ASTRONUMEROLOGY

Your Key to

Empowerment

Using Stars

and Numbers

Pamela Hobs Bell and Jordan Simon

ASTRONUMEROLOGY

Your Key to

Empowerment Using

Stars and Numbers

Pamela Hobs Bell

and Jordan Simon

Seeking to unlock your potential to

lead a more fulfilling life? Now you
can explore your latent capacities and
gain insight into your character by
combining a pair of enduring tools
of divination in this groundbreak-
ing, accessible, and fun resource—
ASTRONUMEROLOGY.
Written by a professional numerolo-
gist and an astrologer, this book
marries Astrology and Numerology in
one comprehensive volume. Both
forms use a point of reference: for
astrology, these are the 12 sun signs;
for numerology, there are nine birth
numbers based on one's birthday.
ASTRONUMEROLOGY yields 108
combinations—from Aries One to
Pisces Nine. Each profile details an
overall personality and its effects on
love, marriage, home and family,

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money and career—a guide to achiev-

ing success, fulfilling your potential,
and finding true happiness.
In less than a minute, you can begin
to use this book to discover if you
are an Animated Architect (Aries
Four), a Sensuous Materialist (Taurus
Six) or a Steadfast Strategist (Sagi-
tarius Eight). In addition, each profile
is capped off by a startling group of
famous celebrities and personalities
who share your ASTRONUMER-
OLOGY classification.
From enhancing your leadership
qualities to revealing a long-term
financial outlook to finding a fulfilling
romance, let the stars and numbers
help you tap your full potential and
become the person you always knew
you could be!
 ACrNCWLCDGAiCNTS

We would like to thank the fine folks at Avon Books for

believing in our concept and to our editors, Ann McKay
Thoroman and Kristen Cortright, for their direction and ex-
pertise in bringing our book about Astronumerology from
concept to reality.
A special thanks goes to Barbara-J. Zitwer for the effort
she has put forward on our behalf.
We extend a heartfelt thanks to those wonderful people
who comprise our support network, whose encouragement
and kindnesses are much appreciated.
Pam: Thanks to all my family, extended family, friends,
mentors, and all of you who have inspired me to keep my
own wagon hitched to a positive star.
Jordan: Hermann Lademann, David Rappoport, Cassandra
Malaxa, Garth Christensen, Bill Curtis, Greg Lindeblom,
Michael Stiles, Tracy Cams, Debbie Mills, Laurel Cardone,
Barbara Tapp, Susan Fadem, Geri Bain, Michael Frank,
and Karla Vermulen, Lisa Weinreb.
 CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION xiii
How to Use This Book—The Key to Finding Your
AstroNumerology Combo xvii
THE STARS: Astrology Sun Signs by Jordan Simon 1
THE NUMBERS: Numerology Birth Numbers by Pamela Hobs Bell 15
ARIES (March 21-April 20) by Pamela Hobs Bell
"Y" 1 Aries One—The Courageous Champion 30
yi Aries Two—The Diplomatic Warrior 33
V3 Aries Three—The Practical Romantic 36
SfA Aries Four—The Animated Architect 38
V5 Aries Five—The Creative Liberal 41
yb Aries Six—The Intrepid Idealist 44
yi Aries Seven—The Scientific Psychic 46
V8 Aries Eight—The Inspired Professional 49
yy Aries Nine—The Enterprising Performer 52
TAURUS (April 21-May 21) by Jordan Simon
^ 1 Taurus One—The Bold Builder 55
Taurus Two—The Kittenish Charmer 58
^3 Taurus Three—The Teasing Traditionalist 60
^4 Taurus Four—The Constant Contractor 63
^5 Taurus Five—The Mischievous Master Builder 65
^6 Taurus Six—The Sensuous Materialist 68
^7 Taurus Seven—The Conceptual Conjurer 71
^8 Taurus Eight—The Empire-Building Executive 73
^9 Taurus Nine—The Ingenious Genie 76
GEMINI (May 22-June 21) by Pamela Hobs Bell
X[1 Gemini One—The Liberal Leader 79
If 2 Gemini Two—The Ambidextrous Diplomat 82
If 3 Gemini Three—The Versatile Romantic 84
If 4 Gemini Four—The Inquisitive Realist 87
If 5 Gemini Five—The Clever Communicator 90
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116 Gemini Six—The Free-Spirited Humanitarian 92

X[7 Gemini Seven—The Gregarious Scholar 95
US Gemini Eight—The Entertaining Executive 98
It 9 Gemini Nine—The Effusive Explorer 101
CANCER (June 22-July 23) by Jordan Simon
®1 Cancer One—The Diffident Dynamo 104
@2 Cancer Two—The Conscientious Counselor 107
@3 Cancer Three—The Intuitive Optimist 110
@4 Cancer Four—The Gentle General 112
@5 Cancer Five—The Hopping Homebody 115
@6 Cancer Six—The Happy Homemaker 118
@7 Cancer Seven—The Adorable Academic 121
@8 Cancer Eight—The Determined Delegator 123
@9 Cancer Nine—The Pragmatic Performer 126
LEO (July 24-August 23) by Jordan Simon
Ql Leo One—The Misunderstood Monarch 129
Q2 Leo Two—The Valiant Valedictorian 132
£23 Leo Three—The Charisma King 135
Q4 Leo Four—The Hail-Fellow Hercules 137
£25 Leo Five—The Zany Zealot 140
£26 Leo Six—The Humane Humorist 143
£27 Leo Seven—The Freethinking Trailblazer 145
£28 Leo Eight—The Entertaining Entrepreneur 148
£29 Leo Nine—The Vivacious Ventriloquist 151
VIRGO (August 24-September 23) by Jordan Simon
UPl Virgo One—The Gymnastic Genius 154
HP2 Virgo Two—The Constructive Consultant 157
HP3 Virgo Three—The Juggling Wizard 159
HP4 Virgo Four—The Tactical Technician 162
TIP5 Virgo Five—The Champion Cheerleader 165
HP6 Virgo Six—The Habitual Helpmate 168
TIP7 Virgo Seven—The Academic Aesthete 170
TIP8 Virgo Eight—The Organized Operator 173
TIP9 Virgo Nine—The Versatile Visionary 176
LIBRA (September 24-Octoher 23) by Jordan Simon
-^-1 Libra One—The Active Artiste 179
-rv2 Libra Two—The Deft Diplomat 182
£13 Libra Three—The Inspired Socialite 185
—4 Libra Four—The Practical Dreamer 188
£15 Libra Five—The Global Glamour-puss 190
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^6 Libra Six—The Dreamy Dramatist 193

^7 Libra Seven—The Elitist Democrat 196
^8 Libra Eight—The Jaunty Jurist 198
^9 Libra Nine—The Activist Actor 201
SCORPIO (October 24—\,ovemher 22) by Pamela Hobs Bell
TTU Scorpio One—The Stable Adventurer 204
TTL2 Scorpio Two—The Gracious Executive 207
TTL3 Scorpio Three—The Enterprising Romantic 210
THjfi Scorpio Four—The Dynamic Master Builder 212
TTL3 Scorpio Five—The Worldly Wanderer 213
1116 Scorpio Six—The Dazzling Detective 218
1117 Scorpio Seven—The Practical Perfectionist 221
TIB Scorpio Eight—The Stylish Traveler 223
1H9 Scorpio Nine—The Mystic Manager 226
SAGITTARIUS (November 23-December 21) by Jordan Simon
/1 Sagittarius One—The Fearless Philosopher 230
/ 2 Sagittarius Two—The Mellow Maestro 233
/3 Sagittarius Three—The Winsome Wanderer 235
/4 Sagittarius Four—The Audacious Auditor 238
/5 Sagittarius Five—The Nervy Navigator 241
/6 Sagittarius Six—The Electric Educator 244
/7 Sagittarius Seven—The Animated Analyst 247
/8 Sagittarius Eight—The Steadfast Strategist 249
/9 Sagittarius Nine—The Artistic Adventurer 252
CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) by Pamela Hobs Bell
^1 Capricorn One—The Tenacious Trailblazer 255
^2 Capricorn Two—The Aspiring Ambassador 258
<^3 Capricorn Three—The Imaginative Manager 260
^4 Capricorn Four—The Persevering Perfectionist 263
Capricorn Five—The Reliable Risk Taker 266
^6 Capricorn Six—The Ambitious Idealist 268
^7 Capricorn Seven—The Selective Specialist 271
r&S Capricorn Eight—The Practical Philosopher 274
^59 Capricorn Nine—The Diligent Showman 276
AQUARIUS (January 21-February 19) by Pamela Hobs Bell
^1 Aquarius One—The Progressive Pioneer 280
^2 Aquarius Two—The Reserved Aristocrat 283
^3 Aquarius Three—The Pragmatic Idealist 286
^4 Aquarius Four—The Conservative Rebel 288
sss;5 Aquarius Five—The Big-Hearted Reformer 291
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1^6 Aquarius Six—The Loyal Liberal 294

££7 Aquariu even—^The Cosmopolitan Charmer 296
2^8 Aquarius Eight—The Versatile Specialist 299
££9 Aquarius Nine—The Magnetic Mover and Shaker 302
PISCES (February 20-March 20) by Pamela Hobs Bell
Xl Pisces One—The Empathetic Executive 305
X2 Pisces Two—The Mystic Matchmaker 308
X3 Pisces Three—The Sociable Statesman 310
X4 Pisces Four—The Capable Wizard 313
X5 Pisces Five—The Resourceful Dreamer 316
X6 Pisces Six—The Visionary Teacher 318
X? Pisces Seven—The Discerning Dream Weaver 321
X8 Pisces Eight—The Shrewd Sifter 324
X9 Pisces Nine—The Perceptive Performer 326
 ■NTR€DUCTI€N

Let's admit it. We're all seeking the key to unlocking our
potential to lead a more fulfilling life. We've learned "how
to" and affirmed ourselves up the yin yang, searching for
the shortcut to a better job, a better home, a better love life.
And did you know that the secret to discovering your poten-
tial actually lies in your birthday?
Astrology and numerology are familiar tools used to learn
more about ourselves and the people around us, thereby
enabling us to lead happier, more productive lives. Both are
ancient sciences dating back over twenty-five hundred years.
Today astrophysicists confirm that the basis of the universe
is mathematics. Astrology and numerology have always pos-
ited that very link between human beings and the cosmos.
Taken independently, each science provides revealing in-
sights into our natural talents and behavior patterns. But put
an individual's astrological and numerological birth charts
side by side and you discover some amazing resonances and
differences that paint a multidimensional personality portrait.
Certainly astrology and numerology stand alone as reliable
self-help tools, but not only is a complete chart analysis
enormously complex and time-consuming, it also requires
expert, often expensive input. Combining the two into an
entirely new science produces a more complete character
analysis instantaneously. Your Sun Sign and Birth Number,
both derived from your birthday, are the single most power-
ful aspects of the astrological and numerological charts.
Sometimes the two seem utterly contradictory, and at other
times they prove synchronous or complementary. Astronu-
merology™ can tell us whether our inner dialogue is harmo-
nious or discordant. Most important, it identifies our
strengths and challenges to help us work through deep-
xiv Introduction

seated internal struggles, and maximize our potential to lead

a more fulfilled and enriched life.
Astronumerology is user-friendly. Nearly everyone knows
their Sun Sign. If you don't know yours, a chart is provided
in this chapter, and a more detailed account in the chapter
titled The Stars. Your Birth Number is easy to figure out:
Just add the numbers in your birth date together and keep
adding them until only a single digit remains. How to find
your Birth Number is provided in this chapter, with addi-
tional information included in the chapter titled The
Numbers.
Obviously there's much more to both sciences than the
Sun Sign and Birth Number, such as the rising sign or ascen-
dant, and the name number that is the numerical value of
the letters in your birth name. But if we were to include
every element of each science in this book, you'd need a
Mack truck to cart it away! If you know these or other impor-
tant chart influences such as the moon sign (your emotional
life) or heart number (the total of vowels in your name,
indicating your innermost desires), you can have fun and
further enhance your self-awareness by reading them in
combination with your sun sign or birth number. Keep an
open mind, when reading your astronumerology combina-
tion. Astronumerology is an innovative, trail-blazing new sci-
ence. Your sun sign and birth number don't exist in a
vacuum; They interact in exciting, sometimes unpredictable
ways! Understanding their disparate influences provides in-
sights that will enrich your understanding of a special, singu-
lar individual: You.
With the twelve zodiac signs and nine primary numbers,
there are 108 possible combinations or 108 unique personal-
ity types. For example, we have a Gemini client who forever
protests that she doesn't fit the traditional Gemini mold. "I'm
not a flirt," she sweetly insists. "And I may have a million
and one ideas whirling round my brain, but I'm not scat-
tered, I'm very, very focused." Oh, she's a Gemini, all right:
glib, charming, and always doing at least three things at
once. Yes, certain aspects of her astrological chart indicate
why she's more practical and goal-oriented than the typical
Gemini. Likewise, her numerological chart shows that this
 Introduction xv

breezy, gracious chatterbox has what it takes to get things

done. But while thoroughly interpreting either the astrology
or numerology birth chart would take hours, a quick glance
at her Sun Sign and Birth Number combination gives the
answer in minutes. Our Gemini friend also has a 4 Birth
Number, which adds balance, responsibility, order, and
grounding to her profile. She can establish a stable founda-
tion from which to operate, and quite smoothly, no doubt,
thanks to the Gemini influence.
When this was explained to her, she asked, "Does this
mean Fm limited to being a Gemini Four? Don't I have
choices?"
YES! Your astronumerological profile is every bit as
unique as your fingerprints. It indicates both the positive
and negative polarities you were bom with, but your stars
and numbers are not fixed at either end of the spectrum.
Think of them as the possibilities and challenges along a
180-degree line (or even a 360-degree continuum) and pick
the point where you want to be.
You can choose to be whoever and whatever you want.
There are successful entertainers, politicians, philosophers,
scientists, teachers, writers, composers, explorers, designers,
doctors, lawyers, ministers, businessmen, and bankers of
EVERY sign and number. You have the power to create
the life you want. That power is free will.
No matter what your number or sign, you decide whether
to turn right or left at every crossroads; you're in charge of
your life. Astronumerology provides a road map of your
potential. It increases your self-awareness of natural
strengths and talents, empowering you to make, if not al-
ways the right choices, then at least better-informed ones.
And if you understand your challenges, you're already half-
way to overcoming them.
Obstacles often furnish the needed energy, drive, and
stamina to surmount them. You may be gifted with many
abilities, but the quality of your life is up to you. Astronu-
merology not only identifies your positive traits, it helps you
to reinforce them. Your stars and numbers are just the sign-
posts on your road to happiness, but remember, you're the
one firmly in the driver's seat.
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Astronumerology: Your Key to Empowerment Using Stars

and Numbers is not about predictions. It's about YOU and
the people in your life: your parents, children, friends, sib-
lings, fellow workers, and significant others. We hope you
enjoy the book and use it to become the person you always
knew you could be!

¥Love,
Pam and Jordan
 HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

To find your unique astronumerology combination, locate

your birthday under Find Your Sun Sign and figure your
number under Find Your Birth Number. Put the two together
and read the corresponding pages for that combination in
the following text to learn more about yourself and your
potential.

Find Your Birth Number

To calculate the Birth Number, convert the month, day,

and year of your birth to numbers. Add the numbers to-
gether and keep adding them until only one digit remains.
Example;

March 31, 1968

3 + 31 + 1968 = 3+3+1+1+9+6+8 = 31 = 3+1 = 4
or
March = 3
31
1968
2002 = 2 +0 + 0 +2 = 4

In the example, 4 is the Birth Number. You may read about

your Birth Number itself in "The Numbers" chapter on
page 13.

Find Your Sun Sign

If Your birthday is: Your Sun Sign is:

March 21-April 20 ARIES
April 21-May 21 TAURUS
May 22-June 21 GEMINI
June 22-July 23 CANCER
July 24-August 23 LEO
August 24-September 23 VIRGO
September 24-October 23 LIBRA
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October 24-November 22 SCORPIO

November 23-December 21 SAGITTARIUS
December 22-;JanLiary 20 CAPRICORN
January 21-Febmary 19 AQUARIUS
February 20-March 20 PISCES

You may read about your Sun Sign by itself in The Stars
chapter on page 1.
ASTRONUMEROLOGY
 THE STARS

Astrclc&y Sun Signs

All The Astrology You Need To Know For This Book

WHAT IS THE SUN SIGN, REALLY?

Forget the image of a cigar-chomping, tonsorially chal-

lenged, polyester-clad man shackled in gold chains sidling
up to his prey in a bar, asking "Hey, baby, what's your
sign?" Your astrological birth chart is unique and actually
quite complex.
Consider your Sun Sign as merely a blueprint, or skeletal
outline, of your personality; several factors flesh it out, paint-
ing a fully realized three-dimensional portrait of who—and
where—you are as a human being. You can nevertheless
glean a great deal of information about yourself and the
people in your life by understanding each Sun Sign—but
even that sign must be understood in the context of the
zodiac as a whole.

THE ELEMENTS (OR TRIPUCITIES)

First, signs are grouped according to elements (Fire, Air,

Water, and Earth); three signs in each element share certain
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characteristics and approaches. Fire signs (Aries, Leo, Sagitta-

rius) are zesty, lusty, outgoing, optimistic, and honorable.
Think of them as life's spark plugs; their temperature runs
from warm to hot-blooded. But like fire, they can burn them-
selves out quickly, both in love and business (occasionally
singeing others in the process).
Air signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) are intellectual, logical,
inspired, and congenial. Because of their ability to be de-
tached and see "the big picture," they play shrink to their
many friends, but tend to rationalize their feelings in more
intimate situations.
Water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) are emotional, intu-
itive, compassionate, and sensitive. Just as the primordial sea
gave birth to all life on earth and nothing can grow without
rain, water signs are here to nourish and nurture; if they're
not careful, they can drown in their own feelings.
Earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) are grounded,
rooted, solid, and, well, earthy. The builders of the zodiac,
they'll gladly put their noses to the grindstone to establish
lasting foundations and comfortable surroundings. But they
can be materialistic, stodgy, and, yes, boring: think trenches
and ruts. . . .

THE QUALITIES (OR QUADRUPLICITIES)

The signs are also categorized as one of three qualities

(fixed, cardinal, and mutable). Fixed signs (Taurus, Leo,
Scorpio, Aquarius) are stable, loyal, and solid as the prover-
bial rock. Once they've settled into an opinion, place, situa-
tion, or relationship, they're nearly impossible to budge,
which is their greatest strength—or weakness. They use the
soapboxes as pulpits.
Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) are active
and ambitious, purposeful and pushy. The movers, shakers,
and self-starters, they build the soapboxes and send out invi-
tations to life's lectures.
Mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces) are flex-
ible, fluid, versatile, and tolerant. They seek solutions, weigh
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options, and hedge if necessary. They place the pulpit and

microphone for maximum effect on the audience.
Don't worry, there's no such thing as duplicity in astrol-
ogy—we have real life for that.

THE CUSPS

Astrologers fight like Siamese and Pekingese over the sig-

nificance of cusps. According to Webster's, a cusp is a point
or apex, defining it as anything from "the hom of a crescent
moon" to "a point on the surface of a grinding tooth." If
you're bom within two to three days of the Sun Sign closest
to your own, many astrologers claim you're "on the cusp."
These starry-eyed seers swear that your basic personality is
subtly colored by each adjacent sign. This isn't utter hog-
wash, but it is pretty sloppy astrology: wherever your sun
happens to be, it shines brightly with equatorial heat. Your
chart gives plenty of reasons why you might be a Scorpio
yet behave at times like, say, a Sagittarius.
If you were bom on the exact day the sun switched signs,
you must consult an astrologer (or computer program) to
determine whether you're a Taurus or a Gemini, a Pisces or
an Aries. The following dates are generally accurate, but
often change a day or two in either direction, depending on
the year you were bom. If you're in doubt, find out; if you're
curious, you can always read both signs and decide which
fits your description best. (Think of it as the turkey gravy
spilling into the mashed potatoes: it may be messy, but it
still tastes good.)

THE SUN SIGNS

Aries (March 21-April 20)

"The Grand Innovator"

The astrological glyph (or symbol) for Aries represents its

horns, yet it also resembles a fountain. Both are apt descrip-
tions. Rams love to butt heads; they rarely lack self-confidence,
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meeting everything and everyone in life head-on, and posi-

tively overflow with ideas. And yes, as the first sign of the
zodiac, they're often teased by astrologers for being babies.
Ariens are the original instant-gratification kids. They want
what they want when they want it, no exceptions.
No wonder Ariens function best within a loosely struc-
tured work environment. They're dazzling initiators and
go-getters: their alphabet begins with Adventurous, Bold,
Creative, Dynamic, and Enterprising. Ariens aren't afraid to
take risks when they believe in something; sure, they can
come across as impatient, impulsive, pushy, selfish, even
reckless. Still you can't help but admire their steamroller
drive and enthusiasm. The problem is, they usually lack fol-
low-through and staying power; no sooner have they
pitched and sold one idea than ten—just as brilliant, mind
you—take its place and they're off on the next adventure.
If they're self-employed, they should have a loyal staff that
can stack, process, and file the paperwork scattered in the
Arien whirlwind.
The true Aries is utterly straightforward and unswervingly
honest. Think of Dudley Do-Right in a flashier suit: totally
gallant, guileless, and gullible in the extreme. See, Ariens
don't cheat, and they're always shocked when someone
else does.
Leo ignites your flames of passions and keeps them
stoked. Bosom buddies Gemini and Sagittarius share your
sense of adventure and questing intellect. Libra can help
balance and ground you in both love and work.

Taurus (April 21—May 21)

"The Master Builder"

Remember Ferdinand the Bull, the classic children's book,

whose hero wanted nothing more than to recline in a
meadow, smelling the wildflowers? That's how Taureans see
themselves; gentle, sensitive, peace-loving souls drawn to
everything beautiful and artistic. They can't understand why
people expect them to paw the ground, snort, and charge,
let alone stampede the china shop. If anything, they'll order
the newest Wedgewood pattern on consignment: no other
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sign so strongly equates material and emotional security. The

wonderful thing is that Taureans are bullish on sharing the
wealth.
As a Venus-ruled sign, Taureans like—no, adore—the
finer things in life. They're usually as mellow as they seem,
until riled; then you see the cartoonish steam gushing from
the ears. Fortunately, this impressive display doesn't last long
if you know where to stroke them, literally and ego-wise. (A
nice candlelit dinner and bottle of wine won't hurt either.)
The other trait most associated with Taureans is stubborn-
ness. Once a bull locks horns, goring can result. ... To be
fair, Taureans are often right to hold fast to their ideas and
ideals; their insistence that others meekly capitulate waves
a red cape at their opponents, who ironically appear far
more steamed up than the placid bull. But that obstinacy
(and serene self-confidence) gets things done. Taurus is here
to build things, to plow ahead with amazing stamina. "Sow
and ye shall reap" could well be this sign's motto.
Capricorn and Virgo share your material concerns and
emotional stability. Cancer brings out your softer, protective
side romantically. Scorpio provides a classic yin and yang
yo-yo relationship with a torrid affair or tug-of-war.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

"The Great Communicator"

Gemini is Latin for "twins," representing this quicksilver

sign's duality. The glyph is the Roman numeral II, represent-
ing the clear choice confronting Geminis: should they be
profoundly superficial or at least superficially profound? It
also forms a column, suggesting Gemini's intellectual bed-
rock and surprising potential for underlying solidity.
Charming, eloquent, witty, and a born raconteur, a Gemini
is everyone's idea of the perfect party guest. To the casual
observer he or she might seem like the intellectual equiva-
lent of a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. In fact, Geminis
are haunted by that very fear of being essentially shallow.
Let's put it this way, Gemini: If it worries you so much, you
must have more emotional depth that you realize. Because
they're fascinated by everything and everyone, Geminis also
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develop a reputation for being scattered. They simply enjoy

going off on intriguing tangents and get sidetracked easily.
Yet a fork in the road—literally or metaphorically—can drive
them bonkers, since they love anything new. "If I take this
road," asks poor Gemini, "what will I miss on the other?"
As a result of this curiosity and restlessness, Geminis often
take longer to mature than other signs. They're eternally
bubbling over with childlike enthusiasm about their latest
project or amour, but can have a little difficulty facing reality
and responsibilities. But growing up doesn't mean abandon-
ing their inner child. Eventually, whatever their sex, the
Gemini Peter Pan will get hooked by Wendy.
Aquarius will stimulate you intellectually as both friend
and lover. Libra can gad about and throw parties, making
you a perfect social match. Sagittarius can roam the world
with you as your best pal. Leo shares your love of beauty
and romance.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

"The Universal Protector"

Crabby and moody are the two words many less sensitive
souls associate with Cancer. Yes, those soft-shelled moon-
ruled crustaceans ARE changeable and remarkably alert to
their surroundings and themselves. Call the rest of humanity
hunters and gatherers: Cancers collect everything from mem-
ories to people. They hate throwing anything away, even a
moth-eaten varsity sweater or a destructive relationship. Just
like their symbol, Cancers can be cautious and shy, but if
their quarry threatens to elude them, they act with surprising
speed and those pincers hold on for dear life.
Cancer is traditionally associated with home and hearth,
and they do like comfortable surroundings, Cancerians
know the value of a buck and are obsessed with quality; in
fact, there are probably more millionaires born under Cancer
than any other sign. Cancer men and women alike con-
stantly fret whether they CAN have it all. It's just not good
enough, as it is for Capricorn, to rationalize staying late at
the office because you're putting bread on the table: Cancer
has to SET that table, too.
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Many astrologers claim that Cancers are as obsessed with

their mothers as Anthony Perkins in Psycho. This is some-
what exaggerated; indeed, many Cancerians feel (s)moth-
ered growing up. How ironic then that they repeat the
pattern in their adult relationships, fussing like hens regard-
less of their sex. For their own happiness (and others'), Can-
cers must learn to retract those pincers and let go
occasionally.
You'll feel safe and warm in the strong, silent arms of
Taurus. Virgo can help you translate your career dreams
into reality. Pisces will gladly indulge your nurturing side.
Scorpio's intensity will both frighten and attract you like
the tides.

Leo (July 24-August 23)

"A Star Is Bom"

Leo is the King of the Beasts, ruled by the sun: when

Lions aren't basking in the glow of the footlights, they shine
like the sun itself, radiating life-giving warmth to everyone
around them. If they had their druthers, Leos would spend
their entire lives in three positions; standing in the spotlight,
sitting on a throne, and lying on their backs getting their
tummies tickled (then tucked). Leos are attracted to acclaim
and fame like moths to a flame; once they're there, they
don't flutter about, however, but know exactly what to do.
Lions are magnanimous, loyal, sincere, ardent, and gener-
ous to a fault—even their own. There's just one little catch:
they require attention. Lots of it, bordering on fawning admi-
ration. The flip side of this vanity is their deep-seated need
for approval. This means that lions are more than usually
susceptible to sycophants, yes-people, and hangers-on.
Despite their love of la dolce vita, Leos are rarely lazy;
quite the contrary, since they recognize that living the good
life requires both cash and cachet. As a fixed fire sign, Leos
are able to harness their almost superhuman energy and
ambition; once they've set a goal, they'll pursue it with pas-
sion. Leos are far too proud and independent to hang on to
someone else's coattails; they'd need to receive credit where
credit is due, even if it's not star billing. Lions may not en-
8 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

tirely subscribe to the "there are no small roles, only small

actors" adage, but they do believe in paying their dues.
The perfect friend, lover or business partner, Libra will
know just how to stroke your mane. Gemini and Sagittarius
keep you hopping socially. Aries plays the ardent suitor,
though independence becomes an issue.

Virgo (August 24-September 23)

'The Idealistic Critic"

Let's put this virgin business to bed once and for all.
Virgos do have libidos and they do obey them. But that
virgin image makes sense when you consider that Virgos
represent purity, dedication, service, even self-sacrifice. Re-
member how much the ancients believed in sacrificing vir-
gins to appease the gods? Virgos do. They love to throw
themselves with wild abandon into some higher cause.
No wonder Virgos are precise, private, fastidious to the
point of Felix Unger obsession, critical (only because they
CARE), and tremendously service-oriented, just like that
nurse who fluffed up your pillows before jabbing you with
a hypodermic.
Poor, sweet, misunderstood Virgo. You tell your friend
she should join the gym, pick the lint off your lover's jacket,
straighten the papers on your co-worker's desk—but does
anyone ever appreciate your sterling advice and obvious
concern for their welfare? No!!! The epitome of good taste
and proper grooming, the dispenser of wise counsel: you're
a perfectionist in an all-too-imperfect world. But as a result
you hold yourself—and the people you love—to impossibly
high standards.
Romantically, Virgos are equally fussy and precise (and
yes, they like clean surroundings and showering before,
after—and during—sex). If they love you, there's no end to
the nagging and nitpicking. It's only because they see your
potential and, like the army drill sergeant, want you to "be
all that you can be."
Capricorn understands your perfectionism and you make
an efficient team at home or the office. Taurus shares your
need for security, both financially and emotionally. Cancer
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and Pisces can soften your analytical side and make sympa-
thetic confidantes.

Libra (September 24-October 23)

'The Innate Diplomat"

Libra's is the only inanimate symbol in the zodiac: the

scales of justice and balance. These natural-born diplomats
know exactly how to pass the dip and stroke the ego. They
are the judges, the politicians, the treaty makers, the arbitra-
tors, the networkers. It's imperative that they see a situation
from every side, play devil's advocate, be impartial: this is
the source of that (in)famous Libran indecision. These gentle
souls crave partnership and exist to create harmony. Hence
they require peaceful, pleasant, beauteous surroundings;
sudden or loud noises bother them, as do crushing crowds—
unless, of course, it's their own guest list.
Libras will run a marathon in record time from confronta-
tion; but in so doing, they can let their anger slowly build
until it's a seething cauldron. They actually LOATHE feeling
that they have to put on their "Don't worry, be happy" face
every morning. When this is carried to extremes, Librans
may tell the expedient fib. They're not devious, but hate the
thought of hurting anyone's feelings. Remember their sym-
bol: at times the charm is mechanical—they can turn it on
and off like a faucet.
In romance, Libras float on fluffy little clouds. They
shower their loved ones with attention, flattery, and far-too-
exorbitant gifts (all of which they expect in return, along
with the requisite long-stemmed roses and Godiva choco-
lates). The trick for Libras and Libra-lovers alike is keeping
their heads in the clouds and their feet firmly planted on
the ground: a delicate balance indeed.
Gemini and Aquarius satisfy your need for intellectual
stimulation. The ardor of Aries sweeps you off your feet,
while Leo's passion and shared love of beauty keep your
head in the clouds and your feet firmly planted in reality.
Cancer's moods can vex you, but the deep feeling of com-
panionship can be rewarding.
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Scorpio (October 24—November 22)

"The Self-Control Artist"

Scorpios are darkly sexy, intense, and magnetic in true

Wuthering Heights manner. And that fierce little creature
with the fearsome stinger is a daunting symbol indeed. But
unlike the other signs, Scorpio has a second symbol, the
eagle, suggesting their powerful polarity. They can be self-
interested, vindictive, and vengeful—or they can soar above
mundane life, sharing their spiritual insights with the world.
No sign better understands its inherent strengths and limita-
tions; Scorpios are typically fanatic about reinforcing the for-
mer and overcoming the latter.
Just as blondes don't really have more fun, Scorpios aren't
sex maniacs, despite their reputation. They're quite capable
of subliminating the libido in favor of accomplishing other,
more far-reaching goals with that single-minded intensity,
willpower, and self-control. You're fiercely loyal to those
you love, and demand the same in return. Incredibly secre-
tive, you can exercise a double standard, poking about in
everyone else's affairs. Not surprisingly, it often takes forever
for you to trust. If people really cross you, you'll cross them
off your list forever. If they've double-crossed you, they're
ERASED from that list—and blacklisted elsewhere. The Scor-
pio penchant for revenge is no exaggeration. They'll pa-
tiently weave complex webs of intrigue, the more byzantine
the better. But treat a Scorpio fairly and you've made not
only a friend for life, but a fierce defender of your rights
and beliefs.
Leo and Taurus provide roaring flames, but someone
might end up burned. Cancer and Pisces elicit your caring
nature. Virgo and Capricorn provide a groundwork for your
career ambitions and, being less intense, a sound sounding
board.

Sagittarius (November 23—December 21)

"The Fun-Loving Philosopher"

Sags are the roamers, dreamers, philosophers, eternal chil-

dren, and all-around cockeyed optimists of the zodiac. Their
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symbol is the archer, twanging his or her arrows out into

the world, not caring what, whom, or where they strike.
These irrepressible creatures are athletic, loving the out-
doors and the entire animal kingdom, yet they can be en-
dearingly klutzy around the house. That clumsiness extends
to a notorious lack of tact. Sags are always putting their
hooves in their mouths, unthinkingly blurting out well-meant
yet unintentionally wounding comments. They're big clowns
at heart; like Pagliacci, though, they cry for others and wax
philosophic about Life without their enthusiasm ever wan-
ing. Sags espouse (and sell with evangelical fervor) more
causes, principles, morals, and ethics than any other sign.
They genuinely care about people, and not merely in the
abstract. A Sag will give a friend in need that proverbial shirt
off his or her back—and if necessary, rip off a strip as a
tourniquet, then carry the wounded pal two miles to the
nearest hospital.
Sags expect their mates to be their best friends to whom
they can confide everything (including the occasional harm-
less peccadillo). Always give them a little free rein: "leash,
chair, and whip" and "the old ball and chain" are synony-
mous in the Sagittarian lexicon. Just be sure to laugh at those
dumb "knock knock" jokes and farts in bed, and be ready
to take off at a moment's notice on a weekend jaunt.
Gemini and Aquarius share your love of life and enthusi-
asm for new experiences: you make wonderful friends, but
may love freedom too much for marriage. Libra's diplomacy,
charm, and intellect could keep the home fires burning, as
could Leo's optimism and devotion. Virgo's precision is ideal
for business ventures.

Capricorn (December 22-January 20)

"The Executive Par Excellence"

The Capricorn symbol isn't just any old billy goat scaveng-
ing for tin cans; it's the tough, tenacious, wily mountain goat
replete with powerful hooves and sharp horns to compete in
their harsh habitats and climb any mountain—or corporate
ladder—they choose. You may have heard that Cappies are
ambitious, even ruthless. Capricoms are merely realists; they
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seem to understand ours is a dog-eat-dog (or the far tastier

goat) world from birth, and they must go it alone. They
possess amazing resolve, determination, and a never-say-die
survival instinct.
Caps are generally very proper and conservative, keeping
up appearances, both physical and social, at any cost (no
matter how considerable) because of their essential insecu-
rity. Many Capricorns endured difficult childhoods, when
they felt they had to meet impossibly high standards to gain
any love at all. No matter what their circumstances, they
always feel like an orphan: Oliver Twist begging, "Please,
sir, can I have some more?" Thinks the goat, "Maybe Mom
and Dad will appreciate my efforts, now that I've made my
first half billion." At its worst, this can breed an end-justifies-
the-means attitude. No surprise it isn't easy to gain a Capri-
corn's trust (let alone access to his or her trust fund).
They're so goal-oriented, Capricorns often forget to have
fun. Yet as they begin to achieve their aims, they loosen up;
they embody Ben Franklin's epigram that "youth is wasted
on the young," because they shine with wisdom and a de-
lightfully wicked gleam as they grow older and more
confident.
Virgo shares your need for structure, while Taurus under-
stands the need for stability; you make solid friends and
lovers. Scorpio and Pisces can help you express the passion
buried deep inside. Cancer can make an intriguing marital
or business partner, bringing sensitivity to your sense.

Aquarius (January 21—February 19)

"The Free Thinker"

Despite their symbol, the water bearer, Aquarians are

pure, cool air: intellectual, dotty, eccentric. But the water
they bear quenches humankind s thirst for knowledge.
Aquarians are the frizzy-haired inventors and humanitarians,
electrifying the world with their discoveries. Keeping an
open house and open mind are the Aquarian credos.
Aquarians agonize over where their ultimate responsibility
lies: to themselves, their loved ones, or the world at large?
All human beings both crave and fear intimacy, and
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Aquarians are as disgustingly, deceptively human as the rest

of us. But they worry if they give their heart to one person,
they'll be so overwhelmed they won't have time to relate (a
favorite Aquarian word) to others. So to gain their precious
objectivity, they overintellectualize their emotions, placing
them under a microscope, or worse, dissecting them to see
how they work. An Aquarian is perfectly capable of asking—
purely hypothetically, of course—whether serial killers expe-
rience true love.
But once they settle down, Aquarians are usually faithful;
despite loathing routine, they're a fixed sign that resists
change. Just give Mr. or Mrs. Aquarius a little space (another
favorite word), share his or her visionary goals, and don't
nag about such mundane matters as the phone bill or PTA
meeting. Yet Aquarians need a secure, stable foundation
from which to sally forth and play messiah. Though they'd
never admit it, an oh-so-deeply buried part of them envi-
sions a cozy Norman Rockwell home (to which, of course,
they can drag a bunch of strays, lost souls, walking
wounded, messy Marxists, and bizarro artists—con and
otherwise).
Gemini appreciates your unconventionality and keen in-
tellect; you're good bets for any relationship. Taurus won't
understand your quirkiness but could help you establish a
good business foundation. Libra could charm you into mar-
riage if you both agree on the guest list for dinner parties.

Pisces (February 20-March 20)

"The Dream Weaver"

The Piscean symbol is the fish. Though it's tempting to

assume Christian symbolism (martyr is a favorite Piscean
role), they're actually swimming in opposite directions. And
that's how tender, oft-misunderstood Pisces frequently feel;
they want to go with the universal flow, but in which direc-
tion? At times that acute Piscean sensitivity can make it seem
as if they're swimming upstream without even the reward
of a good spawn at the end.
If we see the zodiac as a circle, each sign learning from
and rebelling against the previous one, then Pisceans sup-
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posedly represent both the end of one cycle and the begin-
ning of the next. Because of their strongly spiritual side, few
Pisceans fear death; they truly are in touch with the cyclical
nature of all existence. Their dreams are as lovely, deep,
and vast as the very oceans, and tug at them like the tides
themselves. But Pisceans often lose themselves in their
dreamworld, becoming self-pitying, even self-destructive.
Perhaps that's why they tend to lean a great deal on their
mates and close friends, seeking motivation from without.
Pisceans can be the ultimate romantics, but inevitably, crude
reality intrudes. They need help grounding their dreams,
without wrecking them on the shoals of Life. It's no easy
task. There is a sneaky, slippery side to fish. When they
don't want to confront reality, they can be passive-aggressive
manipulators, adroitly playing victim victorious. Yet no sign
is as capable of self-sacrifice and unconditional love as
Pisces. Help them bulk up their faith in themselves—and
watch them swim purposefully, even against the strongest
current.
Cancer will make you feel protected and loved, whereas
Scorpio will help you stand on your own: both good marital
matches. Taurus can provide you with the creature comforts
you crave. Capricorn enables you to ground and focus your
ambitions, and achieve greater worldly and personal
success.
 THE NUAiBCRS

Numerclc&y Birth Numbers

All The Numerology You Need To Know For Ttris Book

Numerology is a science that's been around in one form or

another for as long as we've had numbers. Its roots go deep
through various religious, mystic, and philosophical origins.
About twenty-five hundred years ago, numerology and mathe-
matics were studied as parts of the same science. Much later,
the sciences were split into two separate topics because numer-
ology dealt with human psychology and potential.

HISTORY

Pythagoras is considered the father of modern mathematics,

engineering, geometry, astronomy, and numerology. Born in
Phoenicia around 590 B.C., after traveling widely around the
known world and studying the mysteries of the time in
Egypt, Greece, and Babylon, he settled in southern Italy and
formed a school. In addition to studying letters and num-
bers, he and his students also studied astronomy, geometry,
music, and mathematics.
The charismatic philosopher was said to be the son of the
god Apollo. He believed that all things in the universe were
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in harmony and order, and the relationship of everything to

each other and the cosmos could be defined by numbers.
Pythagoras is said to have been the first to put forth the
theory that the earth was a sphere. He used math to chart
the movements of the sun, the moon, and the stars. In addi-
tion, he determined formulas used in architecture to achieve
proportional relationships. It was his geometric theorem
(number forty-seven to be exact) that provided the Egyptians
with the basis for the Great Pyramids. He developed the
theory of opposites and polarity and the concept of odd and
even numbers.
Pythagoras first made the association between tonal
sounds, or music, and numbers. He coined the term vibra-
tions and taught his students that everything in the universe
emitted a particular vibration, including each planet. His idea
that all the planets' vibrations together should produce a
harmonious cosmic octave has become known as the
"music of the spheres." He also discovered the musical oc-
tave, and musical intervals that are essential to scoring
music.
Numbers hold the key to the mysteries of the cosmos,
according the Pythagoras. The vibration or tone at the mo-
ment a person is born was thought to define his personality
and the challenges of his journey through life.

POLARITY

In school we learn the concept of positive and negative

numbers. The plus and the minus represent the opposing
polarity of every number. Numerology helps us understand
the possibilities of those polarities as they apply to our lives.
Since we always have free will to choose our course of
action or reaction, knowledge of the numbers and the fact
that each has two sides (+ and -) heightens our awareness
of those possibilities and allows us to make better choices.
The positive aspect shows the number at its best; and it
is what we experience when we're true to our constructive
nature. The negative polarity comes into play when we veer
off course, or surrender our free will. The positive needs
nurturing, reinforcement, and self-knowledge in order to be-
 The Numbers 17

come a happy habit. By knowing more about yourself, par-

ticularly the possible heights and common pitfalls of the
numbers, you can minimize the down times and maximize
the up times to lead a more empowered life.

NUMBER CHARACTERISTICS

The primary numbers one through nine are the basis of

numerology. Each number is classified by a series of basic
characteristics in addition to a more specific and complex
definition.

NUMBER CHARACTERISTIC CHART

EXPRESSION Physical 4, 5 'Show me." Must
see or touch the
tangible.
Emotional 2, 3, 6 "Love me." Wants
to know what you
feel.
Mental I 8 "Tell me." Needs to
understand
everything.
Intuitive 7, 9 "Don't explain."
Knows human
nature.
APPROACH Masculine 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 Active and
Creative
Feminine 2, 4, 6, 8 Passive and
Receptive
MOTIVATION Begins 1, 5, 7 Inventive and
Active
Completes 2, 4, 8 Develops and
Finishes
Takes 3, 6, 9 Pursues Pleasure
SOCIAL BEHAVIOR Introvert 1, 3, 5, 7 9 Self-contained,
likes to be alone.
Extrovert 2, 4, 6, 8 Needs others, likes
to be with
another.
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THE BIRTH NUMBER

To use this book you must know your Birth Number in

order to choose the correct astronumerology combination to
read. Why the Birth Number? Because based on an individu-
al's numerological chart, the Birth Number corresponds to
the astrological Sun Sign.
A complete numerology chart contains several pages of
numbers, and one of the dominant numbers is the Birth
Number, just as the Sun Sign dominates an astrology chart.
Numbers reveal a distinctly different type of information
than astrology does, and just as valuable. Also, the Birth
Number is numerology sets in motion major events for the
individual and is the basis for forecasting the future. The
same is true of the Sun Sign in astrology.

FIND YOUR BIRTH NUMBER

To read about yourself, your lover, parents, children, boss,

friend, or sibling, calculate the Birth Number. (Combine this
number with your astrological Sun Sign later to determine
your astronumerology combination.)
To calculate the Birth Number, convert the month, day,
and year of your birth to numbers. Add the numbers to-
gether and keep adding them until only one digit remains.

Example: March 31, 1968

3 + 31 + 1968 = 3+3+1+1+9+6+8 = 31 = 3+1 = 4
or
March = 3
31
1968
2002 = 2 + 0 + 0 + 2 = 4
In the example, 4 is the Birth Number.
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MASTER NUMBERS

Master Numbers carry the same meanings as their single-

digit sum plus an amplified vibration of responsibility and
unexpected challenges to advance spiritual growth. To have
a Master Number doesn't mean you are a master of that
particular number, but rather than you are handed master
lessons, usually through cataclysmic events and lifestyle
changes. A Master Number indicates life is more complex
than for a primary number and carries with it the glare of
the public opinion in some form or other in everything you
do. If you have Master Numbers, you set an example for
everyone else whether you want to or not. The trick to mas-
tering the challenges is to find your footing quickly in new
and evolving circumstances and "to thine own self be true"!
If the last two digits in your Birth Number before the final
addition were 11, 22, or 33 and the final addition means
you have a Birth Number of 2, 4, or 6 respectively, then
read about your Birth Number, and as you do, keep in mind
the major change and visibility influence that accompanies
these Master Numbers.

COMPATIBILITY

Some relationships run smoothly from the start while others

need constant attention to keep from crashing. Relationship
Road is often rocky whether you're together for business,
friendship, or pleasure, and the numbers can provide a
beneficial tool to identify both the productive and the chal-
lenging ones.
Making a relationship work is the choice of the two peo-
ple involved, excluding those based in purely negative, aber-
rant, or abusive behaviors. The question to ask yourself is
how much effort do you want to expend to nurture an ac-
quaintance into a successful and lasting relationship.
Different people draw out particular aspects of your per-
sonality. You display some characteristics to one person that
you don't to another. You laugh more with this one, are
more creative with that one, have money making ideas with
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another, and want to play romance games with someone

else.
The ease, fun, and durability of a relationship can be
found in comparing the Birth Numbers. First consider the
nature of the numbers as described in the Number Charac-
teristics Chart on page 17. Are both your Birth Numbers
similar or do they have different types of Expression, Ap-
proach, Motivation, or Social Behavior? You don't have to
have the exact same characteristics to be compatible. In fact,
sometimes opposite characteristics can be complementary
and enhance the chemistry. But, you do have to understand
and accept the differences in each other's behavior.
After consulting the Characteristics Chart, read the descrip-
tion of each Birth Number, including the positive and nega-
tive traits, for both the people in the relationship. Finally,
consult the Compatibility Chart below.
The chart offers a star rating system to give you a general
snapshot of the combination of two Birth Numbers. Find
your Birth Number along the top edge of the columns, and
the other person's Birth Number along the rows on the side
edge. Where the row and column intersect is the general
star rating of the relationship. The range is from one to four
stars. A four-star rating is a very good combination while a
one-star combination is sure to present more complex
challenges.
Suppose the rating is lower than you want. Does that
mean you should ditch the idea of getting closer to this
person and run along to seek a four-star relationship in a
mythical greener pasture somewhere? No, of course not.
Good relationships are forged by the people who are in
them. If a particular combination of numbers has a low star
rating, it may be more difficult for you two to find common
ground or to understand how each other thinks or what
motivates you, but it doesn't mean you should give up on
the idea of being together in peace and harmony. It just
may take a little more time and effort to get there than the
couple with more stars. In the end, you have the same po-
tential for happiness as anyone. Building a mutually support-
ive and beneficial relationship is always the choice of the
two people in it.
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COMPATIBILITY CHART
Birth Your Birth Number
Numbers
00

1 2 3 4 3 6 7 9
The 1 **** ♦ *** *** *** ** *««
2 ♦ ♦* ♦ **** ♦ *** **
*** ** **** ** ** **** *** **
Other 3
4 *** *** ♦♦ **** **** «« ***♦ ♦

Person's *** ♦ ♦♦ ** **** ♦♦ »»» **

3
6 ** **** **** ♦* *♦** ♦ *«** «**
Birth 7 *** * *** ** *** * *♦**
** *** ** **** ** **** ** **** **
8
Number **** ** *** ♦ *** *** **** ♦♦♦*
9
**** = Very Good — Good ** = Okay * = Challenging

The Birth Numbers

1 One
"The Inventor"

+ Positive; original, independent, focused, innovative, a

leader, direct, courageous, bold.
- Negative; stubborn, selfish, inflexible, overbearing, myo-
pic, dictatorial.

1: Mental, Masculine, Introvert, Begins.

Ones are strong-willed, a quality to see you over the
rough spots. You are direct and stay focused on the objec-
tive, able to ignore tempting detours when the goal is impor-
tant. Mentally driven, you appreciate being surrounded by
intellectuals who inspire you with inventive ideas and expert
knowledge. Whatever you do and wherever you go, you
prefer to travel first-class. The best life has to offer is how
you strive to live, and you choose mentors and friends ac-
cordingly to learn from those who are successful and
respected.
A risk taker, you're smart enough to (usually) land on
your feet. Sometimes opinionated and obstinate about your
beliefs, you surprise people by taking constrictive criticism
well and incorporating their ideas into your plans. Yes, you
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want to have your own way, but you also want to do it the
best way and you want to win.
Love makes you vulnerable because logic doesn't work
there, but you can slap together a romantic evening with
lightning speed if the mental connection jibes with the
chemistry. Since you prefer quality in every aspect of your
life, it's no wonder you expect a classy sweetheart who's
able to keep up with your mental gymnastics and let's-not-
beat-around-the-bush style. Come to think of it, that's how
you choose your friends, too!

2 Two
"The Diplomat"

+ Positive: gracious, patient, supportive, intuitive, consid-

erate, conscientious, charming, persuasive.
- Negative: moody, gossipy, argumentative, timid, ner-
vous, worrisome, extremist.

2: Emotional, Feminine, Extrovert, Completes.

Companionship is the top priority, and it's that characteris-
tic that makes you an excellent diplomat and an attractive
catch as a lover, friend, partner, or spouse. Intuitive and
sensitive, you often defer your own needs to the wishes and
wants of others in order to preserve the relationship. You
will make radical change at the drop of a hat when you
believe it's necessary, but prefer to have the support of oth-
ers. Tact and arbitration are the primary tools in your arse-
nal, and in addition to smoothing ruffled feathers, they've
opened many doors for you.
Modest about your talents, you don't ask for constant
praise, but do require honest appreciation for your unswerv-
ing support and patient pursuit of the part you play in mak-
ing things come together. You perform best in the
framework of a stimulating, complementary partnership, and
and since you are so influenced by those around you,
choose any partner—professional or personal—very care-
fully. Match more than preferences and skill; it's essential to
know that the two of you care about each other's feelings
as well.
Charming and friendly, though somewhat shy, you're se-
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lective about friends and how you live your own life. You
know what you want, though you may not go after it with-
out encouragement. And when you do go after your dreams,
you pull out all the stops, leaving a trail of dust in your
wake.

3 Three
"The Social Butterfly"

+ Positive: imaginative, creative, sociable, optimistic, super

shopper, self-expressive, story-teller, artistic, romantic.
- Negative: extravagant, verbose, scattered, cynical, boast-
ful, easily distracted.

3: Emotional, Masculine, Introvert, Taker.

