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Natal Report

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Muhammad Ali

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Planetary Positions

                                    Planet                              Sign                      Longitude                 Declination

                              qSun                 is in     vCapricorn        27 `17'  35"          -20 `42'  00"

                              wMoon             is in     bAquarius          12 `25'  57"          -14 `29'  00"

                              eMercury          is in     bAquarius          13 `30'  54"          -18 `07'  00"

                              rVenus             is in     bAquarius          20 `40'  20"          -10 `34'  00"

                              tMars               is in     sTaurus              3 `03'  30"         +13 `32'  00"

                              yJupiter             is in     dGemini             11 `57'  25"         +21 `43'  00"

                              uSaturn             is in     sTaurus             21 `39'  36"         +16 `06'  00"

                              iUranus            is in     sTaurus             26 `28'  09"         +19 `10'  00"

                              oNeptune          is in     hVirgo               29 `48'  06"          + 1 `17'  00"

                              pPluto               is in     gLeo                   4 `48'  15"         +23 `38'  00"

                              lN. Node         is in     hVirgo               15 `56'  33"          + 5 `33'  00"

                              jAscendant       is in     gLeo                  19`31'  59"         +14`58'  00"

                              kMidheaven      is in     sTaurus             12`13'  44"         +15`31'  00"

                              $Chiron            is in     gLeo                  12`28'  39"          + 9`52'  00"

Planetary Aspects

                           Your      Sun              is     Square            Mars            The orb is        5`46'

                           Your      Sun              is     Sesquare         Jupiter          The orb is        0`20'

                           Your      Sun              is     Trine               Saturn          The orb is        5`38'

                           Your      Sun              is     Trine               Uranus         The orb is        0`49'

                           Your      Sun              is     Trine               Neptune       The orb is        2`31'

                           Your      Sun              is     Opposite         Pluto            The orb is        7`31'

                           Your      Moon          is     Conjunct         Mercury       The orb is        1`05'

                           Your      Moon          is     Conjunct         Venus          The orb is        8`14'

                           Your      Moon          is     Trine               Jupiter          The orb is        0`29'

                           Your      Moon          is     Opposite         Pluto            The orb is        7`38'

                           Your      Moon          is     Opposite         Ascendant    The orb is        7`06'

                           Your      Moon          is     Square            Midheaven   The orb is        0`12'

                           Your      Moon          is     Opposite         Chiron         The orb is        0`03'

                           Your      Mercury       is     Trine               Jupiter          The orb is        1`33'

                           Your      Mercury       is     Sesquare         Neptune       The orb is        1`17'

                           Your      Mercury       is     Opposite         Ascendant    The orb is        6`01'

                           Your      Mercury       is     Square            Midheaven   The orb is        1`17'

                           Your      Mercury       is     Opposite         Chiron         The orb is        1`02'

                           Your      Venus          is     Square            Saturn          The orb is        0`59'

                           Your      Venus          is     Square            Uranus         The orb is        5`48'

                           Your      Venus          is     Opposite         Ascendant    The orb is        1`08'

                           Your      Mars            is     Square            Pluto            The orb is        1`45'

                           Your      Jupiter          is     Square            N. Node      The orb is        3`59'

                           Your      Jupiter          is     Semisextile      Midheaven   The orb is        0`16'

                           Your      Jupiter          is     Sextile             Chiron         The orb is        0`31'

                           Your      Saturn          is     Conjunct         Uranus         The orb is        4`49'

                           Your      Saturn          is     Trine               N. Node      The orb is        5`43'

                           Your      Saturn          is     Square            Ascendant    The orb is        2`08'

                           Your      Uranus         is     Trine               Neptune       The orb is        3`20'

                           Your      N. Node      is     Trine               Midheaven   The orb is        3`43'

                           Your      Chiron         is     Conjunct         Ascendant    The orb is        7`03'

                           Your      Chiron         is     Square            Midheaven   The orb is        0`15'

Planets in Elements and Modes

             

Weights Used Above

                  

             

Introduction
The report that you are about to read is a first step in decoding the symbolic language of your birth chart. It explains the raw materials that you have been given for building a life. It outlines how the overall shape of your chart reflects the overall shape of your personality, what your greatest challenges are likely to be, the strengths you have been given to meet these challenges, and the main arenas you are given for playing out your life’s drama.

In this report you may notice certain places where the information seems to be contradictory. This is to be expected, because people are complex. For example, in some situations we are shy and in others, aggressive. When you see repeated patterns, though, take special note: these are apt to be the dominant themes in your life.

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The Main Emphasis in Your Chart
The general distribution of planets around you at your birth is one of the things that shows the overall shape of your personality. Before taking a closer look at the details, let’s stand back for a moment to see whether your chart contains any obvious emphasis in a sign, group of signs, or other division of the horoscope wheel.

Most planets are below the horizon.
Your personal sense of identity is very important to you. Who you are and where you have come from are constant sources of interest to you. Your understanding of your cultural heritage and family roots will help you to determine your direction and goals in life. You feel that answers to important questions can best be found within, rather than in the outer world or in a relationship. Self-awareness and self-composure allow you to be self-assured in your career and relationships.

Most planets are in the western half of the chart.
You love interacting with others, and delight in experiencing life in a social setting. The challenge of working out the intricacies and problems posed in relationships gives you a feeling of enormous satisfaction, especially when things work out in a positive manner. To be sure, seeing life through the eyes of others is a rare gift. Just take care that someone else’s personality does not dominate you in such a way that you cannot grow and express your own self.

Most planets are above the horizon.
You tend to identify who you are with what you have accomplished in the world. This may make you highly competitive in establishing yourself within a definable lifestyle or career. Your trophy case or the diplomas on your wall may be a source of great personal satisfaction. It is important to balance your need for outer-world-accomplishments with care for your inner self. Also, take great care not to lose sight of the needs of your loved ones.

There are many planets in Earth signs
Having so very many planets in Taurus, Virgo or Capricorn, you tend to be the soul of practicality and pragmatism. You prefer to deal with tangible things that you can touch, see or hear, and like to live in a world where things are measurable and there are no abstractions. You also like to work with the present moment, the here and now, especially if it creates a lasting outcome or is connected to a past. You may have to guard against a tendency to be overly conservative, cautious or narrow-minded.

Stability is your great strength. You can be counted on when things get crazy around you, because you generally don’t engage in knee-jerk reactions. Instead, you prefer to allow things to happen, and then you react in your own time. You initiate matters only when they aren’t proceeding in the direction that you expect. Because you tend to be passive, you need external stimuli to get you going.

