Your Greatest Weaknesses
The sheer magnetic force of your personality which can overwhelm weaker souls; a propensity to charge ahead with your instinct to conquer in inappropriate situations; a too blunt, businesslike manner in personal relationships; a lop-sided and overpowering need for control and to be recognized as ‘tops’.
Images for Integration
A young soldier is rewarded by the King for exceptional bravery in the cause of freedom and individual human rights … Columbus discovers America, and a new world order is born.
Famous Personalities
Al Gore (American vice-president), A.E. Housman (poet), Eric Idle (actor and comedian), David Lean (film director), John Major (British prime minister), Elizabeth Montgomery (actress), Sarah Jessica Parker (actress), Stephen Sondheim (composer), Rod Steiger (actor), Mstislav Rostropovitch (cello virtuoso and conductor), Mies Van Der Rohe (architect), Sarah Vaughan (singer), Reese Witherspoon (actress).
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SUN ARIES
I shall marry in haste and repent at leisure.
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
To be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Themes
FIRE/AIR Selfish yet altruistic; full of bright ideas; friendly; congenial; extrovert; enthusiastic; incisive; sharp; analytical; sociable; progressive; revolutionary; social activist; dramatic; exceptionally individual.
You are where it is at, and beyond that too. But are you a self-obsessed revolutionary or a social prophet? Are you a passionate progressive or a detached onlooker? Or have you discovered how to combine both through a vocation which meets your need for constant challenge?
You may appear to be self-centred but, just when everyone thinks you are in it only for yourself, you reveal your capacity for true friendship and interest in the needs of others. You can be very civilized and very selfish. You want to make your mark upon the world but you do not want to scar it in the process, though it may not believe you at first. When firing on all cylinders, and not just spouting hot air, you are original and inventive; a natural pioneer, entrepreneur and leader of progressive causes; a great improver, able to see the big picture and inspire others with a large and distinctly different vision of things. You will take an active interest in anything that appeals to your maverick, heretic and non-conformist approach to life. New schemes and ideas may be more exciting to you than the prospect of finishing what you have already started, for orderly routine is a living death for you. Being self-employed and doing your own thing attracts you, yet you also have a strong social sense and can work well with others, provided you are in charge. You rightly have a high opinion of your own genius, and in order to be happy you need to be working and playing in areas where you feel free to take the initiative and pursue your observations and insights.
With your razor-sharp mind, you enjoy an intellectual challenge, and have an ability to look at things from a different perspective. You delight in being controversial and poking fun at the status quo. You see yourself as a go-ahead mould-breaker, an anarchist even. Be it in politics, film, fashion or the very way in which you express yourself, you are drawn to the non-conformist, original and maverick, and are never happier than when out on limb arguing for a viewpoint that others do not yet share. In this you can combine courage and imagination, for you are a natural campaigner who can pursue what you believe in with a burning conviction.
Friendships and social contacts are very important to you, and here as in so much of your life you can oscillate between self-interest and social concern. One moment you are being an elitist social climber, using your natural charisma and powers of persuasion to chat up the in-crowd with a cynical eye to the main chance; the next you are giving your time and energy to help the socially deprived and under-privileged. This dichotomy may play havoc with your philosophical and political affiliations as you veer from radical liberalism to complete free-enterprise. If you can allow room for both you will probably end up embracing an enlightened self-interest and make friends right across the fascinating spectrum of human viewpoints.
Relationships
You are a great ‘people person’, intrigued by individual differences and able to get on with most types. You should appreciate, though, that your combination of romantic passion and clinical detachment which can be disconcerting for you can be even more bewildering for your partner. For whilst you pursue the object of your desire with a sense of ardent adventure, your natural instinct is for personal friendship and intellectual companionship.
Sex, likewise, is something that can both obsessively absorb you and yet be something to be dismissed lightly and humorously. Your infatuations turn into friendships, and your friendships into ardent desires. Though you may be unconsciously drawn to maternal types, you need someone who will keep you guessing as well as help ground you for a long-term partnership.
Your Greatest Strengths
Gift of the gab; broad intellect; energy and enthusiasm; interest in people; large, individual vision; natural charisma; idealism.
Your Greatest Weaknesses
Selfish altruism that sacrifices others for your social vision; insensitivity to others’ feelings; over-rational approach to life and people; impatience with practical details and dull routines; elitist tendencies.
Images for Integration
A gallant crusader turns his sword into a computer chip and broadcasts New Age philosophy … A militant feminist joins a non-sectarian commune.
Famous Personalities
Béla Bartók (composer), Victoria Beckham (celebrity), James Branch Cabell (novelist), Peter Brook (film and theatre director), David Cassidy (singer), Joan Crawford (actress), Russell Crowe (actor), William Harvey (physician and scientist), Kate Hudson (actress), Cerys Matthews (singer), Jayne Mansfield (actress), Steve McQueen (actor), Colin Powell (policitian), Debbie Reynolds (actress), Dane Rudhyar (astrologer and composer), Tennessee Williams (dramatist, novelist and poet).
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SUN ARIES
If you don’t swing, don’t ring.
HUGH HEFNER
I am a realist in my novels – and a trance realist at that.
ROBERT LOWRY
Themes
FIRE/WATER Romantic; moody; affectionate; restless; a worrier; enthusiastic but inwardly timid; hopeful; thoughtful; nervous but eager; non-conformist; artistic; stylish; inspirational; imaginative; expressive; temperamental.
You are a bit like the BFG – the Big Friendly Giant – forceful but diffident, single-minded but dreamy, maverick and very much your own person but kind-hearted and needy of affection and consideration from others. You have plenty of initiative and strong personal motivations, and you seem to want to be out in