Without you, there wouldn't be much laughter in the
world. You cast your happy, imaginative spell wherever you
roam. You are a creative jack-of-all-trades, and your mind
continually chums with new ideas and romantic plots. Al-
ways juggling three or more projects at a time, you are able
to do the same juggling act with people and relationships,
too. You get so caught up in a magnificent creative whirl
that you sometimes find it difficult to connect with the real
world. From the constant conjuring of dreams and fantasies,
you find extra doses of optimism to share with the rest of
the world.
Always generous with your time, money, and resources,
you also think about a thousand things before breakfast and
can accomplish more than the average human thinks is pos-
sible. Occasionally you try to do too much for too many with
too little and spend more money than you have, (always just
a temporary setback). Undeniably, you are a wonderful
friend with lively chatter and a quick wit.
A natural flirt, you keep falling in love with love until the
right dreamy swashbuckler sweeps you off your feet. You
view the world through rose-colored glasses, which means
your vision in the romance department isn't exactly twenty/
twenty. Before walking down the aisle, make sure you see
your betrothed in the harsh light of reality at least once.
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4 Four
"The Builder"

+ Positive: enthusiastic, practical, persistent, ethical, con-

structive, works hard, thorough, organized, traditional,
good-hearted.
- Negative: too busy, slow to change, lazy, needs proof,
contrary, undemonstrative.

4: Physical, Feminine, Extrovert, Completes.

Fours are the planners and visionaries in the world; you
envision what you want and work hard to turn the dream
into reality. Practical and persistent, you quietly get the job
done after others get discouraged and walk away. Some-
times you win simply because no one else sticks with it.
You gained this choice bit of wisdom as a child and it's
given you the needed confidence to recover from life's inevi-
table setbacks.
Because you are so tenacious, sometimes it's difficult to
break off the pursuit of one dream to pour your energy into
something new. Common sense makes the final decision.
You're sensible about everything, committed, and fiercely
loyal. The enormity of a project doesn't overwhelm you. Out
comes the notebook and calendar to sketch out a plan. Once
you decide where to start ("What can I do today to move
in that direction?"), you chip away, one task at a time, going
over, around, or through obstacles. You refuse to get
bogged down and keep your eye on the finish line as it
moves closer and closer.
You like upholding traditions, or starting a few of your
own, but surprise people when you have a "rebel attack"
and start swimming upstream. Doing the right thing and
being appropriate are, in your opinion, essential qualities
for a peaceful civilization, and logic usually, but not always,
prevails. There are those times when the status quo needs
a good shake to get back on track or to change direction.
Being the You Can Count on Me character, who better to
stand up for change?
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5 Five
"The Adventurer"

+Positive: curious, adventurous, good communicator, pro-

gressive, resourceful, versatile, prizes freedom, energetic,
networker.
- Negative; impulsive, fickle, sharp-tongued, reckless, self-
indulgent, restless.

5; Physical, Masculine, Introvert, Begins.

Five is the number of motion and progress. Curious and
adventuresome, you juggle friends and family with hobbies
and career yet manage to regularly zip to and fro, hither
and yon, in various quests. Sometimes you stick your nose
out just a little too far and land in sticky situations. That's
when your flexibility and smooth silver tongue come in to
save the day.
You think personal freedom is a fundamental right and
have little patience with those who would take away a single
smidgen. In your book, all the "free" concepts—free press,
free will, free thought, free love—are the right attitude. Be-
sides, you want to hear what everyone has to say. It might
inspire you to make another change or quench your insatia-
ble thirst to know and experience everything.
Networking and change are a joy. You know that "no matter
where you go, there you are," so it doesn't make sense to stay
in one place collecting moss. As you wander and explore the
nooks and crannies of life (solo or with the family entourage
in tow), you gather an enormous network of friends. Check the
addresses in your book and you see you know someone almost
everywhere on the planet. "So many people, so many places, so
little time." Warp speed was invented for you, but you know how
to downshift to impulse power. Besides the springtime flowers,
there are also magic moments that come around only once, and
you have no intention of missing them, do you?

6 Six
"The Idealist"

+Positive: responsible, loyal, loving, idealistic, conven-

tional, nurturing, loves home, caretaker, artistic, musical.
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- Negative: idealistic, self-righteous, self-sacrificing, domi-

neering, jealous, moody.

6: Emotional, Feminine, Extrovert, Taker.

"Love makes the world go round." You know all about
the cosmic glue that holds the universe together and do your
part to spread the word. Love isn't a convenience or a game
to you; it's an everyday necessity. You're a little more idealis-
tic than the rest of us and that's why we need you. You
strive to find the good in everyone and extend your care
and concern beyond family and friends to co-workers, and
neighbors, even to the man in line behind you in the gro-
cery store.
Joining your extended family is easy. The original good
Samaritan had to have been a Six. You don't give up on
people, and that durable quality has saved many a grateful
friend from falling over the edge. You go to considerable
lengths to ensure the right thing is done for all concerned,
but you know people make mistakes. You don't expect any-
one to be perfect, but you do expect them to learn and
make improvements.
Home is where your heart is, and guests feel the welcom-
ing warmth the moment they step over your threshold. Each
room reflects your life priorities; good music, good food,
and comfortable surroundings to relax or entertain family
and friends. Marriage is the happiest lifestyle for you, but
you may hesitate to take the plunge because finding the
right partner seems overwhelming. Just spread the magic of
selfless love wherever you go, and eventually true love will
find you.

7 Seven
"The Scholar"

+ Positive: analytical, perfectionist, private, psychic, intel-

lectual, seeks truth, technical, educated, scientific, logical,
researcher, solitary.
- Negative: aloof, secretive, suspicious, stingy, repressed,
argumentative.

7: Intuitive, Masculine, Introvert, Begins.

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You have a knack for sizing up a situation in the blink of

and an eye, and even though you know your hrst impres-
sion is usually correct, you still make a considerable effort
to back up that initial take with cold, hard facts. Above all,
you want to be taken seriously and pride yourself on being
well informed. Friends think you're downright psychic! Your
insight works with your finely tuned analytical mind to tie
the data together to form the unerring first impression.
Knowledge is power. Secrets are safe with you—partly
because you don't want the information flow to dry up and
partly because you know all about secrets because you have
quite a few of them yourself. You share Five's curiosity, but
take it one step further by sometimes experimenting outside
the mainstream norms when it suits you (hence your own
secrets).
Friends and lovers must be bright and must love you as
much for your intellect as for your smile, plus understand
about the space you need. You enjoy your solitude and
prize your privacy. Only those who understand this will ever
get close to you. Marriage is a surprising adventure for you
and more rewarding than you expected when you finally
pop the question. When? When you find a sexy sweetie on
the same wavelength who can discuss quantum physics as
intelligently as choosing a restaurant for dinner and is willing
to step into your private world.

8 Eight
"The Politician"

+ Positive: poised, authoritative, ambitious, open-minded,

objective, professional, global view, understands money, ca-
pable, has endurance.
- Negative: Indecisive, aggressive, workaholic, materialis-
tic, overreacts, shows off.

8: Mental, Feminine, Extrovert. CompLetes.

You've got expensive tastes and big plans. Luckily you
have the fine business sense that enables you to realize your
dreams. Because of your innate sense of fair play (the basis
of your character), you are bewildered when others play
dirty. When there's a decision to be made, others ask your
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opinion because people know you use a wide-angle lens to

view the big picture and include all the possible scenarios.
As skilled as you are at guiding other people to make
good decisions, you have considerable difficulty figuring out
your own. Hopefully your parents taught you how to add
up the personal pros and cons. Otherwise, your choices in
life, even the big ones, are based more on what others want,
which is something the Eight somehow always instinctively
knows. A natural workaholic, you like to be in charge and
can be tough as nails—with yourself. With your staff how-
ever, you can be a pushover, still professional but almost
too understanding at times.
You're more than just the department executive, you're
attractive and well groomed; you make a great friend and
an exciting lover. Who could ask for anything more? Well,
frankly, you do when looking for that Someone Special. You
may meet the love of your life through the work you do,
but in addition to looking good standing next to you, he
also needs a mind that clicks on several different tracks at
the same time, just as yours does. To win your heart, not
only does a lover need to keep up with you, but to take
the leads sometimes, too.

9 Nine
"The Entertainer"

+Positive: attractive, creative, a performer, artistic, impar-

tial, spiritual, worldly, impressionable, compassionate, chari-
table, charismatic.
- Negative: impersonal, critical, demanding, egotistical,
careless, self-absorbed.

9: Intuitive, Masculine, Introvert, Taker.

One busy day follows another until you start to wonder
if the blur of car pools and appointments will ever end. Of
course, it won't, and you don't really want all the activity to
stop anyway. There are too many places to go and fascinat-
ing people to meet; there are adventures out there you sim-
ply don't want to miss! Because you take your obligations
seriously, and squeeze in the want-tos and have-tos, your
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life becomes a carefully choreographed dance to fit every-

thing in.
A nine never meets a stranger. However fleeting or casual
contact with someone new may be, the connection has a
sense of importance when it happens. Nine is a karmic num-
ber that doesn't let you stand still for very long. Life presents
events and circumstances that push you through new doors
even as you wail, "I'm not ready!" Stay positive and there's
nothing you can't do, no mountain you can't climb, with the
9 Birth Number as a springboard. You can touch the hearts
of a zillion strangers—entertain and uplift others even when
your own personal life is at loose ends.
You are attractive—if not because of your physical ap-
pearance (which you change regularly anyway), then be-
cause of your talent and ability to inspire. Relationships are
challenging—in business and in your personal life. With
your chameleon tendencies, you must be careful who you
hook up with. It's natural for you to become a mirror for
the other person, so be certain you like what you see before
making any long-term commitment. V
 T • 1
Aries Cne
"Tlie Coutageous Champion'

T + 1 + Y- 1 -
Assertive Bold Blunt Dictatorial
Courageous Direct Domineering Inflexible
Dynamic Independent Headstrong Myopic View
Pioneering Focused

You aren't exactly antiestablishment, but don't have much

use for the tried and true either. The usual channels take
too long and you simply don't have the time to waste, ah,
wait. Let everyone else wait, you have a life to live here!
You go places and meet people on your terms, with seldom
a stumble unless someone pinches your Achilles' heel. What
do you mean, "No, I can't"? You want me to "settle for"
what I can get? Fling either of these comments in your direc-
tion and you pour on the steam to overcome outrageous
odds.
You can hear the thwack of a glove hit the floor in chal-
lenge a mile away. Challenges don't rule your life; well, not
all the time. But you do delight in proving the doom-and-
 Aries 31

gloom gang wrong. Besides, most of the battles you engage

in aren't for yourself. Sure, you fight when you have to, and
for the truth, for honor, and for those who don't know how
to fight for themselves. You set things straight for those who
ask for your help. Pity be the unwary bloke who railroads
your sister into buying an overpriced used car! You have no
problem setting him straight either?
Events happen in their own time. You repeat this mantra
over and over while not missing a single step forward on
life's adventurous journey. There's always the light of a goal
to guide you onward. Even when you don't end up where
you thought you were going, you have the knack of landing
on your feet. The different drummer's beat that sets your
pace also lets you seize the moment to capitalize on oppor-
tunities not visible to others.
A natural leader; your warriorlike confidence and self-
direction wraps you in an attractive shimmering cloud. Oth-
ers see you as a guiding light and depend on you, you like that
role as long as you can do things your way and don't have
to contend with useless suggestions or time-consuming
restrictions.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You're forever young at heart with a full-bodied fantasy

life; love and games simply don't mix in your book. In-
trigued by a novel approach, you're not interested in coy
looks and mixed messages. A life partner is important, but
you won't sacrifice everything to have one. When communi-
cation is direct, open, and honest, and the would-be be-
trothed is smart, sexy, and stylish with mountains of his own
to climb, you take notice. Should that particular mountain
happen to be on your list, too, you explore it together. If the
physical chemistry matches the provocative mental mambo,
marriage enters the equation.
To make it work, you must share dreams, drives, and
directions in the quest for the best of everything. It's okay
to have different professions, but do walk shoulder to shoul-
der in pursuit of the world's many wonders.
Children may or may not be part of the package. How-
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ever, if you become a parent, you are a responsible one. A

strong figure with a love of laughter, you instill in your off-
spring the confidence, purpose, ethics, and independence
to find their own niche.

Money and Career

The sky's the limit once you figure out how to play well
with others. As the CEO, you can lead a company through
one successful coup after another with ease, but managing
and motivating the folks to make it happen take practice.
You know how to get things done, but as a manager, must
slow down to show others how to be just as effective. Since
you walk a different walk, you don't expect anyone else to
be out on the limb with you.
You do best as a professional or an expert in almost any
field. Your innovative approach can spell sweet success or
financial disaster, depending on how much freedom you
have to flex your considerable mental prowess. The boss
finds you weird or wonderful, and it may take several career
changes before you claim a spot in the workplace at large.
Once you do, there's no stopping you!

The T1 Potential

A natural loner, you have strong opinions and believe in

your ideas and abilities. You prefer taking action and use
the direct route to get things done. You make things happen
that need to happen. Your gift is to enable people to shine.
Though you might not stick around for the actual event,
you share your concepts and charisma to get others on the
right road.
Stay flexible and open-minded and there literally isn't any
peak too tall for you to scale. Your ability to think fast on
your feet and your unique problem-solving methods make
you stand out from the rest. Be approachable; allow a little
vulnerability to creep in; develop friendships that become a
welcome diversion, and the triumphs will be sweeter by
sharing the success.
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FAMOUS ARIES ONES

Michael York 3/27/1942 Liz Claibome 3/31/1929
Geraint Wyn-Davies 4/20/1957 Maya Angelau 4/4/1928
Paul Reiser 3/30/1957 Sarah Vaughan 3/27/1924

Y • 2

Aries Twc
"The Diplonalic Warrior"

Y + 2 + T- 2 -
Courageous Gregarious Headstrong Argumentative
Inspired Sensitive Impatient Touchy
Passionate Diplomatic Impulsive Shy
Bold Conscientious

Squinting through the looking glass, you search for some-

thing to be happy about. Some days you feel like the
legendary Aries Two Captain James T. Kirk (said to be
born 3/21/2228). Is there a place to boldly go? A civilization
to save? A peacemaker to fight for? You're in! Aries Two is
a complex combination; passion runs deep and makes you
as willing to make war as to make love. Guided by a strict
code of ethics and the desire to build a better world, you
fill your life with accomplishments, the respect of peers,
collected treasures, and true love. That doesn't mean you
haven't gone to phasers when necessary to get things done
the right way.
Okay, so you aren't piloting a starship across the neutral
zone on a hunch, but even behind the wheel of a snappy
blue Pathfinder, playing car-pool mom, you have rules for
passengers and a strict schedule to be kept. Unless, of
course, something more interesting comes up, like a whale
call from uncharted space or a conference with fourth grader
Steffie's teacher. Heck, you've been known to veer off
course for a walk through the blooming heather when
spring fever hits.
The mirror, like the looking glass, has more than two
34 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

faces, and what you see there makes you sally forth to con-
quer tough trails. Reality doesn't scare you and you aren't a
quitter, even when told to pick up your toys and go home.
And you never, ever, give up on people you believe in.
Never at a loss to dish out advice, you hesitate only a
heartbeat before speaking up. You aren't afraid to shake up
the status quo if the result is an improvement. The reason
you try to avoid confrontation is that you play to win, and
prefer that others recognize that your way is the best way
on their own. Though a fight with you appears to have
started on impulse, opponents are vanquished swiftly be-
cause you have all the facts and wouldn't engage in any
battle you don't think you can win. Besides, the battle isn't
what it's all about; it's about obtaining the objective. And if
the spat isn't settled honorably, you smoothly retreat to the
consummate diplomat's role.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Though you're not necessarily the marrying kind, the ro-

mantic you is an affectionate lover who prefers to be with
someone rather than alone. If you are alone, it's by choice
because there's no lack of willing lovers to warm your bed.
Finding a cultured and educated mate who is a wild and
earthy lover isn't easy. You know, someone like yourself
with sensitive eyes, and hands that expertly know exactly
where, how, and how long to touch.
As much as you like to taste the different fruits at a buffet,
eventually you earnestly search for a permanent arrange-
ment. It doesn't take long for potential candidates to appear.
You settle down only when you find someone who under-
stands you completely, is utterly faithful, and doesn't step
on your lifestyle or impede your progress as you charge off
to explore the galaxy.

Money and Career

You fuss and worry about getting the work done while
racing to the finish line. A competent leader, you have the
insight and focus to ferret out facts and figures needed to
get things done. If you can't get an assignment as a starship
 Aries 35

captain, you do well as CEO, government official, military

officer, educator, or executive manager. You prefer to be
the first or second in command. And those working for you
can depend on you for advice, direction, and an empathetic
hug whenever needed.
When it comes to personal spending, you are conservative
but never tight. Money is a just reward for your efforts, and
you pour as much of it into dream investments as into a
personal bank account. There has to be a payoff, whether
cash, personal growth, or an improvement for mankind, be-
fore you undertake any venture. You never lose sight of the
results and never kid yourself: Winning the game is as
important to you as choosing the appropriate one to play.

Aries "Y"2 Potential

You believe all things are possible and are more assertive
when championing a cause than pursuing personal gain or
glory. A person of action, you do best in a position that lets
you show off your ability and charming personality in an
acceptable way such as helping others and working with
groups.
Daring yet careful, you prefer action to research and have
been known to take up many a banner on gut feeling alone.
Try not to overwhelm people with too much at once and
you come out on top every time.

FAMOUS ARIES TWOS

Hans Christian Andersen 4/2/1805 Diana Ross 3/26/1944
General Colin Powell 4/5/1937 Mariab Carey 3/27/1970
Jackie Chan 4/7/1953 Lucy Lawless 3/29/1968
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T • 3
Aries Three
"The Practical Romantic"

T + 3 + Y- 3 -
Assertive Artistic Arrogant Cynical
Courageous Imaginative Excessive Distracted
Creative Romantic Domineering Extravagant
Enterprising Sociable

The Aries Three combination is the DNA blueprint for Peter

Pan, magic flute in hand. Your charisma and sense of humor
are mythical. At six or sixty, you're young at heart, vital,
vulnerable, and in demand socially. Your private circle in-
cludes every age and stage of life. The only valid criteria to
be your friend are an enthusiasm for life and a joy in trying
new things.
The romance in your soul and fundamental belief that
we each control our own destiny drives you to reach for
achievements that others believe unattainable. Spurred for-
ward by Technicolor visions, you vanquish obstacles that
pop in the path. There's a rainbow to catch, and you aim
to be there when it touches earth. This isn't fluff talk either;
you've got the skills to get what you want, if you can just
stay focused.
A chivalrous character with a vivid imagination and force
of will, you enjoy being in the spotlight and find it much
more of a gas when you draw others into it with you. It's a
kick to be recognized, and there are plenty of opportunities
to spread the pixie dust around.
An ambidextrous juggler of various ideas and projects, no
matter what your work, you manage to stay connected to
those who matter and not miss Robert's trumpet recital or
the much-anticipated birth of Jazzy's precious kittens.
Okay, so you know you can accomplish almost anything,
unless, of course, you get sidetracked playing Don or Donna
Juan or maybe scraping together the cash reserves to fill the
office with flowers to celebrate May Day. Folks feel your
charms the moment you walk into a room. Even when deliv-
 Aries 37

ering somber news or squaring off to make a point, you can

coax a smile from the lips of any crabby opponent.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

In love with being in love, you kiss a lot of frogs and find
a lot of princes and princesses. If your true love isn't already
at your side, it's not for lack of trying. You target the object
of your affections with swift surety that comes from years of
observation peppered with the voracious input of romantic
stories, from Ivanboe to Sleepless in Seattle. When your eyes
rest on your heart's desire, you know this is the one. In the
blink of an gnat's eye, you are working an enchantment to
win the tender heart toying with your own.
On the other hand, unrequited love is boring and you
lose interest if physical consummation appears to be out of
the question. Determination plays its part, too. Once the
hormones are churning, you hop through every imaginable
hoop until every ploy in your considerable bag of tricks has
been tried to bring the two of you together.

Money and Career

Jack-of-all-trades, yes; and also a master of many. While

working on one assignment, there are others waiting on a
long list of possibilities. Most opportunities come through
the friendship network you've developed. It's easy to get
folks to believe in your ideas and ability, so before starting
a serious sales pitch, make sure you can deliver what you
promise. And when it comes to putting the actual deal to-
gether, you want to be there to close it.
Money is important to you, and once you settle down to
doing one thing at a time, you have no problem making as
much of it as you want. This is good because you're a gener-
ous spender—and not just on yourself either. You take great
pleasure in helping others and showering friends and lovers
with generous gifts.

The y 3 Potential

Your dedication to a particular goal surprises creative con-

tacts, while business types are equally amazed by the multi-
38 ASTROMJMEROLOGY

tude of innovative ideas and solutions you effortlessly pull

out of your pocket. Naive enough to be duped, kindhearted
and easy to distract, you never lose your rosy optimism and
tend to gloss over disappointments as you pick yourself up
and get moving again. You are a delightful storyteller, able
to charm and cheer up everyone—even your would-be
adversaries.
Keep fantasy and reality in two separate files, and vow to
use the arts of bluff and persuasion as a positive force. Re-
fuse to get bogged down in the nitty-gritty grind for long
because the creative mover and shaker in you brings out
your best qualities.

FAMOUS ARIES THREES

William Sbatner 3/22/1931 Gloria Swanson 3/27/1899
Billy Dee Williams 4/6/1937 Ellen Barkin 4/16/1954
Steven Seagal 4/10/1951 Saundra Santiago 4/13/1957

T • 4

Aries f cur
'The Ammaled khitect"

Y + 4 + Y- 4 -
Creative Practical Impulsive Lazy
Courageous Persistent Naive Too Busy
Enthusiastic Organized Domineering Undemonstrative
Passionate Traditional

An Aries with brilliant ideas who actually transforms them

into reality is a rare breed indeed, and that is you, my dear—
the Aries Four. Your behavior is a shock to anyone who's
locked horns with an Aries before and was left standing with
an inspired but sketchy idea as that other Aries disappeared
into the mist. A grounded visionary, you know you're on
this earth to make things happen and occasionally have an
idea that just might actually work. When that happens, you
intend to see it through from start to finish!
 Aries 39

You think big, but are loo practical to go after dreams

thai can't come true. It's a waste of valuable lime with your
busy schedule. Better to daydream about things thai are pos-
sible—well, except for thai Richard Gere thing, but then you
could live out thai fantasy with your own lover one day, so
it's okay to lei the imagination flow. "Nothing is ever
wasted," you say, and mean it. If one idea doesn't work out,
you use pieces of it to bring another plan to fruition. The
possibilities are endless. You know thai from experience
because you've tried numerous variations on a theme to
make things happen and have a respectable success rate for
your efforts.
You honestly think you're run-of-lhe-mill conventional
until someone gives you an incredulous sideways look as
you rattle off the particulars of your last ihree-ihousand-mile
move driving a rented iweniy-four-fool truck solo with two
squalling Siamese cats in the cab. Your life doesn't sound
remarkable to you, even though you never hesitate to seize
the moment. At least you have fond memories to show for it!
The good and bad news is thai menially, you never grow
old. At fifty you still have the same wide-eyed optimism and
curiosity thai you did at five. Friends may fall by the wayside
when they can't keep up with your adventures but thai
doesn't stop you. You go anyway and send them postcards.
Even when you know the next destination and how to gel
there, you don't know what's going to happen along the
way, and that's what excites you about the trip.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

To live is to love, and you love romance—remember the

Gere a la Lancelot fantasy? An aneniive knight in shining
armor with love in his heart and lust on his mind is a day-
dream thai you never lire of. When a modern version with
a dazzling smile on his lips arrives at your door with a bunch
of wildflowers in hand, you invite him to slay and play,
maybe forever.
Marriage makes sense to you, and yours must provide a
stable haven, with a generous yes-you-can-siill-be-indepen-
denl clause. Because passion runs deep in an Aries Four,
40 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

the spouse in residence has to be a capable lover who

knows how to keep the chemistry volatile. Faithful by na-
ture, you may contemplate affairs, but pause to act due to
the complications. You never lack for companionship, but
after the vows have been said, conversation is about as far
as it goes with a sexy stranger.

Money and Career

Money is an important part of your plans from the day

you can add up how much change it takes to make a dollar.
It isn't the money itself that's important but the security and
independence it represents. Even married, you need a sepa-
rate bank account. You genuinely like to work and started
earning money young. With your drive to achieve and ability
to organize, you do well in almost any profession. Measur-
able success is important, such as a title or big bucks. Any
job you take should let you make decisions and set proce-
dures. You are a competent manager and use common sense
with a dash of parenting to motivate the staff.
Work would be central to your life if it weren't for family.
Usually you keep priorities straight, but there are times when
work consumes you. At some point you try being your own
boss, and it could be the best move you ever make. Because
you worry about things like medical insurance for the kids,
it may be later in life before you take such an enterprising
plunge.

The T4 Potential

It takes a lot of adversity for you to be discouraged, but

it does happen, usually when you push your body beyond
its limits. Balance your schedule to include downtime and
let the sun's rays rejuvenate you while you walk and ponder
the present and the future. Walking is meditation in motion
and helps you keep a balanced outlook.
You know it takes inspiration plus persistence to make
any dream come true. By your example and by sharing your
own experiences with others, you help everyone believe
that anything is possible. Divulging triumphs and fiascos
 Aries 41

keeps you and those around you motivated. Nothing pleases

you more than doing what you set out to do.

FAMOUS ARIES FOURS

Leonardo da Vinci 4/15/1452 Linda Goodman 4/19/1925
Hugh Hefner 4/9/1926 Betty Ford 4/8/1918
Elton John 3/25/1947 Linda Bloodworth- 4/15/1947
Thomason

T • J

Aries Pive
"The Crealive Liberal"

Y + 3 + Y - 3 -
Creative Communicator Headstrong Fickle
Generous Freedom-loving Audacious Careless
Bold Energetic Quarrelsome Self-indulgent
Pioneering Resourceful

Bounding from one mountain peak to another makes it

tough to keep up with you, but others find the effort is
worth it. You can tell a tale of how to create a better planet
like no one else. If only everyone had your vision and took
the risks you do, much positive progress could be made.
No matter that eventually you reach a heady pinnacle that
requires a platoon of forest rangers to rescue you. No matter,
dear ram, you have another five equally daring ideas to
try tomorrow.
The idea of a world without underdogs makes you a
champion of personal freedom. Just a hint of oppression
launches you into action. The crusade to make things right
started in small ways when you were a young tot, and grew
once you got those little sturdy legs underneath you. By
the time you were tall enough to start fencing lessons, you
persuaded friends, then strangers, to consider your ideas.
As your knowledge has expanded with experience, you are
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always ready for almost anything, and at home with a wide

variety of people and topics.
Curiosity fuels the search for more information about ev-
erything under the sun and brings you to more than one
unlikely doorstep over the years. You intend to make this a
well-lived life. Whether or not you believe in reincarnation,
you focus on the present—not so much the before and after.
Since you are results-oriented, any spiritual search must re-
late to the present, too.
A risk taker, you choose battles shrewdly and prefer to
schmooze your way out of confrontation to avoid making
enemies. You know that the wheel turns and today's enemy
could be a valuable ally tomorrow. You take a few hard
knocks along the way, mostly because you overlook impor-
tant facts like the necessary expertise to accomplish your
dream or to get where you want to go.
Your salvation is the routine leap of faith you take to get
from here to there. That and the willingness to do whatever
it takes to learn how to get there and how to be the person
you were meant to be. There's never a dull moment around
you. You crave variety and stimulation, and go after it.
Amazingly romantic, you need more love and approval than
others think. With a partner at your side, you seldom get
discouraged for long.

Love, Sex, and Family

In marriage, you need a mate you can count on, who

trusts you as you zip from place to place and gives you the
illusion of freedom that you so desperately need. "The only
way to hold you is to let you go." A lover with a wide array
of interests or an absorbing career works best. Any clinging
vine will be immediately cut loose and tossed as you
move on.
You do better with marriage as a domestic haven to pro-
vide a retreat to lick your wounds and recharge your batter-
ies. Like all Aries, your love can survive separation and
dramatic change if you know your partner is faithful to you.
In fact, sometimes you need those little breaks to keep the
romance alive.
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Money and Career

The brass ring doesn't have much appeal for its own
sake—a ring is just a ring. However, when it represents posi-
tion, recognition, and independence, it's worth reaching for.
Money to you equals freedom, and you learn young how to
make it. As a manager, hire people who can get the day to
day work done to free you up to attend and conduct semi-
nars, visit clients, and gather more contacts to add to your
considerable network.
Choose a career that lets you make regular treks through
exotic lands, collect art, meet people, and visit as many spots
on the planet as possible. Since you adore new people, you
do well as a journalist, bodybuilder, athlete, warrior, or
dancer, or in communications, sales, and law.

The X5 Potential

A trailblazer from birth, you're on the go from the moment

you can walk. Fame isn't your thing, but getting the truth
out there is. Teaching others how to find the truth is a soul-
satisfying endeavor, and you're a natural mentor, showing
others how to break through stereotypes and how to open
doors.
Strive for balance and never think your health will take
care of itself. Self-discipline doesn't come easy, but improves
the quality as well as quantity of days that comprise your
life. You have the potential to be a powerful, positive force
by giving hope and direction to the masses, as well as those
lucky enough to call you family or friend. Use those tal-
ents wisely.

FAMOUS ARIES FIVES

President Thomas 4/13/1743 Doris Day 4/3/1924
Jefferson Sonja Henie 4/8/1910
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 4/16/1947 Samantha Fox 4/15/1966
Dudley Moore 4/19/1935
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Y • e

Aries Six
"The Inlrepid Idealist"

y + 6 + Y- 6
Generous Nurturing Jealous Self-Righteous
Ambitious Responsible Excitable Nosy
Practical Loyal Sanctimonious Obstinate
Constructive Idealistic

"Educate and encourage" is your motto as you strive to

make improvements wherever you think essential. You see
undeveloped potential in others and take action to help
them improve themselves. No one could have a better cheer-
leader to prod them to success. You only get discouraged
when the object of your efforts is unappreciative or snarls
at you. Well, what did you expect when you didn't ask Jeff
what he wanted before you signed him up for a computer
course?
With a practical Renaissance-man view, your "to do" list
starts with being an individual, includes romance, music,
and the arts, and ends with being the best you can be. You
intend to try everything, from parenthood to a corner office
with a view on the ninth floor at work. In the process, you
bend over backward to bring along anyone who wants to
go along. You spend as much time helping others succeed
as you do helping yourself.
Always aware of your reputation and appearance (be it
stunning or frowsy), you expect everyone else to care about
their own, too. You're tough on those you love, and though
you might blurt out a cutting criticism, you recognize the
blunder the second it happens. You would never intention-
ally hurt anyone—not even that harpy receptionist who con-
tinually mixes up your dental appointments.
That mischievous sense of humor is kept in check by the
nurturing aspects of your personality. Whenever you're on
the brink of going too far or closing a door (although you
do like a good exit scene), you bite your tongue and back
off. Humor is also an outlet; it keeps you from taking your-
 Aries 45

self too seriously and puts an optimistic spin on any difficult

situation. The sun is going to rise tomorrow, and you intend
to be the first one on the block to see it.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Once you calm the domestic butterflies, you make a won-

derful parent. Nesting comes naturally to you, and you want
a home that's a cozy castle for all who dwell there, from
Joey's hamster to the soul mate who said, "I do." No matter
how far you fly or how many zillions of hours you work at
what you do, you need more than just a place to store your
stuff, and you do accumulate a lot of it. Love, laughter, and
commitment are the main ingredients for a place to be a home.
Love and sex don't necessarily go together, but when they
do, it's an addictive high that keeps you coming back for
more. "I love you," doesn't jump out of your mouth easily
to a prospective mate, and you delay talking about tomor-
row or making any plans until you think the magic has
staying power. Since you love unconditionally, it's essential
to find a mate who shares your values, visions, and hopes
for the future.

Money and Career

Nothing but the finer things in life will do for you, and
you are diligent about getting the required resources for the
domicile and lifestyle you want. You enjoy having plenty of
money to spend on others as well as yourself, and enjoy a
comfy home plus exotic vacations. You care about the peo-
ple you work with and make sure they know it. No matter
what your title, you don't hesitate to work long hours, alone
or with a staff, to see a job gets done. As an executive, you
take pride in being able to coax everyone to produce an
outstanding product.
The true-blue loyal type, even when a better job beckons,
it's a difficult decision to move on and leave the folks who
count on you. Still, you need change and action; you do so
abhor the humdrum. You do very well in any spot in human
resources, standing on a stage, as an inventor, or in enter-
tainment, politics, and teaching.
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The 'Y 6 Potential

Empathetic and nurturing, you find a way to deliver the

most difficult news or severe criticism with a light, soothing
touch. You're a tough cookie with a heart of gold and firmly
believe that truth is the basis for living a good life.
You seek harmony but will battle with all the tools in
your considerable arsenal should anyone attack someone
close to you. Your battle cry makes the staunchest opponent
cringe. Revenge is hollow, but it takes a few times of getting
it before you figure that out. Once you do, it becomes easier
to keep to the high road. Be the leader who sets a good
example and encourages everyone to reach their full poten-
tial. The gift you give the world is your faith in others. The
gift the world gives you is unconditional love.

FAMOUS ARIES SIXES

Eddie Murphy 4/3/1961 Rosie O'Donnell 3/21/1962
Francis Ford 4/7/1939 Sandra Day 3/26/1930
Coppola O'Connor
Wilbur Wright 4/16/1867 Leeza Gibbons 3/26/1957

Y • 7
Aries Seven
"The Scienlific Psychic"

T+ 7 + T- 7 -
Assertive Analytical Arrogant Aloof
Creative Technical Impulsive Secretive
Passionate Articulate Jealous Repressed
Enterprising Perfectionist

Whether you're a teacher, actor, scientist, or writer, your true

talents aren't obvious from a casual glance. You go after
what you want, but only after an objective analysis of the
situation, with pertinent data in hand. And that's a hand you
won't play unless tactical strategy and politics fail to get you
what you want. Sometimes you enjoy the game for its own
 Aries 47

sake, not caring to win, but when you tire of the match,
you detach and walk away, much to the bewilderment of
adversaries. Just because you know how to make miracles
doesn't mean you always have a reason to do so.
Education provides the needed rudder to guide you in
any direction you choose to sail. Your curiosity knows no
limits and you're always ready to pick up your laptop and
head off to distant shores. You, Aries Seven, are a mixture
of a bold pioneer, reserved perfectionist, and pragmatic psy-
chic. When learning how to drive, make love, earn money,
or acquire any skill, you stick with it until you can do it
right every time. Of course, with a quick grasp of complex
concepts and a competitive spirit, you aren't afraid to try
almost anything.
As a young ram, you butt heads over matters trivial, but
the Seven's influence teaches you to pick battles with care
and not for abstract principles alone. You become a master
at hiding your feelings unless you decide it's a better maneu-
ver to reveal all. This trait makes foes fall into the tender
trap of thinking you're predictable and then wham—sha-
bam! With succinct words and flawless logic, you set the
record straight. Mouths drop open as you back up what you
said with an action plan or a printed dossier of facts.
You're fascinated with history, law, politics, religion, med-
icine, plus things psychic and spiritual, too. More than just
reading about such topics, you like getting hip-deep in the
action. Pondering the mechanics of space travel, sifting sand
at an archaeological dig, or attempting a Vulcan mind meld,
you try anything intriguing, but may never mention it to
anyone. You so like your secrets. As psychologically astute
as you are, you are surprised (often pleasantly) when some-
one is able to surprise you.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

The chemistry starts with an unusual meeting. Maybe you

met in a dream long ago, or you were startled at an acting
class when he spoke your favorite line from Hamlet to make
a point and was looking right at you as he spoke. The chill
up and down your spine coupled with the cerebral connec-
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tion bewitched you enough to make your move the moment

class was over.
Sex can be an expression of love for you, but you also
crave a touch of the erotic and experimental to be happy.
Marry an intellectual equal, psychically connected, and with
a physical appetite to match your own. If any of these three
elements is missing, avoid the altar talk, and enjoy the rela-
tionship for the present only. When an Aries Seven finds
the perfect fit, the intellectual warrior is transformed into a
dedicated spouse and imaginative playmate.

Money and Career

You aren't keen on managing people unless they are as

educated, dedicated, and talented as you are, plus share
similar career goals—however close to the cutting edge (also
known as the fringe) they are. In that unusual but not impos-
sible situation, you make an excellent shirtsleeve manager.
Always demanding respect, your drive for perfection, tireless
hours on the job, and eagerness to train others makes you
a demanding but rewarding boss.
A "generous tightwad" sums up your saving and spending
patterns. You don't throw money around, but use it appro-
priately and as needed with an occasional splurge to go first
class. Rich or poor, you always have enough to take care
of yourself and usually have more cash tucked away than
anyone in the neighborhood would guess.

The Y7 Potential

It's as easy for you to be the man behind the scenes as it

is to be in front of the camera. A private person, you require
lots of solitude for balance. Conversely, you have a keen
scientific mind and knowledge to share. You take your time
growing up, but once you develop specialized skills, you
gain confidence and do very well for yourself.
Later in life, you wax philosophical and pump out a book
or two. Along the way, you sometimes blur the line between
what's acceptable and what isn't. When that happens, you
find Experience to be an effective teacher. Develop your
mind to gain the wisdom you seek.
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FAMOUS ARIES SEVENS

Leonard Nimoy 3/26/1931 Emma Thompson 4/15/1959
Eric Clapton 3/30/1945 Elle MacPherson 3/29/1964
James Woods 4/18/1947 Picaho Street 4/3/1971

Y • S
Aries Eight
"The Inspired Prolessional"

Y+ 8+ Y- 8-
Assertive Capable Impatient Indecisive
Generous Professional Excessive Workaholic
Enthusiastic Open-minded Headstrong Money Problems
Creative Sensuous

To you, the difference between right and wrong is a matter

of perception and choice. There's also that mixed bag of
tantalizing opposites you have slung over your shoulder
wherever you go. Is it a gift, you wonder, to be able to see
the rewards and consequences of any action you might take?
Yet fiery Mars won't let you sit back and be an observer
instead of leading the fray. Well, if this sounds like you,
honey, you're in good company. Buddha, yes, THE Buddha,
was an Aries Eight extraordinare, and doesn't that help put
things in perspective?
Destined to spread your wings and range far from home,
whenever facing a dilemma you must solve, you ponder
carefully before making a selection. No vacillating wimp,
you're ready to back up (and sometimes reconsider) any
decision with legal action or sword, whatever is most appro-
priate to protect those who look to you for guidance. And
many do, don't they? From Mom to your college roommate,
folks recognize the impartial and fair advice you dish out
on request. You never tell anyone what to do; but you do
tell them what you would do in the same situation while
pointing out why or why not that would work for them.
Since this started at an early age, you're used to others ex-
50 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

pecting not only friendship, but protection and guidance,

too.
Always tolerant, you refuse to let anyone box you into a
corner. You know today's truth might not read the same
tomorrow and insist to keep your options open. At some
point, maybe as you observe the ridiculous wrangle between
two women in the grocery store over the last ripe avocado,
it dawns on you that not everyone sees the world the same
way you do. Once that light bulb turns on, you want to
illuminate everyone's way through the maze.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You search the planet for a person who is a skilled and

complementary reflection to call your other half. A partner
who wants to be an equal, is able to stir your passions,
contributes to the family budget, and doesn't mind keeping
the home fires burning when you dash off is the one you
need at your side. Of course, you want to be home as much
as possible to enjoy the sensual pleasures you find in each
other's arms. Enjoying sex is as important to you as the most
glorious philosophical meeting of the minds. Adaptable to a
lover's whims and fancies, even between the sheets, you're
a fair player. Both of you must be serenely satisfied before
the teasing and caressing are over.
A balanced combination, Aries Eight is an intellectual and
sensual combination. You have an intense drive to experi-
ence, a hunger for physical pleasure, and the mental dexter-
ity to create and play out fantasies. Your partner needs an
equal imagination, the stamina to last, and must be able to
relish the wonders you can offer.

Money and Career

A poet, banker, minister, lawyer, politician, or judge, you

try to make a difference whatever you do, and want to see
results for your efforts. You need to be in a position of
authority where you can direct others to achieve measurable
success. Success means accomplishments, and the one that
makes you feel the most valued is to help others mold
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dreams into reality No matter where you work, you are

respected. Wield the power you have wisely.
Money is more cyclical for you than for most. Either you're
rolling in it or struggling to make ends meet. Since the Aries
influence demands you stay independent, you eventually
find ways to minimize the ups and downs through careful
money handling. Work is a joy to you, and money repre-
sents the recognition and reward for your efforts.
Career and marriage are often united in a common ven-
ture for you and your partner. You can be a formidable
team, once your respective roles are clearly defined.

The "Y8 Potential

Combine your unique outlook with authoritative qualities

and the ability to manage a diverse group of people to be
an influence that produces far-reaching results. You work as
hard as you play, but shouldn't take yourself too seriously.
You alternate between being driven to succeed and kicking
back to enjoy the wonder of a brilliant sunset over the bay.
Over a lifetime, you change career tracks a few times and
in the process become a treasured resource and friend to
many. Develop a balance between the spiritual and physical
worlds. As soon as you can accept that desire alone won't
change everything that's wrong in the world, the quicker
you make progress toward doing exactly that!

FAMOUS ARIES EIGHTS

Johann Sebastian 3/21/1685 Aretha Franklin 3/25/1942
Bach Chaka Khan 3/23/1953
Warren Beatty 3/30/1937 Elizabeth 4/15/1933
William Wordsworth 4/7/1770 Montgomery
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T • 3
Aries Nine
'The Enterprising Performer"

T+ 9+ Y- 9-
Dyamic Artistic Impulsive Possessive
Creative Compassionate Naive Moody
Active Charismatic Headstrong Inconsistent
Leader Worldly

No one knows how to get attention better than you do.

Moments out of the womb, eyes bright with anticipation,
you gazed at your first audience—doctors, nurses, atten-
dants, and oh, yes: Mom and Dad. Everyone was so pleased
with the entrance you'd made, including you.
You aren't quite like the rest of your classmates in Ms.
Green's kindergarten. Somehow you know without being
told what makes people tick. You can make them laugh,
cry, and let you have your own way. Yes, due to the blind-
ing charm and naive trust you broadcast, you do get away
with more than most kids. Folks have just got to respond to
charisma like that.
Since you always take the road less traveled, remember
to inform the bevy of believers following in your bootsteps
before exiting the main highway with them in tow. The
members of the entourage may change, but you do need the
approval of adoring friends. To your credit, you are quick to
step down off the pedestal if it looks like anyone might get
hurt. You're a realist who carries a wide-angle lens to view
the world.
Enthusiastic with energy to spare, you have an ample
share of disappointments to make you quite the expert on
recovery, bouncing back, and starting over. A practical vi-
sionary, you want to achieve notoriety, but have your hands
full living the abundant life. You're a gutsy creature who
continually cuts through uncharted waters with the hope
that the new and distant shore won't evaporate before you
reach it. Faith and determination have always helped you
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get there before, and you don't expect that cosmic law to
change any time soon.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

True love presents a serious quandary. You want a loving

family and simpatico spouse but recoil from the idea of stay-
ing in one spot long enough to make it happen. Because
you do anything and everything to the fullest, you're a de-
light as a lover. There's no such thing as a routine roll in
the hay with you. A lover quickly learns new rhythms to
keep up and occasionally takes the lead if they intends to
stay with you.
A smart partner won't nag about housework or being
there every single minute. No, it takes more than cunning
to keep you in the cottage—a child for example. A child is
a wondrous gift, and you approach parenthood as you do
everything else—curious, fearless, and determined to make
a good job of it. You want to be there from the first steps
until college graduation. Likewise, you are your partner's
greatest cheerleader in anything he wants to accomplish.
And of course, your partner is smart enough to pick a spot-
light different from your own in which to shine, isn't he?

Money and Career

Others marvel at the high energy and fast pace you keep.
No matter from what direction the ton of bricks hit you, you
shake the dust off and get moving again. That talent and
your ability to include everyone in a plan make you a dy-
namic boss with a loyal crew. As long as there is a reward
in the offing, you will accept almost any challenge.
You manage to sustain a stable income, though figuring
out how to do that is initially difficult, so you might experi-
ence a hard knock or two in the world of budgets before
getting it right. Once you're in a position of authority, there
are bonuses to be had and/or freelance cash to earn that
make the effort worthwhile. Entertainment, law, forestry
work, business, teaching, counseling, and the arts are all
stimulating and profitable callings.
Family seldom takes a backseat to the time clock. As inde-
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pendent as you think you are, the people who hug you at
the end of the day are the cornerstone of your life.

The T9 Potential

You're a free spirit with a multitude of people to help.

Marriage seems unlikely, yet it is the ultimate experience
that gives meaning to your life and color to everything else
you do. A natural parent, you provide inspiration and direc-
tion for strangers with the same care you do for loved ones.
You make every life experience 3-D and multitextured for
all.
Overcome moodiness by seeing yourself as a citizen-at-
large instead of succumbing to self-pity or longing for what-
ever is over the next hill. It isn't easy being in the flow and
living in the moment, but it is the path to achieving the
accomplishment you long for the most—true love and old-
fashioned happiness.

FAMOUS ARIES NINES

Eliot Ness 4/19/1903 Gloria Steinem 3/25/1934
Harry Reasoner 4/17/1923 Bette Davis 4/5/1908
Paul Michael Glaser 3/25/1943 Jennifer Grey 3/26/1960
 TAURUS

• 1
Taurus Cne
"The Bold Builder"

a + 1 + « - 1 -
Amhitous Decisive Impatient Inflexible
Industrious Determined Hot-tempered Willful
Determined Daring Jealous Myopic
Steadfast A Leader

A Taurus One seizes life by the horns: no cowering for you,

just bulldozing ahead! You firmly believe that everyone and
everything has its place; yours, of course, is toward the top
of the food chain. But in your honorable world, there are
no small roles, only small actors. Every human being is a
vital cog in the machinery of society. As Taurean One Karl
Marx wrote, "From each according to his abilities, to each
acording to his needs."
No one understands better how the system works. While
you favor maintaining the status quo, you're fiercely dedi-
cated to improving situations. For all your traditionalism,
you're an iconoclast, with a cool rebellious streak. But it's
cleverly concealed behind your proper exterior. You recog-
56 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

nize that image is everything, and present yourself very care-

fully. You believe fervently in keeping up appearances and
keeping up with those darned Joneses (if you aren't a Jones
yourself), but you're not showing off, just staring down the
competition. Yours is the football-coach-as-self-help-guru
philosophy, practicing winning through intimidation. The car
you drive makes a statement, your home is a showplace,
and if you have any skeletons, you're not stupid enough to
let them hang out in a closet, you bury them where they
belong. Of course, you know it's all an act, but that doesn't
mean that the people you're negotiating with have to, right?
Your Achilles' heel is your temper; it's imperative that you
let off steam gradually, instead of periodically erupting like
Vesuvius, burying anyone around you in red-hot verbal tor-
rents. Aware of this tendency, you're probably a big fan of
regular exercise as a way to bum off stress, not to mention
calories from those fancy biz dinners. Those who love and
respect you understand that the stomping and snorting are part
and parcel of your ardent approach toward life. Most people
don't, however; if someone unintentionally waves a red cape
at you, try not to bully him or her into waving a white flag.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You'll likely have frequent amorous scrapes, though you'll

rarely bleed on the field of battle between the sexes. While
Taureans usually like taking their time about romance, and
Ones are supremely level-headed, you occasionally lose
your head in matters of the heart. You can get yourself into
some pretty sticky situations, in both love and work. None-
theless, being fundamentally sincere, if you make the wrong
choice, you'll stubbornly stick it out. Honor, tenacity, and
responsibility are marvelous qualities, but remember that
love doesn't always last forever.
Once you've settled down, you tend to view your mate
as your possession. Since you wouldn't respect a partner
without equally strong opinions, this leads to quite a few
fireworks. Fortunately, they're usually carried over into the
bedroom; after the Sturm and Drang is over, you switch
immediately into kiss-and-make-up mode. Since you're the
 Taurus 57

make-out champion, you score more points in the afterglow

than in the heat of the moment.

Money and Career

You respect what power accomplishes, and work dili-

gently toward a position of authority, which turns you on
more than cold hard cash. A brilliant conservator of money,
you'd do well as a CFO, lobbyist, image consultant, or fund-
raiser. You devise inventive and exciting ways to enrich the
coffers, knowing exactly how to calculate risks and odds.
Bank president to theatrical managing director, you excel at
develping promotional strategies that improve your com-
pany's reputation.
You're just as careful with your own finances, and could
doubtless retire at forty, if you don't float away on a golden
parachute. You can be surprisingly penny-wise and pound-
foolish; don't begrudge loved ones an advance on their al-
lowances for some "nonessentials" when you just spent
$75,000 on a Town Car for its prestige factor. (Actually,
you'd convince the company to buy it for you.)

The 1 Potential

You're smart enough to know that bluster and bravado

carry the day only so far. Your self-confidence is perhaps
your greatest asset, but it can be your undoing if you be-
come too inflexible and unwilling to listen to others. Few
people have a better grasp of what it takes to get things
done with both amazing grace and stamina. Lead by examle,
and don't let your impatience get in the way. You genuinely
want everyone to feel happy, secure, and productive, so
remember to factor others' opinions and perspectives into
your final decisions. Then you can help build a world that
really will be the better place you tell everyone you want
for your kids.

FAMOUS TAURUS ONES

Jack Nicholson 4/22/1937 Dennis Rodman 5/15/1961
George Clooney 5/6/1961 Carol Burnett 4/26/1933
Isabella I of Spain 4/22/1451 Judy Collim 5/1/1939
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« • 2
Taurus Two
"Tlie Killenisli Charmer"

2+ - 2-
Ardent Accommodating Slow-moving Unassertive
Hospitable Understanding Complacent Shy
Calm Gentle Overdeliberate Sulky
Loyal Modest

To all outward appearances, you're adorable, dimply, and

cuddly: Mr. Teddy Bear meets Ms. Barbie. You're so charm-
ing you could probably throw an "end of the world" party
and make it a funfest filled with love and laughter! Despite
your entertaining skills and fondness for your social club's
bridge tournaments or theater outings with your best friends,
part of you would much rather snuggle up to your sweetie
with some microwave popcorn and Casablanca on the tube
back home. Taurus Twos are remarkably sensitive and under-
standing; you crave stability and offer it in return. Hence, indi-
vidualistic types might find you demanding and dependent.
Although you know just where to stroke ruffled egos, you
can wield a deceptively steel hand in a velvet glove if some-
one crosses you deliberately, especially when your security
or that of loved ones is threatened. You're the type to pick
fleas off Fido's coat and release them in the woods, craftily
preferring the art of compromise to out-and-out warfare.
Stubborn, opinionated Taurus can lock horns with the meek,
peace-loving Two. They can merge productively: While you
need tranquillity, you're not afraid to confront your nearest
and dearest if you feel they've misbehaved. This makes you
a natural parent, combining doting and discipline in equal
doses. You'll hold your children's hands all night through
an attack of the measles, weaving magical tales of pink
polka-dotted porpoises to calm them, then gently singing
them to sleep in your undoubtedly soothing, melodious
voice. You long to find a partner who will then croon a
lullaby to you while cradling you in his or her arms.
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Love, Sex, and Marriage

You're incredibly caring and devoted. You take love very

seriously indeed; though you may not always show it, you're
easily bruised. You prefer a lengthy courtship, allowing
friendship to form the foundation of true love. Total honesty
is imperative, though you cringe at the thought of causing
pain. You'd never cheat, for example, but you'd rather know
if your partner does; then at least your trust won't be
shattered.
The irony is that you're so nice that potential mates some-
times feel you're not challenging enough. You need some-
one secure with high self-esteem; otherwise he or she is
likely to break it off with "Honey, you're wonderful, every-
thing I always wanted. So what's wrong with you that you
want me!?" Though you crave a 50/50 relationship, you
place your loved one on a pedestal, like a delicate china
figurine. Problem is, he or she is flesh and blood, with indi-
vidual needs, agendas, and desires that can conflict with
your own. So before you play bull in the china shop, look
for warning signals that your partner resents being on dis-
play on the credenza.