Very fertile, you enjoy producing things of substance, from children to business reports. You are not, however, overly nurturing. You generally prepare the ground, plant the seeds and then walk away until harvest time. If the seed needs continual care and attention to grow to its fullest potential, you may or may not intervene. If you do offer assistance, it tends to be for the material, rather than the emotional, needs of whatever you are nurturing.

There are many planets in Air signs.
With all those planets in signs such as Gemini, Libra or Aquarius, you probably love to live in your intellect, and excel at organizing, planning, and developing new techniques. Your strengths are logic, reason and impartiality. Because of your ability to remain detached and objective, you are a fair-minded judge of most situations. You can see and understand interrelationships that those who are emotionally or practically oriented find difficult to fathom. You could be a fighter for ideas and ideals, like a statesman who lives simply, has few material needs, and is held in high regard for his beliefs.

You like to connect people and ideas. Not being much interested in practical experience, you live in a world of concepts and use social interaction as your medium. Although you are a very social person, you prefer to remain detached. Emotional displays turn you off and you would rather negotiate. You may be in danger of being cold and emotionally insensitive to others. Understand that many do not operate in your rarefied atmosphere, and remember to be charitable if they lead mundane, unimaginative existences.

Unless you also have an emphasis in Earth signs or on such planets as Saturn and the Moon, your life may have a rootless quality. Although you may not notice it, others may be aware of a lack of stability in your material, external sense of being. To achieve balance, you may need consciously to stick to projects, put down roots, and cultivate your emotional life.

There are few or no planets in Water signs.
With very little emphasis in signs such as Cancer, Scorpio or Pisces, you don’t carry the baggage of complicated feelings and hypersensitivity to your environment. This allows you  to be forthright about your desires. Cool, detached, practical, objective and willful, you have a lack of sentimentality that can be a great asset in times of crisis and emotional stress. Your clearheadedness can lead you to great achievements.

It is easy, however, for you to be out of touch with your own emotional nature. You may feel that an emotional response like crying or moodiness is a sign of weakness that is best avoided. You may find it difficult to deal with those who express themselves from the heart. You end up not knowing how to react, or you may be uncomfortable expressing the appropriate feeling of response. You can also misread situations that call for intuition rather than reason.

Since your coolness and detachment may cause you to neglect the feelings of others, you may need consciously to practice relating to others in a compassionate, sharing and sensitive way. It will round you out to cultivate this nourishing side of yourself. Soften up and bend your beliefs a bit so you can serve those in need, for this is where happiness lies. When you let yourself go and dive into emotional waters, you may find that the humanity that has always been in your heart is drawn out into your personal world of expression.

There are many planets in Fixed signs.
Your strong emphasis in signs like Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius gives you the persistence to bring any project to its conclusion. You are the one who can be counted on to do whatever must be done. A preserver of old traditions and customs, you know that forward progress can occur only if there is a firm foundation to begin with. You are glad to build that foundation. Be aware, however, that others may sometimes view your noble persistence as stubbornness, cussedness or pigheadedness.

There are few or no planets in Mutable signs.
With a marked lack of planets in signs like Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, you tend to resist, often painfully and stubbornly, when forces outside you demand that you change and adapt to new conditions. You move most easily into new situations when you are the one to initiate the move. Because of your rather unyielding nature, you may find it difficult to coexist with those whose views oppose yours, and they may feel the same about you. To avoid stress, you may find it most comfortable to choose like-minded mates, business partners and friends.

There is an unusual number of planets in Aquarius.
Your rare degree of detachment and objectivity gives you an ability to make informed judgments about people, events and ideas. Usually you are correct in your observations. Because you tend to intellectualize everything, however, you may have more trouble dealing with emotional situations. Also, once you have formed an opinion, you tend to be intolerant of the views of others. Very social, you prefer to function within groups that support your own views. Once you’ve joined these groups, you may prefer to run them.

Aspects: Keys to Your Inner Drama
In your birth chart, the Sun, Moon and planets play the central role. They are the actors in the drama, the moving figures on the stage, each with a character of its own. How these characters relate to each other, whether and how they clash or harmonize, whether they bring out each other’s best or worst qualities, is shown by the aspects, or angles, between the planets.

Is the ongoing drama between two planets a continuing tension that periodically erupts into crises (conjunctions, oppositions and squares), a harmonious alliance where the two planets aid and abet each other (trines and sextiles), an uneasy truce full of ambiguities (certain other aspects in neither of these families), or simply indifference (no aspect at all)? Below you will see which pairs of planets are in aspect in your chart.

Each of the following sections lists the aspects in order of their general importance, with aspects involving the Sun, Moon and fast-moving planets coming first. You can get a further idea of their importance in your particular chart by going to the aspect table at the beginning of this report and finding the five or so aspects with the smallest number of degrees and minutes in the “The orb is” column.

Your Major Challenges
We start with your conjunctions, oppositions and squares because these tend to point out the challenges that you have been set in life. Mose people experience these aspects as problems, at least at first. Armed with awareness, however, you can come to view these so-called “ hard” aspects as the blessings that they really are. These are the forces that spur you forward. When you face the challenges that these aspects pose, you grow in strength, confidence, wisdom and maturity.

Sun square Mars
You have an abundance of energy, especially physical energy, but you do not always control it gracefully. You are very competitive and hate to lose. Try to find a worthy outlet for your energy (like sports or work requiring immense physical effort) so that it does not manifest itself in quarrels and bickering. You are so rash and impulsive that it is unlikely that you are always right even though you think you are. Hard though it may be, learn to trust those around you who are calm and practical.

Sun opposite Pluto
Once you have decided on a course of action in your relationships, business or career, you do not allow others to alter your choice. You proceed on your course like a bulldozer, clearing everything in your path. It is not your choice of what to pursue that gets you in trouble, but your method of getting there. If you choose to act in a brutal and compulsive manner, you may win, but you will encounter strong and violent opposition, and the battle may destroy much of what you were hoping to gain. Learn to temper your ambition with tact and humility, and the obstacles in your path will melt away.

Moon conjunct Mercury
You have the desire (and the gift) fully to express and analyze your deep inner feelings. One of your great delights is to discuss your emotional situation with someone else — indeed, anyone else. Make sure that your potential listeners are as excited about this as you are, or you might just bore them to tears. Besides being a great talker, though, you are also a good listener. You are usually quite perceptive and intuitive, and can be trusted to make compassionate (if at times impassioned) decisions.;

Moon conjunct Venus
You have a great gift for making others feel comfortable, loved and at peace. Your charming, sincere and loving ways and your personal grace and beauty assure your popularity with everyone you meet. Life flows smoothly for you because you meet no resistance. Your aesthetic judgments can be trusted. An overwhelming attraction to that which is graceful and beautiful may lead you to artistic ventures.

