your fundamental needs, values, and orientation towards
life are symbolized by the four astrological elements. Each
person has their own unique balance of these four basic
energies: fire (warmth, inspiration, enthusiasm), earth
(practicality, realism, material interests), air (social and
intellectual qualities), and water (emotional needs and
feelings).
 
    Your "elemental make-up" is described below. Remember that
most people are "unbalanced" or lopsided, and if you are lacking
or deficient in a certain element (or elements), it simply means
that you need to consciously develop that aspect of yourself to
learn to appreciate and/or to work harder in that dimension of
life.
 
    Sometimes we overvalue the element that we are least endowed
with, sensing it as a lack within ourselves, but more often we
neglect or ignore it. The qualities described below will be
reiterated and explained in more detail in the following
chapters.

    Your life is apt to be full of emotional extremes,
turbulence, joy and sorrow, arising out of your own passionate
nature and unpredictability. You are impulsive and
temperamental. For you, everything is intensely personal and
colored by emotion. You may have difficulty viewing a situation
from a detached, impartial or rational perspective, and you have
little inclination to structure and order your life. However,
developing self-discipline, organization, and focus is
essential. Otherwise you will be prone to tremendous moodiness,
alternating between high inspiration and despondency.
 
    At times you feel much internal pressure, for you have two
strong impulses which can be in conflict with one another. The
desire for independence and freedom, the need for self
expression and ego recognition, and an urge to leave the past
behind in order to propel yourself into new experiences may be
at odds with other, equally strong needs: attachments to people
and to the familiar, a compelling urge for emotional closeness
and union, and a desire for security. Balancing these two drives
is a significant challenge for you.
 
    Even though your life is less even and perhaps less stable
than others', most likely you would not change it, for you are
very alive, sensitive, and responsive to the ever-changing,
dynamic quality of life.

    As you will read in the following chapter, you appear
reasonable, rational, and fair. You dislike showing how
emotional, temperamental, and easily affected you are. Your
communication abilities help you effectively handle your strong
emotions and inspirations.

Astrological influences analyzed in Chapter 1:
Fire and Water are Strong (F,E,A,W Scores = 16,6,8,19)
Fire and Water are Strong and Ascendant is in Air sign


 
Section 2: How You Approach Life and How You Appear To Others

    The following is a description of your basic stance towards
life, the way others see you, the way you come across, the face
you show to the world. In Chapter 3 you will read about the "The
Inner You: Your Real Motivation", which describes the kind of
person you are at heart and where your true priorities lie. Read
this chapter and the next one and compare them - there may be
significant differences between them, in which case "the inner
you" may not shine through and others are in for some surprises
when they get to know you at a more than superficial level. This
chapter describes the costume you wear, your role in life, while
Chapter 3 talks about the real person inside the costume.

    You are always questioning and learning, and you seem young
and alive no matter what your chronological age, for your mind
is always alert, curious, flexible and open to new experiences.
You have a childlike enthusiasm for anything new and you learn
easily, but you also get bored rather quickly. You can be
something of a scatterbrain, for you tend to have so many ideas
and irons in the fire that it is hard to keep track of them all.
You need and crave variety, change, mental stimulation, and an
active social life.

    Articulate, clever, often funny and witty, you are always a
refreshing and interesting conversationalist. You enjoy meeting
and interacting with a variety of different people. You are
friendly, flirtatious, and charming in a light, playful way, and
no matter how badly you may be feeling, you never appear heavy
or somber. You may seem frivolous to other, more serious souls.
You have a sense of humor and a sense of perspective that
prevents you from taking yourself or life too seriously. In
fact, you may seem flippant or unconcerned about matters that
others consider very important.

    In general, you respond to life mentally and objectively
rather than emotionally, and you may not empathize with people
very much. You do not like to be weighed down with too much
responsibility or with others' emotional burdens. Furthermore,
if you cannot UNDERSTAND something reasonably and logically,
then very often you would prefer to ignore it, including your
own and other people's irrational feelings, desires, and needs.