Money and Career

Whatever you choose to do, it's with an eye to helping

others, improving their conditions, or beautifying their sur-
roundings. It's not that you shy away from hard work, even
physical labor, but you need to see the fruits of your con-
crete contributions. Weeding, mowing, and pruning as a gar-
dener, sure, since your artistry would be apparent . . . but
manufacturing mulch, even for millions, never! Your tact,
taste, and refinement could lead to a diplomatic career, act-
ing, painting, landscaping, interior design, fashion, even
flower arranging. Your own finances usually blossom, as
you have a green thumb in more ways than one. Your taste
is exquisite but eclectic, your living room cluttered, even
clashing, that eighteenth-century Chinese cloisonne horse
you just had to have contrasted with a stunningly simple
black halogen lamp.
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The ^2 Potential

You're here to set an example simply by being your unruf-

fled, loving, generous self. You're the eternal pacifying voice
of reason, the worked-out strong shoulder, the gentle yet
firm guiding hand. A steadfast friend in times of need, you
shouldn't be afraid to ask for help yourself. You may not
receive the recognition you richly merit for your unassuming
dependability, but your absence would actually leave a pain-
ful void in many people's lives; whenever you feel unap-
preciated, remember how fortunate you are to be gifted with
your Taurean resilience and fortitude. Nice guys may not
always win the race, but they virtually never finish last.

FAMOUS TAURUS TWOS

Jay Leno 4/28/1950 Michelle Pfeiffer 4/29/1958
Pierce Brosnan 5/6/1953 Shirley Temple Black 4/23/1928
Sugar Ray Robinson 5/3/1920 Ann-Maigret 4/28/1941

6 • 3
Taurus Three
"The Teasing Tfadilionalisl"

w + 3 + - 3
Sensuous Imaginative Sensual Trivial
Artistic Debonair Lazy Dishonest
Buoyant Carefree Gluttonous Dissipative
Boisterous Sociable

Taurus Threes have a mischievous, even willful side that

pops up at unexpected moments. You're the one who enliv-
ened your cousin's wedding by doing a bump and grind
with the bride's grandmother before stripping to the disco
version of "Hava Nagilah." You probably identify with those
great thirties screwball comedies and sometimes objectively
view your life as a French farce with larger-than-life charac-
ters, ridiculous misunderstandings, and slamming doors. Of
course, you're the author, director, and star player around
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whom the action revolves. Chances are you play or would

relish the role of dotty Aunt Agatha or the family's dashing
black sheep.
You have a wonderful sense of life's essential absurdity.
You have verve, vim, dash, flash, and flair to spare. A whiz
kid, you wowed your parents and teachers; so "talented,
clever, and polite," they cooed. Of course, you had an ulte-
rior motive: you wanted attention and flattery. As a result
you're usually a teensy bit spoiled when you enter the "real
world." You expect to bowl it over, but it won't roll over!
Where are the adulation, acclaim, and advancement you
thought were yours by divine right?
There's a valuable lesson here. You shouldn't just coast
on your considerable charm and natural gifts. You know
how to butter up, suck up, if you want that promotion
handed to you on a silver platter; tell your superior's wife
that horizontal stripes really are slimming. But with earnest
effort—and yes, a dash of torturous toil—you can indulge
your outrageous side without fear of constraint.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You not only appreciate but hunger for beauty and ele-
gance in every aspect of your life. While you seek these
attributes in a mate, you also require mental compatibility
and a similar outlook. Not to mention a willingness to put
the paperwork down in favor of a good cuddle. You need
a headquarters for your zaniness, so your ideal mate can
throw confetti all over your New Year's Eve party guests . . .
and start vacuuming the moment they leave. After a little
whoopee, of course, then reminding you to drink five
glasses of water and take one thousand milligrams of Vita-
min C and three Advil before you go to bed.
For you sex is a frolic, a joyous romp in the hay, grass,
river, wherever. You love to wallow in your surroundings,
and probably entertain secret, deliciously silly fantasies of
Victorian bordellos with plush red velour canopied beds and
seraglios with jeweled embroidered pillows and satin sheets
scented with jasmine.
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Money and Career

Your madcap lifestyle requires money, and you do have

an eerie knack for finding it on trees. Of course, your
Taurean side carefully nurtured those trees from saplings,
even as the Three influence impels you to sell kindling to
finance the next shopping spree. Whatever you do, you'll
be an entertainer. Even if you're just slinging hash, you flip
the burgers behind your back to amuse the diners.
Acting, singing, writing, and directing satisfy your need
for showmanship. Your work will always be distinguished
by your charm and wit. You're no nine-to-fiver—you'd know
just where to punch that time clock—but can thrive in an
unstructured office environment where you're allowed to
brainstorm and come up with ideas, half of which will be
utterly dazzling, half absurdly unfeasible. Clever, creative,
and innovative, you add flair to the most mundane situa-
tions. For all your Three influence, the Taurean side knows
exactly when to stop partying and get to work, even if the
grindstone is Himalayan and your nose is bent out of shape.
Taurus helps channel that scattered Three energy; you need
that adrenaline surge and sheer unadulterated panic, but you
rarely need a jump start from someone else.

The Potential

You're here to improve on reality, to water anything "gar-

den variety" and watch it bloom. You know just how to add
that accessory that makes an outfit come to striking life; that
rare skill can be applied to anything you want, since your
presence animates every situation. Your zest for living livens
up every partnership; even a brief encounter with you will
be memorable. You could easily go on cruise control, but
set a new challenge for yourself every day, and you'll attain
virtually any goal you set your mind to.

FAMOUS TAURUS THREES

Salvador Dali 5/11/1904 Stephen Baldwin 5/12/1966
Ella Fitzgerald 4/15/1918 Audrey Hepburn 5/4/1929
Frank Capra 5/18/1897 Bemadette Devlin 4/23/1947
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Taurus Tour
"Tlie Conslanl Coitaclof

w + 4 + « - 4 -
Stable Hardworking Rigid Unimaginative
Patient Traditional Solid Argumentative
Diligent Persistent Stubborn Skeptical
Dependable Constructive

As a kid you were always laying tracks for toy trains, build-
ing the better dollhouse, assembling model planes, con-
structing futuristic skylines with Erector sets, even dissecting
frogs. Whether a boy or a girl, you also had an affinity—
and talent—for playing house and doctor. As an adult, you
haven't changed one bit. You buy every how-to and do-it-
yourself guide and probably emulate Bob Vila and Martha
Stewart.
A Taurus Four is as solid as the proverbial rock, and brave
enough never to hide behind it. Yet even if you disagree
with someone, you always listen as long as they've done
their homework; sincerity, sturdiness, accuracy, and depend-
ability are qualities you value highly. The game you proba-
bly hated most as a kid was Telephone, since it infuriates
you when someone doesn't get the facts straight. Establish-
ing a strong, efficient network of communication is one of
your priorities, both at work and at home. There's probably
a cell phone growing out of your ear, since you recognize
the importance of staying in touch.
Though a realistic and pragmatist, you believe in people's
inherent goodness, that if given the choice, they'll do the
right thing. After all, you usually do. Whenever proof is of-
fered to the contrary, you're almost naively hurt, though
you're expert at rationalizing others' behavior. There's no
question you deserve that "Good Citizenship Award" on your
mantel. But despite your seemingly sober side, you can be
the practical joker par excellence. You're the one who short-
sheeted your best buddy in camp, and engineered the hole-
drilling in the wall of the girls' (or boys') locker room. That
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basic human warmth and touch of bawdiness underlying

your conservatism have always been your keys to success.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You exude earthy sensuality and enjoy your pick of one-

nighters. But ultimately no fly-by-nights for you: you're in
this for the long haul, and you want an equally capable,
loyal partner. Still, you love sex, and yes, you'll respect them
the morning after the first—well fifth—date. (You will even
chivalrously give them their choice of French toast or eggs
Benedict with their cafe au lait.)
Physical compatibility is important to you: but you're not
only looking for the looker (you don't want all eyes turned
to your beloved), just someone who spoons perfectly and
enjoys a late-night tryst with the refrigerator (in which case
you don't mind the crumbs of coffee cake in bed). Forget
complicated discussions over where a relationship is going,
you just want it to move forward at its own pace. As with
everything else, your approach to courtship and marriage is
"meat and potatoes." That includes sex: you like to get
down to basics, and your basic training was probably quite
thorough. Your endurance and libido are both legendary,
and variety is in your spice rack; if your partner has some-
thing different and exotic in mind, he or she should just
whisper it while nibbling on your ear.

Money and Career

Your enviable steadiness and patience make you a phe-

nomenal researcher in any field. Constructing things and tak-
ing them apart to see how they work come naturally. This
makes you a superb engineer, architect, scientist, or master
craftsperson, able to build a house or a theory brick by
brick. Your organizing and people skills are equally well
developed; you're the ideal middle-level manager, entrusted
with implementing orders and seeing them through to the
finish. Although you have a few ideas of your own, you
generally prefer perspiration to inspiration. Execution is your
middle name. Though your checkbook isn't always bal-
anced, an IRA sprouts the minute you find a secure job, and
 Taurus 65

you're sure to keep a few shares of blue-chip stocks tucked

away in the underwear drawer.

The Potential

You're a pillar of society and the salt of the earth; but

don't become so set in your ways you turn into a pillar of
salt. Resist the temptation to become too complacent in the
present; instead build consistently toward the future. You're
not the type to go off on tangents; anything occupying your
thoughts remains with you no matter what the situation. That
single-minded intensity serves you—and the rest of us—
well, but remember that a detailed breakdown of why
trickle-down theory would jump-start Third World econo-
mies isn't exactly scintillating conversation at a cocktail party
for Friends of the Ballet. You can find the joy and humor
in everyday things, so relax and enjoy sharing the fruits
you've so richly earned.

FAMOUS TAURUS FOURS

Bono 5/10/1960 Sigmund Freud 5/6/1856
Harvey Keitel 5/13/1939 Roberta Peters 5/4/1930
Rosie Perez 5/16/1963 Bonnie Tyler 5/8/1953

8 • 5
Taurus Five
"Tlie Mischievous Maslet Buildei"

« + 5 + b - 5 -
Elegant Flexible Greedy Fickle
Self-reliant Resourceful Unfaithful Reckless
Genial Curious Self-indulgent Gullible
Decisive Articulate

Unlike many Taureans, you're bullish on change and never

met an experience you didn't want to explore and savor.
Never content with munching on the clover in your own
backyard, you actively search out greener pastures in which
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to graze. Variety and versatility are vital to your well-being.

You like going from Brie to bratwurst and black tie at a
Metropolitan Opera gala to black jeans at a Mets ball game.
Taurus Fives are a mesmerizing, mystifying combination of
free spirit and military cadet, Clydesdale and bucking
bronco. Even your looks and style are often slightly uncon-
ventional, and you ooze sex appeal without even trying.
You'll work deceptively hard when young, but it's really
because you dream of early—and luxurious—retirement. But
your'e not the type to play gentleman farmer. (Well, okay,
you might buy and meticulously restore eighteenth-century
stone farmhouses as a hobby.) No, you'd much rather buy
a yacht and sail around the world. That doesn't mean you
don't want a traditional home and roots, merely that you'll
inevitably sow seeds in far-flung places. You'll accomplish
virtually whatever you put your mind to, so you must get a
series of goals for yourself to avoid boredom. You likely
had five- and ten-year plans stashed away in your high
school locker; when you unearth them at thirty you giggle
at your choices, having improvised all the way.
You have an intuitive understanding of your role in life.
From an early age, you could pinpoint your exact stimilari-
ties to and differences from your peers. Your Taurus side
knew just how to curry favor from those in authority, the
Five could coax your contemporaries into thinking you were
the next James Dean. You've learned how to play one
against the other, in both your outer and inner lives. You're
a walking example of having your cake and eating it, too,
because your substantial charm enables you to do as you
please even when your ideas clash with others'.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You're difficult to pin down romantically. You know a

relationship is in the cards but prefer to hold all the trumps.
Not that you want a dummy sitting opposite you, quite the
contrary, but you want to make sure that your mate for life
can not only read your moods but can synchronize his or
her own to yours. Obivously, establishing that connnection
takes time, which is a most precious commodity in your life.
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Still, your overpowering need for physical outlets means

you'll always have someone in tow and probably under toe.
You believe in fidelity, but if dissatisifed at home might
be propelled into a few extracurricular encounters. You'd
rationalize that such discreet indiscretions actually help pre-
serve a sagging relationship by burning off negative energy
and satisfying curiosity. But anything on the side will usually
be a one-shot-only deal, because you won't violate the sanc-
tity of your marriage. You'll never endanger its stability—
unless you feel your loves ones are building a higher fence
around your grazing grounds.

Money and Career

/
Taurean Fives are usually endowed with breathtaking
grace, fluidity, and dexterity, as well as incredible pure
strength and stamina. You could probably pirouette while
free-lifting a two-hundred-pound barbell. Any career that ex-
ploits that physicality to the limit is ideal: athlete, dancer,
acrobat, trainer, or physical therapist. You'd also make a fine
officer in any of the armed forces, with courage to spare
and a mind designed to strategize. Your magnetism makes
performing another option, while your disciplined yet in-
quiring mind could lead to writing or composing music.
You'd also make a dynamic Freedom Figher or muckraking
journalist exposing corruption.
You view money as a utilitarian means to a Utopian end;
you usually manage to make a bundle, and spend it on
creature comforts, extravagant homes, and exotic travel. You
also have a generous streak that many a friend takes advan-
tage of . . . not that they're fooling you for an instant!

The b" 5 Potential

You have a tricky mission in life: to show people they

can be revolutionary in their lives without flouting every
convention. No matter how fidgety, even flighty, you may
appear, you have a rock-steady core. But that balancing act
rarely places you on an emotional seesaw. You have a pow-
erful sense of your identity and won't be deflected from
your goals, but would never stoop to devious means to at-
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tain them. You'll always be true to yourself, which explains

your mass appeal. That combination of self-assurance and
willingness to explore and experiment will probably sway
quite a few people you encounter. Use the gift wisely.

FAMOUS TAURUS FIVES

Uma Thurman 4/29/1970 Andre Agassi 4/29/1970
Gary Cooper 5/7/1901 Dennis Hopper 5/17/1936
Irving Berlin 5/11/1888 Soren Kierkegaard 5/5/1813
Grace Jones 5/19/1952

• 6

Taurus Six
"The Sensuous Malerialisl"

w + 6 + >3 6
Loyal Sensitive Possessive Opinionated
Responsible Conventional Covetous Narrow-
Magnanimous Loving Conventional minded
Down-to-earth Pampering Obdurate

A Taurus Six is not just the salt of the earth, but the rich
bountiful harvest itself. Chances are, even if you didn't grow
up on a farm, you always loved the idea of milking cows
and strewing chicken feed. Mother Nature and Mother ur-
ture rolled into one, you personify sturdiness. Your self-
imposed mandate to provide for your family spurs you on
to build, if not an empire, then at least a safe, secure haven
replete with two-hundred-channel satellite dish and hot tub.
You're a man's man and a woman's woman, and take
great pride in playing traditional roles. No matter what,
there's something of the chauvinist about you. A fierce de-
fender of your family and beliefs, you always look to elevate
the status quo and tend to be staunchly conservative, not
necessarily politically but in your demeanor. You're easygo-
ing, as long as your cozy situation isn't disrupted, you be-
lieve firmly in living and letting live. Your credo is that
 Taurus 69

everyone can lead the good life—and you're just the one to
lead the way.
You're a caregiver at home and a caretaker at work, al-
most superhuman in the way you fulfill your obligations.
Your promises really are as good as gold, and their market
value doesn't fluctuate. You'll throw that family reunion,
even if you know your nephew Bobby will crash several
vases playing ball in the house. And you'll cut a board meet-
ing short rather than miss Lisa's first piano recital. You're
just as protective of your own parents, respecting them for
the strong values they instilled; if your mate thinks a nursing
home is the best alternative, you'd argue persuasively how
much your own kids could benefit from Grandma's presence.
Obviously you're an incredibly indulgent spouse or par-
ent, humoring every whim of your nearest and dearest—
unless, of course, they must be taught a life lesson. Oh,
you'll sternly deliver advice while uncannily resembling that
portrait of your grandfather, but every scolding is followed
by a warm hug and a "How much do you need?" as you
whip out the bankroll.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

No surprise that a Taurus Six likes things settled; you pre-

fer to stake out your own little piece of prime pasture where
you can graze happily until the cows come home (which
had better be sooner than later—you like to share time with
your mate after work and rarely, if ever, stray into another
bull's territory). When you marry, it's not just till death do
you part, it's for eternity, and you'll weather all the little
crises and testy moments with confidence.
Yours is the time-tested courtship approach: a loaf of
bread (maybe that pane rustico studded with black olives
from the gourmet deli), a jug of wine (Chateau Latour if you
please), and thou (just the way you are). You adore the feel
of silk sheets or silken hair, and could rub, caress, fondle,
and massage for days. But to you love is a feast for all five
senses: the whiff of perfume or almond shampoo, the faint
salty taste of the neck, the drawn-out sighs, are as essential
as mother's milk.
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Money and Career

The glad-handing, back-slapping type, you're made for

the world of business meetings at the golf course and inno-
cent locker-room jokes. Genuinely friendly yet tough as nails
as you hammer out a proposal, you leave everyone thinking,
"What a great guy (or gal)." Your warm yet dutiful nature
makes you a fine manager or executive, although your fas-
tidious attention to detail makes it difficult for you to dele-
gate authority. You're highly musical, indeed responsive to
anything sensuous, and are drawn to all the artistic profes-
sions. Teaching is an option, since you love setting an exam-
ple for everyone else. You'd also succeed at "home ec" jobs
like chef, fashion or interior designer, and realtor.
You like beautiful objects, good hearty gaib, and very
comfortable surroundings; your home is your castle and you
expect it to be furnished accordingly, though you'll tease
your mate unmercifully about how much of your hard-
earned money is going down the new gold-plated drain.

The b)6 Potential

You're the hail-fellow-well-met of everyone's dreams. Uni-

versally popular, you set an example simply by being the
nice, dependable human being you are, ambitious only for
family and friends, wanting everyone to live in harmony.
You can also share your appreciation of the finer things
without pretension. Don't allow yourself to fall into ruts and
routines. You need people around you who can push you
to perform and reach your potential, otherwise you might
sit a little too heavily in the lap of luxury.

FAMOUS TAURUS SIXES

Stevie Wonder 5/13/1950 Christine Baranski 5/2/1956
Robert Browning 5/17/1812 Duke Ellington 4/29/1899
Fred Astaire 5/10/1899 Al Pacino 4/25/1939
Halston 4/23/1932 Debra Winger 5/17/1955
William Randolph 4/29/1863 Joe Louis 5/13/1914
Hearst Mike Wallace 5/9/1918
Randy Trmvis 5/4/1959
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V • 7
Taurus Seven
The Conceptual Conpei"

^ + 7 + ^ - 7 -
Determined Inventive Stubborn Choosy
Alluring Analytical Haughty Aloof
Imaginative Selective Stingy Introverted
Commonsensical Specialized

A secret inverse snob, you'll attend opera premieres and

enjoy the see-and-be scenes, yet have just as much fun line-
dancing or slipping a Chippendales dancer a tip. Only a
lucky few will be privileged to savor both sides. You delight
in being an eternal contradiction, keeping people guessing
whether you're a brain or a bombshell; isn't it amusing how
difficult it is for folks to reconcile the two?
You project a mysterious allure, at once earthy yet ethe-
real. Your deameanor and humor are both deliciously dry
and droll. That sly wit and apparent nonchalance belie your
perfectionist precision and ferocious competitive drive. You
cultivate a store of trivia, factoids, and fun anecdotes to re-
gale with and sometimes distract them, deflecting them from
discovering your true motives. You're no sneak or snitch,
but you would make a terrific spy! Your Taurus side is so
genuinely genial and hearty, permitting entree wherever you
go, while that Seven can calculate, absorb, analyze, and in-
terpret like a Deep Blue chess computer.
You bum to create something incredibly specialized of
lasting value to humanity, though you'd never admit—even
to yourself—just how much you want that candy bar named
after you. It might surprise people to learn that at the very
least you chair a charity of your own creation. You pitch
your ideas perfectly: they're invaribly just distinctive and cut-
ting-edge enough to be commercial, though never in an ob-
vious way. If you created a "jiggle" sitcom, the lead
character would be a stripper working her way toward a
Ph.D. in astrophysics. Title? Celestial Bodies.
72 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Your affectionate nature compels you to be in a relation-

ship, yet your craving for solitude, independent streak, and
insistence on hving it your way can push potential lovers
away. You intellectualize love far more than the average
Taurean, but you're still more comfortable expressing your
emotions through your considerable sensuousness and phys-
icality. Thus you require a partner who can verbalize feel-
ings for you both. Still, you're the least likely Taurean to
marry; you might well choose to play the "other" in a thirty-
year triangle or carry on a long-term, long-distance
relationship.
Twould be folly not to quote the great Taurus Seven ex-
pert on love, William Shakespeare. "Let me not to the mar-
riage of true minds/Admit impediments. Love is not love/
Which alters where it alteration finds/Or bends with the re-
mover to remove" (sonnet 116). In other words, once you've
made that bed, you'll lie in it, having already determined
that you can't bounce a coin off it, when your soul mate is
tucking the sheets. If you find someone with a body and
nerves of steel and a mind like a steel trap, you can easily
enjoy a tranquil, devoted fifty or so years together.

Money and Career

Your intuition, insight, inspiration, are manna to any cre-

ative endeavor and you're naturally drawn to the arts. But
with that instinctive touch for what will sell to the masses,
you could easily be an inventor or product developer.
You're a technical, scientific, and mathematical wizard
though you prefer doing something with tangible, quantifi-
able results that you can point to proudly. You can also take
someone else's projects and put just enough spin on them
to make them fly, or synthesize competing proposals into a
harmonious whole; an architect of ideas. Lobby your com-
pany to create a "creative director" position for you so you
can research for hours alone in your book-lined office.
You'll probably end up a millionaire, but you'll rarely brag
about those extra zeroes in your various bank accounts.
Your net worth comes out in the collection of Model T Fords
 Taurus 73

or Faberge eggs, all displayed to the most discriminating

eyes—your own.

The (b7 Potential

You're here to endow the commonplace, everyday, and

humdrum with a dose of magic. At your greatest, you're an
alchemist of the human soul, allowing people to see things
as they truly are, then recognize the extra in the ordinary.
Your success will likely transform you into a symbol of
hope, inspiration, or merely status to many. Without even
realizing it, you have a knack for juggling your worldly and
private concerns. You're a authentic role model, analytic yet
warm, likable yet reserved; a truly balanced human being.

FAMOUS TAURUS SEVENS

Queen Elizabeth 11 4/21/1926 Jerry Seinfield 4/29/1954
Harry Truman 5/8/1884 Candice Bergen 5/9/1946
Katharine Hepburn 5/12/1907 Reggie Jackson 5/18/1946

8 • 8
Taurus Eight
"The Empire-Building Execulive'

« + 8 + « - 8
Determined Capable Materialistic Workaholic
Unstoppable Professional Calculating Driven
Imposing Authoritative Avaricious Power-hungry
Steadfast Ambitious

The minute your high-school voted you most likely to suc-

ceed, you probably scheduled a business meeting the day
after graduation! Powered by a state-of-the-art eight-cylinder
engine, you've meticulously charted your course in that in-
imitable Taurean Eight fashion. You don't need a slick car
salesman touting your abilities: you're sure to be drowning
in a cash-flow flood by the time you're through, with a nest
egg that's hatched into quite a coop. Even an apparent
74 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

knockout punch won't keep you down long, thanks to your

bullheaded endurance depsite all obstacles. Fortunately, the
warm golden touch of Taurus combines with the Eight's
cool-headed appreciation of long-term opportunities, smooth-
ing the bumpy financial ride many Eights take.
You're at ease strolling the corridors of power, but there's
a softer side to your nature that few are privileged to see.
Oh, they'll encounter the almost superhuman charm, grace,
and insight, but they'd be shocked to see your inner sanc-
tum, replete with—gasp!-—a smiling, politically correct photo
of you and your family on holiday. You refuse to parade
the intimate details of your life for casual acquaintances, let
alone the tabloids. Though you love deeply and truly, it isn't
always easily expressed. Rather than flowery speeches or
poems, you'll surprise your nearest and dearest with small
but exquisite trinkets like a Balinese shadow puppet for your
son, a Tahitian black pearl for your spouse—both bought
on-site, of course.
Despite loving home, family, and country, you know you
were meant to perform on the world stage. You project an
air of authority and knowledge that crosses all borders and
cultures. What's more, you respect other traditions as much
as your own, which commands automatic trust and gains
you entry to the upper echelons of power wherever you go.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You're an equal traditionalist in matters of romance; you

won't rush deciding on your life partner. It takes you a while
to share both your heart and bank account, but when you're
ready you'll back the Brinks truck up to your door; adding
your honey's name to your checkbook will be first on your
checklist. You're an amorous tactician, thinking out your
plan of attack the same way you strategize for a board meet-
ing. Once you make up your mind, you're virtually unstop-
pable in the seduction department; most people happily
surrender to your advances. You realize that money can't
buy love . . . but it sure can buy hothouse orchids, Cristal
rose, beluga caviar, and a butler on a moonlit terrace.
You're rarely jealous, but Taurus can be incredibly posses-
 Taurus 75

sive. Though you're not the unfaithful type, you're quite

aware of your extracurricular possibilities, and expect your
partner to entertain a fantasy or two. You hope he or she
will whisper it in your ear, rather than act on it with the
cutie next door. Of course, after slaving away at the office,
you forget that you're too exhausted to murmur sweet every-
things in your loved one's ear. At least once your mate gets
your attention, the lovemaking is likely to go on and on:
Remember that horsepower!

Money and Career

King Midas must have been a Taurus Eight. You're a mag-

nate in the making: a magnet for money, power, and pres-
tige. Even if you never scale the Fortune 500 ladder, you'll
achieve a position of prominence. You have so many fingers
in pies, irons in the fire, and pots on the stove that you're
an antitrust suit waiting to happen. You're particularly adept
at global affairs. International law or banking, import/export
businesses, tax shelter expert, portfolio manager, CEO or
CEO of a conglomerate, or that wonderfully vague word
"consultant" suit you.
Though most of your time is spent shuttling between con-
ference room and executive dining room, your home will be
lavish. After all, you'll need an extravagant space to entertain
clients, with works by the hottest up-and-coming artists on
display and tasteful yet pricey bibelots and first editions scat-
tered unassumingly about. You'll gladly spend thousands on
a baseball card or 1910 upside-down stamp to fill that
annoying gap in your collection. Acquisitive by nature, with
a discerning eye and palate, you look for the best bargain
in the galley or on the wine list—even if it's a two-hundred-
dollar bottle that you think ten times superior to the fifty-
dollar selection.

The ^8 Potential

Your persistence and diligence make you a potential role

model for everyone you meet. Don't settle into comfortable
routines and even cushier circumstances, otherwise the Eight
economic rollercoaster might make you queasy. Don't em-
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phasize the material and sensual worlds at the expense of

the spiritual. Resist the temptation to become dictatorial in
your business and personal dealings. Then you'll rake in the
green and graze in greener pastures. Always remember you
were meant to share your wealth, whether by funding a new
hospital wing or giving of your undeniably valuable time to
dispense practical advice to an entry-level exec in your
empire.

FAMOUS TAURUS EIGHTS

Pope John Paul II 5/18/1920 Barbra Streisand 4/24/1942
Ulysses Grant 4/27/1822 Emilio Estevez 5/12/1962
Catherine the Great 5/1/1729 Daphne Du Maurier 5/13/1907

V • 9

Taurus Nine
"Tlie Ingenious Benie"

w + 9 + « - 9 -
Affectionate Compelling Indolent Careless
Creative Compassionate Orthodox Daydreaming
Purposeful Spiritual Smug Self-interested
Unflappable Generous

You've always had a wisdom and kindness beyond your

years. There you are, all of eight, tenderly cradling a pigeon
with a broken wing in your hands. "Ugh," remonstrates your
mother, "Put that thing down: it's dirty and disease-ridden!"
"Well, yes, Mom," you gently but firmly remonstrate, "but
it'll die if we don't nurse it back to health." Your atittude
toward human beings is similar, believing that everyone can
fly if they're given the chance . , . and that they have a right
to comprehensive medical and dental insurance! Retaining
that fondness for underdogs into maturity, you develop a
robustly healthy dislike of anyone who plays top dog and
plays it rough.
You're deeply spiritual, if not religious in an orthodox
 Taurus 77

sense. The Taurean in you wants absolute proof, of course,

but you also daydream about reincarnation and extraterres-
trial life. That doesn't mean you let doctrine or dogma Hale-
Bopp you over the head, although you are surprised the
first time meditation leads to an out-of-body experience. You
accept anyone's form of worship without question, as long
as it doesn't interfere with others'. On the other hand, you
preach that any belief system can become a cult when its
members claim they're the chosen ones.
It's hard to imagine you won't become involved in some
kind of volunteer work; you especially like hands-on assign-
ments where you can feel you're really making a difference
to an individual. But you have such a talent for wheedling
money out of tightwads that you'll eventually join the board
of directors of a struggling theater company, "Save the
sperm whale" foundation, and AIDS hospice. Needless to
say, you'll also end up chairing the annual ball, as well as
storming the decorating committee and besieging the caterer
and florist with special requests.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Love with you can be an unexpectedly stormy passage,

and you wouldn't have it any other way. With your emo-
tional sixth sense, it's often "love at first sight" and your
stare burns through everyone else on that sardine-packed
subway car until your quarry takes notice. But you can be
confusing to your loved ones. On some level, it's as if you
hold a part of yourself back from the public to give to your
partner, yet reserve part of yourself for your public persona.
Your loved ones soon learn that what they see isn't always
what they get.
Sex with you is utterly delicious. A neck nibbler and toe
tickler, you have a nose for erogenous areas as unerring as
a veteran traffic cop's for parking violators in a tow away
zone. Though your foreplay forehand is your best stroke,
you're oddly backhanded about the aftermath afterglow.
Your mate may never become accustomed to the way you
turn off when you're ready to turn on the tube to watch a
news report on your latest rally.
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Money and Career

You genuinely enjoy networking, doing the chitchat thing

with seeming aplomb. While you value good public opinion
highly, you crave the respect of your peers and those in the
power structure even more. You're an incredibly persuasive
salesperson, especially if you believe in the product. You
project a sensual appeal to the public, and are confident
you can bring anyone around to your point of view. If invei-
gling and finagling don't work, you're not above playing
martyr to get your way. With your passionate interest in
improving humanity, you're drawn to jobs such as minister,
missionary, journalist, and political or spiritual advisor.
Though you amass plenty of money, you do like to give
it away. After donating $1,000 each to the battered wives'
shelter and local symphony, pledging $300 to your alma
mater, loaning three friends $230 apiece, which you know
you won't see again, and several singles to the homeless
people on your way to work, your weekly paycheck didn't
stretch as much as you thought.

The b)9 Potential

You were born to be special, meant to illuminate the way

for others and help them appreciate their own unique gifts
and abilities. Never shy away from your true self, fearful of
what people might think. You're remarkably lucky in terms
of the advantages that come your way. There are no guaran-
tees in life; opportunities can vanish as suddenly as they
occur. Take the bull by the horns and you might just hit the
bull's eye.

FAMOUS TAURUS NINES

Henry Fonda 5/16/1905 Cher 5/20/1946
Linda Evangelista 5/10/1965 Shirley MacLaine 4/24/1934
Michael Palin 5/5/1943 Orson Welles 5/6/1915
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seek it. Sure, you're congenial and like a full social calendar,
but you won't die without it. In fact, it's the retreat from the
spotlight that provides the chance to develop one of your
never-ending streams of visionary ideas. You say you take
life as it comes, which is true regarding difficult detours and
unexpected setbacks. The future is a different story; you
know what you want and leave nothing to luck when you
go after it. Motivated and capable, you're used to getting
what you want.
Freedom is a priceless possession you believe is every-
one's right, and it troubles you when someone else's idea
of freedom infringes on your own. You can be counted on
to stand up for the right of all people to hold different be-
liefs, even when you don't agree with what they think. A
perfect society makes allowances for the population to
flourish as individuals.
Others depend on you, and you pride yourself on being
there to get Mom to her doctor's appointment, cheer Tommy
on to a home run at Little League, and still manage to over-
night your fashion sketches to the design house on time.
You don't assume that anyone will take care of you, but
you do require reciprocal support from the home sector.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You want an intellectual match to share secrets and make

love under the full moon. And it won't hurt if he's a good
cook, too. Clever enough not to get caught in a commitment,
you aren't afraid to pursue any captivating candidate. No
problem if the chase is all there is—sometimes it provides
enough memories to see you through.
Still, life is sunnier when you aren't sleeping solo, and as
independent as you are, you long for a companion you can
count on. Besides, sex—be it soft and sensuous or blissfully
bizarre—is better with someone you love. If you find all of
these talents wrapped up in one package, you stop saying
you won't ever get married and start shopping for shiny
satin sheets. As much in control as you like to be, once the
romance ritual begins with the first red-rose delivery, you
gladly relinquish the reins and let the relationship roll.
 Gemini 81

Money and Career

An excellent memory and the ability to make small talk

sprinkled with easy jokes and pertinent points are the secrets
of your success. You like notoriety when it's due, but are
sharp enough not to fall victim to false flattery. Working
with a staff that's as versatile and cooperative as you are is
the most important criterion when deciding to stay or push
on. You could be with one company for your whole career,
as long as you get to do a variety of jobs, including being
a boss.
Long ago you decided that leisure time was more impor-
tant than lining dresser drawers with money, but you never
scoff at a genuine opportunity to make it. There's always a
plane ticket to buy, and retiring early sounds mighty good
to you. Then you can do what you really want—maybe
open an antique store or learn how to cut gems and make
jewelry.

The H1 Potential

You provide ideas with workable outlines to make them

real. There's nothing you won't consider when options must
be found. Though your views are noncomformist and some-
what cosmopolitan, they are given full consideration because
others respect you. From behind a conventional facade, you
provide hope and alternatives that show a deep understand-
ing of the human condition.
With a touch of imagination, quick wit, and determination,
you can take your place among a fine array of artists, musi-
cians, and politicians if you want. But first learn how to
weave a group into a team, share your unique sense of
humor, and don't be so courteous and civilized that you're
thought to be superficial. Be real and get real rewards.

FAMOUS GEMINI ONES

Wyonna Juclcl 5/30/1964 Noah Wyle 6/4/1971
Lisa Hart man 6/1/1956 James Amess 5/26/1923
Yasmine Bleeth 6/16/1968 Jonathan Pryce 6/1/1947
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H • 2
Gemini Twc
"The Ambidexlrous Diplomal"

2 + 2
Articulate Patient Scattered Moody
Gregarious Thorough Gossipy Sensitive
Adaptable Supportive Nervous Argumentative
Curious Diplomatic

The reason you never thought you were a typical Gemini is

that you're a Two, too! With all the social graces of a lively,
charming Gemini, you've got the Two's natural caution and
reserve. Gregarious but selective, you're never so witty that
you forget to be diplomatic. Your dual nature is twofold,
twins doubled, which makes more than two sides of you.
Getting to know you is a real challenge. A clever chameleon,
you mold the outer you to fit the situation and protect the
real you from casual scrutiny. There are secrets you intend
to keep.
You believe change is good, and like to regularly zoom
off in new directions, following one of your uncanny
hunches. Your meticulous nature doesn't let you go too far,
though, before you build a factual foundation to support
the quest.
The truth is important, but not at someone else's expense—
you can let it hide behind superficial conversation. In fact,
you don't mind superficiality as much as being rude or vul-
gar. Oh, you're no namby-pamby and have got a four-letter
vocabulary to fire off at the appropriate times, but prefer to
avoid uncivilized behavior in public. Should anyone mistake
your noblesse oblige for "anything goes," or try to walk all
over you, you simply color them Out of the Picture.
A natural collector, you have a variety of interesting items
in your home—from bonsai plants to the latest computer
gadget. You also have a large selection of artwork, books,
and music. As for people, you collect useful phone numbers
but not people per se. You have a select circle of friends
who share your interests and never let you down.
 Gemini 83

Love, Sex, and Marriage

The perfect partner knows which kinky buttons to push

to keep the relationship lively. No amateur button pusher
yourself, you like to get as good as you give! In addition to
sharing the same sexual appetites and keeping up with that
considerable intellect of yours, your heaven-made match is
someone you don't have to change. You want a lover to
live with and be alone with together. When another bright,
curious, chatty creature crosses your path, you leap into
marriage, stunning friends and family with the speed of the
"I dos."
Marriage is happy as long as mutual appreciation and sup-
port prevail. When Relationship Road gets bumpy, you re-
treat to wait for the tempest to blow over. Withdraw too far
and the repercussions are felt in the bedroom and could go
all the way to divorce court, which you don't want since
you consider it a miracle that you found anyone who loved
you enough to marry you in the first place. For all your
double duality, you believe in fidelity and never stray further
from a mate than a casual conversation, and even that is
kept in neutral waters.

Money and Career

If you're promoted to the position of manager, it doesn't

take long, maybe just one whining employee, before you're
ready to turn in those extra stripes. Confrontations, espe-
cially this kind, just aren't your thing. You want a responsi-
ble job, but only want to be in charge of yourself. Manage
a project or be a consultant or technical guru to be happy.
You also do well as a computer whiz, in medicine, teacher,
diplomat, arbitrator, or writer.
Regarding money, you have a classic split personality: You
want to have gobs of cash but abhor the idea of working
long hours at a stressful job to get it. When you have it, you
spend it, and when you don't, you know how to squeeze
the juice out of every penny. Since you refuse to let work
rule your life, eventually you learn to balance income and
outgo. Luckily, you don't need that much money to be
happy (just enough to buy those toys). Educated and re-
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sourceful, most Gemini Twos live better than they think they
do but not as well as they would like to.

The H2 Potential

You take your obligations seriously, and when the going

gets tough, you set your chin against the wind with determi-
nation and keep moving forward any way you can. After
you've given 200 percent effort, if something isn't working out,
you can dump it and walk away without a backward glance.
Relationships, particularly intimate ones, offer the greatest
rewards and demands. You have no problem connecting
with people, but taking it past sociably polite is beyond
your comfort zone. When you trust your instincts and open
yourself to honest interaction, you find out how many won-
derful people there are out there. Being a master of discre-
tion and having the ability to learn almost anything are the
keys to your self-respect and success. Never underestimate
yourself—you have what it takes!

FAMOUS GEMINI TWOS

Sally Ride 5/26/1951 Frank Lloyd Wright 6/8/1869
Sally Kellerman 6/02/1938 Joe Montana 6/11/1956
Leslie Uggams 5/25/1943 Bob Hope 5/29/1903

H • 3
Gemini Three
"Ttie Versalile Romantic"

IT + 3 + H - 3 -
Vivacious Artistic Restless Extravagant
Literate Romantic Indecisive Easily
Generous Sociable Self-deceptive Distracted
Versatile Imaginative Gossips

The word on the street is that you're a hopeless romantic,

and Mirror, Mirror says you're an eternal optimist. You do
wish the heavens would plop Mr./Ms. Soul Mate in your
 Gemini 85

path before you're too old to care (can't imagine when that
might be). Or that Universal Studios would call with praise
for your screenplay. Disapointments? Yeah, you've had a
few—well, a dump truck full. When you manage not to
drown in personal-pity parties, you bounce back faster than
the average romantic because underneath that stylish exte-
rior is a survivor. Then the phone rings: the corner coffee
store Barista (Italian) invites you out for dinner again or a
friend calls with work at a fashion show and the clouds
clear.
You're not satished having one iron in the hre at a time.
Your hearth looks like a beach bonhre on the Fourth of July,
it's so packed. Quantity in motion means that something will
come to fruition. It's your job to stick the irons in, stir up
the hre occasionally, and stand ready to grab the white-hot
one and run with it. That doesn't stop you from envisioning
Brad Pitt arriving on the doorstep, but it does give you con-
crete reasons to celebrate victories, large and small, when
they come.
People love to join you for lunch or visit your home. Not
only are you a gracious host, but you always have a provoc-
ative guest list. A few from the A list, the coffee-shop group,
several of the crew at work, plus new friends and some
you've known forever and ever. Matchmaker? No, you don't
consider yourself a matchmaker for business or pleasure,
but if something should happen between these lovely and
charming people whom you judge to have sooo much in
common, then, well, wouldn't that be lovely?
Through the confusion of constant activity, you have an
eerie talent for "knowing" what's going to happen before it
does. Of course, it's more reliable when it's about someone
else rather than yourself. Those special visionary tidbits are
shared with only a precious few friends.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

A nice home, accomplished spouse, bright kids, and a real

estate career on the side are all you ask. You want it all,
but would settle for two out of four at a time. Because you
recognize potential when you see it, you give that insistent
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barista a second look, and don't hesitate to buy a fixer-

upper for your first home. The children? You take parenting
seriously and intend to enjoy your children as adults as well
as bambinos.
Nothing captures your heart faster than an enlightened
brain and enthusiastic sex. Gifts don't hurt either, and you
aren't too fussy. "Take me to Tahiti," you offer, "and let's
see what kind of magic music we make together." Hey, did
you say that out loud? I didn't think so, but try it next time
and maybe you can pick out another black-pearl pendant
on the island for your collection.

Money and Career

Money is here today, gone tomorrow, here this morning,

gone on Tuesday. On the days it's gone, you drive yourself
crazy worrying about how to make ends meet, and then the
bucks are back. Your money cycles can be a hairy roller-
coaster ride, but you do manage to hold the family heirlooms
intact, faithfully drop ar shekel or two in the rainy-day pot
when the coins are pouring in, and never let the kids feel
too deprived.
You like to be busy, you like to work and enjoy chatty
conversations with co-workers. Your services don't go to the
highest bidder, though, they go to the most interesting job
offer in front of you at the time. Boredom is death to you
and you honestly would rather return recyclables for por-
ridge than bear the tedium of sour-faced associates and mo-
notonous tasks. Always looking for a creative outlet, a
Gemini Three often turns a hobby into a business.

The 113 Potential

Merry old soul that you are, you appreciate any good
fortune and try to spread the wealth around. Generosity be-
gets abundance, and you take every opportunity to prove
this philosophy, be it with time, guidance, conversation, or
presents. We are all in this together, like it or not; you know
it, and know the world would be a better place if we all
acted as if we knew it, too.
You have an eye for beauty and are a resilient spirit. Youth-
 Gemini 87

ful at any age, try to finish what you start and not get side-
tracked so long that treasured relationships unravel. Self-
discipline turns every talent into an amazing asset. The
world needs you to not take itself so seriously, but first you
have to learn to do that for yourself.

FAMOUS GEMINI THREES

Brooke Shields 5/31/1965 John Wayne 5/26/1907
Annette Bening 5/29/1958 Billy Dee Williams 6/4/1937
Joan Rivers 6/8/1933 Liam Neeson 6/7/1952

H • 4
Gemini Fcur

"Tlie Inquisilii/e Realist"

n + 4 + U 4
Clever Persistent Restless Lazy
Curious Responsible Verbose Contrary
Gregarious Practical Inconsistent Undemonstrative
Explorer Capable

You're never short on words or moxie—even close chums

don't know what to expect from you next! They think you
lead a stable and sorta traditional life until they find out
about the latest trek to Machu Picchu. You do like a Monday-
through Friday routine. The day starts with a quick nod and
smile to the building security officer at 7:00 a.m. every day
as you dash to the cafeteria for breakfast and conversation
or to finish reading a newspaper article. Even when you've
got plans for the scrambled-eggs-and-toast hour, you put
everything aside when a needy soul plops down and apolo-
getically says, "Can I talk to you?" You know you're the
reason the person came early.
No one expects you to tell him what to do. You've made
it quite plain that you believe everyone is in charge of their
own lives. They come to you because you have an open
mind and an unprejudiced view of possibilities that you can
88 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

help them see. Besides, you root for the underdog (having
played the part yourself), and you actually listen to others
and understand the worries that keep them up all night.
The clock is always ticking. When it's time to go, you
detach from the conversation and rush headlong up the cor-
ridor to be at your desk before starting time. You hate to
arrive after anyone, even the boss. On the job you juggle
phone calls and memos and still accomplish more in one
hour than most co-workers do in two. Not that you can't be
sidetracked by a so-true-too-funny Dilbert cartoon, but when
there's a schedule to be kept and a deadline looming large,
you pause for only a nanosecond to chuckle. Who's in
charge of your life anyway? You, and only you, and you
intend to keep up.
When you're fired up for a quest, ideal, or objective, noth-
ing stands in your way, except maybe a cold bucket of com-
mon sense. And then not always. You take the risk factor
seriously, but like famous Gemini Four Harriet Beecher
Stowe, abolitionist and antislavery author, if the cause is just,
or compelling, you consider the risks, then do it anyway.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

When it comes to a real relationship, you've got strict

standards and definite ideas. The list you handed Cupid
plainly stated that you must share an enthusiasm for the
same lifestyle, be it living in Trump Towers or in a cozy
cottage at the beach. An amiable travel companion is a must.
And while you're not a physical fitness freak, you stay
healthy enough to be an active handful through your nine-
ties, and expect your mate to do the same.
Sex is no game to you, no bargaining chit either, but when
the moon is right and the right mental bond has been
forged, you hold nothing back! All physical requirements
met, the final request is for a practical dreamer who can
provide the counterweight you need to keep from drifting
in over your head or in the wrong direction without ever
trying to take over the helm.
 Gemini 89

Money and Career

Creature comforts are almost as important as security, and

you strive to keep your bank account even with the "I want,
I want, I want" account. Since Geminis don't need much
money to be happy (except to have what they want), and
Fours want to accumulate cash, property, and good credit,
you send your accountant conflicting signals every time
you meet.
Always anxious to flex your intellectual muscles, you
never doubt you can do any job that's handed to you.
Higher-ups don't doubt it either, which is why you're often
tapped to move up the ladder. But you usually have other
plans to start your own company or clear the calendar to
be with friends in Sante Fe. Besides, you always have more
than one endeavor to bring in money at the same time. But
why not? You love to work as much as play.

The 114 Potential

Even the things you do to relax keep you busy. There's

not too much of a line between work and play because you
do what you love to do every step of the way. You inspire
friends to be more flexible, try new things, and not be afraid
of stretching. The fact that they see you fall flat on your face
now and then makes your advice credible; they believe you
when you say something is possible but not easy to do.
You size up people quickly and seldom are proven wrong
even after you get to know them. Friends are from diverse
backgrounds, and they all hnd you to be an open-minded,
reliable rock to bounce off decisions and worries. Do you
have it all figured out? Of course you do—be the captain of
your soul and stay on course. On the other hand, if it doesn't
feel good you know enough to not do it, don't you?

FAMOUS GEMINI FOURS

Adrian Paul 5/29/1959 Priscilla Presley 5/24/1946
Paul McCartney 6/18/1942 Harriet Beecher Stowe 6/14/1811
Donald Trump 6/14/1946 Helen Hunt 6/15/1963
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H • ^
Gemini Five

'The Clever Comrnunicalor"

5 + H - 3 -
Articulate Resourceful Superficial Restless
Intellectual Versatile Manipulative Impulsive
Generous Energetic Impractical Fickle
Entertaining Inquisitve

Details are important, and if someone says you're too fussy,

you know you're right on track. Oh, you can laugh at your-
self surrounded by a dozen pairs of shoes as you try to
match them to your earrings, but that doesn't stop you from
finishing the task. If you lose sight of the forest because of
the trees, you quickly shift the view to see all angles and
land the best deal. You never underestimate the importance
of connections. Skilled networker and smooth talker that
you are, you can make friends with anyone, anywhere, and
score interesting info in the process. And hey, you are inter-
ested in absolutely everything, aren't you?
Considerably restless since childhood, you're ready to go
anywhere almost anytime. Unless there's a better reason to
stick around; to, say, star in a Broadway show—bows, ap-
plause, and money to tuck in the bank. Then you hop on
a plane to the white-sand beaches of Florida for a well-
deserved vacation. And while you're down there, you might
as well look up that fellow you met in Houston who owns
a chain of health food stores. Keeping connections current
is another detail that matters.
Intrigued by the mysterious and unusual, you love a good
yarn and can spin a good one yourself. From the careless
pieces of conversation you overhear at the water cooler that
don't fit together to a bona fide criminal investigation on the
evening news, you want to be in the know. As you roam
from place to place, the curious snatches of this and that
fuel the storyteller seed in you. You could (and may) write
a book!
Your mix of genteel manners and ethusiasm opens doors. The
 Gemini 91

ability to deliver what you promise gets you your own passkey.
Getting where you want to be is seldom a problem for a resource-
ful rambler like you. The only glitch is getting you to stay put for
the long haul. You tend to exit before the big payoff is plopped
down, especially if it's a long time in coming.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Too refined to race after just any pretty little thing that
turns your head, you want a proper introduction. No, you're
not the stuffy sort, but you do want a biographical sketch
of your intended before the first chatty phone call. Cautious
about commitment, you want an intellectual and sexual fit.
But should you find the perfect person to parent your chil-
dren, that can be enough to make you pop the question.
If you don't marry young, you may have trouble fitting it
into your life through the thirties and forties. Eventually you
realize you were meant to have a soul mate at your side,
and search for one with the same vivacious energy that has
made other relationships bloom. You think you're a non-
comformist when it comes to the saying the vows routine,
but find out that you, too, adore the whole scene—house,
kids, puppy, et al.