Moon opposite Pluto
Your emotions are constantly being transformed and taken to lower (or higher)levels. These dramatic shifts in intensity can feel like a gut-wrenching roller coaster ride. You would like to get off, calm down and have your life move more peacefully, but you seem compelled to keep on moving toward the next crisis. At times, you have the irrational fear that you will not be supported emotionally by your loved ones. This causes you to try to bind them to you by guilt and manipulation, which is, of course, unfair. Try to ease up a bit on yourself. Even if you don’t push the world so hard, it will still be a sufficiently exciting place.

Moon conjunct Descendant
You tend to seek emotional security outside yourself, and look for it instead in a significant other. You expect this person to provide all the comfort and emotional support that you need. Without this important relationship, you tend to feel lost, alone and alienated, but within it you are self-confident and assured. Be careful that neither you nor your partner become overly possessive and jealous of time spent away from the other.

Moon square Midheaven
At times, you need a good kick in the butt to get you moving along toward some kind of clearly defined life goal or career. You tend to be too passive and too dependent on others to provide support and structure and direction in your life. In early life you may have been overprotected by your mother or family and may not have been given the opportunity to become self-reliant. As such, it may take you a lot longer than others to grow up and stand on your own two feet.

Moon opposite Chiron
Thoughtful and sympathetic, you try to solve everyone’s problems and fix their dilemmas. You are at your best when you lend an ear or help others to help themselves. Intuitive and emotional, you nevertheless do not easily show affection or open up about the way you feel. Instead of verbalizing, you would rather surprise the one you love with gifts, favors, flowers and cooking gourmet meals. Your management and marketing skills are a great asset to any organization, club or company, and you yearn to be part of a team effort.

Mercury conjunct Descendant
You are most comfortable in an environment where people share ideas with each other. This could be an educational setting of some sort. Or, you may be attracted to business settings where a constant interchange of information is the primary activity. This includes areas such as news-gathering, stock and commodities trading, the Internet, telephones and other forms of communication. You feel right at home in these frenetic atmospheres. You do not mind letting others take the lead in conversation, but you yourself have valuable things to add. So make sure that you make your points.

Mercury square Midheaven
Even though you spend a lot of time plotting and planning what you are going to do with your life, you only seem to be able to move ahead in fits and starts. This is because you get easily distracted and cannot always concentrate fully on the task at hand. Ideally you should be doing something that allows you to indulge your generalist interests, but since this is difficult to do, you will probably have to bite the bullet and learn a little self-discipline.

Mercury opposite Chiron
Your sharp tongue and impulsive responses make you speak first and think later. From time to time, you have jeopardized friendships and relationships by indiscriminately telling tales and betraying confidences. An excellent debater and public speaker, you need to improve your listening faculties. At times, you may even talk non-stop as if no one were present. Pessimistic and high-strung, you will be more productive once you relax and focus on the bright side of life.

Venus square Saturn
As much as you yearn for love and affection, you tend to regard the responsibilities of caring for someone else (and being cared for by him or her) as so overwhelming that you often choose not to get involved at all. This can make you seem very shy, cold and aloof. You respect maturity and wisdom rather than emotional displays of affection, and might be more comfortable relating to someone much older or younger than yourself. Try not to let your lack of self-confidence drive you completely into a shell.

Venus square Uranus
Your relationships do not seem to last very long and that bothers you. It’s not that you are incapable of caring deeply, the problem is that you have a relatively short attention span. You need to feel that you can leave a relationship at the drop of a hat in order to feel comfortable. You must realize that it is unrealistic to expect others to be able to grant you this much freedom easily. You may appear to be undependable and irresponsible, but it may just be the best thing for all concerned if you do not try to hang on to relationships that have outlived their time or usefulness.

Venus conjunct Descendant
Peace, comfort and gentility are sought in the beloved. The give and take of a warm and loving relationship finds you at your best, and you will tend to feel lonely and incomplete if forced to live alone. You will go out of your way to make others comfortable and loved if you feel loved and supported yourself. Your obvious sincerity and graceful dignity will assure your popularity in any social setting.

Mars square Pluto
You have enormous drive and ambition, but you often find that the forces that you need to overcome in order to attain your goals are much stronger than you are. A probable cause is that you tend to overlook the needs of others in order to get what you want. If you control and manipulate others and use underhanded or unethical tactics, you force others to be as violent and dictatorial as yourself. When you learn to counter your more selfish tendencies with tact and altruism, you can be a powerful force for constructive change.

Jupiter square Nodes
A great deal of your time and energy is spent in working on charitable, religious or political projects. You enjoy portraying yourself as a high-minded, community-oriented person, but you’re not above using the contacts that you make for your own personal gain. A little of this is perfectly acceptable, but others may shy away from your assistance if they think that there are always going to be strings attached to anything that you do. Learn to give of yourself selflessly if you wish to be truly appreciated — don’t always try to “cash in” your favors.

Saturn conjunct Uranus
At some level or other, your life will be filled with tension. You are aware, sometimes painfully so, of the incompatibility between your need to be responsible and practical on the one hand, and your desire to be independent and eccentric on the other. When you’re at your worst, your life is in ongoing chaos. At your best, however, you have the ability successfully to balance these needs and to organize yourself to be productive even in difficult circumstances.

Saturn square Ascendant
Your self-discipline and seriousness incline you to be a loner, but that bothers you quite a bit. You would like to make close, warm relationships because you think that it is expected of you, but you just do not feel comfortable acting that way. This leads you to feel inhibited and frustrated, which can cause you to experience deep depression. Learn to relax and accept that what is good for someone else is not necessarily appropriate for you. You do have excellent qualities. Your friendship, once given, is wonderfully loyal and steadfast, and that is a rare gift.

Chiron conjunct Ascendant
When you were young you may have experienced a physical weakness, learning disability or other difficulty that set you apart from your peers. Identifying with others who are different gave you enormous compassion, empathy, and the ability to heal. These qualities will serve to make you a better friend, partner, family member and professional practitioner. You are incredibly resilient, and despite your ups and downs always manage to land on your feet.

Chiron square Midheaven
A probing mind and the need to question authority makes it difficult for you to accept advice or listen to parents, teachers and employers. While your stubborn streak can help you persevere, your headstrong nature may, at times, work against you. Don’t rebel simply because of differences of opinion. Try to make peace with those who can teach you to excel in whatever you do.