    Consistency and reliability are not great virtues of yours
and your life is apt to be full of changes and movement due to
your restlessness. You become nervous and fidgety if things are
not moving quickly enough. You are interested in what is current
and up-to-date, the newest trends in thought or style.

    Your gifts are a quick mind, verbal facility, a flair for
language, social sophistication and polish, the ability to
communicate, converse, and build bridges between people and
between ideas. You tend to become an incessant chatterbox or
gossip if you do not have work or other activities that utilize
your mental, verbal, and social skills.

Astrological influences analyzed in Chapter 2:
Gemini Rising


 
Section 3: The Inner You: Your Real Motivation

    Behind your rather light, witty, restless appearance
described in the previous chapter, there is a sensitive, poetic
soul. You may cover up your sensitivity with light banter and
cleverness -or you may use your verbal and communication skills
to express you imagination, kindness, and refined sensitivity.

    At heart you are very gentle, impressionable, and receptive
-a dreamer. The world of your imagination, feelings, and
intuition is as real to you as anything in the outer world,
though you may have trouble verbalizing or interpreting your
inner experiences in a way others can understand. Mystical,
artistic, musical, emotional and imaginative, you have a rich
inner life, though you may seem rather unobtrusive and quiet
outwardly. You usually keep to yourself.
 
    You have great sensitivity and empathy with others, and you
often sense things psychically or intuitively which prove to be
correct. You are tolerant, forgiving, and nonjudgmental,
accepting people unconditionally regardless of their flaws,
mistakes, or outward appearance. You have deep compassion for
the suffering of any fellow creature and often feel others' pain
as if it were your own. You sympathize with the needy, the
disadvantaged, the misfits of society. You are capable of giving
selflessly, living a life of devoted and compassionate service
to others, as a healer, physician, social worker, or minister.
However, you tend to give indiscriminately, to let others take
advantage of your kindness, and to encourage the weak to remain
so by becoming dependent upon you. You have little sense of
boundaries, of limits, of knowing when to say "no". Moderation
and self-discipline are not your strong points.
 
    You are a lover and a peacemaker rather than a fighter, and
you try to avoid open conflict. You will patiently ignore or
"tune out" problems and hope they will go away by themselves,
rather than directly confronting them, and you tend to lack the
positive fighting spirit that is sometimes necessary to overcome
challenges. You are fluid, open, nonresistant, and somewhat
passive. You do things in a subtle, often covert, manner.
 
    Your gifts may also lie in the realm of the creative,
artistic, or musical, for you have a great sensitivity,
inspiration, and limitless imagination. You respond very
strongly to beauty and to love.
 
    Your faults include a tendency to be lazy and negligent, and
to wallow in self-pity rather than taking strong, definite
action to change your life for the better. You also tend to
become so detached from your immediate environment that you live
in a disorderly, chaotic sort of hodgepodge, though this
probably bothers those around you more than it bothers you.

     Your career, reputation, and public image are very
important to you. You have a strong desire to be influential or
make your mark on the world. The merely personal sphere does not
satisfy you; your ambitions include making a major contribution
and receiving broad recognition for your unique effort and
gifts. You may undervalue the personal or inner side of life.

    You tend to see things from your perspective only and to be
rather subjective. You also enjoy talking and expressing your
views but you don't always listen as well. You have a clear
mind, a love of learning and new experiences, and need constant
mental stimulation and activity.

    You love to entertain and like to cultivate social contacts.
You enjoy forming close personal ties with others and most of
them should be harmonious. You prefer teamwork rather than
separate efforts to realize your goals.

Astrological influences analyzed in Chapter 3:
Ascendant in Gemini and Sun in Pisces
Sun in Pisces
Sun in 10th house
Sun Conjunct Mercury
Sun Opposition N. Node/Asc.