Money and Career

You'll be relieved to hear that you won't ever settle down

to one tedious job to do day after day after day. Expect to
have a minimum of three major career changes, with lots of
minor ones along the way. With your varied interests, you
succeed in any business that deals with the public—tourism,
entertainment, and leisure activities in particular. Marketing,
sales, journalism, publishing, acting, teaching, and psychol-
ogy are all intriguing areas to you, too.
Money is the material to build the life you want. It gives
you the freedom to stay out of the office and provides the
bucks to buy planet tickets and call friends in Norway. You
aren't particularly astute with your money, but more than able
to make what you want and do what you want to do. Being
disciplined enough to do it is the highest hurdle you have
to jump.
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The X[5 Potential

You have an uncanny talent for knowing what the public

wants before they do. You might not be the one to give it
to them, but are generous with ideas and a master at putting
people together who can benefit more from knowing each
other than they do from knowing you. When you find two
such people on opposite ends of the earth, you feel it's your
destiny to bring them together; being a conscious link gives
you great satisfaction, especially when they click.
Find an anchor early in life. It might be a family of your
own, a fascinating business to run, or the purchase of an
island hideaway. That anchor, whatever or whoever it is,
serves a vital purpose. It makes you stop and count to ten
before making an irreversible decision, or from being too
hasty to cut and run on a whim. Practice the same wise
counsel that you dish out and you will have the life you
dream of having.

FAMOUS GEMINI FIVES

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 5/22/1859 Courteney Cox 6/15/1964
Michael J. Fox 6/9/1961 Jessica Tandy 6/7/1909
Lionel Richie 6/20/1950 Isabella Rossellini 6/18/1952

31 • e
Gemini Six

"Ilie Free-Spiriled Humanilanan

K + 6 + 6
Articulate Conventional Manipulative Self-sacrificing
Persuasive Responsible Arbitrary Moody
Versatile Loyal Scattered Possessive
Gregarious Idealistic

You don't take anything for granted. You've been behind

the scenes enough to know what goes on there. Besides,
you're comfortable in front of or behind any curtain and
 Gemini 93

flexible enough to be effective in either position. So what if

you favor the spotlight; when you're in it, it loves you back.
When plans depend on advice from experts, you don't
hesitate to approach the brilliant and the best for assistance.
In addition to acquiring information, you enhance your own
teaching and learning skills in the process. Though you are
curious about almost everything under the sun, people, suc-
cessful or striving, top the list. It's easy to imagine yourself
in someone else's shoes, and to suggest ways to improve
their lot in life. You look out for others. You aren't always
as careful about your own spot in the universal hierarchy
though and have been known to make major sacrifices for
the sake of love and family. Making the decision may have
required countless hours of internal debate, but once the
choice is made, you accept it and the responsibility that goes
with it.
Teaching is as great a joy to you as learning, and you do
it naturally from dawn to dusk, whether standing in front of
a class of hyperactive youth or not. Family is high priority
to you and provides a constant flow of support and self-
knowledge. Becuse you require solitude as much as com-
panionship, the way you teach comes by example, general
conversation, and reaching out to others through artistic
mediums—music, storytelling, acting, lectures, books. You
are a profound influence and a prolific producer once you
discover how to use your talents to uplift, enlighten,
and entertain.
Consider the accomplishmetns of three famous Gemini
Sixes who have gone before you and then imagine the pos-
sibilities. Edward, Duke of Windsor, sacrificed the Crown of
England for the woman he loved; Patrick Henry with his
inspiring oratory pulled revolutionarires together to help
give birth to America; and Ian Fleming, the author who
breathed life into the dashing James Bond and sent him on
dozens of missions to save mankind.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Playing the field is a discreet operation for you. At least

it's your intention not to end up on the front page of the
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newspaper in an embarrasing situation. An exotic enchanter

may catch your eye, but it's simple beauty, inside and out,
that makes you think about making a commitment. The deal
clincher is if this beauty knows how to laugh, is smart and
capable, and kindhearted, too.
As vocal as you may be about staying footloose, you
know marriage is a better situation for you than living the
single life. A chat and a cuddle brighten the end of any
weary day, and you look forward to the golden minutes you
can spend with those you love. Children are a part of your
dream home, but you may be too concerned about being a
good parent to actually have them. This would be a shame
because the world needs more parents just like you—after
the storybook wedding, of course.

Money and Career

As an educator, probably college level, the life lessons

you teach will be remembered long after class ends. Of
course, that will be true for everyone around you no matter
what you do for work. A professional spot that allows you
the freedom to make your own schedule is best for you.
Writer, physician, chef, or decorator, you like work that lets
you interact with people on your own terms.
With money at your fingertips, you can be a philanthropist
and benefactor, and that suits you. Without it readily avail-
able, you raise what you need and encourage everyone to
be creative in making the needed improvements. Running
your own show, you develop a loyal group of employees
who return the favor of your faith in them by doing well
enough to give you the flexibility and freedom you need
to thrive.

The 116 Potential

Count to a hundred and listen to the advice others give

you. Strive to sacrifice just enough to live up to your word,
extend a helping hand, and still be able to tilt the deck back
to a level position. Seek balance and moderation to improve
the quality of your life and better maintain resources, includ-
ing the skill to be a crackerjack mentor.
 Gemini 95

Learn to receive as well as give. Folks feel good about

helping those who have helped them which you do so
readily. Remember, you aren't the only one with this particu-
lar lesson. You do a fine job of opening minds and showing
others how to succeed. When they turn left instead of right
as you told them, love them anyway. Don't take it so person-
ally when they try to fly on their own, and crash and bum
instead. Be proud that they have the confidence to try be-
cause you showed them how, and believed in them when
maybe no one else did.

FAMOUS GEMINI SIXS

Beverly Sills 5/25/1929 Lou Gossett Jr. 5/27/1936
Gladys Knight 5/28/1944 Tom Berenger 5/31/1950
Melissa Etheridge 5/29/1961 Bjom Borg 6/6/1956

H • 7
i cmini Seven

"Tlie Gregarious Scliolar"

1C + 7 + n: - 7 -
Curious Analytical Inconsistent Aloof
Witty Perfectionist Impatient Secretive
Versatile Articulate Nervous Cautious
Detail-oriented Private

At age eight you slipped out of the house during the full
moon to see if there really were any werewolves in the
woods behind the barn. Next morning Mom was relieved
and you were disappointed when she found you fast asleep
under the old oak tree. Her worried scolding fell on deaf
ears; both of you knew it wouldn't be the last time you went
looking for proof of the strange and unusual. Classmates are
fascinated with your exploits; that is, when you aren't too
shy to share them.
Your world before adulthood is filled with wizard tales,
Technicolor dreams, and a magic library card. By the time
96 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

they hand you your diploma, you have about, oh, a hundred
or so things you want to find, prove, and do. You've got the
makings of a professional student, shrewd politician, movie
mogul, or breakthrough scientist. Or the glamorous world
of film and fame could snag you. The wide range of your
interests and abilities creates an ever-expanding array of
choices.
Knowledge is power, and you can keep a secret, almost
for forever, to be divulged only after its power is gone.
Strangers and friends trust you. Many think they know you
better than they do, and that's okay, because you would
rather have it that way. Courtesy prevents you from being
publicly nosy, but you do like to "know," so develop
sources to keep up-to-date with the juicy jewels making the
rounds. You have a fascination with the unconventional and
a flare for piecing together bits of unrelated info.
Your insatiable thirst for knowledge puts you in quirky
places and circumstances that keep your batteries charged
up. Once in a while the situation turns sticky, but with your
mesmerizing patter, you emerge from the fracas a bit
bruised, but breathing. The experience has to be worth the
risk you took, at least in your eyes, and you do think things
through before starting out. Who knew the paparazzi would
be stalking a celebrity photo at the next table where you
were staging a reunion with an old lover? Even you don't
know everything.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Leave it to you to kick off a romance with a clandestine

candlelight picnic—a carefully planned impromptu feast
with a sumptuous selection of gourmet food and a heady
variety of wine. Alone at last, you prepare to dazzle your
intended. Fanning the sparks to flame while prolonging the
anticipation is one of your best skills. More than building a
relationship, you know how to make delicious memories.
Friendship has to exist before marriage can be considered.
And it isn't easy to find a person with the same sense of
humor who understands the perfectionist in you. In the out-
 Gemini 97

side world, you want a mate with the grace of royalty and
a movie star's glamour. In private, you delight in a quick
switch to scientific collaborator or tantalizing tempter as the
mood moves you.

Money and Career

Your voice sounds like money. No wonder—with your

education and stellar network of chums, doors open to you
at the hint of a knock. Though you understand power and
are frequently pushed into an authoritative role, you're just
as happy to earn a living doing lab reports or medical re-
search. There are times when you don't want to be the one
everyone else thinks can solve their problems, and other
times you know you're the one who can.
If you donate to charitable causes, it's a well-kept secret.
You do what you do quietly, and it's a respectable amount
if you think it's needed. To make money, you take advan-
tage of those connections, but once you think you have
enough for a while, you loosen the harness to get back to
painting watercolors. Selectively generous, but never care-
less with your money, you invest wisely with an eye to
tomorrow, when you hope to be writing a Broadway musical.

The ]I7 Potential

Your perception penetrates the thickest smoke screen to

cut right to the heart of a matter. Extensive observation has
made you an expert about the actions and reactions of your
fellow travelers on the planet. Good or bad, little surprises
you, which is why you believe so firmly in teaching others
the concept of logic and how to use it.
Leave room in your schedule to be spontaneous some-
times—it will do you good to spend a Tuesday afternoon at
the Museum of Natural History gawking at dinosaurs with
nephew Timmie. And don't ignore doubts and nagging nit-
picky problems lest they turn into huge scandals or invest-
ments gone bad. Let other folks gamble; you stick with
researched risks. And always use your imagination and intel-
lect for the power of good.
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FAMOUS GEMINI SEVENS

Marilyn Monroe 6/1/1926 President John F. Kennedy 5/29/1917
Dixie Carter 5/25/1939 Ilia Kulik 5/23/1977
Peggy Lee 5/26/1920 Barty Man How 6/17/1946

H • 8
Gemini Eisht

"Tlie Enleflaining Execulive"

K + 8 + H - 8
Versatile Professional Impractical Impersonal
Curious Ambitious Gossips Materialistic
Generous Authoritative Indecisive Workaholic
Articulate Global View

In or out of big business, you approach everything with

professional panache. Actor, judge, corporate tycoon, rancher,
parent, lover—once you accept the label, you turn full atten-
tion to living up to 100 percent. That's after many hours of
vacillating back and forth between the options before you
finally shout, "Okay, I can do this!" Then the enthusiasm
surfaces and no Web site is left unaccessed or resource un-
tapped in the search to collect enough data to ensure a blue-
ribbon performance.
So on Monday you agree to coordinate a benefit drive for
a homeless shelter, then on Tuesday you score the only two
tickets in the city to a Mariners baseball game for your son's
birthday, plus pick up the new flat monitor for your PC. A
justifiable expense since you work at home almost as much
as you do inside those blue cubicle walls on the third floor
downtown. Wednesday, who knows? An assignment in Chi-
cago? A late night dinner date?
To be truthful, only, say, three hundred days a year are
like this, but you love the variety and showing off your
versatility. The other sixty-five days you relax as only you
can—rafting the Colorado River or taking Mom to Paris. You
don't want to miss anything, and while you fully intend to
 Gemini 99

celebrate your ninetieth birthday you know you might not,

and everyone knows that hearses don't have luggage racks.
Though you grew up quickly, your youthful sense of
humor keeps you lively. VIPs and grocery clerks brighten
up when you zap out a zinger as you walk by. Add a sensu-
ous smile to the most innocent of phrases and you leave
them hoping you come back soon. You daydream about
wiggling out of the thick of things to set up housekeeping
in a wilderness cabin. Then reality sets in: the computer, the
VCR, the telephone! You're too technically dependent to
leave it all behind for more than a retreat—a blessing for
the rest of us; your cheerful smile would be missed.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Marriage is the biggest commitment of all, and though you

giggle and tease through the courtship stage, the enormity
of the walk down the aisle is always at the back of your
mind. The other bump that could trip you up in getting to
the church is the Workaholic You that vies for equal time
with the Amorous You, however sizzling the love spell
might be. When pillow talk turns to deals and deadlines
though, the right partner can take it in stride.
You would never marry for convention or convenience;
in the love department you are sentimental and faithful.
Sharing your life with someone is a scary concept, and un-
less you find the open-minded, forward-thinking sort with
an old-fashioned view of vows and such, you may never
take the plunge. That's only because you believe in forever,
and only because you want to say "I do" only once.

Money and Career

Delegating everything you can fulfills two purposes; you

shine as a capable executive and in the process help those
under your command stretch and grow. An intuitive judge
of character, you know just how much to push the group
you proudly call your staff, which is never so much as to
discourage them from ever reaching the finish line. You
learn as much from those who call you boss as you do from
the CEO.
100 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

Thinking about money gives you a headache. You know

when an idea is hot and admire those who can turn nickels
into gold bars. Not enough to sacrifice Lauren's ballet recital,
or a trip to England, but enough to at least turn five cents
to a hundred to score the bonuses you do and not lose any
sleep wondering how you could have turned it into more.
Appreciation is a must, and you will take a lower salary for
the chance to use your creative intellect and collect kudos
for doing so.

The H8 Potential

You might not always be able to make every lemon life

hands you into lemonade, but it's to your credit that you try
not only to turn it into lemonade but take it one step further
and turn the lemonade into profit. And we're not talking
only about hard cash here, but a benefit like a cloud's silver
lining. If there is one, you can find it and will use it.
Endeavor to move one mountain at a time and not over-
schedule the day. Trust others to honestly mean it when
they say, "I love you." And refrain from spouting off a glib
retort that can't be retrieved. People do believe what you
say. You have enough personal power to go where you
want and mix with an assortment of characters. The message
you bring to the party is "You're okay and I'm okay, so
let's dance!"

FAMOUS GEMINI EIGHTS

Stevie Nicks 5/23/1933 Sir Laurence Olivier 5/22/1907
Lea Thompson 5/31/1961 Joe Namath 5/31/1943
Naomi Campbell 5/22/1970 Igor Stravinsky 6/19/1882
 Gemini 101

H • 3

Gemini Nine

"The Effusive Explorer"

ir + 9 + n - 9
Gregarious Creative Restless Demanding
Open-minded Compassionate Superficial Careless
Versatile Impartial Indecisive Self-absorbed
Curious Entertaining

"And so," you tell the reservationist at the friendly skies

place, "That's N as in knickers and E as in Aesop." Yuk,
yuk. No, you don't try to be a smart-ass, but you do like to
stand out in the crowd, to be remembered with a smile.
Gemini Nines are performers, right? You're on almost every-
where you go, which is anywhere you please, whether up
behind theater footlights or not.
It isn't so much that you crave attention (well, maybe a
little), but you believe anything worth doing is worth doing
well, and deserves to be noticed. Oh yeah, and then there's
the do-whatever-feels-good part. Sure, it's a dangerous set
of rules to live by. Sure, sometimes you get your wrist
slapped, but you're adroit at recovery and clever at staging
a comeback. Or maybe this time you just move on. It de-
pends on how many promises you've made to people you
respect to stick around.
You and the effervescent character Auntie Mame have
much in common. Life is a banquet—so much to sample,
so much to enjoy, so much to learn, and an enormous
golden heart with compassion to spare. From artsy friends
to Buddhist priests, you have a penetrating question for ev-
eryone you meet. But should they need a place to sleep or
spiritual solace, you quickly switch roles and become the
teacher instead of the fun-loving student.
A staunch ally in the face of injustice, you stand by strang-
ers when they need to be guided over rough spots. You
could do nothing less for friends and family. When con-
fronted, you don't mince words, and because you continu-
ally add to your collection of facts, opponents find you
102 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

better armed than they expected. You can't make everything

right for everyone in the world, but many folks bless you
for giving it your best shot.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

One thing you aren't is the love-'em-and-leave-'em type.

Oh, you might talk that way when chatting with a cute
young thing at the comer club, but you wouldn't have even
struck up a conversation if you didn't think more than a
meaningful two hours together was possible. You're a
sucker for big blue eyes that promise depth and complexity,
and you don't stop looking for the pair that fulfills that
potential.
You are a very attractive person. With the vibes you send
out, you don't have to be drop-dead gorgeous to get phone
numbers shoved at you constantly. Once the novelty wears
off, you sit yourself down for a little talk. Yup, sex is impor-
tant, yup, brains count, yup, must be easy on the eyes, but
most important is unconditional love, innate understanding
of the human condition, and to always be willing to set
an extra place at the table for the parade of people you
bring home.

Money and Career

Minister, counselor, surgeon, novelist, or performer, you

don't usually find an office setting to be a happy environ-
ment for you. And you shy away from being a manager.
You've got your hands full getting your work done and
keeping your life together. You don't want to be contrac-
torily responsible for anyone else. But you do take responsi-
bility for any and everyone as the spirit moves you. You do
best as a professional on your own, or in charge of a func-
tion, rather than in charge of a group of people.
There are wide swings in your bank account. You make
enough to get by, and frequently can earn bonuses or free-
lance cash on the side. Money doesn't have much meaning
for you; it's a tool to finance adventures, buy books and
gadgets, feed the family, and help the needy. Your money
 Gemini 103

goals are to have enough to cover these expenses, but your

ability to make it is so much greater than that.

The H9 Potential

A quick hug, a casual comment that touches the heart,

and a word of hope are the gifts you readily give. And you
give them gladly because you know that this life isn't a free
ride. Disappointments can be devastating, but in the process
of working through your own pain, you emerge stronger
and more capable for the next time.
Cherish your privacy and don't expect your soul mate or
children to share you every day with everyone. Set aside
time to be alone for meditation as well as time for family.
You tend to lose yourself in the buzz of activities and assign-
ments and let your aura lose its healthy glow by taking on
too much. Slow down, kick back, and listen to music. As it
soothes your jangled nerves, let's hope the next critter to
pop up in need of affection is MacGregor, the kid's faithful
Scottie dog.

FAMOUS GEMINI NINES

Tar a Lipinski 6/10/1982 Richard Hatch 5/21/1945
Rosalind Russell 6/4/1907 Cole Porter 6/9/1893
Pam Grier 5/26/1949 Morgan Freeman 6/1/1937
 CANCER

• 1

Cancer Cne

"The Dillidenl Dynamo"

@ + 1 + 1-
Persistent Original Moody Willful
Understanding Individualistic Sullen Know-it-all
Plucky Gutsy Passive- Blustering
Intrepid Self-reliant aggressive

A Cancer One could never be the king crab in someone

else's salad! One way or another you'll claw your way to
the top, though you'd never use your pincers, except in self-
defense. Chances are you 11 be counted among the million-
aire ranks, but may not achieve success until later in life.
You must wrestle with your personal demons and need the
stabilizing influence of a home or family. Then you'll gladly
work all night or travel half the year on business, because
your goal is never to make money for its own sake, but
rather to feather the nest (and it's a tragic scene worthy of
the Greeks when the birdies fly the coot, uh, coop).
Yours is a tough shell for anyone to crack. That driving
logical One influence can't entirely tame those cardinal Can-
 Cancer 105

cer moods. You can be disarmingly open and sensitive one

moment, withdrawn and stormy the next. Your ego clashes
with your fundamental sweetness and need for approbation,
just as you yourself oscillate between justifiable pride in your
accomplishments and deep-rooted insecurity. Even those
closest to you find it difficult to reconcile these abrupt mood
swings. Of course, they're perfectly understandable from
your perspective; you can't help but pick up vibes and re-
spond instinctively. The surest way to inflame you is to call
you irrational; pushing that particular hot button could set
off nuclear detonation!
Cancer Ones of both sexes often suffer from outmoded
societal concepts of appropriate behavior. The men need an
outlet for their caring and sensitivity. The women require an
outlet for their assertiveness. Male or female, you can weep
copiously over a tear-jerking movie or a puppy caught in
the tree yet coolly order cutbacks in the company's best
interests, projecting a rare combination of empathy and
efficiency.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

The ultimate provider, you take enormous pride in caring

for your loved ones and anticipating their needs. You have
a tendency to feel you know what's best for them; very
often you're right, but they may not always see it that way.
You're a most satisfying "dater." The minute you get home
you'll note in your calendar the day you promised to call,
while the roses will arrive punctually each week. Your Can-
cerian side prefers tried-and-true methods of courtship but
the unconventional One influence encourages you to make
a fool of yourself with a spontaneous serenade of his or her
fifteenth-floor terrace if it helps you land your catch.
You'd be the first to admit you're not always easy to live
with, though. Sensitive to real or imagined criticism, you
sometimes feel misunderstood, primarily because you don't
make your feelings known and expect others to intuit them
magically. This can lead to unnecessary temper tantrums;
once the squall blows over, you become your sunny self,
and wonder why on earth everyone else is suddenly so
106 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

gloomy! The ardent glow in your eyes always says, "I'm

sorry" and "I love you."

Money and Career

Your exceptional understanding is a natural for the arts, es-

pecially writing and acting, which allows you to express the
powerful emotions you often keep under wraps. You'd func-
tion just as effectively behind the scenes, as a director, pro-
ducer, curator, or conductor, where you'd be in control. You
have an unerring instinct for both mass appeal and an oppo-
nent's jugular, and delight in bold, unexpected moves like a
grand master in chess. This suits you for the world of suits,
where you can forecast others' moves and act accordingly.
You know the value of a buck and don't mind paying for
quality; in fact, part of you is tempted to leave the price tag
on just in case your impeccable taste isn't readily apparent.
You know what you want in love, business, and shopping.
You have a knack for picking the perfect gift, for your boss,
best friend, mate, or kid; naturally they find it almost impos-
sible to buy anything for you. But you genuinely prefer giv-
ing to receiving, and anyway can winklingly hint about those
golf-club covers you covet.

The ®1 Potential

Once you've learned to control your Cancerian moods as

well as you do your business negotiations, the sky's the
limit. Although you could easily perform every task you set
for yourself, delegate responsibility and recognize that others
need both their space and a chance in the sun. You can
make the most caring leader. Be willing to express your
feelings more often. Believe it or not, people have much to
learn from your rainbow of emotions; you have the admira-
ble ability to integrate your masculine and feminine sides,
just as our shrinks have been advising us to do since Freud!

FAMOUS CANCER ONES

Tom Hanks 7/9/1956 Tom Cruise 7/3/1962
Ernest Hemingway 7/21/1899 Josephine Bonaparte 6/23/1763
Delia Reese 7/6/1932 Kristi Yamaguchi 7/12/1971
 Cancer 107

® • 2

Cancer Twc

"Itie Conscientious Counselor"

@ + 2 + 2
Sustaining Supportive Brooding Dependent
Emotional Considerate Insecure Self-conscious
Intuitive Cooperative Over- Timid
Gentle Tactful impressionable

Wonderfully sensitive and insightful, a Cancer Two can read

others like a book, and read between the lines, too! With
your genuine empathy, your heart goes out even to the most
heartless criminal. Your faith in humankind is such that, de-
spite any evidence to the contrary, you could make even
Jim Jones come off like Joan of Arc when you've concluded
your spirited defense. You certainly know your own limits,
your feelings having been forged in hot steel. You firmly
believe that everything, no matter how painful, is a learning
experience, though you sometimes wonder if we ever re-
ceive our diplomas! You could easily join the John Gray/
Marianne Williamson lecture circuit to discuss the maturation
process and coming to terms with the emotional legacy of
all our relationships.
It's ironic for a home-loving Cancer and ultra-shy Two,
but it's imperative that you assert your independence and
inviduality at an early age. You may have had an idyllic
upbringing, yet you never forget a slight; the harsh word,
carelessly said in a moment of anger, is emblazoned on your
memory. You sometimes feel as though your life were one
long cinematic flashback; present events often evoke inci-
dents from the past. Very often we repeat patterns learned
from our parents. Though you're occasionally timid, your
confidence will soar when you break free of that early con-
ditioning. You're such a psychic sponge and emotional cha-
meleon, intuiting what others need, that your hardest lesson
is divorcing yourself form situations and putting yourself
first.
You have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, not nec-
108 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

essarily from books but from people. You hunger to make

sense of this mess we've made and understand why we
behave as we do; you turn that same laser penetration on
your own actions. Your unfailing optimism and refusal to
quit cause you to endure near-impossible situations, but
you're determined to unravel the enigma called humanity,
then publish your discovery to the universe.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You're sometimes in danger of not showing your potent

emotions, as if you fear overwhelming both yourself and
your partner. Many would never suspect how fragile your
feelings and how easily frayed your nerves can be. This can
lead to passive-aggressiveness and manipulation, because
you loathe confrontation. Your pride and reserve won't
allow you to call someone after the first date, yet you won-
der why he or she doesn't call you. But after a week's sus-
pense, your curiosity and longing win out and you leave a
message, a plaintive, slightly incriminating note in your
voice. The call isn't returned immediately, so you call again,
aggrieved. Turns out they were in Kalamazoo on business
for the week and you end up apologizing profusely.
The moral: Don't let your overactive imagination run away
with you, and never sell yourself short. You'll find someone
just as caring and thoughtful as you who will reciprocate
your deep feelings. You have a tendency to cling to relation-
ships that have outlived their usefulness or even those you
find unsatisfactory, for fear the next one might prove worse.
You take others' guff, even when your common sense tells
you you're being victimized. Avoid using relationships as a
cocoon to protect you from life's harshness. Don't let people
walk all over you; at least hold out for someone who realizes
you're a Persian carpet, not a doormat!

Money and Career

You're passionately concerned with justice and reform;

you feel you were meant to be an agent for lasting social
change through your arbitrating skills. Your natural empathy
enables you to reach people on a gut emotional level. You
 Cancer 109

might be a consumer advocate, writer, public defender, or

psychologist. You're impatient with bureaucracy and red
tape, yet you have the patience to work to change the sys-
tem from within. Your kind, tolerant nature and enthusiasm
to get the job done make you a superb motivator; though
you fear leadership, feeling unworthy, you often end up in
positions of authority, especially behind the scenes, which
you prefer since it keeps you out of the spotlight. You can
be a tightwad, since you equate financial and emotional se-
curity. But you'll loosen up and loosen the money belt as
you mature and gain confidence.

The @2 Potential

Learn not to take every little detail personally, not to be

everyone's savior or play the martyr for a cause. It's not your
responsibility to save the planet, though you understand its
problems better than most. You have the power and percep-
tiveness to enlighten the world; don't waste your precious
energy on people who cant appreciate you. True, you're
here to nurture others, but you must focus on your needs,
letting the people you care about work through their own
problems without your profound insight.

FAMOUS CANCER TWOS

Kevin Bacon 7/8/1958 John Glenn 7/18/1921
Gustav Mahler 7/7/1860 David Brinkley 7/10/1920
Kris Kristqfferson 6/22/1936 Sidney Lumet 6/25/1924
Rose Kennedy 7/22/1890 Marc Chagall 7/7/1887
Edmund Hillary 7/20/1919
Amy Vanderbilt 7/20/1908
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® • 3

Cancer Three
"The Inluilive Oplinisl"

& + 3 + @- 3
Kind Visionary Touchy Self-interested
Well-intentioned Imaginative Defensive Chaotic
Instinctive Talented Nervous Gossipy
Perceptive Romantic

A Cancer Three sees the humor in little everyday things,

turning Fido the Pomeranian chasing Fluffy the Persian into
a real-life Looney Tunes cartoon. Deliciously witty, you ef-
fortlessly volley one-liners on the internet with the adroit-
ness of Andre Agassi at the net. You view your life as a
gothic romance novel, albeit the contemporary versions
where the heroine is a capable CEO of a multinational con-
glomerate too busy for love until an Italian count who owns
a vineyard empire and half of Venice changes the flat tire on
her Maserati. You adore all those tempting foreign phrases,
seeking a melange of Vamove, la dolce vita, and la vie bo-
heme (though you'd limit starving in a garret for your art to
a six-month trial period).
Part of you senses you weren't meant for this world. You
feel like a walking anachronism: where are the good old
days? you might grouse, wishing you were off shooting
grouse and partridge at an elegant hunting party. Well, make
that a photographic safari, since you couldn't bear to hurt
another living creature. (You eat lobster, sure, you just won't
pop it into the pot.) You long to live in another time, per-
haps of the harpsichord and minuet, or the Charleston and
bathtub gin. With such escapist fantasies, any era but the
present seems more glamorous.
You're just as sensitive and affectionate as other Cancers,
albeit with a greater tendency to skim the surface of waters,
rather than explore the depths. You howl at the moon while
skinny-dipping: where do you think we got the word luna-
tic from anyway? You're quite chatty, occasionally catty,
even bark when you're "in a zone," but never intentionally
 Cancer 111

hurt someone's feelings. If you do, he or she will receive a

handwritten note of apology in your most flowery calligra-
phy and a flamboyant floral topiary.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Romance? Yes, please. Keep those scented candles, bub-

ble baths, champagne picnics, and long-stemmed roses com-
ing. You send thank-you notes after a night at the opera,
call punctually, hold doors open (yes, you gals, too): as
attentive and ardent a suitor as anyone could wish. Of
course, just when the full moon backlights your sweetie per-
fectly, you propose ... a midnight taco run. But guess
what's stuffed into the ground meat? So your intended
breaks a filling, then choked on the ring. You perform the
Heimlich with a neck nuzzle and muffled giggle.
You'll want oodles of kanoodling, which will lead to oo-
dles of kids. What a grand parent and grandparent you are;
an overgrown kid yourself in many ways, you know just
when to giggle and just when to give them a poker face
that sends them into fits of screaming laughter. And you
spoil them rotten, although sometimes your guilt impels you
to lecture them on saving their allowance. "Practice what
you preach" is the inevitable saucy retort.

Money and Career

Whatever you do, you establish an utterly unique style.

Your gentle humor, sympathetic nature, and sheer enjoy-
ment of life prime you for many careers. You mine daily life
and domesticity for chuckles, whether dallying at the water
cooler discussing your co-worker's steamy soap-opera tra-
vails, or writing about them. Your Cancerian sharp eye for
detail and the Three's sharp ear for dialogue make you a
wondrous screenwriter, comedian, actor, and advice or gos-
sip columnist. But you'd excel in any of the arts thanks to
your trailblazing originality. You're extremely mediagenic,
radiating just the right mix of pizzazz and accessibility, with
killer timing on your punch lines.
Unlike other Cancers, it's sometimes more important for
you to play the dashing wolf, rather than keep the wolf from
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your door. Three extravagance overwhelms your Cancerian

thrift; both endow you with such exquisite, expensive taste
you'd need an Ivy League-sized endowment to purchase
everything that catches your eye. You're prudent and shop
around for bargains first, then spend spend spend anyway
when you feel you deserve it. Your mate had better do the
coupon cutting; it strikes you as a tad cheap.

The @3 Potential

You're a luscious loon; even the rare Cancer Three cur-

mudgeon will be lovable. Everyone thinks you're just a little
bit crazy, but you're here to point out the absurd little de-
tails; the world would be a far duller place without Cancer
Threes. Besides, your cockeyed perspective keeps you
youthful and alive when others are counting the days toward
retirement. In fact, you're so indefatigable and bursting the
damn with a flood of creative ideas that you won't stop
working; even on your deathbed you'll be dictating the latest
installment of your memoirs, getting irascible when the ste-
nographer can't keep up with your inexhaustible flow of
anecdotes.

FAMOUS CANCER THREES

Bill Cosby 7/12/1937 Neil Simon 7/4/1927
Abigail Van Buren 7/4/1918 Ann Landers 7/4/1918
Joe Torre 7/18/1940 Louie Armstrong 7/4/1900

@ • 4

Cancer Fcur

"The Genlle General"

@ + 4 + 0. 4
Conservative Persistent Miserly Resentful
Solid Loyal Unforgiving Disorganized
Comforting Thorough Pushy Overcommitted
Contented Enterprising
 Cancer 113

You're the true salt of the earth, though you sometimes think
the entire planet is on a sodium-free diet. You toil so unceas-
ingly for people, and it seems as if they take your efforts
for granted. Everyone views you as the dependable Rock of
Gibraltar; inwardly you do feel the waves lapping and erod-
ing your strength. You grumble to yourself how lost they'd
be without you to hold everything together. Wouldn't it be
fun to leave a note on the fridge saying you've run off with
that drop-dead new neighbor, or an E-mail for the boss
saying you've absconded with the payroll to Rio? Sure, the
aggrieved Cancerian may daydream, but the conscientious
Four will always be there to put bread on the table and
butter it, too.
To feel happy and secure, you need the rent paid in ad-
vance, the larder fully stocked, and the college fund set up
the moment of conception. No Mother Hubbard, you,
though in a pinch you can darn the socks, grout the bath-
room floor, and placate the plumber for another week.
Indeed, working with your hands relaxes you after a stress-
filled day. Your idea of a good evening is a yoga class,
puttering around, spackling, gardening, alphabetizing the
CDs, and painting wonderfully detailed miniatures.
Four translates the Cancer dreams into reality; though you
enjoy playing traditional roles, part of you wants to strut
your stuff on a larger stage or run away to join the circus.
Chances are you won't, but your rebellious streak manifests
itself in the choice of an unconventional mate or a tattoo
emblazoned on a body part only your honey can see. You're
not nearly as meek as you appear; you'll slug it out in the
trenches for a cause or a loved one.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Settling down helps focus you, since you have other

mouths to feed. Though you project the serenity of a Renais-
sance Madonna, you have some pretty turbulent emotions;
you're touchy-feely and can get touchy if your spouse isn't
into a little huggin'. Physically and emotionally expressive,
you have an endearing directness; you make eye contact
and often touch someone's arm to make your point. You
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trick your baby cakes into a hammer hold and liplock; giving
a total stranger artificial respiration is probably a secret
fantasy.
When you're comfortable, you exhibit an (expletive-deleted)
earthy humor and a racy side that people wouldn't expect
from your demure first impression. You're wild and woolly
beneath that dyed-in-the-wool exterior, and others soon dis-
cover that you're no starched stuffed shirt. But only your
mate knows how wanton you can be in your own bedroom,
with lots of role-playing, role reversals, and reversals of
position!

Money and Career

People rave about your inimitable sense of structure;

you're a groundbreaking architect, landscaper, or urban
planner. A skilled office manager, you employ a deft combi-
nation of receptiveness and firmness with your employees.
You know just how to marshal the forces to get the job
done in time. Helping others to "get it right" and "make it
work" is your mantra. Your natural fludity and grace also
suggest dancing or athletics; the old-fashioned part of you
might want to take up a sport like fencing, though tennis
appeals more to your capitalist nature and your love of ele-
gant movement.
You're quite practical about finances.You invest wisely for
maximum return, doing your homework before listening to
E.F.Hutton's minions. You can haggle like a bazaar vendor.
You like the high life but at a low cost, and somehow man-
age to snatch a penthouse at a bargain-basement price. No-
body better mess with you at a Neiman-Marcus sale!

The 04 Potential

You have a lusty, straightforward approach toward life

that wins friends and influences people. Even if you rocket
to the top you remain "just one of the guys," visiting your
old haunts, dishing the dirt with your high school buddies.
You're enormously reliable; as they say in the film industry,
you "get it right in the first take." True, people come to
expect this of you and you can feel underappreciated. But
 Cancer 115

remember you're the glue that holds so many things to-

gether, and you'd never let your nearest and dearest fall
apart.

FAMOUS CANCER FOURS

Chris O'Donnell 6/26/1970 Pamela Anderson 7/1/1967
P.T. Bamum 7/5/1810 Henry VIII 6/28/1491
Barbara Stanwyck 7/16/1907 Leslie Caron 7/1/1931

Cancer five

"The Hopping Homebody"

@ + 5 + ®- 5 -
Self-aware Adventurous Snappish Dissatisfied
Alert Quick-witted Hypocritical Temperamental
Curious Outgoing Self-indulgent Reckless
Emotional Free-spirited

You may cultivate a Goody Two-shoes appearance, but

there are some bloodred spiked stilettos lurking in your
closet. From high heels to hiking boots, your moods are far-
ranging and fluid. Cancer Fives love hearth and home, but
you also have an exploratory side. Think of the hermit crab,
forever casting off its shell in search of a newer, better one.
You're one crab who loves scuttling out from your little hole
in the sand, especially if it seems like your carefully hatched
plans are about to be scuttled.
The combination of restlessness and reliability in your na-
ture is much like the tides; even your moods are predictable.
Unlike many Cancers, you resist being tied down, requiring
both the freedom to pursue avenues of self-expression and
a home base from which to operate. That home will be both
a showplace and a workplace, with an eclectic collection of
souvenirs from your extensive travels, from Balinese fertility
idols to Banbara war masks, and the library of research ma-
terials you gathered before the trip.
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You'll never stop absorbing as much information as you

can, avid for both book knowledge and life experience that
you can share with others. And you always return from your
latest exotic holiday with baubles and bubbly tidbits of infor-
mation for your entire crowd. Exhibit A: the shrunken head
from Papua New Guinea. Exhibit B: a detailed discourse on
the headhunter table etiquette and how they only eat those
victims they deem brave in battle, believing they'll then pos-
sess their spirits.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You're not one to settle for mere bed and "bored" when
you marry. You seek a fellow traveler, geographically and
spiritually. You like writing your observations down in a
journal when you go exploring on either level but would
just as soon turn someone on the arm, whispering, wide-
eyed and excited as a kid, "Look at that" You love sharing
experiences, but are just as content exchanging anecdotes
at the end of the day. You have an insatiable need to
communicate every thought and feeling as it occurs; your
partner must be equally animate, articulate, and emotion-
ally forthcoming.
The curious Five influence softens your Cancerian shell;
rarely reserved, you want to talk things out if there's a prob-
lem and welcome constructive criticism. You've probably
read every book on intimacy there is, but you respect your
mate's privacy and don't take offense if conversation is ta-
bled for another night. You'll find ways to reinvigorate a
stagnant relationship. Maybe an impromptu trip to watch
leatherback turtles nest on a secluded Caribbean isle. Or
take sex with your partner outside the bedroom (well,
maybe just the kitchen while whipping up a souffle). And
if worst comes to worst, wouldn't it be a gas telling your
friends what couples therapy is really like?

Money and Career

You're expert at creating ideas as a Five, while your Can-

cerian sympathy ensures that even the dreariest droid under
your care will feel he or she has made an invalauble contri-
 Cancer 117

bution to the team. This makes you a powerful motivator;

you're often put in charge of a department and allowed to
run it as you please since you always get results. This also
enables you to triumph as a producer or director, while your
inaiitiveness and liveliness form a natural performer.
Whatever you do, you prefer to be in front of the house,
schmoozing with the clients. Obviously you find anything
that expands your scope of knowledge and brings you in
touch with other cultures enormously inviting. Ethnobotany,
hotel management, restaurateur or caterer, cultural anthro-
pology, public relations, advertising, teaching, and travel and
tourism are just a few excellent job opportunities; besides,
that way your trips would be free, expensed, or at least
tax-deductible!

The @5 Potential

You possess a winning, winsome appeal and accessibility,

adept at both superficial chitchat and deep thought. Relating
well to people is imperative to your well-being; you're un-
happy in situations where you can't find some common
ground or connection. "People person" is such a cliche, but
that's what you are; you take the time and effort to get to
know people, making them feel special by remembering the
little things, like a child's birthday or a book they casually
mentioned interest in, and they appreciate it.

FAMOUS CANCER FIVES

Liv Tyler 7/1/1977 Carly Simon 6/25/1945
Helen Keller 6/27/1880 Hermann Hesse 7/2/1877
Jerry Herman 7/10/1932 Donald Sutherland 7/17/1934
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@ • 13

Cancer Six

"The Happy Honenaker"

0 + ©- 6
Tender Domestic Overprotective Domineering
Sentimental Loving Cranky Smothering
Giving Dutiful Stifling Self-sacrificing
Solicitous Reliable

To you the entire world is a stray waiting to be taken in.

Even Cancer Six men are homemakers, humming happily as
they empty the cat litter or cook the cassoulet. Everyone
comes to you for homespun advice, which you dispense
readily, along with homemade chicken soup. (A Cancer Six
probably first said chicken soup was a cure-all.) You also
offer unsolicited advice and take it personally when the
mailman doesn't heed it. Mother Nurture, that's you; waving
your pincers at anyone who gets in your way when you
have loved ones to feed, caress, and protect.
You need a family on whom to lavish your considerable
love; even if you're gay, you'll likely adopt. No matter what
your gender, fussing like a mother hen is mother's milk to
you. Clinging and clucking are your ways of controlling peo-
ple; you can be as virtuosic as the stereotypical Jewish
mother at subtly inducing guilt. But that guilt runs both ways
and runs deep. If you snap at someone, however justified,
you'll agonize over it long after your "victim" has forgotten.
You boast a photograhic memory for special occasions and
dote on throwing surprise parties.
You have to be involved at all costs, feeling shut out when
your loved ones have their own lives. Whatever road you
take together, you're the backseat driver. But that craving
for constant reassurance can drive away even the people
who love you most. Kind words make you crabs happy as
the proverbial clam, while offhand criticism makes you clam
up. Love and respect yourself; only when we proudly assert
our inividuality we can truly merge with another. Then your
mate will experience your love not as limiting but liberating,
 Cancer 119

and you'll make the best partner of all: firm yet giving and
always extremely devoted.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You mate for life, being "a truly, madly, deeply" type
whose love never wavers. Ironically fearful of rejection, you
often don't make a move, your intended never intuits your
interest, and your emotions become so overwhelming that
you have to repress them. Generally your angelic air attracts
more aggressive types who'll never admit how much they
want to be wanted. Should you misjudge your first partner,
a fairly frequent occurrence because you're so trusting and
so desirous of a stable home, your second marriage will
work because you're wiser, having learned not to confuse
sympathy for love. You can drive the poor darlings crazy
with your insistance on accounting for every moment spent
out of your sight. You're not jealous, you just long to share
every intimate detail.
Your love can be overwhelming; you should have kids
and a full menagerie of pets to share in the bounty. The
kids may squirm when they get older; don't you know that
kissing isn't cool in front of the other dudes and dudettes?
You'd deny them a driver's license if you could, but you
deny them little else. Try not to spoil the little monsters or
go to the opposite extreme and ground them for every
candy bar they buy with the milk money. Yes, it's okay to
make them floss.

Money and Career

You genuinely enjoy cooking, cleaning, gardening, any-

thing to do with the home; it helps you relieve stress. You'd
thrive in any job that involves caring, helping, or providing
for others. Chef, realtor, healer, doctor, nurse, masseur,
physical therapist, dietician, teacher, and social worker cer-
tainly lead the list. Contact is vital; you could work from
home if you have that brood to brood about, but otherwise
you like interaction, the more hands-on the better.
Your closets probably overflow with boxes of love letters,
term papers, beaten-up sneakers, and a series of your mag-
120 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

nificent obsessions, from Broadway original-cast albums to

dainty dolphins. Your home will be comfy, lived in, its look,
if not traditional, then retro. Classic, kitschy fifties design
appeals to you, like Formica counters, soda-shop barstools,
chairs that morph with the shape of whoever sits there, and
wonderfully abstract vases (especially in soft seashell colors).

The 06 Potential

You have remarkable strength of purpose and belief in

others, if not always yourself. The ultimate homebody, you
offer the milk and cookies of human kindness to the world.
But you must remember that not everyone can live up to
your expectations. Even at your most Cancerian clinging vin-
ish, you grow on people, becoming inextricably bound up
in their problems. You need to distance yourself from others,
recognizing that only they can deal with their issues and you
can't force them to grow up. Allow others to mother you in
return; this creates an equal relationship and helps your partner
feel more important.

FAMOUS CANCER SIXES

Sylvester Stallone 7/6/1946 Meryl Streep 6/22/1949
Linda Ronstadt 7/15/1946 George Steinbrenner 7/4/1930
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 7/8/1926 Bill Blass 6/22/1922
Oscar Hammerstein II 7/12/1895 Nathaniel Hawthorne 7/4/1804
Buckminster Fuller 7/12/1895 Abner Doubleday 6/26/1819
Duke of Windsor 6/23/1894 Nelson A. Rockefeller 7/8/1908
 Cancer 121

@ • 7

Cancer Seven
"The Adorable Academic"

@ + 7 + 7 -
Insightful Psychic Withdrawn Caustic
Feeling Observant Resistant Secretive
Protective Poised Shy Dogmatic
Ihoughtful Scholarly

A haunting dichotomy is at work in the Cancer Seven. Can-

cers desperately long to be understood fully; Sevens require
their privacy and let only a select few inside. Since Cancers
are not emotionally forthcoming by nature and can play the
crabby hermit themselves, you often have difficulty express-
ing your deep wells of feeling. Even if you come from an
enormous, loud, boisterous family, you somehow come
across as an only child. You're forever searching for that
elusive soul mate, not cellmate.
You require long periods of uninterrupted introspection
to reflect and recharge your batteries. You find solace in
your solitude; when you want to disappear you can make
like Jimmy Hoffa. Friends might tease you with a Genius at
Work sign, but you stare at them with maddeningly inscruta-
ble calm. You need these emotional retreats, and those who
love you come to accept that they're as natural and unstop-
pable as gravity.
Though you like the anonymity of the crowd, you might
be slightly claustrophobic: no subway rush hour for you,
thanks. You carry yourself with an innate dignity and impen-
etrable yet charming reserve that always command attention,
even at a crowded July Fourth barbecue. You appear utterly
innocent and unassuming until people get to know you.
Then they shiver with the accuracy of your acumen. That
sharp intuition trained on others can make them uncomfort-
able: the emotional equivalent of X-ray vision.
You understand better than most the concept of the de-
fense mechanism. You recognize we're all locked up in
brooding castles, replete with machicolated battlements and
122 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

moats filled with snapping crocodiles. And for what? To hide

the one thing that we arguably all have in common: our
shameful vulnerability and longing. It takes a great effort for
you to lower the drawbridge, but you hope for the best,
understanding that it opens you up to a great deal of pain,
but also much love.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Traditional monogamy is your shining ideal, yet if your

mate doesn't seem attuned, you can drift into an affair, hun-
gry for that true connection. As comfortable as you are in
your seclusion, you're deeply lonely unless you make the
effort to reach out to others. You possess an abstract sweet-
ness, absentmindedly petting your honey's head as you read
the editorial section. You're a gentle, solicitous mate, as long
as you're permitted your private moments and no one asks
you to reveal your psychic journeys. Your sex drive is pow-
erful but erratic; when you want it, you need it, and you
lose yourself completely in the act. But then you always
float off ethereally when the mood strikes. You can become
so immersed in your projects that you temporarily forget
your family, or disappear even at home, lost in thought.
Make yourself as available as possible to your mate, chil-
dren, and friends.

Money and Career

Your greatest success comes through accessing the inner

child in us all. Acting, singing, directing, producing, and
writing are among your potent outlets. You prefer to be left
to your own devices in the corporate world, and might well
contract to work part-time at home. Indeed, you're not com-
fortable until you've purchased your own home; you need
that retreat, remember. Associates sometimes underestimate
you because of your apparent complaisance, but underneath
you're really a tiger; you dream, after all, and dream big. As
a result, you can stir up more intrigue behind the scenes
than Letterman and Leno clawing over The Tonight Show.
You can be manipulative to achieve your ends and have a
sense of occasion and rise to one every time. Try not to
 Cancer 123

become too obsessed with the combo of intellectual attain-

ment and worldly success.

The 07 Potential

You're an unusual, touching mix of innocent child and

sophisticated adult. Your otherworldliness is confusing but
mighty attractive. It confuses you as well, since you have a
down-to-earth, even ribald side. Try not to overanalyze your
flowing mood shifts and don't give in to them if they
threaten to hurt you or those you love. There's nothing
wrong with drifting off into another plane, and no one has
the right to intrude, but remember that others can feel left
out or left behind. Your bottomless emotions and penetrat-
ing intellect can glow like a beacon that illuminates our un-
derstanding of childhood past and future maturity.

FAMOUS CANCER SEVENS

Princess Diana 7/1/1961 Patrick Stewart 7/13/1940
Beatrix Potter 7/6/1866 Dan Aykroyd 7/1/1952
Arthur Ashe 7/10/1943 Olivia De Havilland 7/1/1916

§9 • 8

Cancer Eight

"The Determined Delegator"

0 + 8+ 8
Nurturing Just Possessive Materialistic
Tenacious Ambitious Diffident Impersonal
Creative Professional Hypersensitive Workaholic
Sympathetic Global View

Mastery of the self is your greatest challenge: You're so sen-

sitive and objective that you might terrify and terrorize your-
self until you learn to harness your energy! You have a
mission, a vision, and a keen sense of your power, ambition,
and charisma; yet because your passions are so strong, you
124 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

often fear you'll use that magnetism for selfish gain, whether
emotionally or materially.
Okay, you're intimately acquainted with your power-
hungry, manipulative, controlling side. Combining Can-
cerian insight with the Eight's grasp of the big picture en-
dows you with extrordinary entrepreneurial skills. You'll
probably work long hours, even neglecting to call to say
you'll be late for dinner. But you'll probably atone by show-
ing up with petits four from the nearest five-star French res-
taurant. Cancer softens the occasionally no-nonsense Eight
facade, while Eight gives Cancer greater resiliency and a
more balanced emotional perspective.
You cut an imposing figure; people just know you make
a devoted friend and an implacable enemy. You should
allow others to see the real you more often—the soft touch,
the sucker for a sob story. You often fear others will take
advantage of that gentler side, or take it for granted. But it
can get lonely in that huge boardroom with the "big picture"
windows. You're a perceptive judge of character: use it to
draw the right people into your life.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Love with a Cancer Eight is a high-voltage high-wire act.

Cancers are so sensitive they're the human tuning forks of
the zodiac; combined with the Eight's magnetic allure, you
might come on stronger than you realize. You know you're
not as forbidding as you look, though you bark orders like
a marine captain and tyrannize waiters when the filet isn't
cooked to your exact specification. Between the shy Cancer
and businesslike Eight, it could take prospective lovers a
while to know where they really stand. Trusting is a difficult
proposition for you control freaks. Nonetheless, there are
times when you throw caution to the winds and pursue the
object of your attention with hurricane force. As much as
your Cancerian side loves courtship (and an engagement of
Victorian-era length), the Eight itches to sign the marital con-
tract and get back to work.
Initially cool, you heat up fast once the spreadsheets give
way to the bedsheets. You sometimes dominate your lovers,
 Cancer 125

but part of you wouldn't mind turning the tables. In fact,

you need an equally strong partner. Just keep the control
games in the office. Well, okay, a little amorous wrestling—
"you pin me and I'll cook dinner, honey"—can spice up
your sex life.