Your Sustaining Strengths
Trines and sextiles tend to work with a natural harmony that calls for little effort on your part. They show the things that you just seem naturally good at. Usually they point to the more positive parts of your nature, and act as support that you can call on in difficult times.

Because these aspects are so comfortable, they are not likely to push you to expand your limits or cause you to change. It is actually helpful to have a balance of hard aspects (like oppositions and squares) to stimulate you to grow, and soft aspects (trines and sextiles) to ease your passage and provide places to rest.

If you are blessed with a predominance of trines and sextiles, your life may tend to be placid and your nature serene. If so, remember that the world around you is probably sorely in need of these qualities that are yours to bestow.

Sun trine Saturn
You can be counted on to be patient and self-disciplined and therefore are ideally suited to handle responsibilities related to projects that will take a great deal of time to bear fruit. You are the ideal administrator because you can be trusted. However, your narrowly defined way of life does not allow for much originality or creativity. You are more comfortable when you know all the variables in advance and can take appropriate precautions. Your stiff, sober and conservative philosophy may cause you to be self- righteous and priggish — try to allow others the latitude that you do not allow yourself. Then you will be universally respected.

Sun trine Uranus
You must be free and independent at all costs. You will abandon any situation that becomes stagnant and unoriginal, be it a job, a relationship, or a neighborhood. This attitude may force you to live the life of a rolling stone, which can play havoc with the attempt to be a part of a settled family situation. You need to try to structure your life in such a way that you can come and go as you please and not have to feel guilty about anything. Since your great gift is the ability to find unique and creative ways to do things, this is a life-long challenge that you will enjoy.

Sun trine Neptune
There is an airy, ethereal, dreamlike quality about you, as if your hold on consensus reality were only temporary. You have a vivid imagination and the ability to interpret the transcendental meanings behind ordinary events. Your sensitivity and compassion allow you to deny your own basic needs in favor of the needs of others. At times, your sense of discrimination is not always sharp, and you can be taken in by con artists. Therefore, be very careful when it comes to making major decisions or signing contracts. Always seek out the advice of a trusted friend or advisor.

Moon trine Jupiter
You can be counted on to bring a positive, optimistic, upbeat attitude to whatever you do. As such, you are very popular. People sense that your sincerity and good humor are genuine. You are always on the go, socializing and giving of your time and energy for worthy causes. You may, however, think that you have an unlimited amount of energy, and that is not always the case. Watch out for your tendency to overdo things. Your lack of self-control may at times leave you overly committed and consequently exhausted.

Mercury trine Jupiter
You are an optimist, habitually trusting that things will get bigger and better. This is tempered by a reasonable and tolerant attitude that allows you to be fair and impartial in your opinions. Because you enjoy the give-and-take of decision-making, you would be comfortable working as a planner, organizer or administrator. Watch, however, for a tendency to neglect the minor but important details involved in any undertaking. It would be best to delegate these details to someone else.

Jupiter sextile Chiron
Rather than having to choose, divide your time evenly between working hard and having fun. You have always been passionate about traveling, meeting people, exchanging points of view and learning anything new. Being praised for your knowledge encourages you to become an even better teacher. Unable to do things in small doses, you have an unbridled appetite for food, sex, and power. Yoga, meditation, and other spiritual practices will help you to focus on accomplishing more meaningful work.

Saturn trine North Node
You seem to function best in social situations in which you can chum around with just a small group of friends and acquaintances. You appreciate more sedate and mature individuals and, once your friendship has been given, you’ll be loyal for life. Although you’re not interested in broadening your social sphere, you have the ability to make a major contribution to your neighborhood or community if it’s in your best interest to do so. You won’t put out any extra energy for extremely idealistic causes, but practical solutions to tangible problems will goad you to immediate and effective community action.

Uranus trine Neptune
You are known for your interest in metaphysics. Spiritual concerns are very real and important to you. Experiments in the alteration of consciousness, either through meditation, prayer, contemplation — or through the use of mind altering substances like drugs — are pursued because of your sincere desire to know what is “on the other side.” However, you do tend to wander from one set of ideas to the other and might benefit from the structure and discipline that a respected teacher would provide.

North Node trine Midheaven
Your advancement in life is due to the quality of the people and groups with whom you associate. Your community spirit is high — you enjoy working with others for common goals. Your enthusiasm and sincerity and true caring allow you to quickly rise to the top and assume leadership roles in the many volunteer projects you take on. You’re a true humanitarian, caring little for personal gain. At some point your peers will probably honor you for your good works.

Rounding Out the Picture
Two other families of so-called “minor” aspects add yet more information about the way the planets relate to each other in your chart. Semisquares and sesquares (also known as sesquiquadrates) share the dynamic, crisis-prone nature of the square but need to be quite exact in order to be felt.

Semisextiles and quincunxes connect signs that are totally unrelated to each other. They can have an odd, unsettling quality, indicating problems or issues that it’s hard to get a grip on. They are like interesting puzzles that call for a creative solution.

Sun sesquare Jupiter
You have a continuing problem of always wanting more and more when moderation would be a logical way of proceeding. Your tendency to excess — whether in dietary concerns or budgetary bloat or grandiosity of schemes — is always causing you difficulties. You keep thinking that you will be able “to get away with it” just one more time or that just one more will not hurt, and then you are surprised when you experience setbacks. Even though you are usually fortunate in your enterprises, a little self-discipline would make your road much easier to travel.

Mercury sesquare Neptune
You have a vivid imagination. Your inner visions are so compelling that you can find it difficult to separate them from the real world outside. The most positive use of this trait is when you attempt to convey these ideas to others through an artistic medium. In ordinary discourse, beware of a strong temptation to embroider the truth with your imaginings. Others may not understand your usually noble motivations, and may just consider you a liar.

Jupiter semisextile Midheaven
While you usually have a balanced approach to your career and life objectives, at times they seem to be working at cross-purposes to what you really want to be doing. This makes you very restless and unsure of your life path and can be very frustrating to you. It is not that you are doing poorly in your career, it is that there is a siren song calling you, making you believe that there might be a better path. You must realize that this is a serious problem and you must learn to face it. Find a way to pursue creatively these other interests, perhaps in the form of a hobby, in such a way that your career will not be damaged. Then, later, if the pressure becomes too great, switch careers. But plan the move out well in advance in order to make the transition as smooth as possible.

