Whether male or female, you can develop a charismatic quality, and bring both the ‘bliss of solitude’ and the joy of the chase to your relationships by combining your natural modesty with your more impetuous side.
Your Greatest Strengths
Power of analysis and criticism and your eye for quality and detail; ability to refine new skills; administrative gifts and your ability to combine duty and initiative; willingness to put your cards on the table and say what you think.
Your Greatest Weaknesses
Intolerance of others’ weaknesses; bossiness and insensitivity to the feelings of others; proneness to feelings of self-doubt and guilt; tendency to stand in your own shadow and to sabotage your own initiatives through extreme self-criticism.
Images for Integration
A surgeon performs a daring operation … A metal worker forges an intricate masterpiece … A William Morris design … A remembrance that the perfect is the enemy of the good.
Famous Personalities
R.A. Bloch (writer), John Harvey-Jones (business specialist), George Jessel (actor), J.P. Morgan Snr (banker), William Morris (artist and designer), Amedee Ozanfant (artist), Bessie Smith (jazz singer), Dorothy Tutin (actress), Erich von Daniken (writer), William Wordsworth (poet).
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SUN ARIES
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
No annihilation without representation.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE
Themes
FIRE/AIR Forthright; charming; ingenious; eager for life; apparently confident but inwardly indecisive; gregarious; convivial; amorous; chivalrous; idealistic; intellectually precocious; self-centred but kind-hearted; emotionally naive; vacillates between independence and dependence.
Throughout your life you may often have to ask yourself: Who has the power, me or others? Does my need for harmonious relations frustrate my basic get-up-and-go individuality?
You have a vivacious, outgoing, and aspirational personality as well as an almost childlike desire for creative self-expression and huge doses of social involvement. You may have big ideas about your potential and the success and admiration your creative efforts should bring. But although you may feel that no one deserves first prize more than you do, you become aware early on just how much you depend on a gracious, appreciative audience.
Harbouring a romantic inner picture of yourself that sometimes takes on heroic proportions, you let your vivid imagination work overtime as you plan out your route to glory. But then you find yourself amazed, and not a little hurt, when you discover that others do not (at first) see the same heroic picture, and that life does not hand you your dreams on a platter.
Although your imaginative powers are considerable, they can be a vice as well as a virtue because you indulge them when you should be getting on with things. Sometimes you are lazy and find it difficult to get going and to make your dreams come true. You have ambition but hate strife, and very often for you the former invites the latter to some degree. Most of the time you throw yourself wholeheartedly into life, wearing your heart on your sleeve and hoping for the best. When you do not receive the positive response that you crave, you can be truly thrown off beam.
This is a full-Moon position, which means that your head and your heart often work against each other. You are eager to please, to co-operate, to make peace and to be helpful, and this makes you a natural diplomat – courageous but strategic, a maverick but a lover of justice.
Sometimes your keen awareness of others and instinct for justice causes you to suppress your personal power in the interests of harmony. You may then become overly accommodating and eventually very frustrated. When this happens you can feel that you are on an emotional see-saw, going up and down but essentially nowhere. Sometimes you feel powerfully self-directed; at other times you feel your fate is sealed by others. Feeling loved and appreciated will always be a strong need within you, and when you have gained a certain amount of emotional contentment your confidence and assertiveness will blossom. Teamwork and group goals help you to come alive and to find that innate aptitude for leadership which can inspire others.
Relationships
Romantic and devoted by nature, you tend to be quite a flirt and experimental in your youth, but feel happier when you are in a good relationship. ‘Good’ means a relationship that is supportive, exciting, aesthetic, egalitarian but lets you at least think that you are in command. You enjoy lighthearted but stimulating and convivial social situations, but in relationships your lightheartedness and essential naivety could attract emotional heaviness or complexities that baffle you and from which you run. You may feel awkward when it comes to looking at ‘nasty’ emotions, preferring to emphasize the ‘nice’ and the ‘heroic’. You want adventure but will be surprised to confront the emotional extremes that your Libran Moon may attract.
Your emotional nature is strongly challenged by the prospect of a mature relationship, because your Arien goal of independence and your Libran instinct for dependence and co-operation have to be worked with, balanced and affirmed in order for you to be truly happy with yourself. The more aware you are of just how much you invest in being accepted, even adored, by others, the more you will be able to minimize the roller-coaster quality of your emotional life.
Your Greatest Strengths
Ebullient sociability and charming hospitality; idealism and hopefulness; sensitivity to others; capacity to inspire optimism; artistic imagination and talents; ability to be exactly who you are in close relationships – and to make your partner love it!
Your Greatest Weaknesses
Tendency to vacillate; to think great guns and then peter out; to let frustration eat up your confidence; to permit your need for appreciation to fuel your vanity rather than your creativity; and to rest on your laurels when you should be making strides.
Image for Integration
A conductor leads an orchestra with passionate conviction and a vibrant, pulsating organism of musical perfection is created to the ecstatic uplifting of the audience.
Famous Personalities
Pearl Bailey (singer), Jean Paul Belmondo (actor), Matthew Broderick (actor), Richard Chamberlain (actor), Antal Dorati (conductor), William Hazlitt (essayist and journalist), Shirley Jones (actress), Julian Lennon (musician), Simone Signoret (actress), Gloria Swanson (actress), Arnold Toynbee (historian), Jack Webb (actor), James Dewey Watson (biologist), Wilbur Wright (pioneer aviator).
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SUN ARIES
Live all you can … it doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that what have you had?
HENRY