Money and Career

You combine Cancerian sensitivity to others with the

Eight's savvy. Both excel at marketing and promotions; to-
gether they're irresistible with a pitch. Trust your hunches;
you have an uncanny ability to predict trends, taking short-
and long-term objectives into (bank) account.
Your masterful air and genuine empathy allow you to be-
come a successful politician. That passionate concern about
justice and the ability to see issues from all sides make you
a fine lawyer, even judge. You'd function best as a CEO,
preferably of a vast multinational conglomerate, or in some
self-employed activity. Creative thinking is critical to your
well-being. Although you'll slave for hours ensuring every
last detail is right, avoid positions that entail mere grunt
work.
Don't be stingy with credit due or a credit line, otherwise
your success could rebound on you. Fortunately your cau-
tious, conservative Cancer side should ensure you have
some tidy sum squirreled away in a Swiss bank account.

The 08 Potential

If anything, you have a fear of SUCCESS. You can focus

others' lives for them. Why not train your almost superhu-
man intuition on yourself—and lighten up? You can leave
work at the office, and trust that your motives for getting
ahead are actually purer than you think. You want money
not for its own sake, but for the power it affords, the ability
to live without restraints. Broad-minded, with penetrating
insight into the world's internal workings, your overdevel-
oped responsibility to humanity often makes you feel you
must be judge, jury, and executioner rolled into one.
Couldn't it be that you simply want to provide for the people
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you love and contribute something of lasting value to

humanity?

FAMOUS CANCER EIGHTS

Nancy Reagan 7/06/1921 George Washington Carver 7/12/1861
Mary Baker Eddy 7/16/1821 Bob Dole 7/22/1923
Estee Lander 7/1/1908 Anthony Edwards 7/16/1962

@ • 9

Cancer Nine

"The Piagnatic Peilornei"

® + 9 +
Receptive Philanthropic Self-pitying Self-absorbed
Artistic Spiritual Reticent Changeable
Compassionate Magnetic Self-destructive Morose
Sincere Compassionate

You have what in the twenties used to be called "It": good

old-fashioned sex appeal combined with a seeming accessi-
bility, an approachable fantasy figure. Your own imagination
knows no bounds; you have a special genius for seeing the
world a little askew. You can almost read others' minds and
have a direct wavelength to their hearts. You know how to
appeal to people's emotions, whether one on one or on the
global stage. And are you ever funny: Whether through wry,
dry wit or manic motor-mouth mobility, you keep your audi-
ence in stitches—even if only one person forms your audi-
ence—which is part of your ineffable magnetism.
Despite the Nine penchant for performing, your Cancerian
side needs a retreat from the harsh glare of the spotlight to
reenergize. The paradox is that you crave the trappings but
not the trap of celebrity. You require a tremendous amount
of recognition for your efforts. But you want to lead a "nor-
mal" life. Finicky and claustrophobic, sometimes you can't
bear the crush of those adoring fans. To relax, every so often
you take the phone off the hook and become obsessed with
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tidying and tying up loose ends. Time to clean out those

closets and donate half your wardrobe to a homeless shelter,
weed the garden and plant a row of dogwoods, catch up
on your business correspondence (especially all those kind
but firm rejections of your time).
You tend to be an extremist; either you're a wild child or
you're the tranquil communing-with-nature sort. Either way,
there's always a stable or untamed component to your per-
sonality that emerges unexpectedly. Often the Cancer Nine
"crazies" make superlative parents, while the Cancer Nine
good citizens take off to howl at the full moon while moon-
ing a caravan of RVs.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You're both an artist and artisan of love. You court some-

one with all the little attentions, the filigree work, the appli-
que, the ormolu: the little embellishments that make dating
you stand out. Marriage is a safe haven from the crazy world.
For all your generosity and compassion, you sometimes re-
quire constant attention. If you're wise—and you are—you'll
choose a partner who steadfastly refuses to treat you like a
child and give in to every whim. And no temper tantrum,
bawling fit, or your best offensive weapon, your inhuman
charm, should be tolerated! You're a delectable sensualist
in bed, verbally and physically teasing, murmuring sweet
everythings and making your lover giggle in surprise and
anticipation of your next move. If you have kids, you'll be
a devoted parent, ensuring that you reserve "quality time"
for them and imbuing them with your own gift for laughter.

Money and Career

You're a seeming paradox: an idealist and an opportunist.

You'd rather wait tables and dig ditches than adopt a career
that doesn't make you happy. Whatever you do, you need
to feel you're an integral part of the creative process. You
like starting from the ground floor of a new enterprise, be-
coming inextricably bound with its growth. And given any
role in the decision making, you'll ensure the venture suc-
ceeds. On the creative side, a Cancer Nine's work might be
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coolly rational, yet invariably has a visceral emotional ap-

peal, packing an emotional and financial wallop, tugging at
both the heartstrings and the purse strings. Your work is
never boring; you'll sing, act, and dance your guts out.
A performer with this aspect is more likely to do some-
thing he or she feels is gainful and enriching if the gigs
aren't there. Like fellow Cancer Nine, Harrison Ford, you'd
much rather be a carpenter than do underwear commercials;
it's more soul-satisfying and at least you know you're build-
ing something of use. You probably write half your own
dialogue, not because you're into power plays but because
you go straight to the heart of a role and inhabit the charac-
ter. You're the type to research a down-at-heels drunk on a
bender on Skid Row or gain fifty pounds if the role demands
it. This knockout combo of old-fashioned star power and
character-actor versatility keeps you in great demand.

The 09 Potential

You're an amazing, baffling, charismatic personality; peo-

ple are genuinely starstruck by your powerhouse presence.
But you don't buy in to the star trip, rarely putting on airs.
Sure, you have an ego, but you're just an entertainer. What-
ever your role in life, that's your refreshingly plain attitude:
make people laugh and help them get in touch with their
inner selves. The only caution is not to use and abuse that
dynamic presence for your own selfish purposes; you really
do hold sway over others. Use that power benevolently.

FAMOUS CANCER NINES

Robin Williams 7/21/1952 Courtney Love 7/9/1964
John Cusack 6/26/1966 Barbara Cartland 7/9/1901
John D. Rockefeller 7/8/1839 Lena Home 6/30/1917
 I_C€

• 1
I e< Cne

"Itie Misunderstood Monarcli"

n + 1 + Q 1 -
Generous Innovative Conceited Dictatorial
Passionate Independent Arrogant Boastful
Noble Bold Status-seeking Impulsive
Dynamic Original

You have enough pride for a pride of lions, but for a true
King and Queen of Beasts, there's nothing beastly about
your behavior. Granted, you do regard the world as your
private playpen to stride through at will; you can't help but
ignore those maddening No Trespassing signs. Nothing
daunts you; you welcome all challenges and comers. If you
can't conquer the world, you'd happily invent one, since
you're also the world's great dramatist. You, of course, act
all the parts.
You're not shy about trumpeting your abilities, yet you'll
blow others' horns, too; you delight in encouraging others
to live up to their potential (privately giving yourself credit).
A natural take charge leader, your favorite roles are teacher
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and mentor. As far as you're concerned, there's little you

can learn from others that you couldn't teach yourself. And
if something arouses your curiosity, you study it intently
until you've mastered the subject.
Even in kindergarten, you were calling meetings during
recess. You'd have killed to be hall monitor in grammar
school, the ultimate authority figure, but were savvy enough
to realize it would make you unpopular; you were probably
already concerned with making the right contacts to get
ahead. Nor did you relish the role of school bully; sure, you
could deck the brawniest kid in your class, but much pre-
ferred being respected for your sharpness and intellect. Your
commanding presence stopped many a school-yard fight,
and the skinny, short, four-eyed hiture techno wizards
adored you.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Your idea of seduction might be to dress in an impeccable

gray Armani suit, pull up in a black stretch limo of just
the right length, brandish a baker's dozen roses—twelve red
representing passion surrounding one white signifying the
purity of your love—then belt back a stiff one and invite
your sweetie back to your apartment to admire your Diirer
etchings and endurance. Yup, that goes for women, too: Leo
One just plain makes you ballsy.
You tend to be equally magisterial in the bedroom, but
surprisingly needful of reassurance. It's as if you don't quite
buy in to the dashing image you cultivate. Those feelings of
inadequacy actually make you a better lover, since you're
more acutely aware as a Leo One of how your partner per-
ceives your performance.
Extraordinarily magnanimous, you shower the one you
call your own with extravagant gifts, and not just on the
usual special occasions. Even an innocent holiday like Flag
Day brings out your creative, amorous streak. You wouldn't
mind being on the receiving end, but unswerving loyalty is
far more important. You expect total fidelity—no, downright
feudal fealty—in return for your largesse. No question you
can be domineering, withholding favors if someone has dis-
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pleased you. Although you love children and would make

an exciting parent, you may opt not to raise a family; you're
such a kid yourself that you might view your own as compe-
tition.

Money and Career

If monarch isn't a career option, you'll almost always grav-

itate toward a central position of authority (where you must
curb your theatrical temper and know-it-all impatience). At
least you cheerfully admit you require the lion's share of
attention. You hate being controlled or dictated to. Forced
to play second banana, you might just connive to make your
boss slip on a peel. But no one questions your leadership
abilities; you're the type who could rally the troops when
they're outnumbered twenty to one. You're out to hit a
homer in every at bat, but sometimes it's more effective to
move the runners up base by base.
Obviously you require a position of creative or executive
power. Anything that influences public opinion, especially
TV, film, advertising, and the print media, is a natural. You
might run a top fashion house or devise your own lines of
perfumes and cosmetics. The more academically inclined
could become a college professor or museum curator. Re-
gardless of your job, you'll always demand recognition for
your work: a big, brassy name plate on the door suits you
fine.

The £21 Potential

Your nobility, ardor, and generosity can light the way for
everyone in your considerable domain. Alwys be your sunny
self and refuse to give in to negativity. Guard against arro-
gance amd egotism; even the greatest monarch requires ad-
visers, so remember to listen to your subjects' views now
and then. Make sure you surround yourself with people who
will stand up to you, in both your personal and professional
lives. They can always cut you down to size when you need
it; humility ain't exactly your best Sunday suit, but you do
wear everything else impeccably! Even showing your flashier
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side invariably warms people's hearts. Face it: You're larger

than life and wouldn't have it any other way!

FAMOUS LEO ONES

Magic Johnson 8/14/1959 Henry Ford 7/30/1863
Emily Bronte 7/30/1818 Aldous Huxley 7/26/1894
Mae West 8/17/1893 Halle Berry 8/14/1968

Q • 2
Lec l
The Valiant Valediclorian'

£5 + 2 + Q 2 -
Eager Extroverted Temperamental Sly
Creative Friendly Self-centered Argumentative
Cheerful Diplomatic Childish Hesitant
Warmhearted Companionable

Leo Twos are the consummate survival artists. You have an

extraordinary ability to bounce back from adversity, not only
making lemonade from lemons, but selling it for a healthy
profit. Leo provides Two with resiliency and bucks up its
self-esteem. You quickly learn success results from two cre-
dos: "You wash my back and I'll wash yours" and "You
watch my back and I'll watch yours." You're the finesse-
meister and surgically precise spin doctor, your determina-
tion and craftiness cloaked in disarming affability. No one
would ever guess how coolly you can wrap opponents
around your little finger, or wrap yourself around them like
a boa constrictor until they holler uncle. Waffle iron de-
scribes you perfectly. Your first instinct is toward compro-
mise and you can sail like a kite whichever way the wind
blows. But once you've made up your mind, you're un-
moved and unmovable, nearly always getting your way.
As a kid you were the teacher's pet, yet weren t any the
less popular for it. You curried favor with your peers by
your eagerness to do their homework, sly comments about
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the teacher behind her back, and willinness to trade that

dead tadpole for your Ken Griffey Jr. card (one of several,
natch). As for any fellow pupils you didn't win over, if they
only knew how much time and care you took selecting just
the right apple, red, shiny, with not a wormhole in sight,
they might have appreciated you more.
Pity the poor fool who stumbles into an argument with
you. You're eloquent, cutting, dramatic, and impressive
when crossed—besides, you don't let your adversary get a
word in edgewise. You remember every slight, real or imag-
ined, but will be the first to proffer a helping hand, so they
can get back on their feet. Your roar is mostly for show
anyway. You're like Aesop's fable of the lion felled by a
thorn in his paw; any hostility or insensitivity and you're like
a stray kitten.
If you do have a chip on your shoulder, it's that you feel
constantly compelled to prove yourself. You're more at ease
with people whom you secretly think your inferiors due to
an unnecessarily negative self-image; when someone with
an impressive intellect shows up, you automatically feel you
must argue to make your point. If cajolery and charm don't
work, you'll get "in their face," going (wo)mano a mano.
The point is, Two craves approval, yet Leo demands respect.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Of course, every star must have an entourage, even if it's

only an audience of one, which is often what people in
your life must become. A Leo Two's loved ones must ten-
derly stroke the bruised ego, restore the sunny optimism,
overlook the (usually) innocent flirtations with "fans," an-
swer the letters, and autograph your photo to boot, and
while they're at it, balance the checkbook without nagging.
You overwhelm your mates with your largesse. You're
like an emotional banquet, with a vast array of tempting
dishes, and you want your loved ones to gorge themselves
silly. You're incredibly demonstrative, leaning toward mushy
PDAs, and can be easily hurt by a reserved partner who
isn't as affectionate on demand. You do require constant
reassurance and proof of devotion.
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Money and Career

Twos are behind-the-scenes negotiators, while Leos grab

the stage. You'll be a commanding presence whatever line
of work you choose; when you retire you could earn a sub-
stantial living just acting as a figurehead, meeting, greeting,
and looking regal. The ultimate actor-politician, you're in-
credibly telegenic and always speak in sound bites. What a
trial lawyer you'd make, combining all your considerable
skills; you'd make the LA. Law and The Firm crowds look
amateurish by comparison. And fittingly, your performing
panache and directorial command are unmatched. You al-
ways know exactly how to sell yourself—or any product—
to the public, which drives up the bidding. Even as a tycoon
or an athlete, you'll consider running for public office. You
hunger for responsibility even more than approval, yet can't
be called power-hungry, since you genuinely believe your
own script and think you can make a difference in peo-
ple's lives.

The £>2 Potential

Once you've decided on a course of action, you have an

unswerving conviction that you know best. Very often you
do; your good intentions are unquestioned. But while under
pressure, you should watch out for a tendency to be alter-
nately evasive and take charge. Twos run from the spotlight,
but your leonine side is mopey and grumpy without a stage.
You have an uncanny knack for finding co-stars who under-
stand you; you function best in supportive partnerships and
teams, helping everyone to shine.

FAMOUS LEO TWOS

President Bill Clinton 8/19/2946 Woody Harrelson 7/23/1961
Angela Bassett 8/16/1958 Jacqueline Kennedy 7/28/1929
Madonna 8/16/1958 Onassis
Malcolm Forbes 8/19/1919
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Q • 3
Lec Three

"The Charisma King"

3 + q - 3
Dashing Generous Flirtatious Vain
Stylish Fun-loving Inconstant Garrulous
Entertaining Spirited Faddish Cynical
Vital Congenial

The quintessential smooth talker and operator, you probably

handed out embossed business cards during Freshman Week.
You knew from an early age that you wanted to go first-class
or not at all. Leo Threes are typically so irresistible they could
sell a Yugo off the used car lot, but naturellement they wouldn't
be caught dead near anything but a Jag, Rolls, or Mercedes!
You were bom to entertain. The consummate host, you'll
remember everyone's favorite drink and cook an elaborate
dinner. Then you let the dishes mount up until some guest
tactfully offers to help clean up . . . but before accepting
you'll struggle between your inherent hospitality and dis-
taste. Hiring a caterer, if you have the money, would allow
you to mingle, but it lacks your trademark personal touch.
Besides, you couldn't resist the best. Why go for the pressed
Sevruga when the beluga is only twenty dollars more per
ounce? After all, you're only inviting your thirty absolutely
closest friends.
If it's not your party, you love stirring things up. With
your tremendous theatrical flair, you can't resist the shock
effect of a scarlet gown at the White Ball. At the very least,
you delight in dressing up; even when you dress down, it's
showy in some way— the jeans ripped just so, the mascara
running in one perfect tear.
You almost chauvinistically believe in the courtly concept of
the shining white knight and fair damsel. You want to be King
Arthur and his Round Table rolled into one; true love is your Holy
Grail. You dream of unicorns, rainbows, and pots of gold (which
you'll need to keep yourself in the style to which you'd die to
become accustomed). Of course, even Camelot was a messy sty,
136 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

with serfs toiling in abject poverty and unsanitary conditions and

inequity between classes, but it still pains you to discover harsh
reality. Your fantasy world remains untainted by the small-
minded or shallow. You're a soft touch for scam artists whether
in love or business because you desperately want to believe in
your shining ideal; this wraps you in a radiant mantle of old-fash-
ioned glamour and purity.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You're spendthrift emotionally, too, with operatically ex-

travagant feelings. Your life is a series of crushes. The only
drawback is that if you're constantly in love, you can't very
well be constant. You seek an all-consuming grand passion:
Romeo and Juliet, except, of course, for that tragic part.
You're monogamous in principle, but sometimes have diffi-
culty living up to the contractual obligations. It isn't that you
want to cheat, just that you require continual attention from
a bevy of admirers. And it would be so rude if you turned
down a well-timed advance.
Dating? It's more like storming the citadel. You'll besiege
your amour, even staking out the apartment if you fear com-
petition. Obviously you have an active romantic imagination;
reality rarely lives up to the fantasy. Sometimes you fall for
the superficial appearance; needless to say, the part of you
that requires intellectual stimulation and playfulness is inevi-
tably disappointed. You need someone who can help
ground your dreams, translate your noble ambitions and
high-minded ideals into substance.
Sexually, you adore all the little toys of seductions.
Naughty black lingerie amd edible underwear tickle your
fancy and sense of the absurd even as they heighten sexual
tension and pleasure.

Money and Career

If only flirt, bon vivant, and Beau Brummell were job

descriptions! An inventive idea person, you loathe routine
and get bogged down in the nitty-gritty. Of course, you'll
rise above petty pencil-pushing politics. You make a perfect
PR person or fund-raiser (though once you've cajoled the
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money, you shouldn't be trusted with its disbursement,

thanks to your grandiose schemes and dreams). You traffic
in illusion; therefore, film is your natural medium. Hey, it
pays better than the circus. Beauty, fashion, jewelry design,
and the art world are other media for self-expression. You'll
require lots of earning power, since you indulge yourself in
the same lovely nonentities that surround you at work.

The Q3 Potential

With your innate style, buoyancy, and sheer joy in living,

you have only to be yourself. People may try to tear you
down, but you remain your devil-may-care self. The world
needs dreamers and conjurers like you. You weren't meant to
lead a conventional life, though you may sometimes tire of
playing poster child for la vie hoheme. Avoid mere sensation-
alism: you know, the Playboy/Playgirl centerfold when you're
sixty. On second thought, if you got it, baby, flaunt it. And
whatever "it" is, you're sure to possess plenty in reserve.

FAMOUS LEO THREES

Melanie Griffith 8/9/1957 Wesley Snipes 7/31/1963
Alfred Hitchcock 8/13/1899 Peter Jennings 7/29/1938
Ethel Barrymore 8/15/1879 Connie Chung 8/20/1946

Q • 4

Leo four

The Hail-Fellow Hercules"

n + 4 + 4 -
Loyal Accomplished Pompous Exacting
Lusty Strong-willed Show-offish Contrary
Jovial Committed Pushy Dogmatic
Enterprising Strong Values

You're that rare aristocrat who doesn't mind mucking out

the stables after your morning canter. No matter what the
circumstances of your birth or upbringing, you consider
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yourself a "common (wo)man." Leo Fours measure people's

worth by the size of their hearts rather than their bank ac-
counts. You're earthy and direct, yet even amid telling an
off-color (well, blue) joke, you still come across as a blue
blood.
You genuinely believe that people can rise by sheer grit
and honest toil, dedicating yourself to examining every situa-
tion in minute detail. You're capable and confident, with
seemingly superhuman energy; even your second wind
blows in with hurricane force. Despite your drive to get
ahead, you can also have a indolent streak. Material success
comes easily to you and once your creature comforts are
satisfied, you make a perfectly blissful sofa spud.
When life disappoints you, you play your own heavy-
mettle band, ranting and railing about how undependable
folks are these days. Doesn't anyone have a sense of respon-
sibility, care about a job well done? Your anger is genuine,
but part of you enjoys putting on a good show. You're
equally adept at the chillingly effective silent treatment. Even
as a little cub, you knew just what it would take to motivate
yourself and others. In truth, you're almost scarily efficient
in your planning; you can also mow down adversaries
through sheer perseverance. Think of your fellow Leo Four
Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator (in his kinder,
gentler Part II incarnation, of course!).

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Your love life is important to you; you like to have it

settled so you can worry about loftier matters. You're dedi-
cated to working at your relationships, bringing optimism,
determination, and emotionalism to any partnership. Since
you loathe failure of any kind, divorce is the very last resort,
though not for appearance sake. You simply don't like to
admit you might be wrong, and your integrity demands that
you find some way through the crisis, even if it means shoul-
dering the lion's share of the blame yourself.
Your view of romance is a satisfying blend of idealism
and pragmatism. You understand that everyone has walls,
including yourself. But your attitude is, you're not storming
 Leo 139

the fortress demanding to know someone else's most inti-

mate thoughts, you're just knocking on the gate asking if
Jane or John can come out to play. When the wrestling
match begins, remember that very few are as, uh, inexhaust-
ible as you.

Money and Career

A tireless worker, you won't stop until you're shining that

brass plaque on your desk, then earn that gold watch at
(enforced) retirement; with your innate discrimination, you'll
know if the title or timepiece is only fourteen-karat. You're
a born manager of men and money. Your only flaw as an
authority figure is that you forget how unique you really
are. It's nothing to you to wake up at 5:00 a.m. for a brisk
ten-mile run, followed by an energetic calisthenics program.
Your zeal to maximize production and increase efficiency is
admirable, but your employees are already jumping at your
command, so you needn't institute a daily routine of jumping
jacks. Naturally any Leo will want to seize center stage;
whatever your job, there's a bit if the performer in you,
especially when higher-ups are watching. A job combining
beauty and practicality, such as horticulture, also appeals.
Your probing mind makes you an excellent stock analyst,
pollster, or research scientist, while your strong constitution
is well suited to athletics. Don't be surprised if your career
takes a ninety-degree turn and you end up doing something
entirely different; you have an aptitude for being in the right
place at the right time for sniffing out new opportunities.
You'll finagle a three-year contract first, of course. As for
expenses, you're no cheapskate, but you're hardly extrava-
gant. Your purchases must perform a necessary function,
whether a stationary bike or a car that gets forty miles to
the gallon. But first you pay off the mortgage and invest in
several IRAs.

The Q4: Potential

One word: unlimited. The combo of Leo enthusiasm and

Four persistence is unbeatable. You're cast in a heroic mold:
an old-fashioned doer and go-getter, a Horatio Alger story
140 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

come to life. By exerting an earnest effort in every area of

your life, you set an example for those around you. You're
a quiet hero, but the blush is for effect: you know that you
deserve all the accolades you receive. Just don't argue for
argument's sake; listen to others' viewpoints. And recognize
that most humans are by definition merely mortal and, yes,
even flawed. Except you, of course.

FAMOUS LEO FOURS

David Duchovny 8/7/1960 Patrick Ewing 8/5/1962
Esther Williams 8/8/1923 Max Factor Jr. 8/18/1904
Shelley Winters 8/18/1922 Vida Blue 7/28/1949
Robyn Smith Astaire 8/14/1944 Geoffrey Holder 8/1/1930
Percy Byssbe Shelley 8/4/1792

Q • a
Lee rive

The Zany Zealol"

Q + 3 + Q
Magnetic Free-spirited Impetuous Self-indulgent
Courageous Peppy Hotheaded Hasty
Exuberant Communicative Ostentatious Undisciplined
Expansive Resourceful

You have a voracious appetite for any and all experiences;

Mick Jagger, another rolling-stone Leo Five, penned your
anthem, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction." But you try and you
try. You're seduced by anything new, the more flamboyant
the better, since you love shocking people out of their com-
placency. You even invent anecdotes to get a rise out of your
stuffy neighbor, like the time you attended that Halloween
party with three drag queens in tow. (The tranvestite part's
accurate, but you chatted them up at a chichi he/she book
party for a new makeup guide.) You dont give a damn
about what others think; they can whisper behind your
back, so long as they get the facts straight.
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You may embellish occasionally for effect, but your life

isn't fiction. You really were the first person in town to heli-
ski in Antarctica. Your imagination and curiosity know no
bounds; there's always something of the caged beast about
you. The principle of independent thought and action im-
pels you to do things your way, even if you know it's not
the right way.
For all your bluster and bravado, you're unstinting with
your time and money, especially if it means fun for all in-
volved! You make friends wherever you go, and allow
plenty of people to impose on your good nature. And you
certainly don't put on airs. Sure, you enjoy a fancy-schmancy
affair, but you'd end up at the Hell's Angel bar shooting a
few games of pool afterward. Even if you became one of
the fat cats, there 11 always be a streak of alley cat, tomming
about, everyone enjoying your tomfoolery entertaining.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Insatiable and incorrigible, you'll sow plenty of wild oats

(the tastiest kind!) in your youth. Your love life makes Mel-
rose Place seem tamer than a dialogue between Saint Francis
of Assisi and his birds. Actually, you need taming, though
needless to say, you don't respond well to a whip and cage.
Your lover(s) had better not be shy. We're talking major
PDAs here; the sloppier the kiss in that five-star restaurant,
the better. And in private, fuhgeddaboudit! You want love-
making with wild abandon. You require constant stimulation
and inventiveness, if not variety, in your lovemaking. The
words you most fear having to say are "The passion just
isn't there anymore."
So why are so many people willing to play a supporting
role? Because life with a happy Leo Five is Rachmaninoff
and roses, Handel and candlelight, a constant whirl of ele-
gant parties followed by playfully amorous chases in the
boudoir. Not to mention the fact that you simply couldn't
attend the audience with the Dalai Lama without them.

Money and Career

You aim straight for the public eye. Whatever you do, it
has to be on a grand scale. No way could you slave day
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after day on the same project in the same office. How dreary!
Discussing the latest X-Files at the water cooler or on the Net
isn't enough for you. You need to be bizarre and imaginative
yourself. Free-lancing is your number-one solution. Since
you require an audience, something that places you on the
World Wide Web is primo, since you can satisfy your curios-
ity about other people and places. Performing? But of
course! Just so the manager understands that you have to
trash the hotel suite and entertain hookers; you don't want
to, but you have your nutso reputation to live up—or
down—to. Besides, as lewd and lascivious as you can admit-
tedly get, you were only trying to straighten the gal's priorit-
ies out, not her finances. But you'd never let A Current
Affair hear that side of the story. You have that reputation
to protect, you rascal. And that silly green stuff? As long as
you can shout, "Drinks on me!" every so often, what do
you care?

The Q5 Potential

You're a hell-raiser, no doubt about it, but you're here to

loosen people up: to hell with convention and conformity!
You live your life the way you please, which encourages
others to break out of the doldrums and entertain a fantasy
or two. Part of that wild streak is just for the tabloids, of
course, but you genuinely believe that the party animal in
all of us needs to break free of the zoo of dull daily life.
Few people learn of your good works, because of that bad
boy/girl rep you assiduously cultivate, but then for a Leo,
shucks, you're actually pretty darned modest.

FAMOUS LEO FIVES

Gillian Anderson 8/9/1968 Sean Penn 8/17/1960
Jacqueline Susann 8/20/1921 Steve Martin 8/14/1945
Alex Haley 8/11/1921 Jill St. John 8/19/1940
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£> • e
Lec Six
"The Humane Humorisl"

q + 6 + 6
Loving Home-loving Vengeful Jealous
Faithful Protective Domineering Overprotective
Magnanimous Responsible Overbearing Self-righteous
Giving Loyal

Like all lions, even Leo Sixes will preen and primp in any
mirror they pass, but the reflection isn't complete without a
loved one and brood of kids: you display your pride with
pride. You radiate a competent warmth, burning with the
kind of steady blaze that both lights and heats whatever
room you're in. You're an incredibly dynamic character, a
walking book on seduction techniques without even trying.
You have no idea how tempting you are as either an alliance
or a dalliance; you could easily fall prey to misunderstood
mates in need of affection. But you have morals, not to
mention more nobility than a pride of lions and Burke's
peerage put together.
You love without bounds; you're a fantastic catch because
you have a healthy but not inflated ego. And you're oh so
nice, kittenish, never catty. But that doesn't mean you're a
pushover. Far from it! You always back up your convictions
with more than your intimidating roar. Especially where
love, family, and friends are concerned, your claws can be
deadly. Ever seen a lioness defending her cubs? The inter-
loper is not a pretty sight when she's finished.
But you're really just a big pussycat at heart. You love to
see people happy. You're hysterical, making snide observa-
tions out of the corner of your mouth that leave your friends
doubled over in riotous laughter. You're rarely downright
cruel, but you do delight in puncturing posturing and preten-
sion. Your imitations are absolutely devastating. Otherwise,
your humor is usually so subtle that the targets of your derision
may not even realize they're being mocked. If they do, you're
immediately apologetic and solicitous, flashing that big, toothy
144 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

grin. It probably hurts you more than them, because you'll

remember it blushingly the next time you meet.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

If someone sets your heart racing and our blood pound-

ing, you might race into commitment without thinking it
out first; you're so eager, so dashing, so willing. Then you
discover your partner didn't attend Princeton, and indeed,
dropped out of high school. Even then you admire his or
her smarts and street savvy. But you often fall for people
who aren't your equals, because you want to hug, teach,
and protect.
You voice surprisingly strong opinions at home and may
run it more rigidly that your spouse would imagine, from
those carefree dating days. You're a fine parent, scrupu-
lously instructing your cubs in the laws of the jungle. As
much as you'd like them to remain in the den forever, you
know they have their own battles to fight and you want to
prepare them for the inevitable conflicts. You're indulgent,
yet if the kids break the rules, you don't hesitate to put
down your paw.
Like all Leos, you want to come to someone's emotional
rescue. You're drawn to people who need a strong shoulder
and steadying hand. That element of compulsive generosity
is present in all your relationships. Your healthy ego de-
mands that you have an equal, independent partner with a
career you can be proud of. You don't want someone be-
neath you or underfoot, but on some level they must be
utterly dependent on you.

MONEY AND CAREER

You're a natural mimic and impressionist. The sheer range

of your comic skills is probably unequaled: you can do slap-
stick, drawing-room banter, and imitations with equal aplomb.
Naturally you gravitate toward acting, yet your inquiring
mind and fascination with every detail of the creative pro-
cess mean you'll probably segue into writing, producing,
and/or directing as well. Then, just because you like to feed,
entertain, and schmooze after hours, you open a restaurant
 Leo 145

or bar that immediately becomes the hottest watering hole

in town or you might open a health club where people can
sweat out those toxins and improve their looks. All these
traits serve you well in business. You charm people at te-
dious cocktail parties, oversee every detail of a project and
keep things—and co-workers—humming, and stroke the po-
tential client perfectly over a dinner so drawn-out you'd like
to strangle this jerk who's keeping you from rolling around
with the kids.

The £26 Potential

You're cast in the heroic mold. You're here to protect and

provide. Your tools are a strong shoulder, balanced perspec-
tive, trenchant mind, noble bearing, and a refusal to take
things too seriously even when all looks bleak. These traits
virtually ensure that you'll enjoy more than the "fifteen
mintues of fame" promised by fellow Leo Six Andy Warhol.
And if not, that's okay, too, as long as you have the respect
of your comrades.

FAMOUS LEO SEXES

Rohen De Niro 8/17/1943 Christian Slater 8/18/1969
Dorothy Parker 8/22/1893 Kathie Lee Gifford 8/16/1953
Linda Ellerhee 8/15/1945 Ray Bradbury 8/22/1920

Q • 7
Leo Seven
The Freelhinking Trailazef

Q + 7 + Q 7 -
Aristocratic Reforming Standoffish Aloof
Alluring Erudite Arrogant Repressed
Gallant Dignified Demanding Inconsiderate
High-minded Articulate

Leo Sevens flaunt an impressive but rather tangled mane

indeed. You can be a series of apparent contradictions, even
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to yourself. You're just as enamored of mirrors as any other

Leo, but you're haunted by what lies behind the dazzling
reflection. You have a touch of leonine hauteur yet a becom-
ing modesty that masks your genuine achievements. You
never trumpet your accomplishments even if you feel you've
mastered the subject. As a kid you hid your smarts behind
a dumb jock(ette) facade, snuck off after lacrosse practice,
sequestered yourself in the tree house you built yourself
from recycled aluminum cans and discarded two-by-fours,
and devoured everything from Waugh to Wittgenstein.
Despite a ravening curiosity about human nature, your
initial research can be faulty. Sevens can have a blind spot
about themselves. The Leo pride often exacerbates the
Seven assumption of immediate knowledge. You soon learn
that your first impressions aren't always as right as you'd
like to think. You're surprisingly withdrawn for a Leo, but
gradually become more extroverted as you mature. You'll
never feel you've learned enough, of course. You recog-
nized one of the eternal paradoxes of human existence from
a shockingly young age: that the more you know, the more
you know there is to know. At eleven, watching a shooting
star, you contemplated the origin of the universe, and proba-
bly even called it a conundrum. If gaseous particles com-
bined to form clouds, as posited by the Big Bang theory,
how were they created in the first place? And even if they
rose from a vacuum, isn't a vacuum something? After all, we
have a word for it. Which, of course, left you to ponder the
concept of blind faith. . . .

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Leo makes you ardent, and Seven choosy. Part of you

can't make up your mind what you're really looking for in
the ideal partner. It's like buying the right car. You know
you want something sleek and sporty that bespeaks both
status and class, so you'll go for the Jaguar, then realize the
Ferrari's more your speed. Your tremendous need for free-
dom clashes with an equally potent need for love and terror
of being alone. You come on very strong, then back off just
as suddenly. A smart prospect won't appear too available,
 Leo 147

as that can make you lose interest. Your passion and longing
get you into positions you must disentangle yourself from,
making promises you'd rather not keep. Take it slowly, even
when you get that "fated to be mated" feel. You'd counsel
your friends there's no such thing as discovering your soul
mate after one bottle of wine. Trust your psychic ability—
except when it comes to your own feelings. You scare your-
self off by thinking soul mate and intimacy too quickly.
Learn compromise, and remember that after the romantic
glow comes the doubting period: is this really the person I
want to spend my life with? This period is just as unrealistic
as initial infatuation. It, too, will fade, as you allow greater
intimacy into your life.

Money and Career

Just as with romance, your career places you in a quan-

dary. There are so many avenues you'd like to follow. If
you could, you'd become a professional student. Your grav-
ity about learning suits you for the groves of academe; be-
sides, you'd look fetching in a cap and gown. Once you've
decided upon a course of action, you'll pursue it single-mind-
edly. Since you're big on understanding others' motives
(though your own can remain a mystery), you make a sensa-
tional therapist or social worker, in whom compassion and
reason blend nicely. You have enormous appeal as an actor,
sporting either a sexy swagger or a gift for verbal and physi-
cal comedy. Attuned to universal harmonies, you can be
a composer or musician of tremendous depth. Computer
development or selling new technologies are also possibilit-
ies. Any job must give you the opportunity to learn some-
thing new every day or you'll become easily bored.

The Q7 Potential

You've always been hard on yourself and never take the

easy way out. When you think about it, that's pretty darned
praiseworthy! You're a deserving role model, eternally anx-
ious to learn from experience and books alike, then use
your discoveries to benefit others in some way. Don't let
your pride and analytical bent deter you from attacking life
148 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

more aggressively. You are a true scholar; since you're usu-

ally mighty attractive and personable, your example might
just lower the dropout rate!

FAMOUS LEO SEVENS

Antonio Banderas 8/10/1960 Lucille Ball 8/6/1910
Matthew Perry 8/19/1969 Bella Ahzug 7/24/1920
Bill Bradley 7/28/1943 Myrna Loy 8/2/1905

Q • 8
Leo Eight
"The Enlertaining Entrepreneur-

Q + 8 + Q - 8
Self-confident Authoritative Self-involved Overpowenng
Commanding Insightful Intolerant Bossy
Competitive Capable Intractable Workaholic
Direct Sensuous

A Leo Eight could coax anyone out of his or her portfolio

and into something more comfortable. You have a majestic
presence that automatically finds people kneeling at your
feet awaiting your next command. You're extroverted and
cocksure, with a daunting intellect. Even the resonant deejay
timbre of your voice is imposing. Friends, family, business
associates, even total strangers probably leave breathy mes-
sages on your answering machine sighing that you belong
on the radio. And you'll always sound like you know what
you're talking about even when you don't.
You have a severe, abstract sense of justice, and can be
easily offended. You believe in live and let live, yet hold
yourself to a rather rigid code of behavior; your own trans-
gressions don't escape your scrutiny. You forgive readily but
forget the forgetting part. You're the first to admit you have
flaws and problems, but you resent anyone who dares ex-
pose them; of course, you often attract equally powerful,
stubborn people into your life.
 Leo 149

You're a scrapper with very definite ideas, and anyone

who wants to capture your attention must appear to let you
run the show. You're a lion in a cage, baring your incisors
at any tamer daring to brandish his or whip. Youi thrive on
competition and sexy, saber-rattling office power plays. You
can be as deadly as a Borgia skulking behind the arras,
dagger barely sheathed, if someone crosses you. When it
comes to getting even, patience can be counted among your
virtues, but if others demonstrate loyalty, you'll see them
through any crisis, even as you long to call your pal a prize
idiot for not seeing what was coming.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

With you, Cupid's arrow has the deadly accuracy of a

stealth bomb, and you pursue the object of your attentions
with SWAT-team efficiency. But it's difficult for you to think
in romantic terms unless everything else in your life is run-
ning smoothly. You brood over an unsettled job situation,
or if your sublet is running out in eight months and you
haven't found a replacement. Your life is a running soap
opera, and love is no exception.
Sometimes your pride and busy schedule get in the way
of a promising romance. You're admirably straightforward:
you enjoy spending time together, great. All you ask is that
they be as punctilious as you. If they say they'll call, they
should call. If they say let's have dinner next week, just
name the day. Is that such a big deal? It is so unreasonable?
Honest soul that you are, you always call when you say you
will, no matter how hectic things are. When others don't
follow through on their word, of course you're upset. But
you're even angrier on an abstract level; it's simple courtesy.
Don't they understand that you have a busy schedule, time's
money, and with your appointment book filling up, you're
just showing interest by penciling them in? It's not as if
you're asking to move in after the third date!

Money and Career

You could never be a drudge and drone, buzzing around

another's hive: you're quick to spot the flaws in authority
150 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

figures and consequently find them hard to respect. If you're

an actor, you'll become your own producer; if an athlete,
you'll want to coach, or better yet, become the team's gen-
eral manager. You're an astute judge of talent, stealing future
stars in trades. Whatever your business, you're a hard-as-
nails negotiator with a disarmingly soft touch. Your natural
milieu is the penthouse boardroom. You end up being pro-
moted so regularly that even the CEO fears your progress;
but the company can't afford to lose you, and you emerge
as the anointed successor. You may just start your own busi-
ness at home in your spare time, perhaps public relations,
proposal writing, market research, or demographic surveys.
It'll take off, and so will you from your regular day job. Law
interests you most among the traditional professions, since
you love to argue and win any debate, followed by account-
ing; but the former contains too many loopholes, while the
latter involves counting someone else's money. Well, maybe
Supreme Court judge; you cut a dramatic figure in black.
Just curb your urge to splurge, as your bank account will
likely go through dizzying loop-the-loops.

The Q8 Potential

You have enough drive to win the Indy 500 in a beaten-

up Edsel. You may appear stern and authoritarian, yet un-
derneath you're quite tame. You just like the perks of power
and control, which is fine, but don't become so forbidding
you lose all sense of human contact. Your life story and
message to others is "How to Succeed in Business by Really
Trying." Frankly, it comes easily to you, but you wouldn't
respect anyone, least of all yourself, who didn't at least try
to overachieve. Use your keen perspective of trends to lead
others in the new millennium.

FAMOUS LEO EIGHTS

Martha Stewart 8/3/1941 George Bernard Shaw 7/26/1856
Annie Oakley 8/13/1859 Neil Armstrong 8/5/1930
Stanley Kuhrick 7/26/1928 Sandra Bullock 7/26/1964
 Leo 151

Q • 9
Lee Nine
The Vivacious Venlriloquisl"

9 + 9
Charitable Bombastic Chafneleon esqu e
Chivalrous Outgoing Egotistical Careless
Dramatic Magnetic Extravagant Possessive
Enthusiastic Daring

Leo Nines have a genius for putting words in other people's

mouths. If you were a kid right now, you'd scheme how to
coax the parents into letting you stay up to watch NBC's
"Must See TV" block. "Gee, Pop, I really want to be a doc-
tor, and ER is so REAL," you plead with saucer eyes. Is the
answer ever in doubt? You're a real card, in fact an ace. You
love to entertain, feeling it's an almost divine mission. In a
sense, your concept of spirituality is that lifting people's spir-
its is the most uplifting thing you can do.
You'll be in the public eye, and ensure that the audience
has 20/20 vision. Nine softens Leo's vanity; you still toss
your mane, but it's silken, and temper your roar to a purr.
You're magnanimous and caring in the extreme. You have a
roaring ego, yet you're not so much selfish as self-important.
You're that rare visionary who isn't blinded by the grandeur
of his or her ideas, ignoring the real people. You realize
that when it comes to human relations Copernicus was
wrong: the earth doesn't revolve around the Leo Nine sun.
Still, your showmanship compels you to do everything in a
big way, and you're not afraid to flop. You're so comfortable
basking in the glow of the spotlight that you see spots if
anyone tries to train it elsewhere. You're the star attraction
and all the world is a stage, after all!
Boy, do you have the gift of gab and a gift for, uh, embel-
lishment. Everything that happens to you is larger-than-life.
Namby-pamby words like nice, pleasant, and okay simply
don't exist in your vocabulary. It's a superlative or nothing.
That's not a mountain you made out of the molehill, it's
Everest, K2, and Annapuma heaped atop one another. The
152 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

whole world is colored by your dynamism. Objectivity may

not be your strong suit, but your sincerity, mettle, and pas-
sion carry the day. You have almost childlike faith in your
ability, if not downright superiority to get the job done, by
swaying opinion if necessary.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Despite the hordes clamoring for your precious attention

and time, you know how to keep a relationship purring. But
your mate had better understand that when you're "on," he
or she mustn't upstage you. You're generous with your time
toward everyone; whoever coined the phrase "I'll be there
in spirit" was likely a Leo Nine. When you're angry or feel
betrayed you don't pussyfoot about, yet beneath that stirring
roar you always remain a pussycat at heart.
You can be a tad skittish at first; you need the stimulation,
the thrill of the chase. If your quarry proves elusive, he or
she might just win your heart. But if a potential amour
threatens your independence, you toss your mane and ma-
jestically leave the room. Once you've mated you're faithful,
though you have not so much a wandering eye as a far-
sighted, all-encompassing, omniscient one. You're aware of
your quite devastating effect on others and don't lack for
opportunities to stray. You're usually incredibly good-look-
ing, with a striking mane and clear bright eyes. Despite your
eternal youthfulness, you're surprisingly concerned about
aging. Every sag, bump, and wrinkle heightens your appeal
because they add character, but remind you how transitory
mere physical beauty is. If you ever cheat, it's a one-time
deal to confirm your attractiveness. Needless to say, you
dote on being served, and being the center of attention. As
long as your mate is willing to cater to your every whim
(however kinky), you're happy.

Money and Career

Obviously Leos Nines are consummate performers. You

like people feeding you lines and feeding your ego. If you
can't be in the spotlight, you adore manipulating the action
behind the scenes—after all, the director is the hub of the
 Leo 153

entire production. Whatever you do, it's bound to command

attention in your field because it will be original, intellectu-
ally stimulating, and heartfelt. You're accustomed to gelling
your way and don l function well in subservient roles, which
is why the corporate life isn't really for you. You can lap into
your spiritual side and gain more universal understanding of
humanity and its place in the grand scheme of things. Pity
philosophy doesn't pay well or even fill the lecture halls.
Needless to say, you'll lavish gifts on loved ones and, if you
can, donate to numerous charities and endow scholarships
to the amount of a Third World nation's GNP.

The Q9 Potential

You embody seductiveness, on the physical, intellectual,

and spiritual levels. It's a heady, heavy responsibility. You
can't afford to believe your phenomenal press, admittedly
unlikely, since you're surprisingly humble about your con-
siderable talents. You understand that they're at the service
of others for their education and edification. You feel you're
part of a campaign to save the planet from itself; indeed,
you're an enthusiastic environmentalist who wants to leave
a legacy of clean air and clear heads to future generations.

FAMOUS LEO NINES

Robert Redford 8/18/1936 Carl Jung 7/26/1875
Dustin Hoffman 8/8/1937 Whitney Houston 8/9/1963
Julia Child 8/15/1912 Jada Pinkett 8/18/1971
 VIRCC

np • i

Virgc Cne
"The Gymnaslic Genius"

np+ 1+ np- 1-
Organized Inventive Petty Cynical
Industrious Straightforward Fastidious Contrary
Bright Focused Hypercritical Inflexible
Health-co nscious Self-willed

Virgo One is the health-nut, good-for-you-granola type.

Physically, within three months of bearing triplets you could
walk down a runway, while mentally you never say die:
you're back in the saddle, whether thrown by your horse or
thrown for a loop by your business partner. Male or female,
you embody the phrase "bombshell with a brain."
Of course, your obsession with fitness could put you on
a treadmill. By concentrating on the outer shell, you send a
message to others—and subtly, to yourself—that the real you
underneath isn't worth displaying. Will you feel better and
live longer thanks to your sundry regimens? Absolutely! Just
don't allow the low body fat/high muscle percentage to be-
come a suit of armor that denies people entrance.
 Virgo 155

Anyway, your emotional tough shell is really just an act,

protecting your unexpected, endearing vulnerability. You
firmly believe that people should help themselves first. But
when push comes to shove (and it often does), you'll dive
into that polluted river without hesitation to save a drowning
man or give that homeless Vietnam vet at the ATM every-
thing in your pockets save your last bus token. You're an
incorrigible softie and are terrified others will take advantage
if they find out.
Whatever your background, you exude flair, style, and
grace, to the manor born even if that silver spoon was really
tin and tarnished to boot. You possess the drive and deter-
mination to make yourself the best you can possibly be.
Many Virgo Ones have the uncanny ability to reinvent them-
selves in new surroundings. You're the original ugly duck-
ling that turned into a swan, not just through genetics but
application.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Any potential mate must meet your exacting standards:

the perfect combo of body and brains. You work at your
relationship as you work out at the gym; as a couple, you
and your significant other must be toned, fit, and appro-
priate for display, and not just physically. You must not only
look right but seem right, functioning as a perfect unit. You
want someone as exacting, logical, intelligent, innovative,
and curious as you. If there's any trouble in paradise, you'd
rarely admit it, even to your best friend.
You may appear reserved in public, but behind closed
and double-locked doors you're a hellion, with a robust sex-
ual appetite. You can surprise your partners with how verbal
you are during the act, prodding them on, never hesitating
to encourage them when you like what they're doing. You
need someone whose lustiness matches your own, both in
bed and in life. They should be as avid for knowledge as
you, their stores of information complementing and enhanc-
ing your own, ready to chime in with the answer if you
don't know it.
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Money and Career

You're a force of nature in the workplace, resourceful and

resilient. You know exactly what you want to accomplish
before you confide your plans; you're also flexible and suf-
ficiently quick on your feet to adapt to the prevailing winds.
You take warranted pride in the ideas you generate, and
prefer to supervise projects you've initiated directly. Fitness
guru, trainer, athlete, and dancer are among your career op-
portunities in the physical sphere. Your searching intellect
is ideal for publishing, whether editorial or sales; you could
also create beauty or exercise books and videos, then hawk
them on an infomercial. In fact, advertising isn't a bad idea
either. You'd certainly make a splendid spokesperson for
any product, including yourself. You are driven to be the
best at whatever you do.
You also want to enjoy the best life has to offer. Your
work and home environments reflect you: trim, neat, orga-
nized, and quietly elegant. You favor clean lines, open
space, and lots of light, otherwise you feel cramped and
hemmed in. Clutter, whether on your desk or in a closet, of-
fends you, just as it does in your relationships. When it comes
to personal expenditures, you buy all the latest home gym
gadgets and sign up for grueling spa or adventure vacations.

The TiPl Potential

You have a fine blend of vigorous body and rigorous

mind. You enjoy being a role model, fulfilling your high
ideal of service. You're a thorough perfectionist; although
people inevitably look up to you, you are allowed to show
a chink in the armor. Never doubt that others will appreciate
the real you. In fact, realizing that nobody is perfect—not
even you!—will spur them on to greater achievement. Al-
ways remember to show your human face and you can en-
able yourself as well as others to reach any goal.

FAMOUS VIRGO ONES

Sophia Loren 9/20/1934 Sean Connery 8/25/1930
Raquel Welch 9/5/1940 David Copperfield 9/16/1956
Jimmy Connors 9/2/1952 Queen Elizabeth I 9/7/1533
 Virgo 157

TIP • 2

Virso
"The Consliucllve Consullanl'

np+ 2+ np- 2-
Decorous Sincere Insecure Shy
Thoughtful Conscientious Finicky Argumentative
Concerned Gracious Negative Self-conscious
Sewice- Helpful
oriented

Ever since you learned to write, you've kept a journal, pre-

cisely recording your thoughts, impressions, observations,
feelings, and longings. Even when you're seventy-five, you
know exactly where those old diaries are, and can recall a
special entry in an instant. When you finally allow your
grandkids a peek, they're amazed by the rich fantasy life
you confided to your secret friend. Because you don't share
your innermost thoughts readily, many people may dismiss
your world as drab and monochrome. But you know it isn't.
You're aware that nothing is black and white, but rather
colored in a pleasing palette of grays, from pearl to charcoal,
the classic cloud with a silver lining backlit by the sun and
a rainbow just beginning to form.
You rarely had the chance to realize those dreams of
being the first person to walk on Mars or winning the golf
Grand Slam because you recognized your obligations in the
real world. Your homework done on time, you made your-
self available to tutor other students. Not quite popular
enough to be elected class president, you were probably
grateful; you knew the job was a figurehead and you'd have
more responsibility and meaningful work as class secretary
or treasurer. That pattern persists into a quiet, orderly adult-
hood. The neighborhood usually comes to you with their
problems, asking you to mediate a marital crisis, reason
Kenny out of the attic, and figure out why the lawn mower
went bust.
Yet for all that, you feel like an underachiever, rarely giv-
ing yourself the credit you deserve. The people you let
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into your life are aware of your sterling qualities; you're

so self-effacing you underestimate your abilities, fretting
and second-guessing yourself constantly, reliving every mo-
ment of the day in vivid Technicolor because you're so hard
on yourself.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Your independence is really a front; you're wary of being

hurt, fearful of being trapped in an unsatisfactory relation-
ship. You have a delicate, fragile temperament, although you
don't show it. Your image of yourself is utterly false: you
imagine you're abrupt, halting, coarse, and vulgar (every-
thing abhor in others). You're overly sensitive in romantic
matters, a loveaholic: one hug too many, a million not
enough. You crave a happy relationship, but recoil from the
heartache and disorder finding one often entails. You tell
yourself you'd much rather muck about in your garden than
get all hot and bothered. Yet you can't exist without a part-
ner, so you persevere.
A highly strung, exquisitely vibrating Stradivarius, you
need someone low-maintenance to counterbalance your low
self-esteem. Though you're not precisely prudish or inhib-
ited, your fantasies sometimes embarrass you. A loving part-
ner with just the right teasing touch can unlock a wonderful
sentimental and imaginative streak in the bedroom by en-
couraging you to whisper your deepest desires. When you
can check off more qualities on the good side of your plus/
minus list of a prospective mate's attributes, you take the
plunge gratefully. It's important for you to keep up appear-
ances; even if your relationship shows more cracks than the
San Andreas fault, you'll cheerfully plaster them up.