Houses: Bringing the Planets Down to Earth
The positions of the planets in the zodiac, and the aspects between the planets, are nearly the same for everyone born on a given day. But the houses reflect how the planets were arranged around you and you alone, at a given hour and minute, and at a given place on Earth. Houses therefore personalize the planets, showing how they relate to your own particular life.

The meanings of the twelve houses echo those of the twelve zodiacal signs, but are more specific and concrete. For example, the second sign, Taurus, is much concerned with the material world, whereas the second house deals with your actual possessions: how you feel about them, and how you acquire them.

The house delineations that follow show how the affairs of each house are flavored by the sign that lies on its cusp. Since houses are sometimes larger than signs, a house may also have one or more signs completely enclosed or “intercepted” within it, in which case you will find additional material about the intercepted signs in a house. Most important, you will learn below in what areas of life the planets — the main actors in your drama — are disposed to be most active, and how the way each planet operates is influenced by both its house and its sign.

House 1: Your Interface with the World
The first house focuses on the basic equipment that you have been given for interacting with the world: your body and your physical constitution, your face, your appearance, your personality, mannerisms and the way you present yourself. It may not be how you see yourself, but it is how others tend to perceive you, and you should be aware that it has an important effect on how you are accepted in social situations. Planets in the first house tend to be strong and “out-front,” especially when they are close to (that is, conjunct) your Ascendant.

Leo on the First
You love to be the center of attention and you like to appear strong, confident and dominant. You are very proud of yourself, and can even be quite vain. When those around you are bedraggled and falling apart, you look like a million bucks! Dignified and honorable, you enjoy the power and privilege, but not the responsibilities, that come with leadership. You are idealistic but can also be quite stubborn. Others impress you only if they have integrity (but wealth, power and influence can also turn your head). You prefer rich, elegant surroundings and possessions, and will try to acquire them as your budget allows. Physically, you are impressive, and when at your best have a regal, charismatic demeanor. Try, however, not to be too much of a showoff.

North Node in the First
You tend to be a real “social creature.” You prefer the social whirl of your friends and acquaintances — your need to express yourself creatively is done so much better in group situations than if you were on your own. You’re also a good friend and a trusted acquaintance and should be justly proud of that. While you’ll be among the first to stick up for the goals and needs of your group, try not to become overly dependent on your social acquaintances. There are certain situations that demand that you be able to act on your own and for your own personal good. You may have to go out of your way to learn the skills necessary to become self-reliant. It will be worth the extra effort.

North Node in Virgo
You’re usually at ease when leaving leadership roles to others. You would rather tend to the thousand and one details that need to be accomplished to keep any group going. Although you’re fussy and high-minded when it comes to choosing your associates, once your loyalty is given you can be trusted with the practical aspects of any project. Quite unselfish, you will toil long hours in the service of any worthy cause that demands your attention. Be careful that your perfectionist tendencies don’t get in the way of making real progress. In other words, don’t waste your time dusting clean shelves.

House 2: What You Own and Value
The second house goes a step outward from your own person and has to do with resources that you possess, including money. It shows your attitude toward what you own or would like to own: what you crave and covet, what you most value, how you go about getting it, how you take care of it, and whether or not you hang on to it. By extension, it can also indicate your sense of values: not just material things but also the attitudes and ideas that you hold dear.

Virgo on the Second
You are known for being practical and cautious, especially when it comes to financial matters. You purchase things only if they are functional and useful and only if you really need them. You would never think of buying something “for the fun of it” or if it were merely pretty or decorative. Your furnishings and clothes reflect this sense of values as well — you prefer to be in plain vanilla surroundings that are neat, tidy and functional. You have the ability to save money and resources toward some desired goal that is far- off in the future. At your worst, you tend to be miserly and penurious, but you can usually make do with less uncomplainingly when times really do get tough.

Neptune in the Second
You are an idealist and a romantic, especially when it comes to money and finances. You have the feeling and belief that money and possessions are not important and you think that the universe will take care of all of your needs. Because your expectations are not very high, this very casual, impractical attitude toward material resources can prove to be very beneficial to you in times of need. You have a tendency to be willing to buy almost anything at all if caught unawares — money runs right through your fingers. Always seek the advice of a practical and respected friend or counselor before making any major purchases — and never, ever gamble.

Neptune in Virgo
You, and your entire generation, tend to idealize work, duty and responsibility. You may be fearful of anything that would force you out of the protective shell of your everyday routines. You place a high premium on personal pride in productivity and craftsmanship, but in your search for perfection in minor details you can lose track of the overall purpose of life.

House 3: Your Immediate Surroundings
Going a step further out from your own body and possessions, the third house has to do with your immediate surroundings and how you interact with them. The first “social” house, it describes brothers and sisters, neighbors and anyone who just happens to be near you on a daily basis. It also describes daily communication and transportation: letters, phone calls and emails, and routine journeys such as commuting to shopping, school or work. The first “mental” house, it governs early education and basic skills training, paving the way for higher education in the ninth house which is directly opposite it in the chart.

Libra on the Third
You have such an evenhanded, balanced and objective mind that you have the ability to deal with the public in stressful situations. You can soothe tattered nerves and bring a sense of peace, order and harmony to almost any social situation. You enjoy a good debate, as long as personalities do not become an issue, because you delight in seeing how ideas grow and evolve as they are shared between people. You love word play and are at your best when you can use your polished and urbane vocabulary in lighthearted banter. You prefer that your daily living routine be harmonious and elegant and will go out of your way to see that stress and tension are not a part of your life.

No planets in the Third
Your third house is not activated by planetary activity. For the most part, how you order your daily life activities is not an issue for you. It is something that you rarely think about or have to plan consciously.

House 4: Where You Come From
Being at the very bottom of the wheel, the fourth house is both where you originate and where you come to rest. As such, it describes your parents and ancestral background, and later the home or protected space into which you retreat each day for nourishment and sleep. A deeply personal house, the fourth is concerned with security and peace of mind, the safety of loved ones, and how you care for others and yourself. The place of your roots and the earth beneath your feet, the fourth house rules the house or apartment where you live and also real estate in general. In your trajectory through life, the fourth house shows your origins and where you are coming from, just as the tenth house and Midheaven describe your career and where you aim to go.

Scorpio on the Fourth
You are fascinated by your family and cultural background and will devote a great deal of time to studying your personal genealogical history. You are totally devoted to your home and enjoy decorating it and redecorating it and redecorating it and ... Beware of the tendency to become so overly attached to certain members of your family that it becomes difficult for them to break the familial bonds — remember that they too must go off and have an independent existence. It is not fair to tie others to you by guilt or subtle psychological subversion just because you are afraid to be alone.

