The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
THORNTON WILDER
Themes
FIRE/WATER Personal integrity; witty; intense; powerful; passionate; highly motivated; persuasive; ambitious; forceful; self-dramatizing; charismatic.
Should you storm life by the front or back door? Is life full of fresh-faced opportunities and bright laughter, or is it a corrupt place, worthy of cynical humour and dark suspicions?
You are a forceful individual with drive, energy and tenacity. You know what you want and will find ways, direct or indirect, of achieving it. But you can become torn between an impatient, up-front, naive, trusting approach to the world and a suspicious, distrustful doubt; between a self-denying, intense, slow-burning determination and a go-for-it pizzazz. When these two sides of yourself work against each other you may find yourself becoming embroiled in bitter conflicts which seem to be none of your making. Relationships fall apart, and those you thought of as friends stab you in the back. When you get your act together, however, you become unstoppable, a courageous, humorous, charismatic, co-operative leader, prepared to push yourself to the limit and beyond in your determination to set the world to rights, and to leave your mark.
People may see you as cynical, brash, self-assured and pushy, or as somewhat private and quietly purposeful, but none will doubt your sincerity and commitment to your chosen path. Most would, however, be surprised at how much you care about others’ good opinions. For though you want to make a real and lasting impact upon the world by one route or another, you especially want and need the approval, appreciation and loud applause of your peers and can even brood, get bitter and self-destructive if your path is blocked, or your plans are crossed.
Your secret weapon, when you find it at your centre, is your belief in your own abilities. This gives you a formidable will to win. Equally it gives you a great capacity to help others stand on their own two feet, and to motivate and encourage them. To bring out this creative core you need demanding projects and ambitions to occupy your energies, especially when young.
Life for you is a drama, and self-dramatization is your forte. This can draw you towards the theatre or any arena, such as sports, where there is an opportunity to shine. No matter what career you follow, however, you will make a career out of your life. You believe in yourself and make a natural leader, but at the same time you want to be thought well of, and can become withdrawn and even bitter if your enthusiastic ideas meet with resistance.
Yours is a sharp, clear-headed, penetrating approach to life. You identify what you want to achieve and you go about achieving it with a natural gift of strategy and leadership. You have many of the qualities of the natural leader: an ability to put yourself and your cause first single-mindedly; dedication; charisma; force; a talent for research, probing into hidden corners, which is excellent for military campaigning tactics and manoeuvres, but also for campaigning journalism; and a gift for psychological insights and penetrating analysis.
You are attracted to physical exercise and sport. If you do not consciously channel your physical, emotional and mental aggression in a purposeful way you can become very bitter, frustrated and self-destructive. You can take a real disliking to people, and can be arrogant, irascible, rude and bloody-minded. Yet you are a person of integrity. You are frank, honest and like to tell it as you see and feel it. This refreshing honesty keeps you young and open-minded, always ready for new ideas and experiences. Your forceful, sharp, biting wit and wry cynicism about human weaknesses makes you an excellent humorist and comedian.
Relationships
In relationships you are a full-blooded romantic. Very highly sexed, you are not one for half measures! You are a person of intense physical passions who needs to be totally involved and committed in a relationship.
Whilst you are attracted to a mate who can fight their own corner, there is also about you the romantic spirit of the gallant crusader rescuing the helpless, drawn to wounded birds who need your strength and who will give you the unquestioning devotion you need. You can be intensely faithful or intensely unfaithful, but never indifferent.
Your Greatest Strengths
Integrity; belief in your own and others’ individual worth; relentless single-mindedness; ambition; courage; determination; capacity for gutsy hard work; ability to push through your ideas and plans against all obstacles.
Your Greatest Weaknesses
Narcissism; self-dramatization; insatiable hunger for applause; determination to put yourself first; impatience and self-assertion which can, unless reined in, become overbearing and ruthless.
Images for Integration
Charlie Chaplin saves a maiden in distress … A passionate woman sells herself for her cause …The Godfather films.
Famous Personalities
Warren Beatty (film actor), Anita Bryant (entertainer and evangelist), James Caan (actor), Claudia Cardinale (actress), Mariah Carey (rock star), Charlie Chaplin (actor and comedian), Julie Christie (actress), Eric Clapton (rock star), Francis Ford Coppola (film director), David Frost (actor and entrepreneur), Henry James (novelist), Hayley Mills (actress), Dudley Moore (actor and comedian), Arturo Toscanini (conductor), Thornton Wilder (novelist).
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SUN ARIES
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 as to 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 an 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;