Money and Career

Your mission is to be the support network, the quiet glue

that holds everything and everyone together. You make a
winning arbitrator of any dispute. Alternative medicine is
another strong lure; you could be a healing homeopath, chi-
ropractor, or reflexologist. No stranger to insecurity yourself,
you can help people overcome their fears through inspira-
 Virgo 159

tional music and art. You can coach others, whether on a

sports team or the lecture circuit, coaxing them to perform
to their peak capabilities. An astute statistician, you could
analyze demographic trends. And you're a whiz when it
comes to trimming the fat from a payroll or schedule.

The m Potential

Don't play it safe and never settle for less than you know
deep down inside you can attain. Relax and realize you
deserve to reap the benefits of your 110 percent effort. Re-
member self-esteem is crucial; the key to loving and being
loved is accepting ourselves, warts and all. Trust others to
appreciate your astonishing gift for empathy and compro-
mise. You're meant to scale the highest mountain you can,
then encourage others to realize their own potential.

FAMOUS VIRGO TWOS

Ben Bradlee 8/26/1921 J.P. Morgan 9/7/1867
Jose Feliciano 9/10/1945 Tim Burton 8/25/1958
Joan Jett 9/22/1960 Nancy Travis 9/21/1961

np • 3

Virgc Three
"The Juggling Wizard"

TIP+ 5+ TTP- 3-
Practical Optimistic Critical Boastful
Meticulous Sociable Persnickety Extravagant
Logical Artistic Judgmental Unstable
Idealistic Self-expressive

Here's a workaholic perfectionist joined at the hip to a party

animal with artistic aspirations! Virgo is disciplined and
thinks in linear terms. Three bubbles over with so many
ideas you might appear scatterbrained. But that imaginative
mind set and teasing Three personality help Virgo laugh at
itself and loosen up a bit. Virgo helps ground those flights
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of fancy, giving form and focus to your creative side. Your

combination of precision and inspiration makes you about
as maddeningly perfect as you've always dreamed of being.
In other words, you're a Mr. Spock who loves to flirt.
Your typical day? Take a deep breath and . . . stay at the
office until 1:00 a.m. Thursday, shop at the twenty-four-hour
supermarket, chop the crudites, grab a few hours sleep, buy
wine during Friday lunch hour, dash home at five, dust, take
a quick bubble bath, then welcome guests to your weekly
salon where seers mingle with CEOs, and sculptors with
scalpers—unobtrusively emptying the ashtrays whenever
you get the chance.
You retain an appealing eternal youthfulness. Underneath
that angelic exterior lurks a sly devil; the type who cracked
rude Freudian jokes in the back of psych class, then smiled
demurely when teach whirled around. But just because you
seem friendly and outgoing doesn't mean you're indiscrimi-
nate. Your natural curiosity and mental agility require a var-
ied social circle; you derive sneaky pleasure from throwing
an oddball lot together just to see what happens. Your clos-
est associates needn't be intellectual snobs or even particu-
larly eloquent, but each must offer something unique and
stimulating.
That fussiness and pursuit of excellence apply equally to
you. Virgo Threes are rather vain; it's important for you to
dress neatly but stylishly, and remain in fighting trim. Every-
thing in your life, from your neatly ordered desk to your
carefully chosen comrades, is a reflection of you and your
inevitably impeccable taste.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

While not exactly cuddly, you are surprisingly playful—

not so much physically as verbally. Good dialogue turns you
on: a Tracy/Hepburn battle of the sexes. Though Virgos are
ironically sensitive to criticism, that jolly Three influence
allows you to roll with the punches and puns. You're a
delightfully sophisticated, intellectual flirt.
Many Virgos marry late in general; add that capricious
Three influence and you could wind up a special guest on
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The Dating Game's fiftieth anniversary (okay, singles night

on Book Chat). When you finally run into someone who
meets your exacting standards, you can make a fool of your-
self, sending dried fruit baskets daily, or pithy love poems
in all-too-free verse. The sight of you swooning is amusing
enough to attract your prey, who, of course, replies that he
or she is allergic to sun-dried apricots. The grand romance
beings. . . .
You're essentially faithful when you have an easygoing,
intelligent mate. That doesn't rule out the occasional fantasy,
but it remains in the head. If anything, you're likely to take
a very specific image (postition thirty-four in the Kama Sutra,
adding a dollop of whipped cream), substituting your part-
ner for that attractive stranger on the 7:02 train.

Money and Career

That fleet-thinking Three and meticulous Virgo produce a

brilliant networker and creative problem solver, probably
not above flirting to get that John Hancock. You also make
extraordinary editors, genuinely wanting to improve your
writers' work while respecting their voices. Your best
moneymaking opportunities come through friends, who
often recommend you for projects; your air of efficiency and
winning charm make you sparkle in interviews and contrib-
ute people-managing skills.
Money is a dichotomy. Virgos are rather frugal; Threes
are rather spendthrift. You'll literally argue both sides of a
purchase; practical versus pretty. The Dapper Dan(ielle) is
drawn to that exquisite dress or tie. It's more expensive than
it should be and you really don't need it. BUT it'll improve
your mood and make a good impression at that party or
interview. Rather than give in to temptation every time,
you'll splurge once or even launch into a shopping spree,
then go on an austerity program, economizing beyond all
reason.

The 1IP3 Potential

A facile mind, reserved charm, Joe or Jane College appear-

ance, dry-as-Dom Perignon wit. You're meant to network—
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not in the crass commerical sense, but rather in bringing

people of different cultures and interests together. You resist
being categorized, so resist your temptation to compart
ta/ize people. Accept, even embrace, others for who they
are, warts and all; curb the urge to give everyone an instant
makeover. Whatever your profession, you're the publisher
and editor in chief of life's magazine, providing seductive
layout, copy, and ads to prevent others from becoming too
stale or staid.

FAMOUS VIRGO THREES

Michael Keaton 9/5/1952 Johann von Goethe 8/28/1749
Ted Williams 8/30/1918 Cameron Diaz 8/30/1972
Zoe Caldwell 9/14/1933 Mm. (Debbie) Fields 9/18/1956

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Virgo Four
The Taclical lectinician"

ttP-f 4+ HP- 4-
Pragmatic Methodical Self-effacing Unimaginative
Discriminating Organized Hypochondriacal Undemonstrative
Painstaking Practical Mechanical Overcommitted
Modest Principled

You're the Fix-It and Go To guy or gal, the actual and spiri-
tual equivalent of the technical support to everyone in your
orbit. You relish the role of bookkeeper, repairperson, and
troubleshooter. Virgo Fours have always flourished in situa-
tions that most people would consider monotonous: playing
scales endlessly to the predictable rhythm of a metronome,
tossing five hundred straight foul shots in basketball prac-
tice, bellying up to the barre until you get the en pointe. As
far as you're concerned, practice really does make perfect.
You're keenly aware that time is a precious commodity.
Whether taking the SATs in high school or racing to meet
the deadline for a new ad compaign, you hear every last
 Virgo 163

tick and tock with excruciating clarity. No wonder small talk

makes you nervous: isn't there something more constmctive
we could be doing? you muse, But you're a wonderful, rea-
sonable listener. You calmly assess the situation and often
find an escape hatch your friend never saw. Cautious and
conservative by nature, you have a cleverly disguised risk-
taking side, which may come out in that unusual solution
to a problem or a hair-raising motorcycle ride at 3:00 a.m.
Your precise, dutiful nature often makes you feel like the
little Dutch boy with his finger in the dyke staving off certain
catastrophe. Spending so much time solving everyone else's
problems, you sometimes worry that your own pet projects
are dammed up or doomed to failure. Hence, for all your
ain't I a good egg attitude, you turn down the occasional
demand on your time and refuse to put all your eggs in one
basket. Like the Energizer Bunny, you just keep going, never
noticing your own disappointments, even as you help others
manage theirs.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You appear so conventional that you could turn off part-

ners who don't realize the potential for untidy emotions
lurking beneath your meticulous, ordered surface. Though
you rarely mention it, you'd like your partner to acknowl-
edge the sundry little things you do: paying the bills on
time, arranging the car pool for school (and doing more
than your share of the driving when the other parents beg
off), coaching Little League, scrubbing the bathroom; the list
goes on and on.
You understand that planting the seeds of love isn't
enough: you must tend them carefully before they bloom.
But you're not as good at interpreting the little signals of
restlessness and boredom; a little spontaneity will keep your
love life humming and your partner continually challenged.
On the plus side, you have a regular, steady libido, with a
healthy attitude toward sex as good old-fashioned exercise.
You go at it with gymnastic fluidity and the stamina of a
hockey player.
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Money and Career

You're skilled at manual labor, dexterous with brushstroke

and keystroke, with admirable hand-eye coordination. This
makes you an excellent computer technician or software de-
veloper, handy person, dressmaker, contractor, draftsperson,
artisan—anything utilizing tools. Though creativity isn't your
strongest suit, your artistic pursuits are characterized by fine
detail work. You're also a reliable overseer of others. You
do something over and over again until you get it right, and
expect the same of your employees and co-workers, You're
usually content to remain at middle-level management.
While those above and below may slip on the corporate
ladder, you're almost never fired since you produce and
persist in your unassuming way.
The original perfectionist, there's always some unfinished
business to attend to. This attitude endears you to your supe-
riors, if not your family. Then again, your loved ones know
they'll never want for anything; your diligence insures there
will always be money in the bank and food—nothing too
fatty, of course—in the fridge.

The m Potential

In a world where most people are never content with

what they have, you remind people to be grateful for the
simple things and never take anything for granted, You can
help them see that progress is often attained gradually, in
small increments. Your discipline and powers of discrimina-
tion can genuinely help others improve themselves, Relax
the tendency to criticize others, not to mention yourself, and
you'll get the point across with your fundamental intelli-
gence and sincerity. Then you truly can make the world a
better place—and even receive some recognition in the
bargain.

FAMOUS VIRGO FOURS

Keanu Reeves 9/2/1964 Regis Philbin 8/25/1933
Itzhak Perlman 8/31/1945 Edgar Rice Bu rroughs 9/1/18 75
Joseph Kennedy 9/6/1888 Grandma Moses 9/7/1860
Arnold Palmer 9/10/1929 Sid Caesar 9/8/1922
 Virgo 165

Alan Jay Lemer 8/32/1918 Frankie Avalon 9/18/1939

Anne Bancroft 9/17/1931 James Fenimore 9/15/1789
Cooper

np • -j

Virac five
"The Champion Cheerleader"

tw* 5+ KP- 3-
Perceptive Versatile High-strung Impatient
Elmquent Active Compulsive Sharp-tongued
Cultivated Quick-witted Mercurial Reckless
Erudite Energetic

Virgo Fives are the ail-American boys and girls next door
who ran away for the day to the big city in search of adven-
ture at the ripe old age of twelve. Sure, you might have
employed a little deception to earn the bus fare. That aw-
shucks, gosh-and-golly demeanor opened plenty of doors
when you were collecting money for UNICEF; were you to
blame if your benefactors didn't notice the box was just a
sawed-off milk carton with a photo cut and pasted from an
ad for Save the Children? Of course, back home safely, your
highly ethical nature asserts itself (you could define super-
ego even then!), and to atone you contribute your next
month's allowance to those needy children. Anyway, you
were a kid with a deserving cause: you had an unquench-
able thirst for experience! You didn't have to go far to find
it, and still don't. You don't look for trouble, mind you, but
trouble has an odd habit of seeking you out, just to chal-
lenge you and spur you to greater heights.
It's not that you have a criminal mind; far from it. But
when you're good, you're very, very good, and when you're
bad, you get away with murder. It's that sweet appearance;
even when you get caught you're so irresistible with a corn-
back that people relent, collapsing in laughter. Face it,
you're as cute and funny as a chimp with hiccups. Your
166 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

parents learned fast that grounding you had no effect; you

climbed nimbly out the window and shimmied down the
drainpipe to freedom.
The searching nature of the Five combines with your ex-
acting Virgo side to create a formidable, searchlight intellect.
You illuminate the dark corners of human behavior, includ-
ing your own. You can help others understand what moti-
vates or inhibits them. Five makes you a freewheeling,
spirited free spirit, while Virgo protects you from running
completely wild and contributes remarkable self-control.
You come across as fiercely independent, trenchantly witty,
and shrewdly intelligent; but you're the kind of tough cookie
who crumbles at the sight of the less fortunate.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Because you're both hot-blooded and detached, you date

several people simultaneously or engage in multiple affairs.
You adopt the classic rationale that since it means nothing
to you, you needn't even mention your occasional indiscre-
tions. Though most Virgos are neatniks, many can go to the
opposite extreme, becoming the sloppiest pigs imaginable.
This sometimes applies to sex, as well. Hence, with some
Virgo Fives it's always feast or famine, filling the gap be-
tween them by first wallowing in transports of joy, then
ecstasies of guilt. You're not a sex maniac, you just have a
healthy appetite for touch that requires release. When you
marry, you generally settle down, as long as you have a
honey who can keep up on every level. Your mate will
probably be as much of a handful as you are; you might
find yourself playing the domestic role and liking it!
Though not a natural parent, you'll be a real friend to
your kids, genuinely enjoying their company (once they've
begun to string words together). Eternally curious yourself,
you'll buy them a computer rather than Easy-Bake ovens
and Air Nikes.

Money and Career

Five endows you with quicksilver wit and networking

aplomb while Virgo provides steadiness and dedication.
 Virgo 167

You re a comic commando, whether onstage or at the office.

You're a supreme motivator, joking people out of bad
moods, sparking their enthusiasm. If you had the patience,
you'd be a fine manager. But you're no stuffed shirt: you
don't want to appear like the first herky-jerky generation of
robots filing out of the office dutifully. Still, you're a surpris-
ingly hard worker when the job intrigues you. Advertising,
magazine editing, and telecommunications could keep you
in one place. Your vibrant, singular humor, always based
on detailed observation of human behavior, makes you a
scintillating comedy writer. Sitcoms and stand-up are really
your metier. You also love being on the road and on the
move, so regional salesperson, travel agent, athletic coach,
and performer are other appealing options.

The HP5 Potential

A fireball of energy and enthusiasm, you have that je ne

sais quoi appeal that leaves them shaking their heads in
wonder every time. You can stimulate others to bring out
their nonconformist streak as well as their tiptop perfor-
mance. You exist to promote individuality in everyone. The
world's a far more interesting place, isn't it, when people
let their hair down? But don't be disappointed or pushy if
people don't respond. After all, a stick-in-the-mud can serve
as another kind of guidepost entirely.

FAMOUS VIRGO FIVES

Lily Tomlin 9/1/1939 Lauren Bacall 9/16/1924
Gloria Estefan 9/1/1957 Tommy Lasorda 9/22/1927
Alfred Knopf 9/12/1913 Jeremy Irons 9/19/1948
168 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

np • e

Vlrgc Six

"The Habitual Helpmate'

np+ 6+ np- 6-
Dutiful Truthful Nitpicking Hypersensitive
Trustworthy Obliging Meddling Outspoken
Honest Kind Crabby Complaining
Respectable Responsible

There's no other word for it: Virgo Six is a nag. But you're
the most ideal, lovable, perfect nag imaginable. You typify
that Virgo and Six ideal of service to others; in this case,
multiply service by obsession and what do you get? Fetish.
It's only because you hate to see wasted opportunities and
potential and, like the army, urge loved ones to "be all you
can be." Of course, sometimes your criticism of others is an
outward manifestation of your own deep insecurities: are
you worthy of your great mission (even if it's just taking out
the trash)?
You can't help being a worrywart. Pity your poor kid
when he or she breaks curfew by an hour; the earnest,
heartfelt lecture about phoning home so you won't call the
cops can wait until breakfast. A health fanatic, you're sweetly
hypochondriacal by extension, to friends and family. "I
know it's just a freckle, Jane, but I wish you'd let my derma-
tologist take a look." "A back spasm? You shouldn't take
chances, Jeff, my chiropractor performs miracles. And while
I still reserve judgment on alternative medicine, I happen to
have the numbers of a Rolfer, a homeopath, and a Chinese
herbalist." Your friends have long since learned resistance
is futile.
Yours is the Julie McCoy, Love Boat cruise director ap-
proach to life. Is everybody happy? Is everybody active? The
spawn of Batman's Boy Wonder and the chirpiest cheer-
leader in high school, you see yourself as an old-fashioned
Western hero(ine), coolly riding off into the sunset after you
vanquished the bad guys in a blazing shootout. Even though
 Virgo 169

there may not be many evil Dodge Cities to clean up, no-
body's faster on the draw to help those in need.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

No one is more well intentioned than a Virgo Six in love.

This can be a double-edged sword, since you have an over-
inflated sense of responsibility. The lovely thing is that
words like obligation and duty don't frighten you as they
do many others. Feeling wanted is all well and good, but
you need to be needed. In fact, someone else's neediness,
preferably concealed behind a deceptively independent fa-
cade, is an aphrodisiac.
You often select partners who are stormy, flamboyant,
and, well, unreliable. They expect you to articulate their
repressed feelings for them. You exhaust so much energy
fussing over others that you have no time to analyze your
own motives and determine whether this might really be the
one or just another toad.
You go into situations expecting to be hurt, which doesn't
exactly create an atmosphere conducive to a thriving, devel-
oping relationship. Strive to find your equal, someone as
intelligent, affectionate, and imaginative as you. Consider
role-playing, in and out of bed, to work through problems,
even expose a few of those slightly kinky thoughts of mild
bondage. Then you're less likely to find yourself psychologi-
cally enslaved.

Money and Career

Your idealism compels you to make a difference in the

world. Part of you is perfectly content taking care of your
own, leading an unobtrusive life. Yet you also realize in-
stinctively that you can't give all that love to just a few peo-
ple; the world can gorge on the substantial leftovers. The
market for super-hero(ine)s being somewhat limited, you
become a crusader sans cape. Forming or heading charities
(soup kitchen or homeless shelter perhaps), education, and
medicine are possibilities. If you enjoy working with your
hands, horticulture and catering will please you. The arts
also beckon. Any Virgo Six performer will express the
170 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

yearning underneath the exterior, allowing the audience

emotional, even cathartic, release. Writers will likely be con-
cerned with social justice, the psychology of misfits, and the
future's unlimited potential. As for moola, it's only good
for improving your home and contributing to your pet
causes. Your donations of money as well as time will be
considerable.

The TIP6 Potential

The epitome of good taste and proper grooming, the dis-

penser of wise counsel: you're a perfectionist in an all-too-
imperfect world. But as a result you hold yourself—and the
people you love—to impossibly high standards. The moral?
It's a fine line between duty and responsibility and obliga-
tions and burdens. Hey, nobody ever asked you to plan this
party called Life, then load the dishwasher and empty the
ashtrays. You can ask for help, you know. (Just stop harp-
ing, for goodness sake, your mother can shampoo her
own carpets.)

FAMOUS VIRGO SIXES

Michael Jackson 8/29/1958 Greta Garbo 9/18/1905
Stephen King 9/21/1947 H.G. Wells 9/21/1866
Agatha Christie 9/15/1890 Twiggy 9/19/1949

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Virgc Seven

"The Academic Aeslhele"

TIP+ 7+ TIP- 7-
Rejined Knowledgeable Pedantic Detached
Patrician Truth-seeking Overanalytical Secretive
Orderly Dignified Supercilious Suspicious
Self-controlled Scholarly

You live in an exquisite ivory tower, an impregnable fortress

of the mind that you've painstakingly constructed since
 Virgo 171

childhood. Your aloofness is your allure; people want to

pierce that seemingly inscrutable, impenetrable facade.
You're incredibly desirable and coolly, devastatingly sexy,
which fools people into assuming that banked fires must
exist within. You do have tremendous intensity and pent-up
energy, but hide it even from yourself.
You project an air of total self-sufficiency, with your
Dewey decimal library and your latest high-tech gadgetry.
You're intimately acquainted with mirror-gazing; you're not
vain (although you can't resist a bit of fluffing and primp-
ing), you're merely staring into and beyond yourself, hoping
to uncover the most hidden aspects of your personality. This
does amount to a certain kind of self-absorbed snob-
bishness, though you're so democratic you probably have
an argument on the tip of your tongue as you read this.
You wield a sly, self-deprecating wit. When it pleases you,
you can be quite charming, even lovable, and there's some-
thing so noble about the way you condescend to descend
from that tower to mingle. People are hooked before they
realize it; they never suspect that you might be angling for
tenure. Yet you're hardly an ivory chess piece; underneath,
a poetic knight in shining armor struggles to break free. The
problem is, you rarely reveal that side, confiding your inti-
mate innermost thoughts to your diary. Perhaps the solution
is to leave it out as obtrusively as you dare and let your
loved one read it. (You, of course, are above such tawdry
temptation, but recognize most others aren't.)

Love, Sex, and Marriage

It can't be said that you make the ideal mate or parent,

and these traditional roles probably don't interest you much.
Your idea of stroking is a deft keyboard; you prefer interfac-
ing over face-to-face encounters. To you a beautifully bound
hardcover feels as sensuous as soft, perfumed skin. You'd
probably be perfectly happy conducting various affairs over
the Internet; it's so much neater that way.
Your affairs are controlled and orderly, just the way you
like it. You tend to hold your lovers at arm's length in a
vise; in your odd, detached way you'll never really let any-
172 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

one leave your life. You dm love and want it in return, but
on your own terms. Sometimes you'll deliberately pick a
messy partner; your surface reality is, aha, someone to take
apart and fix, but the deeper truth is, you envy that animate-
ness. Let yourself relax and enjoy it. People leave you only
if you refuse to communicate and listen rather than lecture.
When you finally make the effort to reach out, it's with the
awkwardness of learning gleaned from books, not real life.
Still you try: your birthday gift to yourself might well be The
Joy of Sex, but it's like following a recipe. Throw the tomes
and disks away and intuit your partner's needs, as well as
your own, more.

Money and Career

You're perfectly suited to a free-lance career or a job

allowing you to work primarily out of your home. Wherever
you work, you carve out your own little study/workplace
anyway, a retreat from the hustle and bustle. The phone,
fax, and computer suffice for interpersonal dealings. You
love puzzling out problems and delight in minute analysis
of human behavior. You have a deft hand for mystery writ-
ing, as well as troubleshooting. You're a computer whiz, so
you could easily hack designing or safeguarding new sys-
tems and programs. Psychiatrist, essayist, medical reseacher,
philosopher, editor, mathematician, inventor, dean, judge,
film director, and television commentator are other apt
choices. You can also become a musician of rare depth;
melody automatically soothes you, and you enjoy the ab-
stract task of making the notes connect and flow. About the
only professions you avoid are those requiring manual labor;
you much prefer mental gymnastics.

The TP? Potential

Remember that for all their acuity and analytic prowess,

Virgo Sevens can have a blind spot about their own actions
and a surprising unwillingness to change their spots. Exer-
cise total detachment and try to see yourself as others do.
Meditate occasionally to relax your overactive mind. You
project incredible containment, concentration, and serenity,
 Virgo 173

which you can share with the world, but the key is express-
ing your feelings more often. You don't have to leave that
tower, just invite people in for a soiree or two.

FAMOUS VIRGO SEVENS

Hugh Grant 9/9/1960 Leonard Bernstein 8/25/1918
Peter Sellers 9/8/1925 Harry Connick Jr. 9/11/1967
Margaret Sanger 9/14/1883 Tuesday Weld 8/27/1943

TIP • 8

Virgc Eisht
"The Organized Opeialor"

TIP+ 8+ TTP- 8-
Disciplined Poised Obsessive In tense
Clear-thinking No-nonsense Overmtional Overstriving
Self-reliant Efficient Fastidious Indecisive
Shrewd Global view

Leave the rat race to the rats: a Virgo Eight places the ro-
dents in a maze to observe their behavior. You're not the
type to dig the trenches: that risks digging a hole for your-
self. Your security depends on your maneuverability. Not for
you the front lines of battle: you're much happier and more
effective strategizing back at military headquarters.
No one is better at being calculating without being calcu-
lating. You know instinctually how to balance everything
from budgets to commitments. People look up to you auto-
matically, without asking why. You radiate authority, profi-
ciency, confidence, and that underrated trait, competence.
You're not a big talker, yet you carry a big say in community
affairs and business negotiations.
This doesn't make you an automaton. You always find
time to listen to others' troubles, dispensing good cheer and
even better advice. Unless, of course, you think they're dog-
ging it. Then you read the riot act about how you can't
afford to slack off in a dog-eat-dog world. You play the rah-
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rah coach, but ultimately you know it's all up to them. Car-
ried to the extreme, you'll let someone start drowning in
order to teach him to swim. "Sink or swim" sounds like a
harsh philosophy, but you believe in natural selection and
survival of the fittest. It's never enough to stay afloat: you've
got to dive in and touch the finish line first, then celebrate.
Beneath that stem facade, you genuinely see the beauty, or
at least purpose, in everything and everyone. No animal is
too ugly (in fact, the homelier it is, the more your heart
swells), no murderer too vicious (don't people understand
what an abusive childhood can do?). You shower attention
and quiet affection everywhere. Your word is your bond,
and not the junk variety.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Though devoted and constant, you're a handful. Love al-

most always takes a backseat to work; moreover, you're not
the type to tolerate backseat driving in your life. Still, you
learned pretty early what the backseat of the family Ford
was for. You can go long periods between love affairs, a
camel in the romantic desert not by choice, but because you
don't allow yourself a free moment. Even friends and family
can feel merely incidental in your life. In that case, use your
superhuman efficiency and organizational ability if you have
to, and jot down reminders to call people in your Day-Timer.
You want a partner but won't enter into a relationship
just for the sake of being in one. You don't have the time
or inclination to date around or, worse, go through a messy
divorce. You like that part of your life settled so you can
get on with business; indeed you might insist on a pre-
nuptial agreement. Which doesn't make you a cold fish:
quite the contrary, if you find the right one, you'll fight like
a salmon swimming upstream to spawn. But you are picky.
When someone appeals to you, you switch gears immedi-
ately, pitching woo as well as you pitch a deal. Your sex
life is intense yet private. No one would suspect how invit-
ing your lap can be once you've put down the laptop.
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Money and Career

Your business acumen is extraordinary. Your ideal situa-

tion would be as an integral cog, an indispensable team
player, in a top executive position. You don't necessarily
want all the responsibility, although people will probably
beg you to assume it. You're happiest running your own
department, preferably in an unstructured company that per-
mits you maximum latitude in decision making. Of course,
you'll step up and in if someone is running his or her own
section into the ground. No one has a better sense of how
all the parts fit in an organization. With your long-range
vision you'll work diligently to move up the ladder. You're
not a gambler. All your risks are calculated to within five
decimal points; it's a safe bet that even if you did lose your
shirt on one deal, you have plenty more in the wardrobe.
Your intellect is readily applied to the arts as well. Even
as a performer, you'll have clear ideas of how everything
should be run, and have sure instincts for producing or act-
ing as an agent. Your most successful creative pursuits often
revolve around the topic of power and its abuses or fanati-
cism of some sort.

The HPS Potential

Your immediate grasp of the whole picture and cool grace

under pressure quietly dazzle. You'll never sacrifice your
beliefs, or for that matter, anyone else's, to fit in. You project
an aura of being upscale yet down-home in all your personal
and professional dealings, which earns you respect and ad-
miration. In many ways, you're a reluctant hero(ine), yet
your shoulders can carry the weight of the world. You often
find yourself in situations were you're either held up as a
role model or come under attack for your policies. You
never waver from your course, teaching others a valuable
lesson in dignity and conviction.

FAMOUS VIRGO EIGHTS

Joan Lunden 9/19/1951 Richard Gere 8/31/1949
Ingrid Bergman 8/29/1915 Tommy Lee Jones 9/15/1946
Oliver Stone 9/15/1946 Claudette Colbert 9/13/1905
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np • 9

Virge Nine
"The Versalile Visionary'

np+ 9+ np-
Cultured Imaginative Nervous Critical
Respectful Spiritual Reticent Unsympathetic
Dedicated Entertaining Fussy Bitter
Thorough Careless

Possessed of impeccable timing, you've always chosen your

moments carefully for maximum impact. There you were,
six months old, your parents despairingly wringing their
hands over the crib; little John/Jane hasn't said a word, not
one single gaga! Thirty-odd years later, Mom and Dad are
still relating the moment you suddenly unleashed a perfectly
formed sentence. It was probably something along the lines
of "Get everyone else in here: you ain't heard nothin' yet!"
You have a bit of the magician about you, with an eternal
rabbit in your hat. You're a clever sleight-of-hand artist intel-
lectually, able to fool people into thinking you're doing or
saying the exact opposite of what you intend. You love en-
tertaining people and enjoy the good life. You'd happily
open a restaurant, where you could hold court, dispensing
good advice and great grub to all and sundry.
You're the kind of person often described as striking or
dashing; you're not always classically attractive, yet you
command attention. You make an unforgettable impression;
it's your dignified bearing, almost dandified style, warm bon-
homie, not to mention your far-ranging Jeopardy-type
smarts, and the devilish gleam in your eye. Yet underneath
you may hide a secret sorrow, since the world and your life
rarely meet your expectations. That, of course, only makes
you even more mysteriously appealing to others. You really
yearn to make the world a better place, but often despair
of how to do it. You may not realize it, but Virgo Nine is a
healer. Oh, not with snake shows and laying on of hands
and mumbo jumbo, but rather the restorative power of art,
or a fine meal, something that reinvigorates the soul.
 Virgo 177

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You can invent a million excuses not to marry (human

beings are not inherently monogamous, love can't last, look
at the divorce rate), then another million why you shouldn't
have children (the world's already dangerously overcrowded
and we haven't learned how to harvest the seas hydroponi-
cally for extra sustenance, so why would you want to bring
another life into this messy, messed-up world?). But it's
mostly show; besides, you're quite fastidious in your choice
of mate. You can be struck quite hard by the love bug, but
the disease can only progress to a chronic stage when a firm
friendship has been established; in fact, you're quite good
at remaining pals with your exes.
You have a deep need for companionship and want
someone around, but only when it suits you. Just when
they're feeling lovey-dovey, you realize there's so much re-
search to be done! Your combustible combo of intimacy and
indifference drives you to passionate pursuit, but once
you've captured your prey, your mind if not your heart
strays. Love's all well and good, but what about work? Ironi-
cally, you often meet your mate through business. The ideal
situation is that you work together on various short-term
projects, then leave each other to sundry devices.

Money and Career

You have a calming, almost hypnotic effect on people,

with a quietly compelling manner. Genuinely empathetic,
you enjoy drawing them out. This encourages others to trust
you instantly, which also means they let their guard down.
Any surprise that psychologist, trial lawyer, and talk-show
host are leading Virgo Nine professions? Medicine is another
forte; you have just the right mixture of compassion and
objectivity to be a successful surgeon, albeit the type who
blasts the Stones in the operating room. Your dramatic flair
and dry wit make you a superlative actor. Any meet-and-
greet occupation such as nightclub entertainer or restaura-
teur is right up your alley as well.
Money runs through your fingers. You're accustomed in
living in style and you love picking up the bill for your
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twenty closest hangers-on. Nor can you resist a friend in

need. Try to put a little aside every month, preferably in a
hard-to-reach place.

The m Potential

You're a strikingly amiable, approachable human being,

which endears you to everyone. You're the ideal confidant,
with a natural gift for getting people to open up. You have
a marvelously sneaky, playful wit, at odds with your rather
stylish yet proper appearance. You can also tap into your
psychic ability and become a medium not for raising ghosts
and purging poltergeists, but rather for chasing away the
nagging hobgoblins of insecurity that affect us all.

FAMOUS VIRGO NEVES

Ricki Lake 9/21/1968 Samuel Golduyn 8/27/1882
Colonel Sanders 9/9/1890 Jane Curtin 9/6/1947
Bill Murray 9/21/1950 Phil Jackson 9/17/1945
 £1 • 1

Libra €ne
"The Active Artiste"

1+ 1-
Polished Pioneering Self-Centered
Glamorous Trend-setting Underachieving Domineering
Attentive Energetic Self-absorbed Flashy
Dapper Assertive

Even if you're not conventionally attractive, you're the Cu-

nard of dreamboats. You possess an indefinable aura, that
je ne sais quoi that most mortals, mouths agape, call striking
or just plain old-fashioned glamorous. You avidly pursue
anything that makes you healthy, wealthy, and wise; your
concern with beautifying yourself and your surroundings
may come across as vain, but you know you're here to pro-
ject your positive self-image to others.
One pushes Libra to realize its Cardinal assertiveness.
You're a battler, though your weapon of choice is cajolery
rather than threats. You can bring someone around to your
point of view, expending no more energy than lifting a glass
of bubbly to toast your new venture together. If necessary,
180 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

you're able to express your anger better than many Libras,

which is actually quite healthy for all your relationships.
Meanwhile Libra's refinement and One's rational approach
ensure the scene will rarely be stormy and melodramatic.
(You abhor being dragged down to the knock-down-drag-
out level of fighting.) And you'll always listen, of course, to
their side, even if you have no intention of compromising
your principles or agendas.
You have a salon mentality and enjoy bringing the right
people together at your undoubtedly palatial home. You're
a big party planner, whether a small, intimate dinner for
your twelve closest friends and business associates, replete
with place cards, or an Oscar bash for one hundred with
ballots and a huge pot. Of course, you select the guest list
with maximum care. You're aware that business is best trans-
acted in a pleasant environment; the bonus is that it makes
socializing a write-off.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You're a dashing dilettante with your choice of prospec-

tive partners. Settling down becomes a priority for you, since
it's one less thing you can check off on your busy schedule.
Anyway, who can keep all the names straight? Your Libran
need for partnership and One need for primacy make find-
ing your equal a number priority. You want a true give-and-
take, but relationships are never 50/50; if the seesaw teeters
to 52/48, it offends your sense of what's right. Like all Li-
brans, you'll run a hundred-yard dash from confrontation.
But you can't run away from your own emotions. Every so
often, you'll feel anger, mistrust, jealousy—all of which
come into conflict with your view of The Way Things Should
Be. Still, the cool, rational approach actually works best with
you. You like to discuss problems like reasonable adults;
throwing vases and slamming doors will never be your style.
As you mature, you learn to look beyond the surface ap-
peal and see the person within. But on some level, appear-
ances, deceiving as they may be, do count in your world.
Everything, including your mate, is designed to show off
your undeniably superior taste. Your partner for life must
 Libra 181

also be intelligent, witty, charming, and refined: essentially

your mirror image. He or she must play the role of social,
supportive spouse to the hilt; after all, a party can only be
as successful as its cohosl.

Money and Career

Whoever first claimed "Image is everything" must have

been, or been burned by, a Libra One. You know how to
mold bodies: consider cosmetics, fitness, fashion, plastic sur-
gery, and photography (you bring out the contrast of light
and shadow and every angle, whether of architecture or
cheekbones) as potential bonanzas. Don't ignore politics;
your combination of tact and authority has tremendous pub-
lic appeal and, more important, helps broker or break deals.
Knowing how to present yourself doesn't hurt; you could
also mold other careers as a media consultant or policy ad-
viser. Thoroughly at ease in the power structure, you can
play everything from diplomat or social secretary to acidic
chronicler of the latest hip scene.
You enjoy spending money; you see it as a sign of not
only success but power. You're a thoroughbred clothes-
horse, though the closest you get to a real horse is probably
Polo Ralph Lauren. You're on intimate terms with every chic
boutique salesperson and salon hairstylist on Fifth Avenue
and Rodeo Drive. They know what you like and also pro-
vide a most reliable source of information.

The -^1 Potential

You possess an almost eerie ability to transform yourself

into the flavor of the moment. It's that soft, gushy Libra side
commingled with the dynamic One influence. You're a tasty
dish that everyone wants to taste, and don't you know it.
You excel at introducing people, making contacts, and ini-
tialing projects, not only for yourself but your very large,
immediate, ever-expanding circle. The old saw about a
stranger being a friend you haven't met yet is your credo;
well, some of them are relegated to acquaintance status. You
can't have time for everybody, though you certainly try.
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FAMOUS LIBRA ONES

Alicia Silverstone 10/4/1976 Sting 10/2/1951
Suzanne Somers 10/16/1946 Truman Capote 9/30/1924
Charlton Heston 10/4/1922 Elizabeth Hurley 10/6/1965

• 2

Libra Twc

"The Deft Diplomat"

2+ 2-
Balanced Diplomatic Vacillating Indecisive
Well-mannered Sociable Inactive Timid
Prudent Companionable Overdependent Quarrelsome
Adaptable Compassionate

Being a Libra Two endows you with double the charm,

grace, tact, and appreciation of beauty and justice both Li-
brans and Twos possess in abundance. Indeed, you're one
of the most pleasing packages anyone's likely to run across.
No one is more adept at the art of apparent compromise.
You'll nod, flatter, and cajole, knowing instinctively where
to give in on minor details to ensure you achieve your ulti-
mate goal. In the midst of a heated policy debate, you'll
wait for an angry silence, then sweetly, tentatively offer,
"You know, I might have a solution." And you'll make ev-
eryone else feel it was their idea to begin with in the
bargain(ing).
Sometimes those carefully calibrated scales feel more like
a seesaw. Your greatest fear is that you're a mere people
pleaser. You can inwardly torture yourself: are you genu-
inely sincere, generous, and openhearted or do you simply
act that way because you want people to like you? Well, let's
put it this way. you are obsessively giving—and anyway, we
all want to be appreciated! That misplaced guilt can only
create a reservoir of repressed anger and frustration.
Truth is, you're so scrupulous that even your own highly
developed value system can come into conflict. You adore
 Libra 183

luxury, yet disdain frivolity: do you buy that mink or donate

your Christmas bonus to PETA? You can be equally indeci-
sive—sorry, fair and balanced—in choosing a restaurant
("well, A's closer to the theater, but B has that hot new chef;
of course, C's ambience is more pleasant, though D has a
better prix fixe menu. . . ."), so imagine what intellectual
and emotional cartwheels a major life choice triggers. Still,
for all your sweetness and light, you're ready, willing, and
able to make war in order to preserve the peace, since
you're more concerned with reaching the right conclusion
than with being right. You'll sooner walk away from other-
wise happy relationships or profitable alliances than sacrifice
your convictions; you secretly smile at the astounded look
on people's faces when they discover for the first time how
surprisingly stubborn you can be.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Oh my, do you listen, making the appropriate grunts of

affirmation and dispensing sage advice when the seven-
teenth friend calls that day to bitch and moan. Obviously
this makes you mighty appealing as a partner. And an equal
partner you must be, in all your relationships, to be truly
happy. You're just as afraid of intimacy as anyone else, fear-
ing your identity will be subsumed in your partner's. That's
why you need an equally sensitive mate, but one more in
synch with life's practical side. You can become quite de-
pendent, and if you're not careful, co-dependent.
You relish each small detail of dating, remembering the
first box of chocolates, even fondly recalling the first silly tiff
over which movie to see. You love long drives to absolutely
nowhere; let's pack the picnic hamper with champagne
flutes and the second-best china and skedaddle! Emotionally
you're the same way; you see life with someone as an end-
less journey. You don't mind tangents or side routes and
can exceed the speed limit or slow to a crawl. You're gener-
ally content to let your partner dictate the pace, and become
easily attuned to his or her rhythms. Ironically, this makes
you seem so obliging and easygoing that people project
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their needs—and fears—onto you, but you'll manage to

draw the line where they can take advantage.

Money and Career

You realize "all the world's a stage," and whatever your

career, will assume the roles of actor, politician, and good-
will ambassador. For all your diplomatic skills, you're best
off negotiating behind the scenes since overt confrontations
or backstabbing office politics on a daily basis fray your
nerves. You'll often gravitate toward an artistic or even ath-
letic career that allows you to express your deep feelings or
at least bum off that considerable nervous energy.
You appreicate little niceties, preferring hospitable sur-
roundings, and will set aside part of your paycheck to buy
a delicate miniature watercolor or seventeenth-century
Buddha that you can contemplate when you need to relax.
You'll ensure that your work space, even the smallest cubi-
cle, is a peaceful oasis and home away from home, with
your favorite mug, African violet pot, and whimsical decora-
tive touches that softly whisper, "Me."

The -^2 Potential

Take a cue from Nike and JUST DO IT! You can grab that
brass ring and swing from it as artfully as any gymnast.
You're so concerned with everything being fair and right
that you can cause yourself untold suffering. The truth is,
the world isn't always fair, and you can't change that. Focus
on those areas of your life where your sense of balance and
harmony really can make a difference. The choice is yours:
eternal indecision or a muscular sense of justice. Learn to
do what makes you happy first. Only by taking initiative
and making decisions will you satisfy both others' needs and
your own, encouraging everyone to understand one anoth-
er's point of view.

FAMOUS LIBRA TWOS

Julie Andrews 10/1/1935 Kevin Sorbo 9/24/1958
George C. Scott 10/18/1927 Paul Simon 10/13/1941
Greer Garson 9/29/1908 Marie Osmond 10/13/1959
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^ • 3

Libra Three

"The Inspired Socialite"

3+ 3-
Sauve Convivial Social-climbing Scatterbrained
Artistic Easy-going Fickle Flirtatious
Gracious Artistic Superficial Sycophantic
Discriminating Romantic

You may be a social butterfly, but ah, what iridescent colors

you flash as you flutter about. Gracious and gregarious,
you're a born raconteur and effortless networker. You have
impeccable taste and a keen eye for beauty. There's no de-
nying you love the high life; you can be easily seduced by
la dolce vita. The wealthy, powerful, and merely famous
hold an eternal fascination for you. Though you'd never
admit it, you're an avid gossip-page reader; Vanity Fair isn't
just your favorite magazine, it's your lifestyle choice. You're
an incisive observer of the social scene and sharply feel the
disparity between classes and stations in life; as fellow Libra
, Three F. Scott Fitzgerald wryly noted, "The rich are different
from you and me."
You're fittingly Gatsbyesque, reinventing yourself for each
new crowd, a chameleon who adapts to any given situation.
Those who enviously watch you smoothly negotiate a party
may find your gift of gab and penchant for flattery hypocriti-
cal, sniping you're a social climber, even a parasite. You're
not. But if you can't say anything nice, you don't say any-
thing at all, well aware you catch more flies with honey than
vinegar. Besides, you genuinely look for the positive side,
and no matter what, contribute an aura of style, class, ele-
gance, and a wicked wit to your surroundings.
You can reach Himalayan heights without huffing or puff-
ing; at the very least you have the most fashionable oxygen
mask. No Trappist monk, you know how to enjoy the trap-
pings of a lavish lifestyle. Most important, you want to share
the spoils with others, especially your one and only. After
all, it's much more fun sipping champagne from someone
186 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

else's slipper. Well, as long as it's glass and hasn't been

worn yet.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

In romance, Libra Threes float on fluffy little clouds. You

believe in the ideal of courtly love; only you could transform
that stripper at a bachelor(ette) party into a medieval trouba-
dour serenading the crowd with ballads. You equate old-
fashioned with glamorous. You'd gladly trade in that three-
piece suit for a waistcoat or petticoat, while camisoles and
bodices (that rip easily, of course) intrigue you. Without
even trying, you radiate a fragile, ethereal charm that makes
men and women alike want to rush to your aid; in a world
where most people prefer playing the shining knight, re-
gardless of gender, you're coyly content to play the damsel
in distress, no matter how politically incorrect the role has
become.
Loneliness threatens you; you ache for someone to
bounce ideas off of and act the straight (wo)man at parties.
If you're single, you probably have a date every night of the
week; you should learn how to be alone with yourself.
Needless to say, you pamper your amour du jour silly. And
the sex? Wait, it's always "making love," since you manufac-
ture an aura of romance around an obvious one-night stand.
Anyway, a Libra Three probably invented foreplay. You per-
form the act so exquisitely, it's practically torture, like being
teased with thousands of feathers on every erogenous zone
simultaneously.

Money and Career

Libra Threes are naturally attracted to the best things in

life; you're all too aware they're not really free, as the song
claims. Anything that puts you among beautiful objects and
beautiful people is a potential gold mine: acting, fashion,
interior design, celebrity biographer, gossip columnist, and
hairdresser to the stars top the list. You're driven to succeed
so you can lavish yourself and loved ones with lovely little
trinkets. You could even become rich by proxy; those atten-
tions could pay dividends in a hefty inheritance. But if you
 Libra 187

don't have money or real estate, it doesn't really matter. You

know that as long as you're a witty conversationalist, there
will always be a place at the dinner tables of the rich and
famous. Just take care; shopping is your favorite form of
exercise. Money can run through your fingers as they walk
through the Yellow Pages.

The ^3 Potential

You're both the perfect host and the ideal guest, with a
remarkable gift for bringing taste, wit, and style to any gath-
ering. So why restrict yourself to the social and professional
arenas? Don't waste that ability to create beauty and har-
mony wherever you go on superficial pursuits. Use your
talents to help others. You can throw the ball where the
prince meets his Cinderella while donating the crown jewels
to charity. Or by chronicling celebrity doings, you can satisfy
people's hunger for gossip, yet with your acute insight, help
them understand that all that glitters is not gold. As the origi-
nal golden boy and girl, who'd know better?

FAMOUS LIBRA THREES

Gore Vidal 10/3/1925 Gwyneth Paltrow 9/28/1973
Groucbo Marx 10/2/1890 Montgomery Clift 10/17/1920
Helen Hayes 10/10/1900 Johnny Mat his 9/30/1935
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 10/21/1772 Niels Bohr 10/7/1885
Thelonious Monk 10/10/1918 Lillian Gish 10/14/1896
Barbara Walters 9/25/1931
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Libra Four
"Ilie Praclical Oieamer

4+
Persuasive Stable Waffling Lazy
Discerning Diligent Mooching Contrary
Even-tempered Ethical Manipulative Too busy
Equitable Systematic

You can juggle several projects while dealing with four

blinking phone lines, three yapping Chihuahuas, two miser-
able teenagers who flunked chemistry and cheerleading,
and one irate mate who can't find the remote control. You
stay the course and go with the flow, no matter how choppy
or whitecapped it may be. Four stabilizes the Libran oscilla-
tion and vacillation; instead of a wildly pinging EEG, with
Himalayan peaks and valleys, yours gently undulates like a
rippling pond. You convey the same tranquillity and grace
under pressure in every situation. You weigh the pros and
cons, evaluate each side, and examine every angle before
pronouncing judgment. You strike a balance between truth
at all costs and seeing the world through rose-colored
glasses. You never lie, but you can sidestep issues adroitly
when your interests are at stake. Then you play one party
against another to buy time. You're hardly indecisive, but
instead can be decisive about so many important conflict-
ing matters.
For all your style and love of tradition, you have a daffy
side. You'll use that Chippendale chair as an ironing board,
or top the Louis XVI marble commode with issues of Archi-
tectural Digest, House and Garden, and GQ. You don't like
anything or anyone cheap and vulgar, though you can tell
a pretty mean dirty joke with an absolutely angelic expres-
sion. You deserve a halo for your cool, calm, collected, com-
posed manner in an emergency. You handle nuclear attack
and your baby's diaper rash with equal poise.
 Libra 189

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Four calms the typical Libran flits and flutters. You don't
believe that love makes the world go round, merely that it
makes the ride enjoyable. Oh, you can be swept off your
feet by a grand passion; but once your head reaches the
clouds, your feet are firmly planted again. You're loving,
attentive, and sincere, but you don't let fantasies interfere
with the daily grind. You won't sit by the phone waiting for
the call, or cancel dinner with friends because your latest
squeeze dialed at the last minute. In fact, you hate games:
playing hard to get, making yourself unavailable. Please!
You're open, straight forward, and eternally surprised oth-
ers aren't.
Just because you're dating doesn't mean you've made a
lifetime commitment. You are willing to make a commitment
to discovering what's there, follow it through. You're too
busy to date several people at a time; what's the big deal,
spending a few months getting to know someone, finding
out if this is the right one. You know everyone has intimacy
issues; let's deal with them when they arise rather than freak
about moving in together after five dates. You figure if you
worry too much about the past and future, you won't enjoy
the present.

Money and Career

No one surpasses you at fostering a spirit of teamwork;

even a chief executive Libra Four knows how to set an ex-
ample by rolling up the sleeves and sweating. Nothing fazes
you. You're a genius at throwing off someone's equilibrium
with a carefully calibrated plan of attack; your questions
seem so innocent, yet you're sizing up the competition.
Equally nimble with your wit and hands, you're a clever
designer of anything from furs to furniture. You bring inspi-
ration and perspiration to all your undertakings. When your
Libran enchantment and creative ability meet your Four
structure, they result in a blissful artistic pairing, whether in
acting, writing, singing, or dancing. Your work is stylish yet
accessible, that rare commercial and critical hit. That same
critical eye is fitting for scientific research; you see the sim-
190 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

pie elegance of the electron. You're a strong, capable leader

in politics and business; and your strong, capable body is
built for endurance sports.

The £14 Potential

There's no pinnacle you can't attain. You're blessed with

the invincible duo of Libra charm and Four pragmatism. The
former opens doors, the latter keeps you in that cushy
leather catbird seat. You never seem to lose your cool, re-
maining steady, unruffled, and annoyingly disarming, mak-
ing your points with firm charm. Your scales are beautifully
balanced; that equableness and equilibrium set an example
for everyone you meet. Don't be surprised if you end up
baby-sitting the world, including the adults, or at least hold-
ing their hands through life's thunder and lightning.