  
Section 4: Mental Interests and Abilities

    You are more of a poet than a rational scientist, for your
mind does not function in a strictly logical, linear fashion.
The language of music, art, or poetry is natural to you, and you
are also able to think in highly abstract and symbolic terms.
Translating your thoughts and impressions into concrete,
everyday language may be difficult for you at times and
consequently you may appear less intelligent or at least less
quick-witted and verbal than others. This was especially true of
you as a child, and you probably daydreamed a good deal also.
You are intuitive and are able to sense what others' thoughts
and feelings are, even before they say anything to you. You
often form an opinion about a person or situation without much
factual knowledge of them, and your impressions are usually
correct. You can be somewhat absent-minded and you become so
immersed in your own thoughts that you overlook things in your
immediate, tangible environment. You are extremely open-minded
and believe that anything is possible. Intangible or spiritual
forces seem just as real to you as anything in the concrete
world. Your imagination and your sympathetic understanding of
other people are two of your greatest gifts.

     You think a great deal about your career, your reputation
and public image, and the way you make a contribution or impact
on the world at large. Public speaking or communications of some
other kind is likely to be an important aspect of the work you
do.

    You enjoy philosophical speculation and theorizing about
abstract ideas and concepts. You are interested in the broad
view, universal principles and systems, seeing connecting
relationships and patterns, and seeing the whole picture rather
than its component parts. You have a great respect and thirst
for knowledge and education, and are the proverbial "perpetual
student". You also have a talent for teaching and sharing your
knowledge, and as a teacher you present yourself as a fellow
participant in the ongoing quest for understanding rather than
as an authority.
 
    You may become involved in television, publishing, or other
fields that involve sharing ideas with large groups of people.
You excel in areas that require long-range planning and
foresight, and can therefore be very successful in business, but
you are rather sloppy and haphazard when it comes to
implementing your ideas in a concrete way. You should leave it
to someone else to take care of the details. Travel or
long-distance contacts and communications will play a large role
in your life and work.

    You generally are in a positive frame of mind and have the
ability to express yourself well. You could be successful in
speaking, lecturing, writing or acting. You also might be
interested in issues of health, diet etc. and may consider a
profession in the medical field.

    You have a positive outlook on life, are far-sighted and
prudent, and have a wealth of thoughts. You tend to plan large
scale projects or ventures and are likely to be very successful.
You have good business associations and also love social
meetings.

Astrological influences analyzed in Chapter 4:
Mercury in Pisces
Mercury in 10th house
Mercury Conjunct Jupiter
Mercury Conjunct Sun/Jupiter
Mercury Conjunct Jupiter/MC



 
Section 5: Emotions: Moods, Feelings, Romance

    Emotional outbursts are frequent with you due to your fiery
temper and emotional impulsiveness. You express yourself very
directly and honestly and no one has to guess what your true
feelings are. However, you dislike showing any personal
weaknesses or needs for support, comfort, and nurturing. You are
often impatient with yourself and with others. You abhor
emotional dependency and dislike "complainers".
 
    You inspire others to take positive action in their lives by
your own enthusiasm and eagerness to meet life's challenges, and
are attracted to people who are adventurous, courageous, and
independent. You are rather bossy, but you do not like to be
with people that you can boss around too much. You enjoy a good
fight sometimes. Relationships built upon mutual respect and a
good deal of emotional freedom are ideal for you.
 
    You become very cross if you do not have enough vigorous
physical activity. You will feel your best if you "do battle" on
the tennis or racquetball court (or engage in some other
competitive sport) frequently.

     You get a lot of emotional fulfillment through your
involvement in groups, clubs, organizations, community
activities, or a network of close friends who support and care
for you. You make friends your family, and feel a close kinship
with people who share some ideals or beliefs that you hold dear.
You need people outside of your physical family to relate to and
belong to.

    You have conflicting emotional desires and needs which
complicate your personal life. You may feel that you cannot
depend on your love partner to take care of you or perhaps you
cannot decide what you really want in a love relationship: a
parent or a lover. If your needs for emotional sustenance and
love are not satisfied, overeating (especially sweets) can be a
problem for you.

     Highly sensitive and rather easily taken in, you need to
beware of deceiving yourself and allowing others to take
advantage of your impressionability or gentleness. Daydreaming,
fantasizing, or other forms of imaginative, escapist behavior
(such as watching television excessively or living your life
through romance novels) could be something of an addiction for
you. You tend to confuse images with reality and need to learn
to be more circumspect and discriminating. Disappointments
through women and in close relationships may occur if you do
not.

