Sun Sign, Moon Sign: Discover the personality secrets of the 144 sun-moon combinations. Charles Harvey
solution is right and will magically unlock the door to a brighter future, even though it appears flagrantly inappropriate to other, more practical souls. In other words, you often by-pass the logical, step-by-step thinking process of the left-brain because of your capacity to perceive instantly the essence of any given situation. Your hunches are more real to you than a set of mundane facts. To you, life must be a game well-played (even if not always won), a challenge to the imagination and a test of your deep, creative, innovative spirit.
This intuitive approach to life can, however, create some instability for you and your household. Being true to your visions – doing what you want to do – takes priority over completing mundane tasks, and the result in your day-to-day life can sometimes be chaos. But even in failure, your honour is likely to stay intact for ‘nothing ventured, nothing gained’ is what you say; ‘it is the idea that counts’, and things will ‘all come right’ in the end. You are an incurable optimist, very noble and a touch arrogant as well. One of the most important things in your life is being able to express yourself freely and without inhibition, for honesty and fair dealing are virtues that are nearly gods to your inner life.
Relationships
Emotionally you are ardent, uncomplicated, warmly spontaneous and in love with the experience of falling in love. You give yourself wholeheartedly, but at the same time you can be pretty restless and impatient, eager to jump the fence if you feel stifled with someone.
More aware of your own feelings and needs than those of others, you can get wrapped up in ideologies and hold forth about some ‘ism’ at inappropriate times (when all that your mate requires is a cup of tea). Practical duties weigh on your spirit, so you need to know that there is room for movement and new adventure in your relationship.
Quite frequently you need to just drop everything and go camping, get on an airplane, go to a party or take up a new hobby. You have got to enjoy yourself! The great thing about you is that you can swing from the depths of philosophical sobriety to the heights of bawdy fun in the twinkling of an eye.
Your Greatest Strengths
Contagious optimism; entrepreneurial spirit; powerful influence on others. You need challenging, stimulating work where there is scope to let your intuition play with ideas. Just remember that generalities need details, inventions need practical working out, and that remaining in the realm of limitless possibilities will not get the job done.
Your Greatest Weaknesses
Grandiose philosophizing; moving around and never landing; insensitivity to human feelings; impatience with the limitations of the material world; total self-absorption to the extent that your capacity for relating remains childlike; and a tendency to let your daredevil side sabotage your material security.
Image for Integration
A child shoots an arrow towards the enchanted castle in the distance as he follows the road less travelled.
Famous Personalities
Richard Alpert (‘Ram Dass’ – psychologist), Kingsley Amis (writer), Samuel Beckett (playwright), Dirk Bogarde (actor), Rory Bremner (mimic/comedian), Robert Fludd (metaphysician), Erich Fromm (psychologist), Gus Grissom (astronaut), Sterling Hayden (actor), Thomas Hobbes (philosopher), Garry Kasparov (champion chess player), Sean O’Casey (playwright), Wilhelm Reich (psychiatrist), Ravi Shankar (zitharist), Vincent Van Gogh (artist).
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SUN ARIES
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away.
A.E. HOUSMAN
The great questions of our day cannot be solved by speeches and majority votes … but by iron and blood.
OTTO VON BISMARCK
Themes
FIRE/EARTH Unstoppable; ambitious; tough-minded; domineering; enthusiastic and forceful manner; pragmatic intellect; droll sense of humour; sensible; ardent; persistent; aggressive; good organizer; a realist; the winner; the boss.
You are a go-getting realist, a maverick traditionalist whose strident energy and ambition takes you into the struggle of life at an early age. It is not so much that your life is a struggle, but that you experience life as a series of challenges to be conquered, and you more than most need a challenge in order to feel alive.
Something of a young up-start with an eye to the main chance, you are likely to be found in the establishment but often waging war against oppressive laws or traditions. You could also be a creative entrepreneur forging some new and exciting product or enterprise. Whatever you are involved with is likely to possess both originality and longevity, flair and endurance.
Politics is a very natural habitat for you, and it is here that you can be a very persistent thorn in the flesh of the status quo, bringing a searing honesty and fresh viewpoint which shocks people out of stagnant ways of working. And despite the insults and threats that you may provoke, you do not go away. You have tremendous willpower and are thick-skinned enough to see your personal aim through to its completion. You respect the law and learn to work within its boundaries, but just by a hair’s-breadth, because you have to push the system to its absolute limit to make enough room for your individuality to express itself – and leave its stamp for posterity.
You say matter-of-factly what you intend to do, then you do it. You may be fairly low-key, not obviously a colourful Aries, but you are all the more determined for the close focus of your attention. There is something of the working-class hero about you, droll, down-to-earth and unaffected, with a scathing wit and a controlled cheekiness. You often use humour and sarcasm to get your point across.
You go for sound, solid ideals, and rarely waver from your path once you have seen the way ahead. You always assume you are right until proved wrong, and it takes quite an audacious opponent to stand up to you. Although you are naturally arrogant and impatient, you are nonetheless devoted to truth and respect personal courage in anyone, and you will immediately climb down to acknowledge the soul who is strong enough and wise enough to teach you a new lesson.
Although you want to win (and usually do), your self-respect and personal integrity is more important to you than anything. This goes for personal relationships, too: they tend to play second fiddle to your career ambitions and to those personal challenges that are such powerful grist to your mill.
Relationships
Your approach to love probably has as much practical common sense about it as your approach to work. In your bold enthusiasm to drive home a point you can seem somewhat abrasive to a partner who just wants a cuddle.
You are basically very self-controlled, and constantly push for more control of your outer world. Because of this, you may frequently mistake confrontation for relating, and loved ones may easily feel bruised and learn to avoid confrontation with you. Nevertheless, you are honest and open and ready to learn what you have to in order to be a success, be it in love or in career. You have certainly got what it takes to succeed, but you need to take care that your passion for winning and for economy of effort does not compromise the quality of your personal life. Do not forget to smell the roses along the way to success. Otherwise, it can be pretty lonely at the top.
Your Greatest Strengths
The sheer magnetic force of your personality; a quick and pragmatic mind which sizes up situations accurately and astutely; the powerful mixture of risk-taking and caution in your approach to