FAMOUS LIBRA FOURS

Sarah Ferguson, 10/15/1959 Will Smith 9/25/1968
Duchess of York Michael Crichton 10/23/1942
Margaret Thatcher 10/13/1925 Martina Navratilova 10/18/1956
Tim Robbins 10/16/1958

• J

Libra Live
The Global Glamour-pyss'

5+ 5-
Social Easygoing Inconstant Unfocused
Witty Versatile Frivolous Self-indulgent
Fluid Alert Shallow Discontented
Fluent Vivacious

You could have been the model for those adorable photos
that come with the wallets you buy at the five-and-dime.-
you know, the dimply baby on the bearskin rug, the smiling
mom or dad who clearly never needed orthodontia. Even
as an adult, people still want to go gitchee-goo to you. You
 Libra 191

look as if you'd be ready to hug, cuddle, and giggle at any

moment, and you would be. Even you'd admit you have
your live-for-the-moment gadabout side. You can bait and
bat your lush lashes at the world with abandon. You stroll
about as if you were in your own personal sixteenth-century
castle, transported and painstakingly reassembled from Bur-
gundy, performing every task with elan. But anyone or any-
thing that hems you in sends you hurtling out that rapidly
descending heavy iron gate—or you'll shut it in his or her
face.
Your style, perhaps even your upbringing, might be de-
scribed as preppy-bohemian. You enjoy straddling the world
of high society and downtown arts, even though you may
joke that you sometimes feel saddle-sore. You need to be
surrounded by an entourage that shares your sense of fun
and the offbeat. You love throwing parties almost as much
as attending them; you seem born to socialize, with the ex-
ceptional gift of making the smallest talk seem vitally impor-
tant. You're so ubiquitous, it's like trying to keep track of a
pinball, the way you keep pinging and ponging about. You
may seem like a flibbertigibbet, but you listen carefully and
soak up every last detail. Your photographic memory and
insatiable curiosity fill the shelves of your inexhaustible store
of knowledge; you're just as comfortable and erudite dis-
cussing etiquette as etymology.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Biology, especially anatomy, was probably your favorite

subject as a teenager. By the time you attended sex educa-
tion classes, you had probably already devoured every book
on the subject, from the Kama Sutra to Everything You Al-
ways Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask.
Needless to say, you were never afraid.
Sometimes your sheer likability, curiosity, and atten-
tiveness make people think you're making advances; they
mistake your natural courteousness as a pass. Since you are
so swooningly charming, be aware of the signals you might
be sending out, otherwise your courtliness can get you in-
volved in situations you regret. Although you like to play
192 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

the field, one stallion or filly inevitably plays the favorite;

after some dallying and shilly-shallying, you place the bet.
Common ground is vital—and you cover lots of territory.
Continual growth, evolution, change, and development form
the key to unlocking your potential for a happy, continuing
relationship. You make a thoughtful, imaginative, even zany
lover. You come up with offbeat gifts, bringing your lover
for his or her first pedicure and facial . . or skydiving
experience.

Money and Career

You succeed in all the glamour professions, such as film,

theater, dance, fashion design or retail, art direction, paint-
ing, music, magazine editorial, cosmetics, interior design,
and public relations. In fact, you're a promotional whiz; ide-
ally you'd like to publicize the trendy new clubs and restau-
rants, but your fertile imagination could make fertilizer seem
fashionable. Or you could get a stand-and-pose, meet-and-
greet job such as maitre d', resort operations, or boutique
manager, preferably at some velvet-rope type of place cur-
rently in vogue. You dislike routine, but your inquisitiveness
and insight contribute to a fulfilling career as a teacher, in-
vestigative reporter, or psychoanalyst.
Be careful about placing all your nest eggs in one basket.
You like comfort but can fritter things away on the road to
Zanzibar or whatever exotic call strikes your fancy. You
should diversify if you want to hold on to your holdings.
Put a little aside for that rainy day, because in your case, it
could be the kind of flood declared a national disaster. It
doesn't take much to restore your good spirits: a shopping
spree, theater tix (preferably sold-out), foie gras, et al.

The -^5 Potential

You're the supreme arbiter of taste and fashion. Funny,

civil, charming, and attractive, you define smart and hip no
matter what your background and education. You're incredi-
bly discriminating, yet democratic, too, believing you can
learn something from just about anyone. Still, you could
easily be the one standing at the door of that hot new boite
 Libra 193

deciding who gets in. It may be annoying, but your instincts

are infallible. But then, you would know the right crowd for
a heavy-metal slam-dancing club and a society cotillion.

FAMOUS LIBRA FIVES

Johnny Carson 10/23/1925 Sigoumey Weaver 10/8/1949
Lee lacocca 10/15/1924 Walter Matthau 10/1/1920
Dr. Joyce Brothers 10/20/1928

• 6

Libra Six
The Dreamy Dramalisf

6+ 6-
Peaceful Unselfish Manipulative Se If-righteous
Resolute Artistic Procrastinating Susceptible to
Altruistic Loving Self-absorbed flattery
Cooperative Responsible Domineering

As the prototypical Libra Six, John Lennon, sang, "All we

are saying is give peace a chance." You idealize love in all
its forms. You're equally passionate about justice, with a
keen sense of responsibility to humankind. Very often you
set an example for the rest of the world through the partner-
ships you form. You're a remarkable inspiration to others;
despite your dapper, dashing appearance, you're capable of
backbreaking work for a cause or person you love, agreeing
with yet another Libra Six, Friedrich Nietzsche, that whatever
doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Your intense idealism is frequently disappointed, and you
can retreat into a profound depression. But you don't like
being in a funk, and being an essentially social creature, will
put on your favorite CD, dance around the room in your
underwear, and voild! your optimism is restored. You have
a touching, naive faith that everything happens for the best.
You retain a wide-eyed wonder that life even arose to begin
with. Your vision is both new-fangled and old-fashioned. You
194 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

realize that a greater sense of values—whatever those are—

was instilled in bygone years, yet recognize that traditional
concepts of morality are in a constant state of flux, and that
our increasingly technological global society where anything
is available by pressing a key has rendered many comforting
homilies obsolete. Not for you those dark sci-fi renderings
of the future. You want spacious, gleaming cities straight
from Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, married to a Norman Rock-
well fifties-sitcom existence in which every problem is
solved by fadeout: Leave It to Beaver that Father Knows Best.
Yet when adversity strikes, no one could be more intrepid
or inventive. No matter how patrician your background, you
always step up to the front line of the fray.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You're such a catch that you unfortunately attract self-

seeking types who want to be taken care of. But you need
TLC and protection just as much. You want someone who'll
appreciate and reciprocate the love and respect you offer.
Yet the combination of Libra and Six sets such high stan-
dards that you may remain single or end up in the divorce
court.
Your love transcends the intellectual; you don't just dis-
cuss your feelings, you show them, and even put them on
display. Your loved ones can expect plenty of PDAs, not to
mention hand-squeezing and footsie under the table. You
shower them with compliments and even when you find
fault with their appearance or behavior, usually offer firm
encouragement rather than carping criticism. Remember that
marriage is not an escape hatch, and don't imagine that you
can change your partner for the "better"; no one can fix
things for another person.

Money and Career

You're a tenacious, snarling bulldog when it comes to

defending your own beliefs. Although the very core of your
being seeks peace and goodwill, you can go to battle for
those principles. A perfect example and amusing paradox is
Alfred Nobel, who used the earnings from inventing dyna-
 Libra 195

mite to fund the prizes named for him. This zeal makes
you an inspiring general, military or spiritual, who leads by
example such as fellow Libra Six Dwight D. Eisenhower; an
able ambassador, eliminating cultural, ethnic, and sociologi-
cal boundaries and limitations; an inspirational unforgettable
teacher (whose life could be turned into a movie); and a
hellacious minister or orator, whose sermons describe cur-
rent conditions in such incendiary terms that hellfire seems
like a breeze by comparison. You're blessed with a soft,
devotional quality as an artist who moves millions. And be-
cause you recoil from strife, you could explore becoming a
marriage counselor, couples therapist, even sex surrogate!

The ^6 Potential

A Libra Six needs love, pure and simple, and recognition

of his or her efforts. Resist the temptation to play the martyr
or keep an emotional ledger, in which you compare how
much you give to how much you receive in return. You're
almost preternaturally sensitive; what others call nuance has
all the subtlety of a Mack truck for you. You're attuned to
a higher frequency; you regretfully concede that it's pitched
too shrilly for most human beings, yet you strive to modulate
it so everyone can hear its message of harmony.

FAMOUS LIBRA SIXES

Christopher Reeve 9/25/2952 T.S. Eliot 9/26/1888
Eleanor Roosevelt 10/11/1884 Bryant Gumbel 9/29/1948
Heather Locklear 9/25/1961 Jesse Jackson 10/8/1941
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£1 • 7

Libra Seven
"The Elilisl Democral"

£±+ 7+ 7-
Eloquent Analytic Snohhish Aloof
Cordial Discriminating Chameleonesque Suspicious
Literate Civilized Aloof Secretive
Refined Forward-thinking

Once upon a time you carefully looked under your bed for
spooks, goblins, and boogey-men. You poked about with a
broom until you were satisfied that nothing would go bump
in the night, and settled down to a deep, dream-laden sleep.
You still check the closets, and with your acute radar and
ESP, will be the first to offer proof that UFOs exist. You're
a believer; they are out there. You're a fabulist who wants
everyone to have fun, but you're profoundly serious; your
typically Libran appreciation of life's finer things is primar-
ily cerebral.
There's no greater miracle to you than bonding with an-
other human being. You pine for a soul mate with whom
to share your life; compromise is not part of your romantic
vocabulary. Your continual search for perfection is the love-
liest side of your nature, but it often isolates you. You over-
idealize love to the point that no one could possibly meet
your standards. Yes, you long for a beautiful home and a
caring partner, but remember Libra is an intellectual air sign,
and Seven a lone-wolf logician. You probably expound
more about I'amour than, anyone around, but even you have
to admit it remains mostly talk. You adore the idea of pas-
sion, but hate the messiness that love ultimately brings to
your life.
If the romantic in you is frustrated, you offer your munifi-
cent imagination to the fortunate world at large. During your
search for companionship you won't neglect other social
opportunities. You also cherish the lively, stimulating com-
pany of good friends. Unlike many Sevens, you like being
the center of attention, but you're selective about your audi-
 Libra 197

ence. You're masters of social observation and wits of dan-

gerous charm; everyone clamors for an invitation to your
parties, since the A list makes a beeline to your home.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You require a quiet yet smolderingly sexy lover—but not

too fiery. You tend to go for the ornamental first: someone
who wears the right clothes and wears them well. You gen-
erally have a physical ideal, but when intimacy issues crop
up, can magnify perceived faults out of all proportion; sud-
denly that scar you found sexy and full of character becomes
a hideous disfigurement.
You want sex to be transcendent, magical, mystical, even
esoteric. You might indulge in Tantric sex or explore yoga
positions. You lead a rich fantasy life, but nothing so cliched
as Tom Cruise or Liv Tyler sprawled invitingly on the divan.
You want to be transported to another world, another plane
entirely. You imagine yourself in exotic settings and love
experimenting with your lover, encouraging and incorporat-
ing his or her fantasies. But above all, sex must be a spiritual
connection that transcends the purely physical.

Money and Career

Your work must satisfy your soul, expressing your inner-

most feelings. The artistic fields are your surest road to suc-
cess, on a personal and professional level. Even your light
comedy has dramatic flair; people identify with your cre-
ations since you touch their most primal emotions, making
them roar with laughter and cry with compassion. You're
just as content to run the show as a patron or cultural
maven, taking pride in discovering fresh, exciting talent. The
sciences also appeal to your logical mind. Of course, mathe-
matical equations take the romance out of astronomy, and
dissection takes the fun out of anatomy, but you're aware
of the valuable role research plays and ardently promote
progress of any sort. Social work and psychiatry are also
marvelous choices, as you listen and analyze as well as
anyone.
198 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

The Potential

You're a dream weaver. It isn't just your own gift for fan-
tasy, it's your ability to unlock the hidden child in everyone.
You make people believe that anything is possible. Never
let your own search for the impossible dream disillusion
you. Remember your unwavering faith and longing for a
better world are contagious. Even the most cynical Libra
Seven fervently prays for a new, improved humankind, and
steals a look at the stars wondering if maybe, just maybe,
another, more highly developed civilization holds the
answer.

FAMOUS LIBRA SEVENS

Jim Henson 9/24/1936 George Gershwin 9/26/1898
Fran Drescber 9/30/1957 Michael Douglas 9/25/1944
Susan Sarandon 10/4/1946 Angela Lansbury 10/16/1925

^ • 8

Libra Eight

"The Jaunly Juiisf

£i:+ 8+ 8-
Fair-minded Realistic Acquisitive Aggressive
Philosophical Authoritative Extravagant Workaholic
Courteous Accomplished Exploitative Materialistic
Equable Understanding

Libra Eight is a winning-through-intimidation combination of

Miss Manners and Captain America. You fight for truth, jus-
tice, and the International way, with the American Dream
thrown in for good measure. You possess an uncanny apti-
tude for sizing up the opposition, and act accordingly. Gen-
erally your honesty will win out, even when it's not in your
best interests, though you can resort to unscrupulous means
to attain a scrupulous end. Conversely, you're an unrelent-
ing, unyielding force when you're convinced of your side,
a promoter of the "might makes right" dictum.
 Libra 199

You're solidly humanist and probably liberal in your

views. It saddens you that ours is a world in which ethnic
or special-interest-group agendas have come to supersede
basic human rights. You understand all too well the need
to take pride in our heritage and identity and find a sense
of community and belonging. Still, you wonder why we
can't be human beings first, and Azerbaijanis or Zoroastrians
second. Possessing pride and principles in abundance, you
can turn a small-scale matter into a full-scale boycott, know-
ing that cause does indeed have an effect on others. You
actually hate upsetting the apple cart, but you'll vigorously
debate the difference between apples and oranges or ab-
stract versus reality, perhaps only to defend your right to
free speech.
You're forever absorbed in various projects, since you're
not content with fewer than five irons in the fire; dating and
courtship run a poor second during a particularly hectic,
frantic, frenetic (any adjective ending in tic will do) week.
But you'll move several Alps to make room for your love
life; you're happiest when involved with someone, though
your partner may not be enthralled with your appointment
calendar.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

"Each man kills the thing he loves," wrote Libra Eight

Oscar Wilde. You're a serious romantic, and your emotions
are not to be trifled with. Like Wilde, you'd be willing to go
to prison for your love, the world be damned. Indeed, part
of you secretly wants to be compelled to offer proof of your
love; what better way than a public trial?
You prefer to focus your attention on one person; after
all, you're already juggling multinational corporate dinners
and international art movies with friends on your calendar.
You don't mind if your intended sees other people, as long
as everything's up front. You can't fault him for being fool-
ish, and you expect him to come to his senses. Once you've
established firm footing, however, you put your foot down
more possessively. Marriage is a long-term investment that
must pay dividends; because of your numerous social and
200 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

professional engagements, a long engagement suits you.

You might be perfectly content with the three-nights-per-
week arrangement for years. But often your significant other
becomes restless, wondering when and if the relationship
will move forward. That's usually when problems crop up.
This is natural; remember it takes two to tango, and you're
a conversational twinkle-toes. Talk through the issues, don't
be discouraged, and tell your partner what you really feel.

Money and Career

You change jobs rather frequently, especially when

younger. You want to explore so many options, and have
so much curiosity and zest that it takes you a while to hit
your stride and discover your calling. Once you formulate
your plan, you're driven to succeed. You seek personal, pro-
fessional, even political gain in all your endeavors. Money,
comfort, recognition, and community standing are of para-
mount importance. You're highly sensitive to your work en-
vironment; if you don't get along with your co-workers or
if the job description doesn't live up to its promise, you
have no qualms about seeking something more challenging.
You're particularly skillful at manipulating public opinion.
You might wangle a job at a grass-roots movement where
you get paid to coordinate rallies. Labor organizer, media
guru, and attorney also appeal to you. In an office situation
you're a benevolent bureaucrat, but you find paper pushing
off-putting. Your penetrating mind makes you a persuasive
writer; social injustice, of course, might be your great theme,
but it's usually in the guise of biting satire.

The Potential

You're a revolutionary philosopher, whose broad-minded

tolerance can be a beacon for the world. People can actually
see those scales of justice, and you're the radiant fulcrum.
You make your medicine go down easily with your natural
grace, bracing wit, and impressive intellect. Best of all, you
never give up: if you've converted one, then you're not con-
tent until that individual has shepherded three or four apos-
tles for the cause.
 Libra 201

FAMOUS LIBRA EIGHTS

Timothy Leary 10/22/1920 Mickey Rooney 9/23/1920
Chevy Chase 10/8/1943 Melina Mercouri 10/18/1915
Jim Palmer 10/15/1945

^ • 9

Libra Nine
"Tlie Aclivisl to"

£2+ 9+
Urbane Charitable Shallow Dissipated
Humanitarian Spiritual Escapist Thoughtless
Cultured Creative Indecisive Demanding
Peaceable Attractive

A Libra Nine sports an almost messianic complex: you be-

lieve you have to save the world in order to justify your
existence! You want to transport people to another level,
whether of reality or the imagination. You exist to provide
inspiration; your vision could be liberating either a nation
or the sexual mores of an entire generation. Ever thought
of yourself as a combination Gandhi and Brigitte Bardot,
your fellow Libra Nines? They make quite the odd couple,
but then you've always felt in your element with an oddball
lot. Think about it, though. The bodacious Ms. Bardot em-
bodied the latter, sparking millions of adolescent fantasies.
And today she's making headlines and headway with her
single-minded underdog crusade for the ethical treatment
of animals. As for the Mahatma, he almost single-handedly
vanquished the British Empire.
But don't canonize yourself quite yet. Yes, you tirelessly
battle corruption, organize literal and political cleanup cam-
paigns, champion causes, stump for harmony and brother-
hood. But your idealism is never so excessive that you lose
touch with reality. There's always a touch of the performer
grandstanding for the audience in your words and deeds.
But back to your qualifications for sainthood. Some Librans
202 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

can be class-conscious, but you respect people who work

hard to get where they are, overcoming adverse circum-
stances. You're scrupulously aware of the need to balance
your spiritual and artistic growth with the practical necessi-
ties of life.
Even if you don't actively seek the spotlight, it just seems
to locate you like a police searchlight. Once there, of course,
you don't mind even the harshest glare, not to mention the
paparazzi's popping flashbulbs. If anything, this inspires you
to perform even more selflessly and efficiently. You know
the value of publicity and you have implicit faith in your
ability to project fust the right image to the public. And yes,
you do like to receive credit; you have a becoming modesty
that is approximately 99 percent genuine and 1 percent
show.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You're primarily sensuous, not sensual; you love with

your mind, for all your slinky, slithery sexuality. Since you
project a combination of cool refinement and restrained in-
tensity, no matter how married you are, opportunities will
always flirt with you. If single, you certainly don't lack for
willing candidates, but you let most of them down easily,
their love not so much unrequited as unrequired. You've
got your priorities: you're here for humanity first, loved ones
second, and yourself about ninth.
Which doesn't mean you're an inattentive or uncaring
lover. You're tenderly concerned for your partner's welfare
and dole out plenty of hugs and kisses. More than most,
you tend to identify with your lover's feelings, which some-
times makes you unsure of your own. You're actually quite
romantic in an old-fashioned sort of way, often waiting be-
yond the infamous third date to consummate the relation-
ship, and deluging the datee with attention. That's true
during the courtship stage and after you're happily wed-
locked, key long since thrown away. It's the in-between
part—dragging you to the altar—that can be difficult. But
since you're usually attracted to an assertive partner, that's
sooner rather than later.
 Libra 203

Money and Career

Well, if you can't be an actual role model or sex kitten,

you still have plenty of options to ensure your message is
heard and acknowledged. Since you so adroitly take soci-
ety's pulse, you could act as a public relations consultant or
media guru—if you believe in your product, of course. As
with any Libra or Nine, the performing arts beckon. You
could be a publisher or producer who introduces ground-
breaking new artists. Psychology and medicine, especially
alternative forms of healing like acupuncture and homeopa-
thy, allow you the one-on-one hands-on contact you also
enjoy.

The ^9 Potential

Sounds idyllic, doesn't it, a Utopian vision: everyone living

in peace, listening to one another's point of view? Unfortu-
nately, life is rarely like that. Libra Nines spend much of
their time and energy ensuring the scales don't tip too far;
someday those scales need to fall from your eyes. Some-
thing's gotta give—as in learning to establish a true give-
and-take in all relationships, from marital to professional.
On second thought, remain in your blissful ignorance. We
need you armed and ready to fight the good fight. Who
knows? With you leading the way by opening your eyes,
arms, mind, and heart, the world might just become the
joyous love-in you envision.

FAMOUS LIBRA NINES

Jimmy Carter 10/1/1924 James Clavell 10/10/1924
Madeline Kahn 9/29/1942 Dwight Yoakam 10/23/1956
Angie Dickinson 9/30/1932 R.D. Laing 10/7/1927
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Thoughtful Bold Callous Selfish
Tenacious Direct Brusque Inflexible
Ambitious Inventive Skeptical Impatient
Constructive Independent

Direct and to the point, you seldom mince words when in

the pursuit of—well, anything your little heart desires. And
you started pursuing what your heart desired at a young age,
much to the delight and chagrin of parents and parishioners.
Favorite childhood question: why? Second favorite: why not?
No particular subject fascinated you more than any other
because you wanted to know the why and how-to of Abso-
lutely Everything. A somewhat exhausted family cheered as
you got your diploma and headed off to college. Mixed with
their pride was the relief that now someone else someone
in the university's ivy-covered halls, would be expected to
provide you with answers.
Early in the game, you realized that the kind of questions
 Scorpio 205

that kept you up at night had no nice neat or even available

answers. In fact, sometimes the so-called experts weren't as
much help as you expected such scholarly elders to be.
Since you aren't the type to leave a stone unturned or re-
source untapped, the truth slowly dawned: it was up to you
to venture into the uncharted territory and get those answers
for yourself! You would take the lead and give everyone
else the answers when you found them. Faster than you
could say, Daniel Boone (also a staunch get-it-done Scorpio
One guy), you'd signed up for grad school, or started throw-
ing seriously large stones wrapped in newly discovered legal
loopholes at the latest road block in your progress, maybe
even at that bleeping crystal corporate ceiling.
A quick wit and sharp come-back opens and closes doors
at the speed of light. No matter. You have a resiliency and
tenacity to succeed that make you a much sought-after ally.
Naturally, you're pleased when the public at large recognizes
you to be one of the sharpest pencils in the box. Not that
YOU ever doubted it for a moment, but it is nice to get that
appreciative confirmation.

Love, Sex and Marriage

Love and sex, sex and love, hmmm—what's on the menu

today? Can I have both? Hmm—but what if I don't want
both? These questions are undeniably important but become
moot when the chemistry starts to churn. You will have a
relationship your own way by mixing healthy doses of sizzle
and sweet until the Real Thing comes along and smacks you
over the head. Once the cherub's arrow hits your heart, you
stubbornly try to stick to a logical list of "Perfect Mate Quali-
ties" for—oh, about an hour or so. Then you change the list
to match the fascinating lover you simply can't live without.
Family ties do matter to you and whatever else you might
add or subtract from the perfect mate list, you keep family
values at the top and non-negotiable. You want a family of
your own and expect to raise the precocious tots with a
partner. Should children not actually make an entrance into
the home picture, you find that out in the world, you're
quite adept at challenging young minds and encouraging
206 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

curiosity and intellectual growth. Meanwhile, you and the

love of your life spend quality time traveling the globe or
sitting together snug and secure by the fire reading the latest
best seller.

Money and Career

Rich is better than poor, but there is so much more you

want to do besides make money. Starting out, you might
get the pursuit of a career mixed up with earning enough
money to put a roof over your head and heat the place in
the winter. Once you figure out that working and coin of
the realm do matter for Basic Survival but that you want
more than that, it gets progressively easier to earn what you
need for fashionable togs and Dom Perrignon and have a
plus honest to goodness career.
Be a professional—a professional almost anything. You
like admiring glances and relish the respect of others. Be-
cause you have an extraordinary mind, you feel more pro-
ductive when challenged by puzzling problems. Finding
solutions is almost as much fun as getting your own way
and you know how satisfying that is! Big money may not
ever be the primary motivator. You're about so much more
than money, but when you decide you do want more than
the average bear, especially for things like enlarging the fam-
ily den, you have no problem making it happen.

The TTbl Potential

Friends count on you and with good reason. You come

through for them and, eventually, you figure out how to do
that for yourself, too. An innovative thinker, you turn people
on to their own potential and show them how to view life
through a different lense. You lead them down new mental
tracks, and persuasively suggest how to consciously create
the future and still enjoy living life one day at a time.
You teach us all of this by example; by how you live.
Sure, what you have to say is instructional, and sometimes
inspiring, but it's what you do that hands us the key to
unlock our own inventive streak. We might not follow your
particular star, but thanks to you the rest of us know how
 Scorpio 207

to pick out a star of our own, and how to pack up the

buggy and get going.

FAMOUS SCORPIO ONES

Lauren Hutton 11/17/1944 Larry King 11/19/1933
Maria Shriver 11/6/1955 Kevin Kline 10/24/1947
Sally Field 11/6/1946 Carl Sagan 11/9/1934

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TTU 2+ ■nv 2-
Energetic Gracious Skeptical Indecisive
Compassionate Supportive Self-critical Shy
Tenacious Persuasive Intense Nervous
Quick-witted Conscientious

It isn't that you don't know what you want, you just want
to make sure before you play the winning card that the
outcome will be the best for everyone concerned. You don't
worry so much about yourself; you can recover from any
false step or wild-goose chase that seemed like a good idea
at the time. But the others around are standing close by,
and if the results are goop instead of glitter, you don't want
anyone else to get slimed. In those cases, if the reward is
great enough, you detach and go it alone.
It started when you didn't tell Dad one of your teeth had
fallen out because you wanted to see if the Tooth Fairy
would really visit if Dad didn't know. You continually test
the waters. You don't consider yourself the secretive sort,
but there are enough of them stacked in your personal closet
to fill a small file cabinet. Besides, you're a private person
and don't like anyone mucking about in those classified files,
or helping out when you'd rather do it yourself.
Other times, when you might be developing a new hybrid
rose, you do the research, and experiment, but then consult
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with experts. Sticking with it is the way you've always done

things, especially since you know that formula works. And
you can switch from scientist to diplomat with ease.
Honestly, you would like to shower your family with gold
and keep getting silver dollars from the Tooth Fairy forever.
But you do find a way to make your own glitz, find love,
and inspire others through your wonderful gift of being all
things to all people.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Getting your attention is the first challenge any would-be

heartthrob has. You're often blind to pensive, speculative
looks and warm smiles. You interpret them as "friendly"
overtures and are surprised when confronted with an invita-
tion to a concert and dinner. When you're uncertain there's
anything romantic going on here, a good-night kiss can daz-
zle you in that warm and funny way you like to be dazzled.
You're sensitive and strong, and your affections are not
to be trifled with. You play for keeps and prefer the married
life. Love and friendship are vital to sensuous sex and a
solid marriage. You intend to have them both and are open
about your expectations with the object of your affections.
As a parent, you enjoy every age and stage of your young
one's progress from birth to adulthood and often become
better friends as adults. That's also when you turn the tables
and surprise your mate by suggesting a whole new lifestyle
when the nest empties out.

Money and Career

Attracted to the law as much as medicine and entertain-

ment (though not necessarily in that order), you examine
ways to pattern your life. Work is an essential and it can
put you where you want to be in the world. You could
write epic novels like two other famous Scorpio Twos: Mar-
garet Mitchell and Robert Louis Stevenson. Maybe Gone with
the Wind or Treasure Island isn't your style, but you do
have much to say, and an eloquent way of saying it.
Money is a teeter-totter that slips to extremes on a regular
basis. As much as you would like a constant cash stash, it
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doesn't turn out that way, what with the trip to visit ailing
cousin Jack or the dollars you wired to Janie at college for
an emergency. You aren't a soft touch, but you can be
counted on. When the need is money, you figure out later
how to replace it, just as you always have.

The TTbZ Potential

The quiet, refined side of you is reflected in the way your

home is decorated. Those fortunate enough to be a guest
are instantly acquainted with what matters to you most—
friends, family, the Little League trophy for son Derek, the
kindergarten diploma for daughter Mary, and fresh-cut
flowers to bring one of nature's gifts inside. Whether the
dahlias stand in a jelly glass or an elegant lead crystal vase,
they add just the right touch to make the place a home.
Indecision and insecurity could cripple you as you go
from one extreme choice to another. Finding an acceptable
balance of sweetness and light with gritty self-determination
is the challenge of younger days. Responsibilities weigh
heavily—enough to account for a rebellious moment or two
that you get to live with forever. No matter. Through the
process of doing what you have to do, you find yourself and
blossom into a wonderful person who's a treasure to know.

FAMOUS SCORPIO TWOS

Whoopi Goldberg 11/13/1949 Claude Monet 11/14/1840
Jane Pauley 10/31/1950 Roy Rogers 11/5/1912
Hillary Rodham Clinton 10/26/1946 Prince Charles 11/14/1948
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TIL • 3
Sccrpic Three

"The Enlerprising Romanlic"

m,+ 3+ TTU- 3-
Constmctive Imaginative Shrewd Scattered
Curious Quick Impulsive Verbose
Practical Sociable Aggressive Extravagant
Enterprising Expressive

After having yet another E-mail returned from the Black Hole
Monitor of cyberspace, you decide independence is highly
overrated and, with nostrils flaring, dial the help desk one
more time. Before the hold music launches into the next
movement of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, the phone is answered
and you marvel at how sweet you sound between clenched
teeth. A master of communication, you're good at pumping
up a friend in need or helping Auntie Mae decide to buy
the rose carpet for the bedroom instead of that stuffy
tweed thing.
The endless reel of pictures in your head bounces be-
tween the practical and the imaginative. If there is an enter-
taining way to get the drudgery done, you not only find it,
but show others how to make the trick work for them, too.
A bleeding heart, you aren't. You stop long enough to share
a trade secret or two, but fully expect everyone to make
their own way.
Learning to tie your shoes like the big kids took persis-
tence and patience, both of which you were bom with, so
you kept at it until you got it right. This is the cornerstone
of your approach to everything important. You know you
might not get it right the first time, and might have to ask
for help, but being the professional old soul that you are,
you see it through. The grown-ups think you're such a level-
headed and serious child until you're overheard telling the
dog a story about elf princes and goblins.
It comes as no surprise that you cheer for Godzilla in the
rubber-monster classics. You understand the misunderstood,
 Scorpio 211

can coax the best from people, and put a positive spin on
any message you deliver.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Winning your heart isn't easy. You're a generous friend

and creative playmate, but slipping a ring on your finger
takes stamina. Not the let's-wear-out-the-sheets kind of stam-
ina (though that is helpful), but the mental dexterity and
fortitude to stay with you through the projects and cam-
paigns. Not that you wouldn't give a chance to a charismatic
suitor with a basket of daisies over his arm and a Ferrari
parked at the curb. It's just that you need much more than
window dressing for the long haul.
Falling in love is easy for you, but marriage is too impor-
tant to take lightly. An eternal child yourself, you enjoy con-
necting with young people. Family is a serious venture and
one you don't want to miss, and won't once you find the
other perfect parent for this setup, Protective of both mate
and offspring, you manage to juggle it all like a pro!

Money and Career

Money plays a big part in determining the career(s) you

choose. You view each job you take as a stepping-stone to
something else—from money for a vacation in faraway Spain
to a cushy chair of your own on the board of directors. You
never take your eye off the ball, and you can manage several
bouncing balls at the same time. That's a talent that puts
bread on the table and keeps you from missing the next
opportunity.
Chances are you perform multiple jobs and tackle several
careers, but those that are the most fulfilling let you be more
than PC Clone *45 of 50. If that is where you start, you
don't stay there for long. Your ingenious way of problem
solving, ability to interface with any and all personality
types, and practical approach make you a logical candidate
to snatch from the pool. Keep your eyes open for the inevi-
table mentor.
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The T!l3 Potential

Your temperament is nicely balanced between male and

female, left and right brain, which gives you the potential
to make any fantasy come true and still keep a grip on
reality. You believe in the power of love, myth, friendship,
and family. You know for a fact that determination isn't rated
highly enough. In the process of getting what you want, you
give back much more to those you meet along the way.
Spinning your wheels isn't an activity you like, but you
fall into the Going Nowhere Fast Zone more than you care
to admit. Shut out the multitude of distractions to get out of
that rut and start moving again. Save your valuable energy
for skiing down snow-covered mountains, gazing at the star-
filled sky over the desert, or enjoying a sparkling waterfall.
It isn't just roses you need to smell; you must reconnect
with Mother Earth to be inspired!

FAMOUS SCORPIO THREES

Jodie Foster 11/19/1962 Ken Griffey Jr. 11/21/1969
Jamie Lee Curtis 11/22/1959 Glen Fry 11/6/1948
Winona Ryder 10/29/1971 Robert F. Kennedy 11/20/1925

Ttl • 4

Sccrpic rcur
'The Dynamic Master Builder'

TTI+ 4+ TTV 4-
Courageous Practical Suspicious Undemo nstrative
Energetic Determined Willful Too Busy
Executive Logical Blunt Needs Proof
Ambitious Good Hearted

So you dreamed you were having tea with Mickey Mouse,

Madame Curie, and Bill Gates, an odd group—and you won-
der, What? Why? Maybe you're on the brink of a lucrative
discovery in a trailblazing kind of way like these famous
 Scorpio 213

Scorpio Fours. Ever notice how people either get out of your
way or join you when you latch on to a starburst of an idea?
That's because they know you are going to do it, and keep
at it, regardless of the bumps and twists in the road from
here to there.
Okay, so no one at Microsoft wears Mickey Mouse ears
(do they?) but it's as much a fantasyland for techno-whizes
as the Magic Kingdom is for kids young and old. Undeniably
the six-foot mouse and bespectacled software mogul know
how to earn a buck—make people happy! Give them what
they want before they even know they want it!
Mingling inspiration and perspiration is your secret formula.
You like tangible results, which is why you got that paper
route at age ten to buy your first set of skis and join the ski
club. Some teachers see you as industrious while others watch
you drift through their class. You learning, all the time, but
not necessarily how to conjugate "to be" in French.
Though you undoubtedly ventured into the workaday
world at a young age, you might not find your footing, per-
sonally or professionally, until long after the ink on your
college diploma (if any) dries. More important than titles or
degrees, you intend to live life your way and quickly learn
how to flatten out the bumps. First and foremost, you are
your own best friend and never intentionally shoot yourself
in the foot. A more faithful and staunch friend, there may
never be; and you well know about the rewards and the
costs of everything you do, including relationships.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Since age three, you've been drawing houses, a hobby

that has grown into a serious portfolio of architectural plans.
You might not have a clue who's going to live there with
you, but you are a bit old-fashioned when it comes to pro-
viding the roof for you and yours. Sex and the psychic realm
are often intertwined for you, and while you might act on
a physical attraction, it won't turn serious unless there's an
element of the unusual woven throughout.
A practical dreamer, you delight your partner with imagi-
native ways to explore each other's erogenous zones. Even
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after the initial rush of passion, you manage to breathe ex-

citement and fire into the relationship. You get mighty dis-
tracted by business, but make a conscious effort to schedule
time for sex games as well as Junior's softball game. You
want it all and know if you can just schedule it right, you
can have it all.

Money and Career

Whatever you do for work must be fun; that's your kind

of fun, which might not be anyone else's. You believe in
progress and hard work. As an employee, you won't last
long if the boss doesn't recognize how hard and brilliantly
you perform. As the employer, you hire people who are
enthusiastic about the work, and you get along fine as long
as they wholeheartedly join the team.
You're a straight shooter; beating around the bush and
keeping things under wraps drive you crazy. Though you
love a good mystery and do well in any area that requires
research and logic, you warm up to people who say what
they mean and mean what they say.
Money is a vital part of why you work. Sure, you like
doing what you do and might work when you don't need
the money, but you expect payment for the effort, and often
work well beyond retirement age by choice.

The TTL,4 Potential

A true Scorpio Four has Borg tendencies: "Resistance is

useless, you will be absorbed." You believe so completely
in your ideas, discoveries, and methods that you simply have
to get everyone on board. The truth is you do have amaz-
ingly good ideas.
It would be easy to let work consume your life, even with
a loving family and terrific home. Make sure you have an
office in that home and parameters around the volume of
work that follows you there. Dynamic and knowledgeable
with an easy grin and predisposition to want to like every-
one, you provide inspiration and tangible tools for improve-
ment to those you mentor. And by the way, don't listen to
 Scorpio 215

anyone who tries to pigeonhole you as a particular type.

You've got multi-faceted potential!

FAMOUS SCORPIO FOURS

Demi Moore 11/11/1962 Bill Gates 10/28/1955
Meg Ryan 11/19/1961 Will Rogers 11/4/1879
Roseanne Barr 11/3/1952 Bryan Adams 11/5/1959

Ttl, • A

Sccrpic five
'The Worldly Wanderer"

TTU 5+ TTU 3-
Devoted Freedom Loving Blunt Restless
Energetic Networker Impulsive Fickle
Quick-witted Curious ■ Secretive Hasty
Constructive Resourceful

From the first time you walked into the big kids' book sec-
tion at the neighborhood Library, you've known you wanted
to meet everyone everywhere. Travel has a mystical quality
about it that calls you to the far corners of the earth. Perhaps
from Connecticut to Australia, Montana to Ireland, and then
to Florida. Even if it's from the City to upstate, or Boston to
the Berkshires, you won't let grass grow under your feet.
There are far too many wonderful and exciting things out
there to experience.
That lusty thirst of yours for life certainly gives Mom
plenty of opportunities to curse you with the hope that you
have six children just like you. You do, of course, and they
pop wheelies on their tricycles just as you did, with the
same occasional mishap. You know they have to figure out
this whole cause-and-reaction thing, and you hope they do
it as quickly as possible before they break anything impor-
tant. Fear has never kept you from doing anything you ever
thought was worthwhile.
You're a staunch and stable friend, and getting to know
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you is easier than it looks. You don't think you're unap-

proachable, but that dynamic whirlwind of activity is some-
what daunting. You make the most of those be-my-friend
overtures; it suits you to meet new people. They're all so
interesting.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

A connoisseur of the better things in life, you enjoy the

same in the dating game. As much as you love to wander,
you need a solid honey by your side. Nothing replaces hav-
ing someone you can count on or who believes in you. To
win your heart takes considerable energy on the part of any
would-be lover. Does he hunger for adventure as much as
he lusts for your body?
This is not an idle question because many of your goals
are centered around seeing and living in various parts of
the world. Family is equally important to you, and you're
completely prepared to pack up the tots and teens to come
with you wherever you roam. What better way to teach the
young about where they live? And you demand the utmost
fidelity from your partner.

Money and Career

Money is seldom a problem for you other than making

the last payment on the sailboat or the exercise gym you
bought last year. Wealthy or not, you believe in work and
seeing something tangible for your efforts. If you're not em-
ployed in the travel industry, a close second preference is
physical fitness, or arranging trekking expeditions that in-
clude you as the host, of course.
You enjoy owning a business and like to be involved
about wrist-deep. Providing service and working with inter-
esting people are high priorities for you whether you're an
employee or the employer. You've been known to stay at
a low-paying job because you were working with friends
and/or learning a lot. Part of your personal security comes
from having some money tucked away that's yours and
yours alone. Whether you have to work or not, if not ac-
 Scorpio 217

tively traveling, you will work—where else can you meet

travelers such as yourself to swap tall tales with?

The TTL, 5 Potential

Though you don't sugarcoat the truth, you rarely share

your keen insight unless appropriate. And when you do,
your words cut straight to the heart of the matter, maiming
or praising whatever is in question with astonishing accu-
racy. Having experienced so much yourself and with your
insatiable thirst for knowledge, you have uncanny insight
into your fellow man.
Sometimes that quick tongue of yours goes on a rampage
and cuts the wrong man down to size. But even then you
have your reasons—perhaps a personal slight or explanation
for unfair behavior that you never got. That doesn't mean
you're wrong, but before making a venomous comment,
make sure you aren't cutting off your own nose to do so.
But even then, what you have to say is usually dead-on.
You provide the rest of us with a collective conscience and
a running commentary of facts and speculation and we need
to hear it.

FAMOUS SCORPIO FIVES

Kate Capshaw 11/3/1953 John Cleese 10/27/1939
Billie Jean King 11/22/1943 Dennis Miller 11/3/1953
Georgia O'Keeffe 11/15/1887 President Teddy Roosevelt 10/27/1858
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TTl • 6

Scorpic Six
"The Dazzling Oeleclive'

TTL.+ 6+ TTlr 6-
Daring Responsible Aggressive Self-sacrificing
Focused Artistic Secretive Domineering
Practical Nurturing Critical Jealous
Curious Idealistic

At the top of your to-do list is love, followed by love, fol-

lowed by (you guessed it) love. You don't live for love, you
understand, but in a crazy world like this one, surrounding
yourself with it is essential. Loving friends, devoted family,
upbeat co-workers—if you have any say about it, are all one
big happy family. Not that you're all sweetness and light—
au contraire, love is pleasure and pain; you know it for a
fact firsthand. You are a thoughtful, constructive counselor
when there are pieces of a shattered dream to pick up and
help glue back together.
As you make the rounds of the office with an encouraging
word for everyone, another part of your brain sees every-
thing (Joanne isn't wearing makeup, the picture of Julie's
main squeeze is gone, Jeff has herbal tea instead of coffee
in his cup), evaluates, and updates your mental files before
reaching your own office door. A friendly smile on your
lips, there's another layer to your complex personality, the
shrewd competitor, always on the lookout to improve,
change, and transform the future in your image.
A divine partner and aggressive adversary, you bend over
backward to help others get it together to be productive.
Should others mistake that concerned cheerleader counte-
nance for a naive bubblehead without a clue of the bottom
line, you curtly set them straight. This involves everything
from tossing them out on their ear to beating them at their
own game. However you act, your intitial reaction is pain-
ful—after all you've done for them, how could they?
Somewhat of a health nut, you border on being a fusspot
about what you will and will not put in your mouth. Life is
 Scorpio 219

precious, and keeping your body a finely tuned, healthy

machine is a responsibility you don't take lightly. You won't
be happy unless you feel as energetic physically as you do
mentally. Besides, you want to stay thin to wear those
kicky fashions!

Love, Sex, and Marriage

For all your lofty love ideals, your first love is your oppo-
site—exciting, but short-lived. Because a family is important,
you eventually narrow the dating-game parameters to mar-
riage prospects only. Vows in front of an altar aren't as
important to you as living with a partner who loves you in
spite of your imperfections and who endeavors to live up
to the high standards you set.
Sex gets better and better as love deepens and fidelity is
assured. You eagerly explore the mysteries of love and lust
when you know you are loved, and are willing to try almost
anything to heighten the experience. When it comes to
pleasing and being pleased, you can switch from seduced
to seducer with ease, much to the delight of your playmate.
Children play a vital part in your idea of marriage. Those
bom to you are lucky enough to have a friend for life who
will, in spite of any shortcomings, always love them.

Money and Career

History fascinates you almost as much as surgery, the min-

istry, the chemistry lab, and the entire beauty industry. And
on the side you write a book, or many books, from how-to
to historical romances to cookbooks, while sharing not only
recipes but also personal philosophy. So motivated are you
to educate and improve, that you make a brilliant educator
and fascinating theorist. Besides, you can make anyone look
their best, and that takes talent.
Remember to keep a balance between the private and
professional aspects of your life or you keep second-
guessing priorities continually. Money is one such priority.
You enjoy having it more than not having it, but have never
been misguided for more than a nanosecond about the value
of spending all your time making big bucks and having the
220 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

home crew become strangers. You make it as you need it,

and alternate between big spending and major investments.

The Til, 6 Potential

You expect the best from people and are skilled at draw-
ing the positive traits to the forefront of the most pessimistic
person. By finding the slighest kernel of an idea, you can
prod others into stretching beyond the confines of the box
to fulfill their own promise. Nothing pleases you more than
that, except perhaps watching your own son be presented
with a scholarship to a college he didn't think he could win.
A tiger on the playground or in the boardroom, you let
no one get away with wantonly attacking you or yours or
a pet project that you know will work. Be careful that in
your intense rebuttal you don't sear too many egos or burn
the bridge completely. Since you never like to leave any
loose ends, it will make closure more complicated. Of
course, there are those who do need an expert singeing
from time to time to see the world the way it really is instead
of the way they want it to be. (Ooops, is that too close to
a nerve?) Because you know how blinding this illusion can
be, you're an expert bubble burster who conscientiously
sticks around to pick up those pieces.

FAMOUS SCORPIO SIXES

Goldie Hawn 11/21/1945 Ted Turner 11/19/1938
Brenda Vaccaro 11/18/1939 Michael Landon 10/31/1936
Bonnie Raitt 11/8/1949 Simon LeBon 10/27/1958
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TIL • 7

Sccrpic Seven

"The Praclical Perfectionisl"

Tn,+ 7+ TTl- 7-
Energetic Perfectionist Skeptical Secretive
Compassionate Intellectual Self-critical Argumentative
Tenacious Analytical Intense Suspicious
Quick-witted Private

When you first learned that the earth travels at one thousand
miles per hour, you raced home to see if the goldfish had
been flung out of the bowl from the speed. Max and Maxine
were okay swimming peacefully around the bowl, blissfully
unaware of something so scary as science. The next day you
learned about gravity and walked home wondering if we'd
all get sucked into the center of the earth. All this knowledge
was such a burden in the fourth grade. Now it delights you
to discover new and useful information.
You might not admit it to your hairdresser or lover, but
there's a competitive streak in you a mile wide. Every now
and then the aspiring ladder climber pops out and you fanta-
size about leaping to the podium to accept your award for
cutting-edge research into the mysteries of mating rituals of
goldfish. What next? A monastery to make wine and medi-
tate? As tempting as it sounds, you have other fish to fry
(no, no, not Max and Maxine—they're family).
The lone-wolf pose suits you every now and then, but
you also use it as much to withdraw to sift through new
facts and regroup before getting back in the game as you
do to truly detach from the pack. There are those times
when you need quiet moments in the garden to contemplate
the beauty of a tree and analyze the intricate patterns of life.
Other days you use the retreat to read a romantic novel or
jot private thoughts in a journal.
Knowing as much as you do, you wonder why sometimes
you still have problems you can't solve. No one has all the
answers, not even you. But with your keen intellect and
222 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

practical determination, it certainly seems as if you do to the

rest of us.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

The cool, reserved facade masks the passionate heart of

a willing lover. So skilled are you at keeping your attraction
under wraps that you might give your intended a little warn-
ing before slipping him your hotel room key. Not that he
won't be there. Few can resist what you promise because
of all your eyes imply. But fair is fair and you always want
the cards on the table before you hop into the Jacuzzi with
someone, don't you?
Marriage may have to wait until later—you have so much
to do. Of course, you change your tune if someone on the
same wavelength comes along. You do so love a mystery,
and if another intellectual in just the right package ap-
pears, you plan to unravel the mysteries of life, and each
other, forever.

Money and Career

Philosopher, scientist, psychic, surgeon, all suit you. In-

stead of choosing, you're likely to be all of the above and
more. Acting is second nature to you since you've got a
multilayered personality and can easily choose one aspect
or another to fit any occasion. A natural detective, you use
charm and observation to get to the bottom of a knotty
tangle. Hunches work for you when you back them up with
facts in hand, and as competitive as you are, you learn how
to get those facts early in your career.
Recognition for your efforts is important and money is
only one form of it. Though you have more of it stashed
away than most who know you would guess, you know
how to make a buck last and can live simply or in swank
style just as easily. As long as you have your electronic gad-
gets and books, and a selection of food to put on the table,
you're happy. Whether you're head of the department, an
artist on Hawaiian shores, or the entrepreneur, doing and
learning from what worked and what didn't, learning from
experience is what it's all about.
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The TTi, 7 Potential

You get started early, trading childhood toys to perfect

skills that enable you to hit the ground running at a tender
age with no regrets. Satisfying your curiosity and researching
the mysteries of the universe provide more than enough
challenge and excitement for you. You have the ability to
bring together disparate facts, logic, and intuition, and
weave them together to provide fresh and useful information
for the rest of us.
There's a fine line between experiencing all life has to
offer firsthand and jumping off the deep end. Think long
and hard before taking a step in a direction with no U-turn
lane, no matter how enticing the hook might be. And should
you venture into territory that threatens to swallow you up,
reclaim your identity and write a book to warn off the oth-
ers. With you, nothing is wasted. Knowledge is power, and
to not succeed is only a setback (never a failure). As long
as blood is pumping through your veins, there's a chance
of success, and that's enough to keep you and the rest of
us inspired.

FAMOUS SCORPIO SEVENS

Bo Derek 11/20/1956 Bruce Jenner 10/28/1949
Kate Jackson 10/29/1948 Dylan Thomas 10/27/1914
Julia Roberts 10/28/1967 Frangotse Voltaire 11/21/1694

TTL. • 8

Sccrpic Eight
"The Slylish Traveler"

TTU 8+ TTLr 8-
Patient Authoritative Suspicious Workaholic
Determined Global View Inconsistent Impersonal
Constructive Endurance Ambitious Indecisive
Quick-witted Capable

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. Even the simplest cut dia-

mond has a multitude of facets to reflect the light. People
224 ASTRONUMEROLOGY

are like that—multifaceted, durable, and glorious. The good

guy isn't completely good any more than the bad guy is
thoroughly bad. Yes, there are a few wackos who might be,
but not in the "look at that guy sitting at the table by the
plant in Starbuck's window" sort of way. Not the players in
the circles you usually run in. It could be true if you decide
to make it your life's mission to clean up those other circles;
Scorpio Eights are proficiently skilled to do so.
Picking out a new diamond is more to your liking. A little
reward for a job well done is always in order, whether it
was for losing those ten pounds (again) or snaring the
million-dollar-deal for your profoundly grateful CEO. So you
can't afford a diamond; that doesn't stop you from purchas-
ing grade A pave crystal to reflect the sparkle of success.
You well know the difference between failure and success
and can't even count the number of times you've picked
yourself up to dust off your derriere before plunging forward
on another tack.
Failureisn\ a word you use—so final, so depressing! Besides,
who in their right mind would ever admit to not being able to
leam from their mistakes? Certainly not famous researcher Dr.
Jonas Salk, spent his later years searching for a vaccine to slow
the spread of AIDS infection, and who successfully invented the
polio vaccine earlier in his career. Sure, he found a lot of ways
that didn't work, but eventually he found the way that didwovk,
and saved the lives of millions from polio. His dogged persis-
tence is part of every Scorpio Eight.
And if there's fun to be had along the way to reaching
the finish line, you find it. Like now. With your new pave
teardrop necklace aglitter, you walk back by Starbuck's win-
dow to find that adorable brunette is still reading the news-
paper, slowly sipping his coffee, and the other chair at that
cozy table is still vacant. Are all the Universal vibes going
your way today or what?