No planets in the Fourth
You have no planets in the fourth house. This means that home and family are not likely to be major issues for you, or demand much time and energy on your part. For further information on how you handle the issues of security and peace of mind, look to the house and aspects of your Moon.

House 5: Playtime
After being nurtured and restored in the fourth house, you are refreshed and full of energy for play and creative pursuits. Replenished by dreams, you have creative ideas. Nurtured by your parents, you are ready to have your own children. Fresh from the security of home, you are ready to trust the universe and take risks. For all these reasons, the fifth house traditionally rules the child in you and the children around you, your own personal creativity and self-expression, plays and amusements of all sorts, gambling and speculation, and courtship, love affairs and romance. This is an outgoing house, but it is still beneath the horizon, in the territory of your heart’s desires.

Sagittarius on the Fifth
You have a free, easy and open approach to fun and games. You need lots of exercise because you are quite restless and would be naturally attracted to sports, especially those that require the expenditure of much strength and energy. Your attitude toward love and lovers demands that you constantly be challenged by them — you crave new experiences and new mental stimuli and, if things bog down or get dull, you will move along to someone else. You love children and especially delight in watching them grow and change. You are at your best when you can share your wisdom and knowledge with them — you make an enthusiastic and idealistic teacher.

No planets in the Fifth
The fifth house of your horoscope contains no planets. This does not mean that you are any less self- expressive or creative or fun-loving than the next person. It just means that your overall character is balanced to the extent that these issues are not usually paramount for you.

House 6: Taking Care of Business
After the candle-lit dinner comes the credit-card bill. Courtship is followed by the nitty-gritty of married life: babies, diapers and saving up for college. After your creative impulse comes the need to learn the technique of actually making something. And if you overexpend your energy, you get health problems. The sixth house rules taking care of business on an everyday level. This includes your job, paying bills and keeping the house clean. It also includes maintaining your body with medical checkups and a daily regimen of nutrition and exercise. In the old books it ruled servants, and it can by extension rule the way you offer service to others. It also ruled useful animals, particularly small ones like cats, dogs, chickens and pigs. Today this usually means small pets, which exist in the personal, intimate part of your life that is signified by houses that lie below the horizon.

Capricorn on the Sixth
You are all business when it comes to work — you are practical, efficient and goal-oriented. The desire to be the best at what you do motivates you to put out superior effort and craftsmanship. You know how to take on responsibilities and can be effective in leadership positions. As long as the long-range goals are well defined, you will plow ahead diligently until you get there — you are not easily distracted. But try to take time out once in a while to schedule in fun and relaxation. Your health suffers most when you are involved in overly stressful situations or when you feel that your life is out of your own control.

Many planets in the Sixth
You have the ability and need to see beyond the present moment and to sacrifice the present for some future good. Therefore, you have the capacity to perform tasks or chores that others might regard as drudgery. Moreover, you have very high standards and are extremely critical (of others and yourself). You like to be regarded as trustworthy, honest and thorough. Your job is not necessarily your career though, it is a means to an end. Health (yours and others) is a major concern — you may find considerable peace of mind working in the helping professions.

Sun in the Sixth
Long-range goals are more important to you than immediate satisfactions. You have the discipline and strength of mind to be able to put off fun and see beyond the moment. A very good worker, you love to use tools and to develop and use complicated techniques. A good craftsman, you can be trusted with seeing to it that the minor but important details of a project have been properly taken care of. You have very high personal standards and are very self-critical. Your sometimes obsessive concern with hygiene and proper health care can lead you to endorse enthusiastically the latest health fads.

Sun in Capricorn
Extremely serious and mature, you are capable of accepting responsibilities and do so willingly. Others expect you to be dutiful as a matter of course. You may get angry when people are rewarded after not having worked nearly as hard as you have. Goal-oriented and an achiever, you are justifiably proud of the tangible results of your efforts. You are not a fast worker, but you are thorough, and you are known for being unusually persistent, tireless and tenacious in reaching your goals. When you’re working, you tend to have a kind of tunnel vision that allows you to block out extraneous matters that would distract others. Your power to concentrate totally on the matter at hand enables you to be practical and efficient at managing and structuring complex, ongoing projects.

Moon in the Sixth
Your moods are usually directly related to your physical health. When you are depressed, you do not tend to take very good care of yourself and your health suffers as a consequence. You must be careful when choosing your line of work — try to find something that appeals to your imagination or that satisfies your need to feel secure. For you, security implies neatness and orderliness. Because you are so moody, it would probably make you more comfortable to work for someone else than to be self-employed — the pressure would not be so intense.

Moon in Aquarius
Very freedom-oriented, you must always be able to do what you wish, no matter what. You become stubborn and recalcitrant when others try to force you into a mold. You are a true democrat — you are not a follower, but you enjoy being with those who are like-minded. You appreciate emotional self-control — you practice it yourself and you look for it in others. You solve problems, including emotional ones, with your brains and intellect, not your feelings. Try to be tolerant of those who have powerful and obvious emotional responses — not everyone is as objective, cool, dispassionate and detached as you are.

Mercury in the Sixth
Your mind is disciplined, orderly and practical. You are very good at learning new skills and advanced techniques. You love to use tools in your work, and take great pride in keeping them in tip-top shape. You are a careful, precise worker and a bit of a perfectionist. You run the danger of being so super-critical that you worry needlessly about small details and bring all progress to a halt. Appropriate careers include clerical work, writing, teaching, and training others to use the skills that you have worked so hard to develop.

Mercury in Aquarius
You appreciate and need mental and intellectual stimulation. With your strongly felt notions about things, you tend to be opinionated, and can be quite vocal about expressing and defending your ideas. You are also an original thinker who likes to shock others with your offbeat, original thoughts. Your judgment is usually fair and impartial. Because you can remain objective and unemotional about most things, you can be effective as a critic.

House 7: Relating One-to-One
If you courted in the fifth house and woke up in the sixth yoked to another in a daily routine, the seventh house gives you a chance to hammer out a relationship of true equals. The goal is wedded bliss and a true sense of relatedness, but along the way there may be fights as you each define your individuality and establish your own territory. Not only is the seventh the traditional house of marriage, it is also the house of open enemies, your sparring partners in life. In general, since the first house is you yourself, the seventh house, directly opposite, is the other person in a variety of situations. Besides signifying a marriage or sparring partner, the seventh house rules business partners, or those on the other side of a desk, such as consultants, lawyers, therapists or astrologers.