    Your emotional life seems to be overly intense and your
sexuality is very strong. You are likely to make many demands of
your partner and have to guard against possessiveness, jealousy
and a tendency to force someone to love you.

    You are definitely not one to wear your heart on your
sleeve. You care very much about others' opinions and crave love
and appreciation as much as anyone, but one would never know it
from your reserved and seemingly detached appearance. Casual,
superficial relationships don't interest you at all. You are
cautious and serious about love and really desire a deep,
genuine, lasting love. You are old-fashioned about courtship and
love, and will remain faithful to your loved one in good times
and in bad.
 
    You may be attracted to persons older than yourself, someone
who is emotionally mature and reliable and who can provide the
security you desire.

     You crave very intense, deep, emotional relationships, and
would even prefer a stormy, tumultuous relationship to one which
is smooth but lacking vitality and passion. You love
wholeheartedly and expect all-consuming, total devotion and
attention from your partner. Casual, light relationships hold no
appeal for you.

    You are serious and find it difficult to enjoy yourself in a
lighthearted, open and playful way with others. You rarely do
something purely for pleasure, and can be very close-fisted and
parsimonious. Perhaps due to painful separations in your early
life, you are very cautious about becoming close to people and
sharing your feelings. Though you crave love and affection,
intimacy is difficult for you. You may become romantically
involved with people who do not value you or treat you well. You
need to learn to love and value yourself before you will find
happiness in love.

    When it comes to love, you are apt to feel pulled in several
directions at once. In addition to your desire for depth and for
security in your relationships, you have an impulsive side and
need a lot of variety and excitement, as discussed in the
following paragraphs. These urges do not have to conflict, but
they certainly can, especially if you act on your spontaneous
impulses without much consideration for their long-term effects
on your personal life.

    You are open and progressive in your attitudes towards love
and romance, and spontaneous and free in your love-expression.
You are always willing to experiment and try anything new that
your partner suggests, and you enjoy being surprised. A
relationship in which both you and your partner have a good deal
of freedom and independence will hold your interest much more
than a safe, predictable one.

    Sensitive and compassionate, you tend to be the "giver" in
any relationship. You have high ideals and a refined attitude
towards love, seeking to relate in ways that are beyond ego
needs and selfishness. You are attracted to people with artistic
or mystical inclinations.

    You are extremely sensitive to your surroundings and could
feel highly elated one minute and quite down the next. You tend
to avoid the truth about yourself and your relationships and
could have some strange or peculiar experiences in love.

Astrological influences analyzed in Chapter 5:
Moon in Aries
Moon in 11th house
Moon Square Venus
Moon Quincunx Neptune
Moon Opposition Venus/Pluto
Venus in Capricorn
Venus in 8th house
Venus Square Saturn
Venus aspects Saturn and Uranus
Venus Trine Uranus
Venus Trine Neptune
Venus Opposition Uranus/Neptune



 
Section 6: Drive and Ambition: How You Achieve Your Goals

    You are aspiring, enterprising, and forever following some
bright and distant star, planning some new venture or
investigating new potentials. You are definitely "upwardly
mobile" in either a material or spiritual sense (or both). You
aim high and are not content simply with a quiet, secure
existence. You like to stretch your limits, to see how far you
can go, and to take risks. You are a positive thinker, expect
success for yourself, and are philosophical about failures. You
are flexible and bounce back from disappointment rather quickly,
usually with another hopeful new idea you want to try. Your
enthusiasm and confidence are contagious and enable you to
enlist the aid and support you need for your projects. However,
you sometimes promise more than you can actually achieve,
because you are overly optimistic or pay insufficient attention
to the practicalities involved.
 
    You also tend to get distracted and to have too many things
going at once. Although it is very difficult for you, there are
times when you simply must develop commitment, perseverance, and
persistence in order to make your dreams and goals a concrete
reality. Too often you fall short of what you could attain
because you are unwilling to persist through the difficult or
less exciting times.
 
