You have a natural understanding of money and property which, combined with a competitive instinct makes you a natural entrepreneur, a ready player of the stock market and a merchant adventurer. But whilst you have an instinct to build up your wealth, you are likely to find that your hedonism and generosity can spend it even faster. For all your firm grasp of material matters, your intuitive vision of the larger realities makes you suspicious of out-and-out materialism. This means that, whatever you may be or do, there is always a space in your life where, despite yourself, an element of enchantment and the sheer dynamic mystery of life expresses itself.
Relationships
You are wonderful company. You have a real zest and appreciation for life and not least of the opposite sex. You love the rough and tumble of a good challenge, yet you love life’s luxuries. One moment you can be taking on all comers in open competition, and the next you can be lounging at ease, cracking bawdy jokes.
Other people are intensely important to you and you can make them feel deeply cared for and needed. Yet on analysis you somehow seem to end up in charge and running the show. You can be deeply possessive and prone to fits of intense jealousy. Whilst your strong masculine and feminine energies make you naturally attractive and encourage your roving eye, you can be extremely loyal and romantically devoted. The problems begin if you start getting taken for granted, for you like to be centre stage in any relationship. When you are ignored you can be inclined to brood and sulk and give off vibes which will deter all approaches. Yet once you click on again you can charm those who moments before had become life-long enemies.
Your Greatest Strengths
Forceful and magnetic charm; courage, stamina and determination; practical ambition and go-for-it will to win and endure; ability to enjoy your successes and feel you deserve them!
Your Greatest Weaknesses
Self-centredness and personal ambition; stubborn resistance to anything you do not want to do; your go-stop-go approach to work; letting ego get in the way of basic co-operation and harmony.
Images for Integration
An explorer practises the violin in a jungle clearing … Having won an arduous race, the champion sits down to a gourmet meal.
Famous Personalities
Hans Andersen (writer of fairy tales), Karen Blixen (novelist, author of Out of Africa), René Descartes (philosopher), Robert Downey Jr (actor), Gloria Hunniford (television personality), Washington Irving (writer), Elton John (singer, entertainer), Marcel Marceau (mime artist), Gregory Peck (actor), Diana Ross (singer).
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SUN ARIES
When a man gives his opinion he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion she’s a bitch.
BETTE DAVIS
‘Do you come here often?’
‘Only in the mating season.’
SPIKE MILLIGAN, The Goon Show
Themes
FIRE/AIR Purposeful or scattered; communicative; live-wire; direct; humorous; deft; witty; persuasive; entrepreneur; young at heart; too many irons in the fire; creative; musical.
‘Quick, quick, what does it say about me? Brilliant! A load of old cobblers!’ Slow down a moment and you may learn something. Ask yourself whether you are single-minded or many-minded? A single-shot, high-velocity rifle or a shotgun, hot-metal sprayer? You will certainly be in many minds about that. So, should you try and focus your very considerable drive and ambition on one objective, or is your greatest asset the sheer diversity of your interests and aspirations?
You have immense dynamism and nervous energy and a very sharp mind, but you can lack focus and stamina. You bore easily, be it in work or relationships. Variety is the spice of your life, so whatever you do, you need to be in situations and with people that keep you on your turbo-assisted toes. Make an asset of the fact that you are a starter rather than a finisher. Simply by working with someone who can carry things through from where you left off will greatly enhance your self-esteem. Not that it needs enhancing, but there are moments when you wonder why nothing has come of yet another brilliant idea.
You are one of the great persuaders. Words are your greatest gift. As with everything else, you are a fast mover – fast-talking, witty, with a love of, indeed a veritable flair and inspiration for, slang and witticisms. (If you need to learn a foreign language, your best bet is to go to the country and focus first on the slang.) You would be tops at telephone selling, indeed selling anything to anyone at any time.
Your vital, lively, witty joie de vivre makes those with whom you come into contact feel more alive. Great! The problem is that you can get carried away with your own wit and eloquence and talk yourself, as well as everyone else, into shooting off after your latest enthusiasm before the last project has reached its prime. You can, and do, reach for the stars, but you can simply play the star with your ready quick quips and ease of self-expression and forget to put in the solid homework or appoint the helpers who will ensure the goods get delivered.
You enjoy yourself and want others to enjoy themselves. You can be the life and soul of the party – a bit crazy, but definitely vital, alive, light, bright and vivacious. Whether you are partying, playing or working you like to keep things bubbling along. There is something of the eternal youth about you: vivacious, outrageous, highly vocal and eternally optimistic.
You are probably naturally creative in many directions, and not least musical. Top of the pops, or top of the classics, here you come. When you focus your attention and gifts on some idea or experience that has captured your imagination, you are capable of formidable creative outpouring. But again you have to ask yourself whether you are seriously ambitious or simply doing it for the laughs and because it comes easily.
Relationships
Are you blowing hot or cold today? You are inclined to fall in and out of love mighty fast, though you expect to remain good friends. You are essentially a romantic, specializing in knights in shining armour and/or Princesses to be rescued. You are a delightful companion until you get bored, when suddenly you find that ‘good old X’ is really rather wet behind the ears and not all that exciting intellectually … and you are on to the next sure-fire winner.
For fidelity you require someone who will constantly surprise you, but you may be drawn to the understanding, ‘mothering’ type to give you the security you need deep down – and your partner gets you to spice up his or her life. Well it could work … for a while!
Your Greatest Strengths
Zest; enthusiasm; quick wits; gift of the gab; capacity to take an idea and run with it; eye for an opportunity and entrepreneurial skills; your sheer oomph and chutzpah.
Your Greatest Weaknesses
Brash impatience; unreliability; insensitivity to less extrovert and expressive types; naivety; unwillingness to learn from experience.
Images for Integration
A fencing master carries off the prize … A racing driver plays the piano to relax … Haydn’s Farewell Symphony.
Famous