Aquarius on the Seventh
You seek an intellectual rapprochement in relationships. You appreciate it when your potential partner can maintain his or her detachment and objectivity and still be attracted to you because of your integrity and high-mindedness. But there will be a fine line drawn here and battles of will may surface if either of you tries to dominate or rule the other in any way. You will both be best served if you have separate existences within the relationship and just get together to swap notes once in a while. You are good friends with your partners (both business and personal) and do not like to threaten the relationship with messy emotional considerations.

Venus in the Seventh
A close, warm and loving relationship with someone is necessary in your life in order for you to feel comfortable and personally satisfied. Your refined sensibilities abhor coarseness or discord so much that you willingly play the peacemaker, seeking harmony and contentment about you at all times. Be careful, however, not to make so many compromises for the sake of peace and quiet that you lose your own sense of integrity.

Venus in Aquarius
You are a friendly and outgoing individual, but close relationships are difficult for you to maintain due to your fear that they will cause you to lose your freedom. You attract friends and associates who are exciting, different and sometimes a bit odd. You are popular with others and enjoy working within a group toward group goals.

House 8: Giving It All Away
Having achieved a relationship of equals in the seventh house, you are ready to give up your separateness in the eighth, merging in sexual union and becoming one on a deep emotional level. If the second house was about grasping and possessing, the eighth is about sharing and letting go. While the second rules your own money, the eighth rules how you deal with other people’s money and how you pool resources. On a mundane level the eighth rules taxes, but on a fundamental level it can rule giving up anything you value, including your ego and even your body. In relaxing your grasp on what you find most dear, you may find that you are really not as dependent on it as you thought. In relinquishing, you achieve a new level of freedom, and feel lighter, renewed and more alive. Related to all this, the eighth signifies mysteries such as death and resurrection, magic and the occult, and the deep parts of the psyche that are beyond our conscious grasp.

Pisces on the Eighth
You tend to have ambivalent feelings toward sexual matters. You regard sex as the “Magnum Mysterium” and spend much time and energy planning and yearning and longing for the ultimate consummation with your lover. You have such a romantic view of the process that you are often quite disappointed by its mechanics and tend to withdraw, preferring the grand illusion to the sweaty reality. When you have resources to invest — and you rarely do because you love to share what you have with others — you can be quite gullible and lose everything when you follow bad advice. Unless you feel very strongly about a particular investment, don’t part with your money.

No planets in the Eighth
The eighth house of your horoscope contains no planets. This definitely does not mean that you will not enjoy a rewarding sex life or that you will never have any resources to invest or to share in common with another. What it does mean is that these issues will not be as paramount in your life as they are for others. You will experience a certain amount of disequilibrium and/or joy about these matters, but no more than the average person experiences.

House 9: Expanding Your Awareness
Approaching the highest point in the sky, the ninth house wafts you up and out of your rut, giving you a broad and lofty view of the terrain beneath. Whereas the third ruled basic schooling and short trips, the ninth rules higher education and long-distance travel. It removes you from your everyday routine so you can see the overall pattern, the overlooked connections between things. It rules all-embracing concepts (such as your philosophy of life) and institutions (like religion and law) that stand over society and keep it bound together. It can also signify your teachers and mentors, your library, and all else that broadens your outlook.

Aries on the Ninth
You are fascinated by any subject that will allow you to expand your awareness of the world around you. You are an avid student — you enthusiastically devote much time and energy to reading about such wide- ranging topics as literature, law, religion or metaphysics. Also, you have an innate restlessness that may attract you to traveling around quite a bit in order to discover things about exotic ideas and foreign lifestyles at first hand. You will also enthusiastically share what you know with others and may be attracted to the teaching profession. Because the kinds of things in which you are interested are limitless in scope, you will always have fuel for your insatiable curiosity.

Mars in the Ninth
Your beliefs and opinions (and prejudices) have become an ingrained part of your nature. For someone to attack or question one of your cherished ideas is just as if they were to attack you personally. You tend to react immediately and aggressively. You are at your best when you have a cause to fight for. Just be careful to avoid becoming too self-righteous in your pursuit of your goals. Others have a right to hold opposite points of view.

Mars in Taurus
You tend to be careful, slow and thorough in most things that you do. At times, you are willful and stubborn when others try to alter your course. You are definitely not a quitter, and will work long and hard to get what you want. Your possessions are important to you. One of your continuing problems is that you tend to regard the significant people in your life much the same way as you do your possessions, becoming overly attached to them and much too jealous. You repress your anger when you get upset and that is not healthy. Try to learn to show your anger immediately in order to avoid painful explosions later.

House 10: Your Public Self
If the fourth house showed your roots and where you came from, the tenth shows what you are ultimately aiming at in life. Whereas the sixth shows your daily job and how you make a living, the tenth signifies your career, your personal contribution, your reputation and what you become known for. Some astrologers also believe that the fourth house signifies one parent, and the tenth signifies the other. The tenth-house parent is most likely the one who prepares you for the world. The closer a planet is to the Midheaven, the more likely that planet is to be the major significator of your life’s direction.

Taurus on the Tenth
Your need to find security may become your number one life goal. You are continually worried about the here and now — about making sure that your progression forward in life does not upset what you have spent a lifetime developing. You are cautious and conservative — at times so much so that you tend to get stuck in ruts that you have created. It is difficult for you to get yourself motivated to move in new directions — you must look to outside sources to provide the impetus to overcoming your inertia. Your lack of ability to tolerate change tends to make you fussy and particular and difficult to please. Because you are cautious by nature, you are generally quite good at professions that deal with money or finance.

Jupiter in the Tenth
Your self-confidence and generally optimistic attitude allows you to interface quite well with both partners and competitors. You are trusted because of your reasonableness and good judgment. This offers you the opportunity to attain considerable success in your chosen line of work. You are truly altruistic by nature, and your career will prosper if, in it, you can constantly deal with significant human problems, like justice or social reform. But ,at times, you get puffed up with your own importance — watch out that you do not become overly self-righteous or arrogant or you will lose the good will of others that you value so much.

Jupiter in Gemini
You have a logical, detached, objective view of most things. Your interests are wide-ranging and you are an avid student, with expertise in many different areas. You love to work things out in your mind. Thus, everything you do is reduced to an exercise in logic and reason. You have the ability to grasp abstractions and to deal successfully with the larger issues of life. Your overemphasis on developing your powerful intellect can cause your emotional and intuitive abilities to atrophy unless you consciously choose to exercise them.