    You also enjoy competition and usually do not take it too
seriously. Sports and entrepreneurial endeavors are good ways to
channel your energy.

     You expect to work hard for anything you accomplish and you
have no patience for people who don't pull their own weight.
Work is a passion for you at times, and you push yourself too
hard. You can be too demanding of the people you work with also.
 
     If your energy is not invested in a job or career, you can
become a fanatic about your health, and you may exercise or
"work out" vigorously and perhaps excessively.

    You are enterprising, ambitious, and have a strong desire to
succeed in a big way. Ever on the lookout for new opportunities
and promising new ventures, you are willing to take risks if you
sense that something is going to be a winner. No matter how much
you accomplish, you never seem to be completely satisfied. You
always feel you can do more, and set your sights on another
goal. You feel frustrated in limited circumstances, and you will
leave secure and reasonably successful situations if they do not
offer challenges and potential for growth and expansion in the
future. You like to keep stretching your limits, to see how far
you can go. Sometimes you overextend yourself or promise more
than you can actually achieve, due to an overly optimistic or
overly confident assessment of your own capacities. You relish
healthy competition and feel that it spurs you on to even
greater achievements.

    Although enterprising and forward-looking, you are also
capable of much self-discipline, patience, and effort. You may
swing from confidence and trust in the future to pessimism and
doubt, when it comes to achieving your aims in life.

    You possess the gifts of endurance and perseverance, the
willingness to work hard and seriously to achieve your
objectives. Once you decide you want something or make a
commitment, you'll do it "even if it takes forever".
Self-discipline is natural to you and you instinctively realize
that any creative achievement is "10% inspiration, 90%
perspiration". You choose practical, realistic goals and pursue
them step-by-step in a well-planned, orderly way. You like to
concentrate on one thing at a time and do a thorough job. You
enjoy working in solitude, and often feel your best work is done
when you are alone.

    Although you are patient and steady when pursuing an
objective, when you finally lose patience you lose it
completely! In addition to having great tenacity and
perseverance, you have a daring and rebellious side as well:

     Fits of temper and impatience, and a sudden, erratic sort
of recklessness can all work very much against you, especially
when you need to be working cooperatively as part of a team or
in a partnership. When you're upset or fired up about something,
you often do things that are risky and outrageous. When out of
balance, you tend to be accident prone.

    Your imagination is great and you tend to think with a
purpose in mind. You are able to function despite a degree of
uncertainty that colors your actions, and you are likely to have
an alternate plan when matters don't progress the way you want
them to.

    You are quite passionate, love children, and are inclined to
wish for a large family. In fact, you are likely to become
completely bound up in your marriage and family life.

     Positions of honor, affluence, influence, and stature in
your community can be yours. You feel you have a destiny which
involves leadership or distinguishing yourself in some line of
endeavor. You possess an innate sense of greatness or
importance, and a strong drive to achieve recognition for your
talent. Avoid excessive egotism and arrogant pride, for these
could limit your opportunities.

     Language, words, communication, networking, clarity of
speech or writing, being a messenger or go-between -- these are
key features in your career, as well as how you go about
achieving your goals and ambitions. "Work smarter, not harder"
is your motto.

    Very community spirited, you have a strong sense of
belonging when you are with other people. You like to establish
an inner contact with others and always strive for close
cooperation with them.

Astrological influences analyzed in Chapter 6:
Mars in Sagittarius
Mars in 6th house
Mars Square Jupiter
Mars aspects Jupiter and Saturn
Mars Trine Saturn
Mars aspects Saturn and Uranus
Mars Quincunx Uranus
Mars Conjunct Mercury/Neptune
Mars Conjunct Venus/N. Node
MC Conjunct Sun
MC Conjunct Mercury
MC Opposition N. Node/Asc.



 
Section 7: Growth and Expansion: Areas That You Enjoy

     Your ability to empathize and identify with others makes
you unwilling to take advantage of or hurt anyone. You care
about the underdog. You may also be unusually impressionable or
have highly developed psychic sensitivity.

     Your career or contribution to the world at large is likely
to touch many people's lives in a very positive, helpful way.
You aim high and have an innate confidence and trust both in
your own abilities and in life in general, which enables you to
go far. You want to do something BIG with your life, and you
attract the support you need to do so, for your aims are not
solely for your own personal benefit. You want to give something
back to the world, or to improve others' lives as well as your
own.

     You are always open to the new, willing to plunge in and
experiment with a fresh approach, and enthusiastic about
learning, growing, and expanding. As a result of this positive
attitude, opportunities and unexpected good fortune are drawn
into your life. You embrace change, delight in discovery, and
enjoy sharing your excitement with other people. A sense of
happy expectation and a sometimes outrageous sense of humor are
two of your great gifts.

Astrological influences analyzed in Chapter 7:
Jupiter in Pisces
Jupiter in 10th house
Jupiter Sextile Uranus



 
Section 8: Areas That Challenge You Or Are Difficult For You

     You have difficulty asserting your will and desires
directly and openly. You also may suppress your anger and
aggressiveness. Developing self-confidence, courage, and faith
in yourself are important tasks for you.

     You are generally not a "joiner" and do not feel
comfortable in clubs, organizations or other groups of people
that are centered around some common ideal or interest. If you
do participate in a group, you may find the rules and procedures
restrictive - or you may simply feel that you do not fit in with
the others.
 
     Being alone or with older, more experienced people suits
you better than being with groups of your own peers.



    Now we will discuss patterns of behavior which you
instinctively and habitually revert to when under stress - a
mostly unconscious process and one which you are apt to overdo
because it is so familiar and thus easy for you. The direction
you need to follow in order to develop balance, greater
awareness, and wholeness is also described.

    You are capable of withstanding outside influences and
remaining constant and steady on your path, but when under
stress you become downright obstinate and implacable, resisting
any change no matter how necessary or desirable the change is.
Tenaciously trying to preserve the status quo and hold on to
what you have, you are apt to ignore the subtle signals you
receive about needing to do something differently which often
leads to some sort of crisis.

    You need to learn the limits of your ability to control
life, and to accept and even embrace change and loss of the
familiar, in order to allow new life and growth to happen.
"Letting go" is a major life lesson for you. You also need to
develop a balanced attitude toward your appetites and desires,
as you tend to overindulge and/or deny yourself excessively.

    The arena you are most likely to wrestle with these issues
is in playful self-expression, games or sports, and creativity.
Try to develop any artistic, expressive, creative potentials you
feel you possess, utilizing the qualities described above.

    The specific habits which are likely to hold you back, or
which you are prone to overdo, especially during stressful
periods, include:

Going to extremes, willful rebelliousness and an instinctive
antiauthoritarian attitude, seeking constant (and often
purposeless) movement or change, involvement with unreliable
people, and seeking individual freedom at any cost.

Astrological influences analyzed in Chapter 8:
Saturn in Aries
Saturn in 11th house
N. Node in Scorpio
N. Node in 5th house
N. Node Opposition Uranus



        
Section 9: Originality and Imagination
 Areas Where You Are Creative, Unique, Unstable, or Compulsive

     You have unusual, even eccentric friends, and you are
likely to join groups, communities, organizations, or clubs
which promote progressive or unconventional ideas, social
change, or innovation in some form. You are dynamic and creative
in business affairs and in organizations.

     Your childhood and early home life were colored by a great
deal of confusion or by people with unusually active
imaginations, aspirations, or fantasies. It is difficult for you
to see your childhood and your relationship with your parents in
a clear, realistic light. You may search for the ideal, loving
home you wish you had, or believe you had, when you were a
child. Finding inner peace and a sense of emotional security
within yourself is important to you.

     You are likely to have a fixation on money, wealth, and
material resources. You may totally renounce material desires
and ownership, or become obsessed with having, owning, and
accumulating. Your attitudes towards owning, keeping, and
sharing will undergo major changes in your lifetime, and your
fortunes are likely to run very hot or very cold.