Saturn in the Tenth
You are a perfectionist and you want to make a mark in the world. If careful planning and hard work are what is needed in order to become a success, your success is assured. Your self-discipline and thoroughness is such that you will probably become expert in your chosen field, and you may want to share your knowledge with others in the role of teacher, especially later on in your life. You are so demanding on yourself and so aware of the hard road you have chosen that, when you get despondent or frustrated, you tend to see the world as a cold, forbidding, merciless and unforgiving place. When this happens, try to relax and bask in the respect and admiration of those who realize the worthiness of what you have accomplished to that point.

Saturn in Taurus
Complete freedom of choice makes you ill at ease. You must have a firm, ordered, secure foundation in your life in order to feel comfortable. You do not adapt easily and tend to fear the new and untried. You constantly fear that you do not have enough (love, property, material things, etc.) and this makes you tend toward being selfish, withdrawn and stingy. If you try to surround yourself with supportive people in your environment, you will become more emotionally self-supporting.

Uranus in the Tenth
You tend to get very nervous and feel totally unfulfilled whenever you try to follow the beaten path. Extremely restless and very independent, you must do things your own way and follow your own path. Your career goals will be unorthodox, unique and maybe quite offbeat. You are attracted to highly technological fields where your ability to quickly grasp complex subjects allows you to shine. You bring creative, fresh solutions to problems, but your work habits are often sloppy, erratic and undisciplined.

Uranus in Taurus
You, and your peers as well, suffer from the tension of trying to have as much freedom as you possibly can and at the same time trying to maintain your stable lifestyle. The solutions that you propose to these issues are quite unique and bizarre even, and may shock even yourself.

House 11: Your Circle of Acquaintances
The eleventh is the last house of relationships: not brothers, sisters and neighbors who just happen to be around you, not one-to-one partners, but the circle of friends and associates whom you actively choose. It shows the way you make and keep friendships, the organizations you join, the networking you do, and the general way you interact with groups. After you have established yourself as an individual and learned to form personal relationships with others, you are ready to think about the common good. This is why the eleventh often signifies groups dedicated to social or other sorts of collective improvement.

Gemini on the Eleventh
One of the ways that you get the mental stimulation that you need is by having a multitude of friends and associates. You are very active and love to do nothing better than go visiting and chat with those you know. You are a bit of a butterfly, always flitting from one person or group to another, never settling down and really getting involved. You tend to fear becoming emotionally involved with others so you like to keep things light, casual and superficial. You demand to be personally free to do as you wish, but you need the input of fresh ideas to keep your nervous energy flowing. You like to bounce ideas off others — try to take the time to listen to their concerns, too.

No planets in the Eleventh
The eleventh house of your horoscope contains no planets. This does not mean that you will never have friends or associates or that you will never be active in groups that express your philosophy of life. It simply indicates that these are not paramount issues for you. From time to time, influences from outside you may cause you to become more active in these areas, but this will be temporary rather than life-long.

House 12: The Hidden You
The twelfth house is where planets go just after they have risen. Here planets are still wet behind the ears, blinking in the sunlight and unsteady on their feet. Feeling completely vulnerable, planets in the twelfth tend to hide. Their energies can become repressed and secretive, and sometimes they lurk as complexes in the subconscious. This is why the twelfth is associated with self-sabotage, with hidden enemies, and with prison and whatever else makes you feel confined. The traditional association with hospitals and prisons suggest that constructive ways of dealing with twelfth-house problems include helping others who are similarly repressed or confined. Also, some with a strong twelfth-house emphasis become successful as undercover workers or as the power behind the throne.

Cancer on the Twelfth
You are normally so self-directed and in control of your life that you often surprise yourself when you fall into fits of depression or moodiness. At heart, you are quite sentimental and very sensitive to criticism even though you usually give the appearance of total self-confidence. What upsets you the most is that you do not trust these feelings — it is as if they were betraying you to yourself. Learn to realize that you are a complex personality with many facets and that this is one of the more important parts of your psyche. Learn to wear your heart on your sleeve once in a while — you will be surprised how sympathetic others will be.

Pluto in the Twelfth
You have some very strong desires and drives that you do not completely understand and you try to keep them hidden from others. You were probably conditioned at an early age not to discuss such things or to keep them suppressed. You must learn to be more honest about trying to express these drives openly or, if you continue to suppress them, they will demand expression at the worst possible times. Learn to trust yourself more, and others, too — you will find that they are much more understanding and helpful than you have been led to believe.

Pluto in Leo
Your entire generation was born at a time when the relationship of the individual to society as a whole was being thoroughly re-examined. You and your contemporaries will make major attempts to find a balance between the need to be self-sufficient and the need to honor debts of social commitment.

Chiron in the Twelfth
Suffering is something you know all too well. Even if you are not to blame, you will somehow find a way to feel guilty about whatever goes wrong in your life. Compassionate and sensitive, you are willing to dedicate yourself to helping others. You often fritter away hours in daydreaming and making unrealistic plans. The inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality will impact on your relationships as well as your job performance. Being familiar with emotional pain allows you to help others to take steps toward changing their lives.

Chiron in Leo
You are the first to take charge whenever a personal or professional crisis emerges. While you delight in receiving gratitude and admiration, you find it difficult to accept adverse criticism. Rebellious and distrustful of authority figures, you resist advice or assistance from others. Instead of reacting antagonistically, take time to heed the opinions of others. Inspiring and magnanimous, you have the ability to teach and lead others once you abandon the need for total control.

A Mirror of Your Uniqueness
This report is based on the position of the Sun, Moon and planets at the moment of your birth, as seen from the point on Earth where you were born. Such an arrangement of planets and stars will never be repeated in exactly the same form. Like the genes that determine your body and temperament, your astrological chart is made up of the same basic parts that other humans have, but the arrangement of these parts is uniquely your own.

You could think of your birth moment as a seed that contains the potential for how you will unfold. The arrangement of the planets at your birth does not, however, cause your body structure and temperament in the way that the patterning of your DNA causes it. Instead, the planetary positions at your birth employ the language of symbols to mirror who you are. Like a mirror, your chart enables you to see yourself from outside yourself, and it therefore extends your point of view.

To use a different analogy, your chart shows the deck you’ve been dealt, the raw materials you are given from which to fashion a life. Nobody’s perfect: we are all given our special problems to solve and our special strengths and beauties. In knowing what you have to work with, you will be better able to make use of your gifts, fill in (or at least be comfortable about) what you lack, and grow in the life directions that are right for you and you alone.

Instead of assuming that there is one norm for everyone, astrology attempts to show the special pattern that is right for you. In doing so, it can give you clues as to how you can more fully and consciously fill the unique role that you have been given in this lifetime, and enrich the world with the gifts that only you can bestow.