    Because of fluctuating energy, you could find it difficult
to maintain your position in life. At times you may want to
withdraw from others and prefer solitude. You probably find
working together with others not very rewarding.

    You have an extraordinary spirit of enterprise and seem to
be a born entrepreneur. You are inclined to take on big projects
or enterprises and are likely to have unusual successes. You
probably experienced definite successes early in life.

    You often may be put under strong pressure by your family
and could be manipulated by them. You tend to sacrifice your
wishes for others and may feel attracted to groups that are
connected in some way through sacrifice, such as monastic
institutions.

Astrological influences analyzed in Chapter 9:
Uranus in 11th house
Neptune in 4th house
Pluto in 2nd house
Neptune Conjunct Mars/Asc.
Pluto Opposition Mars/Jupiter
Pluto Opposition Saturn/N. Node



 
Section 10: Generational Influences: Your Age Group

    In this chapter we will discuss characteristics and traits
of your generation. Of course, you may not share all of the
characteristics of your generation, but you are greatly affected
by the tone that is set by your generation.
 
    The first topic is "The Subconscious and Emotional Drive of
Your Age Group". In this section we will describe a deeply felt
urge, even compulsion, of your age group. This deeply felt drive
comes to the surface with great force and power, and
consequently leaves in its wake considerable upheaval and
change. The second topic is "The Ideals and Illusions of Your
Age Group", that describes the dreams, fantasies, and spiritual
aspirations of your age group. The third and last topic is "What
is New and Different in Your Age Group", which describes areas
in which your age group tends to be innovative, inventive,
unusual, and also where it may be unstable and unreliable.
 
    The characteristics described below may affect a group of
people for anywhere from a few years to about 30 years. There
are one or more different astrological factors described in each
of the three sections below.

     The Subconscious and Emotional Drive of Your Age Group

    You are part of a 25 year group of people who have strong
feelings for home and country. You are a sentimental group, and
feel deeply attached to your family and your country. You cling
to the familiar, are distrustful and fearful of different
cultures, and consequently a great deal of racial and ethnic
prejudice is common among your age group.

    Your need for closeness and togetherness runs very deep and
causes you to bond closely to family members and old friends,
and also makes you prone to be involved in mass movements and
group activities because they feed your largely subconscious
need for acceptance and support by others. Unfortunately, your
age group is easily carried away by a group frenzy and many of
you often lack the integrity or courage to think and act in an
independent and rational way.

    Your generation is very emotional and tenderhearted. Many of
your group sacrificed a great deal to help your children or
other family members, while other generations are unwilling to
give as much as you have. Your tender feelings and regard for
the well-being of others can spur your age group to make
contributions towards the feeding of the hungry, care for the
neglected, and support for the needy, particularly children and
mothers. You are a group of people with a strong heart and a
helpful hand. Many of you have parents and/or children who are
not nearly as supportive and helpful; many of your contributions
are not completely appreciated or even go unnoticed.

           The Ideals and Illusions of Your Age Group

    You are part of a 14 year group of people who are
conservative and moderate in spiritual aspirations. Your age
group tends to avoid speculation on metaphysical matters, and
interest in psychic phenomena is considered very strange and
weird by your age group. There is also a strong sense of right
and wrong, and religious practices tend to emphasize ethics and
moral judgment. The conservative, straight-laced atmosphere
generated by your age group is frustrating to more imaginative
types, who consequently rebelled against it.

           What is New and Different in Your Age Group

    You are part of a 7 year group of people who are very
progressive in business and practical matters, and implement
scientific ideas in practical ways to make life more
comfortable. Home appliances, for example, were improved and
marketed by your age group to a much greater degree than was
previously done.

    Your age group is also rather sensual and romantic, and is
uninhibited in expressing romantic feelings. Your age group
rebelled against repressive attitudes towards sexuality, and
promoted overt expression of sexuality in movies, music, etc.

Astrological influences analyzed in Chapter 10:
Pluto in Cancer
Neptune in Virgo
Uranus in Taurus