Love, Sex, and Marriage

The relationship starts in Australia when you meet a fellow

American who immediately switches on the hidden fantasy
file you keep so well concealed. As you compare passport
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stamps and swap border-crossing stories using foreign ac-

cents and languages, you check out the bare third finger on
the left hand. Your eyes are stuck on the curve of a muscular
calf but manage to focus on the clear blue eyes and luscious
smile to catch the punch line of the story in progress.
Waiting for the MTA or TWA, it doesn't matter. A meeting
like this doesn't come along very often. By the time he pulls
out his laptop computer and flips it on in response to a
question you've posed, the only thing left is the "I dos" and
designing a home with separate offices and a room set aside
for a nursery. That and delicious bedroom games, of course.
A healthy skeptic, you love the way you met, but there's
no rush to make it permanent. Plenty of time to meet his
mom and dad, and kid sister Annie, and to make sure the
fit is right for the future you envision. Better safe than sorry,
even in the romance department, eh? "Where have you been
all my life?" is really more likely to come out as "What have
you done so far?"

Money and Career

Respect is as important to you as the green stuff, but you

do so love the sound of "stock options," and "upping your
bonus percent." No mercenary, you must be making a solid
contribution for the good guys to be happy in your work.
Jobs that fit like a glove are reporter, educator, executive,
artist, or any job that involves travel. Even touring with a
rock band (as someone onstage, of course) suits you as long
as the applause and pay are right. Money comes and money
goes in an endless cycle for Scorpio Eights.
An astute judge of character, you interview propsective
employers as thoroughly as they interview you. Likewise
employees. You can spot potential and never miss an oppor-
tunity to watch it bloom. Current and former employees
often thank you for hiring them and credit you with opening
doors for them at just the right time. You were only doing
what a responsible manager does, and are pleased to be
able to help others succeed as you have.
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The TTU 8 Potential

Your first goal at the tender age of five was to own Dis-
neyland. Okay, it wasn't for sale, but that doesn't stop you
from thinking big for the rest of your life. You're tougher
on yourself than anyone else could ever be. Once you set
a high bar, you actively chip away at obstacles and compli-
cations to get results. You inspire others to believe in them-
selves, and seldom expect anyone to work as hard as you
do.
Lighten up and spend an afternoon whale-watching with
your niece occasionally. The workaholic buzz gets hollow
if that's all you ever hear. Even a spouse can't compete with
your devotion to work, and shouldn't have to, right? Besides,
when the wheel turns and you experience a string of high
highs and low lows, you need the loving support of the
family you love; the family you knew you needed to keep
from being an aimless drifter instead of the first-class investi-
gator/deal maker that you are.

FAMOUS SCORPIO EIGHTS

Mary Hart 11/8/1951 John Philip Sousa 11/6/1854
Princess Grace Kelly 11/12/1929 Pablo Picasso 10/25/1881
Loretta Switt 11/4/1937 Martin Scorsese 11/17/1942

Vil • 9

Scorpio Nine
Ttie Mystic Manager"

m.+ 9+ m. 9-
Practical Compassioante Forceful Detached
Energetic Impartial Moody Careless
Tenacious Charismatic Ambitious Needs Approval
Smart Performer

Before you knew it was unusual, you were happy to confide

that your imaginary friends visited you for tea every after-
noon. They were as real as the air tea you poured into tiny
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enamel teacups with red roses on them. So real, in fact, you

knew whether you were drinking Darjeeling or orange
pekoe, and which song Darla, who wore the funny hats,
sang as you poured the air tea. This was your first taste of
the intangible realm and its precious guidance and inspira-
tion that you receive on a regular basis through the years.
The first time you heard about reincarnation, it answered
questions you hadn't even asked and slid puzzle pieces to-
gether you hadn't realized you were collecting. Whether you
kept it to yourself or told the world, you immediately recog-
nized its value and learned as much about it as you could.
Scorpio Nine General George Patton credited his military
strategic skills to several lifetimes spent on the battlefield,
but not every Scorpio Nine is so quick to go on public
record about such stuff.
You wouldn't think of giving the credit for enhancing
those life skills to anyone else, and may never acknowledge
the spiritual connection you've discovered to anyone else.
It doesn't matter. The important thing is that you are open
to experience any and everything in life in your quest to
make the days you have on earth count for something.
A private person, you do enjoy having an audience. As a
result, even if you aren't performing under hot stage lights,
you become a leader in your own right. People respond to
you when you get up to speak. Your ideas, however un-
usual, get everyone thinking more about the possibilities of
the future than the events of the past.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Performance is important to you—you even approach the

dating-courtship-marriage thing with a careless air that belies
the intense drive you have to make every moment perfect.
A generous lover, you're as creative in the bedroom as you
are onstage. When you fall in love, it's completely, and you
don't hesitate to reveal to your partner the vulnerable side
you hide from everyone else. Your love is unconditional,
though you might appear to be impersonal or detached at
times.
Find a mate who isn't rattled by a continually ringing
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phone and doorbell. Befriending a stranger in need is as

natural to you as inviting the entire office home for dinner
and a game of touch football. And consider the quests that
take you away from the home fires for weeks at a time.
Even when you're home, you get lost in your own thoughts
and projects and need a secure partner who understands
and approves of what you do.

Money and Career

Your captivating smile enchants audiences large and

small. From Danny in the next cubicle to the executive staff
upstairs, you garner unilateral support without opening your
mouth. Good thing, because on any given day you have the
choice of a dozen possible ventures to be achieved. You do
equally well as an employee or a boss. You prize a well-
oiled team, and fit in well when you share the same objec-
tives. Otherwise, you prefer to do your own thing, such as
write a provocative novel or construct beautiful buildings.
Compassion for the underdog gives you remarkable in-
sight into the human condition—valuable knowledge to suc-
ceed in any areas that attracts you. At home in front of an
audience, you have the dramatic talent to complement your
shrewd perceptive ability. Interestingly enough, you are as
technically oriented as you are creative and can earn a fine
income whatever you decide to do. The combination of cre-
ativity, curiosity, and technical savvy keep you a willing
worker long after friends have retired.

The TTL,9 Potential

The choice to be famous or infamous is yours, but life is

easier once you accept that you won't be allowed to blend
in with the crowd or shuffle off to anonymity. Knowing that
what you do is noticed makes you think twice before taking
action; at least it could be a safety net for you if you let it.
You have multiple opportunities to do big things, but the
choice is yours to go for it or not.
Like other Nine combinations you seldom meet a
stranger. As a Scorpio Nine, you have fine-tuned reception
for such events and use those deja vu feelings to identify
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the subliminal (or past life) connection you have with the
person you just met. Since nothing is allowed to stay the
same, people enter and leave your life via a cosmic revolv-
ing door. Yet the contact, however brief, is meaningful,
sometimes overwhelming, and always memorable.

FAMOUS SCORPIO NEVES

Linda Evans 11/18/1942 Rock Hudson 11/17/1925
Dale Evans 10/31/1912 Bun Lancaster 11/2/1913
Mackenzie Phillips 11/10/1959 Kun Vonnegut 11/11/1922
 SAGII lAKIUS

/ • 1
Sagittarius Cne

"The Fearless Philosopher"

/+ 1+ /- 1-
Energetic Inventive Impulsive Headstrong
Enthusiastic Original Fanatical Iconoclastic
Open-minded Self-starter Blunt Overbearing
Fun-loving Daring

Dr. Livingstone, I presume? As a kid you were splayed across

the carpet with an atlas almost as big as you, poring over
maps and memorizing world capitals; you still keep up-to-
date with the latest name and leadership changes. The siren
call of exotic places beckoned, Timbuktu to Kalamazoo. You
exemplify the Sagittarian fascination with adventure and cu-
riosity about different cultures. For you, life is like an air-
conditioned motor coach, without prattling guide and fixed
itinerary; Even an uncharacteristically timid Sagittarius One
takes risks, but more in the manner of a small child entering
an abandoned house on a dare.
An individualist and rebel, you abhor living according to
societal restraints and delight in violating taboos. One thing
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you won't tolerate is limits. A true maverick, a Sag One

archer lives life at full gallop, resisting anyone who attempts
to rein you in; you'll throw anyone who tries to saddle you
with too much responsibility that isn't of your own devising.
You know where you're going and you're playing Pied Piper
to the rest of the planet.
Nothing is more important than those shining goals and
ideals. You're not opportunistic, but you know when to
seize opportunity that presents itself. No one sells him or
herself better than a Sagittarius One. It's so convincing pre-
cisely because it isn't a performance. Your faith in yourself
is so unshakable that you can make even the most outland-
ish idea sound plausible. No wonder the prototypical Sagitta-
rius One was Walt Disney, who brought out the child in us
all and truly believed "It's a small world after all."

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You value your independence and that of others. You

offer—and would prefer to receive in return—devotion, loy-
alty, commitment, mutual respect and support, sharing ad-
ventures and goals, a good raucous debate now and then,
continual curiosity about life, and passion (on any number
of levels). If you don't marry, it's not necessarily because
you're afraid your freedom will be curtailed (though like all
archers, you're a prime exponent of the "don't fence me in"
philosophy of relationships). You're aware that sometimes
you must go it alone, pick up at a moment's notice and
travel, and you can't bear to make promises you know you
can't keep. Especially earlier in life, that may be a revolving
door to your bedroom.
You should try to focus your love life and get it out of
the way, so you can concentrate on doing your own thing
(once you've discovered what that is, of course). You re-
quire a steady mate who doesn't get in your hair yet knows
exactly how to ruffle it when you're ruffled, preferably
someone with a strong career of his or her own. You want
someone smart, sharp and stylish, who can stand up to you
in a debate and stand in for you until you arrive at the latest
see-and-be-scene soiree.
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Money and Career

There's nothing Mickey Mouse about your ambitions.

You're likely to change careers or diversify your field of
operation. Behind that twinkle is serious, steely business.
You won't stop until you've made that dream become real-
ity. Despite being a high-minded philosopher and deeply
caring person, you're capable of sacrificing people to your
ideals. Your energy and eagerness move mountains (or at
least re-create them on your chosen spot!).
You're a pioneer and couldn't stay long in one place;
being behind a desk is stultifying. Of all people, you need
to determine your own special line of work and start your
own business. Not that any profession is denied you; you
attack your job with driving enthusiasm. Your competitive
instinct means success whether you become an able athlete,
boffo business tycoon, or canny comedian. You love making
people laugh, so your piercing wit comes in handy as a
writer or performer. As your powerful presence makes peo-
ple snap to attention, politics and the military are other pos-
sible vocations.

The /I Potential

Your sparkling Sagittarius One humor and serious ideal-

ism seek to improve humankind's condition in unique ways.
You're the original dream weaver, and you don't drop a
stitch. But you never step back and admire your handiwork,
because you're already working on a new pattern. Think of
some of those classic Disney songs: "When You Wish Upon
a Star" and "Whistle While You Work." They might just as
well be your mottos as you cheefully knit the world closer
together.

FAMOUS SAGITTARIUS ONES

Noel Coward 12/16/1899 Benjamin Disraeli 12/21/1804
Sammy Davis Jr. 12/8/1925 Patty Duke 12/14/1946
Jean-Luc Godard 12/3/1930 Teri Garr 12/11/1949
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/ • 2

Sa&ittarius Two

"Tlie Mellow Maeslro"

/+ 2+ 2-
Striving Supportive Thin-skinned Extremist
Tolerant Charming Undisciplined Nervous
Imaginative Intuitive Brash Procrasti nati ng
Innovative Sincere

A tender soul, you weave a poetic spell wherever you go.

Openhearted and open-handed, you set yourself up for
many a fall, but always fall back on your rich imagination
and unshakable faith that things will work out. You have an
incurably romantic streak, which is often manifested not on
a personal but on a private, creative level. You channel your
emotions into the piano or the paintbrush, but your shyness
won't always allow you to share your gift. Your closest
friends might be surprised to learn you're a wickedly deft
pen-and-ink caricaturist or can play a Chopin etude with
both precision and feeling.
Your artistry extends to your inner circle. Your love will
relate an anecdote of your experience stomping grapes in
Tuscany at a tiny family vineyard; though not a storyteller
yourself, you can't resist embellishing it with unique touches
or telling details only you observed that bring it to life. The
sad-eyed waif hiding behind you whose parents scolded her
for trying to join in because she was too small. The fat, jolly
uncle singing arias in a booming tuba baritone and scooping
up cupfuls as he danced the tarantella through the vat. When
someone interrupts to ask why they don't just sell the grapes
to a bigger vineyard if they lack the machinery, you say the
wine is just for private use, remind them that's not the point
anyway, and make a note to throw in a lecture on the
world's increasing dehumanization later. You believe every-
one has an interesting life story to tell, and feel you should
play the wandering minstrel of old, singing the praises of
Everyman.
You're philosophically mawkish, listening compassion-
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ately as total strangers spill out their hopes, dreams, and

fears. You become terribly sentimental about people's paths
in life. You want to walk alongside them, chattering about
the scenery and chatting up the locals you meet, as you take
the voyage. For all your buoyancy, you're a wounded spar-
row indeed when your wings are clipped. You need sup-
portive friends, not so much for balance as ballast.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Commitment is not a four-letter word to a Sagittarius Two.

You're not into casual sex; you're looking for someone who
can bolster your self-esteem, respect your individuality,
won't tramp heavily through your dreamworld in muddy
combat boots, and will always be there to caress you when
something disappoints you. Sure, you're fiery as all get out
and know how to keep the flames of passion stoked for a
long time, but that's the point: companionability and intel-
lectual/emotional compatibility are vital before you warm up
those sheets. You'll set the bed aglow with a steady blaze,
since your Sag side is sexually experimental and your Two
side is sensitive and attuned to others' needs.
For a relationship to work over the long haul, you need
to feel in touch, that you have shared interests and goals;
then you'll gladly portage through any rough spots. You're
often diffident in your advances and need someone with the
right teasing yet loving touch to elicit your trust. Once
burned, quadrupled shy, you must curb your fatalistic streak
and lower your expectations, if not your standards.

Money and Career

With your vivid imagination and affectionate personality,

you can become an admirable artist, actor, healer, mystic,
minister, theologian, philosopher, professor, painter, poet—
take your pick. You make a surprisingly good fighter when
you believe in the cause, and your fire often thrusts you
into the role of reluctant leader. But your ardor always
carries the day with your troops. Actually, you're a daz-
zling writer or director of breadth and vision. You're irre-
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sistibly drawn to epic and/or romantic subjects of course.

Your touch is gossamer-fine and silken-smooth.
Between the glad-handed Sagittarian influence and the
Two's thrift, you'll probably be impulsive about money, giv-
ing it away one minute, regretting it the next. Hmmm, Better
let your partners handle the accounting.

The / 2 Potential

You exist to bring life's lyrical side to light. You have a

subtle, rarefied charm and appeal. Your looks, style, and
manner are all utterly memorable. When you overcome your
natural reticence, you become a vocal, inspirational leader,
helping others discover the more sensitive, artistic side of
their natures. Don't hold yourself back for fear of being hurt
or misunderstood; you have greater strength and willpower
than you realize until your convictions are tested.

FAMOUS SAGITTARIUS TWOS

Kenneth Branagh 12/10/1960 John Paul Getty 12/15/1892
Kirk Douglas 12/9/1916 Cicely Tyson 12/19/1933
Kim Basinger 12/8/1953 Frank Zappa 12/21/1940

/ • 3
Sagittarius Three
"Tlie Winsome Wandetet"

/+ 3+ /- 3-
Cheerful Expressive Impractical Flighty
Optimistic Creative Fickle Profligate
Clever Merry Gabby Unstable
Idealistic Inspirational

You feel like Tinkerbell, spreading magic dust, and pleading

with the world to clap if it believes in fairies. In your case,
though, the fairies are your beliefs, causes, and ideals, and
you yearn to find fellow travelers. Curious, bouncy, and
jaunty, you bound up to total strangers, chattering inces-
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santly and asking personal questions. Okay, you're tactless.

A true Sag Three never intends to hurt anyone; you'll inno-
cently tell your best friend her face looks like a chipmunk
thanks to those extra five pounds. You're inevitably shocked
when she pouts; you were just trying to be helpful, and
besides, she looks kinda cute with her cheeks puffed out!
You'll be just as eager for excitement and novelty at eighty
as you were at eight. Retire? You? You'll never settle down
to canasta, pinochle, and mah-jongg at some cookie-cutter
Sunbelt condo. Despite your seeming Sagittarian restless-
ness, you possess a highly spiritual side, which tugs at you
from all directions. Until you find a target for your bow and
arrow, you'll always feel you're missing out on something.
Fortunately, your glass always remains half full, if not
overflowing.
Guileless and irrepressible, you can laugh at yourself,
even your most outrageous mistakes, which endears you
to everyone you meet. That happy, happy-go-lucky attitude
makes you lucky. You always seem to get the break, stum-
bling onto the right place at the right time, meeting that VIP
by sheer chance. You have an almost naive faith in yourself,
not to mention the Great Dane of underdogs, and can't resist
betting on long shots; you're often right. You might seem
irresponsible to some. It's not that you lack direction, but
rather that focusing on one thing makes you feel claustro-
phobic. You need tangents, avenues of mental escape, and
plenty of balls to juggle. If anyone scolds you for being
impractical, you do your patented "Reality? What's that?"
routine, impishly grinning your way out of a potential
drama.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Every time you fall in love, it's like slipping on a banana

peel: just when you least expected it, there you are on your
derriere with a goofy grin! You always assume in your
charming, naive way that this is it, this is the one. Even if
it's not, you're far too optimistic to remain in the dumps
after you've been dumped. While your heart may never be
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broken, it's seen its share of hairline fractures. Yet its beat
remains strong and sturdy.
You're solicitude itself—when you're there. You rarely re-
alize partners do a slow burn as you juggle all the irons on
your fire- put them on the back burner once in a while and
you stand a better chance of happily-ever-aftering. You can
overwhelm potential lovers with your inexhaustible energy;
buzzing about like a hyperactive mosquito, you can be a
nuisance and draw blood when you least intend to. Calm
down, Cupid. Remember that if you pepper your target with
daily phone calls, one of two things might happen: you'll
drive your intended away or frighten yourself off.

Money and Career

No one conveys as much enthusiasm and sheer delight in

a project initially as you do. The problem is getting you to
see it through. You have no trouble handing over the reins
of authority to someone else; in fact, you have little interest
in the end result, because you're already off on another
journey. Obviously this makes a regular nine-to-five job
anathema. You're best off working in fields that permit a
flexible schedule. Public relations or marketing would be
perfect: think of all those parties you can throw and the
people you can meet and introduce. Though your own date
book is filled with illegible scribbles and cross-outs, you'd
make a superb social secretary, caterer, bridal consultant—
anything that allows you to dip into your Filofax and spend
hours on the phone.
Money? Hey, it's only paper. But you'd better make piles
of it, since you're easy prey for prodigal kids, ex-wives, or
lost-lost acquaintances down on their luck. You just can't
bear to see a dream deferred and will bankroll even the
most outlandish projects just to give someone's sagging spir-
its a boost, even if it means going bust. Still, money usually
materializes when you need it; you've never questioned the
source of your almost mysterious good fortune. Even in the
most dire straits, that otherwise fair-weather friend you lent
a grand turns out to have saved something for a rainy day.
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The /3 Potential

Your greatest gift is your infectious love of life and peo-

ple. In your zeal to understand everything, don't overcommit
yourself, making promises you can't keep. Good intentions
aren't enough; they must be backed up by resolute action.
We all have an inner child, but you need to get in touch
with your inner parent for guidance. When you've decided
what you want to do, you're a genius at convincing every-
one in your orbit to help. Whether it's cheering people
through a dreary task, cajoling megabucks out of tightwads
for your favorite cause, or putting on a clown show for the
orphanage, you were meant to remind people that things
could always be worse, and if we'd just pitch in together,
they could suddenly get a whole lot better!

FAMOUS SAGITTARIUS THREES

Jeff Bridges 12/4/1949 Margaret Mead 12/16/1901
Jane Austen 12/16/1775 C.S.Lewis 11/29/1898
Dave Brubeck 12/6/1920 Bill Pullman 12/17/1954

/ • 4
Sagittarius rcur
Ttie Audacious Auditor"

/+ 4+ /- 4-
Honest Hearty Inconsistent Overworked
Humorous Nature-loving Self-absorbed Contrary
Honorable Methodical Hotheaded Undemonstrative
Zesty Persevering

Life for a Sagittarius Four is a constant search for a balance

between grounding and the feeling you've been grounded.
You're an intense workaholic, even though you may loathe
your job and the daily grind. But it's your nature to find the
ideal in everything; you see the beauty even in drudgery,
though you grumble, groan, and gripe as much as anyone
about ruts and routines. You're not fooling anyone: your
 Sagittarius 239

friends and associates immediately notice your perseverance,

and dedication. That's true of your home life as well. Your
spare weekends are filled with painstakingly restoring your
house, a standing tennis game (where you run your opponent
ragged), and an adult extension course in The Art of the Wok.
Through it all you sustain yourself with your lively, often
ribald, sense of humor. You're the Pavarotti of the pratfall;
kids love your athletic derring-do, somersaulting over sofas.
Despite your deceptively cheerful, industrious facade, you're
surprisingly sensitive. Should others anger you, even if you
acknowledge deep down they were right to confront you,
you can turn off for life. To be fair, few can get an accurate
read on you. You're quite the paradox: an obsessive planner
who thrives on routine yet bores easily. This impels you
turn projects around as quickly as possible so you can move
on. Intensely idealistic early on, as you grow older you instill
a more practical view of both Vamour and your career
('Who, mo/?" you say, grinning).
As a result, people marvel at your ability to bounce back
after every setback. There's no obstacle you can't surmount.
You're like those clown punching bags: no matter how
many times you get decked, you'll come up smiling, a steely,
determined look in your eye. You tirelessly wear down any-
one who gets in your way; eventually your opponents back
down out of respect and sheer awe.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You're rather elusive in romance. You want to settle

down, but you don't want to settle. You want a home, yet
you want freedom, and you often find yourself in some un-
satisfactory combination. You labor mightily to make it
work, but if it doesn't, you wriggle out, bloody but un-
bowed, and put it behind you without a thought or a scar.
As a result, you're rarely burned, but you sure have been
singed a lot! If you've been disappointed, you're skittish;
you use your job or your manifold other social commitments
as excuses to avoid dating, let alone relationships.
Once someone learns the right approach, leaving you to
your own devices, showing the exactly right balance be-
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tween attention and dismissal, your ears perk up even as

your hair stands on end. Suddenly you're saying the vows
you vowed never to say again. This time you're determined
to see it through, and having learned your own lessons, you
probably will. And hey, marriage isn't such a bad idea, after
all. Someone cooks dinner while you're at the office, has a
bottle of wine waiting, and massages you in all the right
places. Hmmmm.

Money and Career

Boy, are you quick with your hands and your words. You
make a super sports car or computer technician, software
consultant, urban planner, geologist, fabric manufacturer, or
engineer; indeed, you thrill to the challenge of building ac-
tual bridges and tunnels, which fulfills your need to forge
connections on a realistic level. Very good at evaluating situ-
ations, you rarely make a false move or investment. Financial
planner or CPA are other vocations where you can put your
considerable tools to use. Your wit and whimsy can also
lure you into the arts. You have real presence as a perfor-
mer; few can take their eyes off you, either on film or stage.
You certainly upstage the other actors—unintentionally, of
course. Your writing is similarly distinctive, notable either
for its visionary or down-to-earth quality.

The /4 Potential

Living proof of human resiliency, you set a fine example

for others, using healthy doses of humor and practicality to
see you through the rough spots. You're a dependable
friend, showing up with posies and peppermints every day
at the hospital when Rita gets her face lifted and lifting Joe's
spirits during his divorce proceedings with a pair of tix to
the sold-out Bulls-Knicks game. You're never down in the
dumps or down for the count for long, and you spread that
message even when you're spread thin.

FAMOUS SAGITTARIUS FOURS

Brad Pitt 12/18/1963 Tina Turner 11/26/1938
Woody Allen 12/1/1935 Larry Bird 12/7/1956
Frank Sinatra 12/12/1915 Mary, Queen of Scots 12/16/1542
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/ • 4

Sagittarius Five
The Nen/y Navigaloi'

/+ 5+ /- 5-
Spontaneous Adventurous Reckless Restless
Expansive Communicative Outspoken Fickle
Exploratory Progressive Tactless Irresponsible
Ebullient Outgoing

At heart, every Sagittarius Five is a time traveler, in search

of new worlds, not to conquer, but to defend, for the mo-
ment, until you're off on the next adventure. You're a
swoony action hero, even if your exploits are limited to
rescuing the neighbor's kitty from the elm tree. It doesn't
surprise you that the noble immortal alien Highlander (aka
Duncan MacLeod) is a Sag Five. You'll roam the world geo-
graphically and spiritually before you're through, and don't
really care where you're going: it's the journey itself—the
lessons you learn and the people you meet along the way—
that matters.
You're a rare Sagittarius Five indeed if you haven't at least
contemplated eating fugu (the potentially deadly blowfish
sushi), skydiving, bungee-jumping, running with the bulls at
Pamplona, or being locked in a Lakota sweat box to discover
your animal spirit guide. You're too smart to play chicken
or Russian roulette for real, but you do take risks. Even as
a kid you hated sitting still. No hobbyhorse for you: you
zoomed off on that tricycle at warp drive while your mom
screamed, "Don't turn the corner!" At ten you rigged a glider
and jumped off the roof, convinced you could fly, breaking
your wing in two places. Wow, how cool having the entire
class sign your cast! Now it may only be your ideas taking
flight, but if you crash and burn, well, that's life.
You're reallly an old-fashioned traveling salesperson, with
a suitcase full of ideas and ideals to peddle to the world.
You actually thrive in chaotic conditions. Think about it: so
many possibilities, unanswered questions, endless horizons.
And no restrictions! Thanks to that hunger to see and do
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everything (preferably by the time you're thirty, of course),

you'll never feel limited. The world's your oyster, with plenty
of pearls of wisdom to collect.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You're a rolling stone that gathers no moss, though you

do gather plenty of amorous momentum. No one could
hope for a jollier boon companion, when you're around
(which isn't often). You lust after a traveling companion with
the same wanderlust; if there's a fork in the road, you take
it, shouting, "See ya later and we'll compare notes." Since
you're so avid for all sorts of experiences, you have a roving
eye, mind, and hands. You thrive on the sheer romance and
the danger of being caught, having probably entertained
more than a few fantasies of nooky in the elevator or air-
plane rest room.
Although you intend to be circumspect, you rush in where
love is concerned. You pin on the third date, marry on a
whim by the eighth date, marry again on the rebound be-
cause that nice person you met at the blackjack table in
Reno seemed so simpatico. You think of monogamy (if you
think of it at all) as an intriguing idea, perhaps worth experi-
menting, but not your ideal. You're not incapable of fidelity,
but it isn't high on your priority list. You consider it impracti-
cal; "It's just sex, not love" could be your mantra. You're
often happy juggling several affairs at once. You want a
challenge, after all, and availability can be a turn-off. But
find another dashing, emotional-white-water-rafting sort, and
you might just try running the rapids of marriage for keeps.

Money and Career

The market for superhero(ine)s being somewhat limited,

you flourish in any activity that doesn't tie you to a desk,
such as flight attendant, or better yet, pilot; real-life explorer;
journalist, especially war correspondent; and PR flak or even
travel agent, specializing in adventure and ecotourism,
natch. A stand-up sort, if you can't land a job that takes you
to exotic climes, your next choice would be to stand up for
someone's rights: indeed, you'd want to overhaul the justice
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system. Consumer advocacy, defense lawyer, labor organizer,

or special-interest-group lobbying is right up your alley.
Money runs through your fingers, especially if there's a
new gadget or an Antarctic cruise on sale. You'd be first on
the waiting list for the moon shuttle, coughing up the hun-
dred grand even if it means a second mortgage. For all that,
you always land on your feet, able to sweet-talk a loan or
a raise that keeps your head above water and your new
kayak afloat.

The / 5 Potential

Temper your restlessness, both real and spiritual, with a

greater consideration of others as individuals: remember,
even explorers requre a home base from which to operate.
Cultivate a greater sense of responsibility. Everyone needs
roots to anchor them; it doesn't mean losing your freedom.
You crave understanding and companionship as much as
anyone, but you must learn it can't always be on your terms,
Sacrifice a little spontaneity; don't suddenly take off on a
trek to Tibet at the last minute, forgetting you promised to
attend Madame Butterfly with your sweetie. Consult other
people occasionally and check their schedules. Work assidu-
ously toward your goals—once you've identified them. Then
you can travel the world and share your discoveries on both
the personal and universal levels.

FAMOUS SAGITTARIUS FIVES

Bette Midler 12/1/1945 Little Richard 12/5/1932
Don Johnson 12/15/1949 Ray Liotta 12/18/1955
Fried rich Engels 11/28/1820 Liv Ullmann 12/16/1939
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/ • e

Sagittarius Six
"The Electric Educator"

6+ /- 6-
Supportive Idealistic Insistent Overidealistic
Cheerleading Philanthropic Outspoken Unreasonable
Open-handed Straightforward Reckless Self-righteous
Joyous Warm

Six is the number of duty and responsibility, and Sagittarius

the sign of philosophy, idealism, and moral truth. The com-
bination is heady indeed. Extremely patriotic, you're the type
who could turn guerrilla if invading troops threatened your
family and community, but your sharpshooting and sniping
are usually verbal. You're fanatical about your belief system.
No, you're not the kamikaze or bomb-planting terrorist sort,
yet your zeal carries you far (and sometimes far off the
mark). You don't merely like or dislike, you adore or abhor.
No moderate, you lean so far left or right you could teeter
over if you're not careful, either wrapping yourself in the
flag or burning it as an activist. They're two sides of the
same coin, of course; you simply have a powerful sense of
duty, honor, and ethics—which may not always be main-
stream, as the concept of individual civil liberties is usually
dear to even the most conservative Sagittarius Six. The chain
mail and hairshirt you wear are mighty uncomfortable and
woefully unfashionable. But you intend to lead by example,
your stamina, willpower, and work ethic unquestioned. Still,
you're hardly a puritanical role model. You can blast off at
inappropriate moments, shooting from the lip when frus-
trated. You despise toadies, sycophants, and hypocrites.
You're the type who'll out that closeted politician because
you think it's the right thing to do. After all, you'd never
hide anything yourself. When you're younger you may be
more revolutionary, getting arrested at protests, saving ev-
erything from the ozone layer to the baby seals.
You need to feel that the entire world is your home and
every person in it part of your extended family. You will-
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ingly take on the role of Big Brother or Sister to everyone

you meet, but can't hack the discipline part; behind the
"love, honor, obey me" mentality and stern looks, your elas-
tic face melts into Silly Putty. You just can't hide your emo-
tions; they steal across your countenance like a kid trying
to open his presents on Christmas Eve.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Between the Six penchant for commitment and responsi-

bility and that Saggie impulsiveness, you've mapped out the
next fifty years after your first date. Any place you hang your
hat is home, but unlike many Sagittarians, you're unafraid to
move your entire wardrobe. You don't mind the ranch
house, the 2.3 kids, the PTA meeting (all right, the diapers
had better be disposable—there are limits, after all). It's a
sure bet you have an RV packed and ready to go; you simply
take your family along for the ride, imbuing them with the
same sense of adventure. You're an ideal parent; you take
your kids seriously and take pride in their accomplishments,
yet revel in their all-too-human foibles, too, sending in that
candid moment of Billy splattered with the tomato/peanut
butter/cola concoction that just exploded from the blender
to America's Funniest Home Videos.
You have your emotional baggage, but have learned
when to check it while traveling with someone. You've also
learned how to scan others' valises with your X-ray insight.
But you consider the luggage valuable: as long as people
don't keep it under lock and key, it represents our journey
of self-discovery. What could be more exciting than that?

Money and Career

A true humanitarian, you're concerned first and foremost

with others' welfare, and like to see the results firsthand.
Whatever your field, it had better get you out in the field.
You're naturally attracted to social work; as a physician or
nurse, you'd boast a wonderful bedside manner, gently flirt-
ing and coddling. Maybe you'll invent a new line of home
products that you can pitch as the only pyramid that really
does work. As a manager, you know exactly when to praise
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them or provide an incentive. The ministry or military are

other avenues where you feel you can make a difference.
You wear your heart and your art on your sleeve; you're
a writer or performer of charm and accessibility, mining the
everyday for your gentle humor. If you want to get out of
the house, you could run select tours, like visiting the wine
country, or go on the lecture circuit as a self-help guru. If
you want to stay at home, your hospitality could lead you
to build a B&B. Interaction with others is paramount to
your happiness.

The /6 Potential

You project both wit and warmth. People feel they can
confide in you and that you'll offer both sage counsel and
a quick quip to cheer them up. You're an advocate of the
power of positive thinking. You illustrate your point with
anecdotes that go straight to the listener's heart and the heart
of the matter. Guard against becoming too narow-minded
in your credos; you're generally quite tolerant in the abstract,
but can clash with people with dissenting opinions. Agree
to disagree; though you won't stop preaching and pitching,
now, will you?

FAMOUS SAGITTARIUS SIXES

Caroline Kennedy 11/27/1957 Dick Van Dyke 12/13/1925
Schlossberg Joe DiMaggio 11/25/1914
Charles Schulz 11/26/1922 Sinead O'Connor 12/8/1966
Steven Spielberg 12/18/1947
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/ • 7
Sagittarius Seven
"The Animated Analyst"

/+ 7+ /- 7-
Original Truth-seeking Absentminded Sarcastic
Knowledgeable Studious Foolhardy Distant
Curious Mystical Insensitive Picky
Specialized Civilized

Resisting anything humdum, you don't follow the beat of a

different drummer, you establish it. Sagittarius Sevens are
optimistic cynics, forever deliberating whether the glass is
half empty or half full. Nonetheless, you're endowed with a
deep faith, not necessarily in organized religion, but that
things will work out for yourself and the world at large
through a combination of research and good fortune. You
want to make your mark; you feel it's your mission to share
your philosophy of life with others. Chances are you'll be
thrust into the public eye early, often by forces outside your
control, and you feel your life has been predestined in some
way. Certainly you're fascinated by Fate as a concept, with-
out becoming a fatalist.
Still, you can pity yourself. It seems as though most peo-
ple simply lack your insight, wisdom, faith, and lust for
knowledge. Alas, you may be right, which is why you play
so vital a role, whether in your community or with your
loved ones. You genuinely question where our ultimate re-
sponsibility lies: to ourselves, to our loved ones, or to the
world at large. You understand all too well that humanity is
a series of communities, each seeking its own identity and
sense of belonging, which inevitably come into conflict.
As a result, you're a bona fide news junkie; keeping in
touch with current events amounts to a mania. Though you
have your backpacking side, you want CNN in your hotel
room and papers in five languages representing eight ideolo-
gies delivered every morning when you travel. For all your
love of the outdoors, big business, and socializing, you need
the occasional retreat to commune with nature, taking long
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tramps through the woods. You burn off steam in such soli-
tary activities as biking, jogging, and working out; you do
your best brainstorming when you get those endorphins
flowing.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Those high ideals and visions can cause you to forget the
practical side of life—and love. When you're younger, you
sometimes confuse "hey, hey in the hayloft" for a permanent
liaison, but usually focus on loftier pursuits by your thirties,
when you discover life isn't just one long amusement-park
ride. Suddenly you realize you can be more effective if you
settle down in more ways than one. When Sagittarius Sevens
learn not to equate freedom with lack of commitment, you
carefree roamers make splendid domesticated partners, but
you'll always believe on some level that a house is not a
home.
A clinging vine is like poison ivy. You'd lead a double
life if you could. No, not bigamy, just separate jobs, separate
friends, separate lives on many levels; when they overlap,
grand. Your significant others had better respect that when
you're in "save the world" mode, you can't be bothered. On
the other hand, you welcome spontaneity and the unex-
pected, even sexually. You want an educated and explor-
atory mate. Not cheating, mind you; the "don't ask, don't
tell" approach, or better yet, an "open relationship," which
satisfies your code of honor and honesty, allows you suffi-
cient illusion of freedom and control. Besides, you don't
want to hurt your partner—and you're not so sure you want
him or her to enjoy the same independence.

Money and Career

You're a speedy thoroughbred in the workplace, trotting

out one dizzying, dazzling idea after another, leaving your
rivals in the dust as you gallop past. You demand a vocation
that will utilize every ounce of your intelligence and commit-
ment. Lecturer, professor, archaeologist, anthropologist, econ-
omist, and theologian are job descriptions that appeal to you.
Satire is a particular forte, which lends itself to your becom-
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ing a newscaster, political correspondent, critic, or writer of

bountiful, unlimited imagination. Politics is probably your
primary ambition, because you have to feel you're making
a difference or you become disillusioned. The only draw-
back is stumping on the campaign trail: There are only so
many babies you can kiss and hands you can shake before
you need to curl up with a good book; you've been meaning
to reread Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Malthus's Essay on
the Principle of Population, and Paine's Common Sense.

The /7 Potential

Your trenchant mind and burning idealism can light the

world on fire. You're a dangerous adversary, able to bury
someone with a crushing one-liner; your zeal is commend-
able, but sometimes you have to remind yourself that people
are human beings first and platforms second. You exist to
move, shake, rattle, roll, and rock this planet with your fiery
speeches and disarming combination of earnestness and
lightheartedness.

FAMOUS SAGITTAHIUS SEVENS

John Kennedy Jr. 11/25/1960 Winston Churchill 11/30/1874
Emily Dickinson 12/10/1830 William Buckley Jr. 11/24/1925
Chris Evert 12/21/1954 Abigail Adams 11/23/1744

/ • 8

Sagittarius Eight
"The Sleadlasl Slralegisl"

/+ 8+ /- 8-
Honorable Ambitious Thoughtless Workaholic
Frank Useful Argumentative Braggardly
Dynamic Capable Blunt Indecisive
Energetic Nonjudgmental

Admit it: you Sagittarius Eights would be lost without your

Day-Timer and Filofax. Jog with the dogs at 3 a.m. Read the
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local paper and Le Figaro and the London Financial Times

(delivered daily) over decaf and granola. Flirt with the co-
worker down the hall. Sell the board on your latest project,
then lunch with a headhunter from a rival firm. Call Aunt
Frieda to wish her happy birthday: who has time for cards?
Make a mental note to yourself to buy Aunt Frieda a computer
and get her on the Internet. E-mail that proposal for the new
magazine you want to launch. Squash game with that obnox-
iously obsequious junior partner. Attend a cocktail party to
save the Paraguayan rain forest, then pop in on three board
meetings: a tenants' coalition, an breast cancer fundraiser,
and that groundbreaking theater company whose work mar-
ries Kabuki and flamenco techniques. Every so often you
have a free night—and you're amazed that no one thought
to invite you to their birthday party or give you that spare
ticket to Carmen. Can you blame them? they figure you
already have plans and probably aren't home!
No one will ever take this centaur for a ride, since the
nai'vete and optimism of Sag are counterbalanced by the
Eight's common sense and perceptiveness. You should keep
a rein on your emotions; bide your time, no matter how
much you champ at the bit to change the world. You'll
always be an ardent champion of the underdog, but as you
grow older, you do become more comfortable and corpo-
rate, if not downright conservative, preferring to change the
system from within. Still, even as CEO, you can spout off
how the world is run by economics and class structure.
When you travel—and you will, throughout your life—
suddenly you go from hostels and one john per floor to the
Ritz (or its nearest local equivalent).
You could well become a socialite-climber, quite literally.
Though you often make scads of money, you resist being pent
up in your penthouse, so boom, you're financing a trip to scale
Everest. Why? everyone asks. Because it's there and you're a
globetrotting gladiator! Just remember that money could be
easy-come, easy-go and go easyon your impulse throttle.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Truth be told, you're too busy for dating—unless an esca-

pade is dumped right in your lap. But you don't regard
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marriage as a prison. It's all a matter of negotiation. You

have to draw up a contract with yourself guaranteeing X
number of dates per month while you're on the New York-
London-Bonn-Kathmandu route. Your potential partner
had better be as busy as you are, and learn to time his or
her business trips with your own for maximum interaction.
Must've been a Sag Eight who first boasted, "I give great
fax."
You have a healthy, vigorous, but erratic libido, easily
channeled into other outlets like rock or corporate ladder
climbing. Still, when you get around to it, you're the Ener-
gizer Bunny of sex: you keep going and going and
going. . . .You're not opposed to the idea of kids, but with
your busy schedule, you know they'd grow up spending
more quality time with a nanny and your personal assistant,
and you just don't think that's fair.

Money and Career

You climb the ladder of success assiduously, yet the view

from each new rung dissatisfies you. You don't fear the
heights, but others' backbiting, desk banging, and general
screaming seem to increase in direct proportion to the height
of your office building. You find the corporate jungle a
steamy, insect-infested place—and love hacking through it.
You'd never find it easy to downsize your company, even
if you know it will save more jobs and money in the long
run. Despite such qualms, you're an excellent business-
person. You can gauge public opinion in your sleep. You
take yourself very seriously, yet have the gift for appearing
nonchalant in the public eye. Jurist, politician (in the opposi-
tion), political analyst, spin doctor, and CEO are your natural
eminent domains.
You learn how to dot your i's and cross your fs and gain
mastery of the Xs and Os of corporate fiance as you recon-
cile your almost Marxist ideals with your capitalist bent. Re-
gardless, you donate more than your share of time, money,
and energy to various charities, causes, and campaigns. Just
remember the money isn't always there, so beware casually
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dumping a million shares of IBM while skiing a fresh dump

of powder in Utah.

The /8 Potential

You could actually show the socialists that capitalism isn't

as evil as they fear, when everyone pitches in and a deter-
mined effort is made to match people's skills and interests
with their jobs. If someone whacks your nose out of joint,
don't cut it off to spite your face. Balance your unparalleled
honor with realism; choose your battles as carefully as you
do your causes.

FAMOUS SAGITTARIUS EIGHTS

Andrew Carnegie 11/25/1835 Jane Fonda 12/21/1937
Ty Cobb 12/18/1886 Nostradamus 12/14/1503
Dick Clark 11/30/1929 Betty Grable 12/18/1913

/ • 9
Sasittarius Nine

"The Artislic Advenlurer"

/+ 9+ A 9-
Trenchant Compassionate Unrealistic Critical
Solicitous Creative Undisciplined Demanding
Broad-minded Charitable Capricious Egotistical
Agreeable Liberal

A Sagittarius Nine is a high horse indeed, the Triple Crown

winner of moral rectitude and humanitarian activism, de-
signed to sprint to the finish line, through not in a cold
sweat or dead heat. You have a killer instinct, knowing just
when to make your move during the stretch run. Others
may think you're dawdling or doodling; they're in for a
shock when you pull ahead by a nose at the wire. You do
enjoy that photo finish flair! But even when you ride rough-
shod over others' feelings, you somehow emerge with your
image as the white knight or fair maiden intact. That's be-
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cause you believe chivalry isn't dead, buried, and decom-

posing—not while you're here! At least you have a sense of
humor about your inviolate code.
You're a deep thinker and an absurdist at the same time,
who could probably make existentialism both comprehensi-
ble and funny. You have a broad range of interests and can
discourse on them for hours at a dinner party, interspersed
with your anecdotes about getting married on skis in full
bridal regalia and repeating your vows in astronaut suits at
NASA. Not to mention a litany of your pet peeves and
causes.
Truth is that even though you're probably not convention-
ally religious, you belong on a pulpit. You can't help but
share your views on everything with everyone you meet.
You're a fire-and-brimstone preacher when you believe in
something; even avowals of your atheism will be put forth
with evangelical zeal. You are superstitious about karma or
whatever you call its equivalent. "Do unto others" sounds
like a good idea, anyway, until they try to undo you in some
way, that is. And believe it or not, you never break a sweat
and can squeeze in enough downtime for a whole golf game
and wine tasting!

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Although Nines usually point others to the high road, Sag-

ittarians are always emotional rescuers. You long to ride in
and save someone from an unhappy marriage or a destruc-
tive life. The pattern of your infatuations is predictable. It's
all very innocent at first, quite noble and high-minded: no
impure thoughts, just friends. You listen compassionately as
they tell you how misunderstood they are. You convince
yourself that their mate doesn't appreciate them. But you
do: you'll cherish them.
Alas, once the damsel has been saved, the dragon van-
quished, and you have to settle down to the humdrum rou-
tine of patching up the chain mail and polishing the sword,
uh, silver, the excitement fades. A clever partner will learn
how to read your moods, and make him or herself unavail-
able, well, scarce, with his or her own projects.
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Money and Career

Your individuality is your greatest asset and liability in the

corporate world. You're a natural salesperson, so smooth
and funny at the business dinner, which keeps you out of
the doghouse when you rant and rave about poor working
conditions, the fact that you haven't received a raise in three
months, or how your job sucks because you have to suck
up so much. Like any Sagittarian, you want a post that in-
volves travel. News correspondent, the diplomatic corps, or
adventure tour operator will do. You can be an author or
artist of rare penetrating insight; as an actor, your perfor-
mances will be thoroughly original—you also know how to
pick roles that showcase your talents and will appeal to
popular sentiment.
You have exquisite taste and will probably spend mega-
bucks amassing an impressive wine cellar and Native Ameri-
can pottery collection. Since you enjoy the good life and a
good debate, you generally associate with people in higher
income brackets with equally high-minded ideals.

The /9 Potential

Charismatic and kindly, you have only to discover your

own personal gospel and spread the word. You're an inci-
sive observer of human nature, with a slightly cynical, off-
kilter wit that keeps people on their toes. You're a great pal,
enjoying sharing your latest interests with everyone in your
circle. You're easily bored, and sometimes dismiss people
with whom you think you have little in common. You may
be right, but you'd be surprised how much you'd learn if
you listened when nothing is apparently at stake.

FAMOUS SAGITTARIUS NEVES

Garry Shandling 11/29/1949 Jimi Hendrix 11/27/1972
Louisa May Alcott 11/29/1832 Richard Pryor 12/1/1940
Beau Bridges 12/9/1941 Mary Martin 12/1/1913
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ft • 1

Capricorn Cne
"The Tenacious Irailblazer"

Z5+ 1+ 1-
Diplomatic Inventive Lonely Stubborn
Resolved Courageous Unforgiving Domineering
Reliable A Leader Ruthless Inflexible
Wise Direct

It's not that you ever expected to be famous; you just do

what you want to do, what you think is right for you, and
voila! There you are, standing out in front of the crowd. The
stuff of legends is in your veins: Martin Luther King Jr., Kit
Carson. Famous or infamous, a la the notorious Capricorn
One Benedict Arnold, there's no hiding for you. From the
first fist of fudge you snitch from the plate cooling in the
kitchen at age five, to having your private notes for a sensi-
tive business deal fall into the hands of the opposition, there
is little in life you can actually get away with. You learn to
be careful.
Caution doesn't stop you from taking a gamble when the
perceived gain is greater than the potential loss. You're de-
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termined to come in first, and politician that you are in any

game, you manage to take charge almost any time you want.
The inspirations you have today, as out there as they seem,
history judges to be a voice of your times. Somebody has
to be the first one to speak up.
If you suffer from a lack of confidence, even intimate
friends won't know. How could they tell the difference be-
tween your normal reserve and aloof withdrawal? They can't
and won't, unless you make an out-of-character decision and
tell them. You plow through the anxiety on your own, and
eventually start moving forward again. As persevering as you
are, you abruptly end any plan or cut loose any pal that is
holding you back.
With a reverence for the traditional, you're a fountain of
ideas about how to improve the future. Digging for details
isn't your strong suit. But even before swilling down your
first cup of coffee, you can open minds to new ideas and
point the way to Shangri-La. Everyone wants to be on your
team because they know a winner when they see one.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You know a good thing when you see it, too—trim figure,
crowning-glory hair, and lots of common sense. "Now,
there's one attractive couple," people say when you two
walk into a room. Since you don't consider yourself so good-
looking, you gravitate to prospective partners with more
head-turning potential than you have. But you're not the
shallow sort, you want more than to look good together, you
also want a buddy who believes in you and your dreams.
Family is important to you, and though you may enjoy
your children more as adults than little ones, you wouldn't
be happy without them. Marriage is a step you don't take
quickly. Okay, you might impulsively pop the question, but
that's only after hearing every word on the grapevine about
your lover and checking him out from tipsy halo to toes.
You expect respect in public, and passionate bedroom
games in private. With your magnetism, you always have a
choice of partners.
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Money and Career

Money is the first consideration in every move you make.

Experience teaches you that if you don't track every penny,
the golden goose stops laying those valuable eggs. Besides,
you prefer to buy the best, and while you might shop for a
bargain eighteen-karat bracelet for your sister's sweet-sixteen
party, you always buy the best quality you can. You know
you and yours deserve the best.
You work hard for your money, and believe in your ability
to manifest promotions and better jobs. If you aren't holding
the reins at work, you must at least be revered as the resi-
dent expert to not scan the want-ads every day for some-
thing better. Designer, engineer, dentist, politician, jeweler,
musician, art dealer or manager are all perfect spots for you
to earn a good living and be well satisifed to boot.

The Potential

You have strong visions of how to make improvements,

usually against tradition, on a grand scale or one on one.
People are willing to follow you; they understand the logic
of your ideas and respect your awesome ability to get things
done. With you in front to lead or behind to push, you
encourage others to perform miracles.
All work and no play makes you tired, tired, tired. Lighten
up! You can't inspire anyone when you've been living on
junk food delivered to the office, or not had a full night's
sleep since you can't remember when. Use your executive
ability and inventive ideas to lead by example and get more
done in less time that you thought possible.

FAMOUS CAPRICORN ONES

Janis Joplin 1/19/1943 Humphrey Bogart 12/25/1899
Tiger Woods 12/30/1975 Brandon Tartikoff 1/13/1949
Simone de Beauvoir 1/19/1908 Rosalind Cash 12/31/1938
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^ • I

Caprlccrn Twc
"The Aspinng Anbassadof"

2+ 2-
Amhitious Tactful Stingy Timid
Dependable Supportive Workaholic Moody
Organized Gracious Fatalistic Extremist
Generous Conscientious

There are at least two sides to you. Not that anyone would
actually say you were two-faced, so stop that sensitive flush
before you start smarting about the nerve of some people.
You have to admit that you can lead colleagues on a merry
chase for today's itinerary. With your multilayered agendas,
it's hard to know what's necessary and what are pet to-do's
you want to dip your artistic hands into. To get to pick what
you want to do, you spearhead the delegation of tasks with
a smile.
Efficient, yet sensitive to everyone's needs and whims,
you nimbly lift a heavy load even at your own expense.
You fully expect a round of give-and-take and are stunned
to find out not everyone plays by the same rules you do.
When that happens you slip away to lick the wounds in
private. Sometimes it is proper to sulk alone, but not for too
long. Learn the art of collaborative confrontation and you
can vanquish adversity and keep everyone's self-respect in-
tact, especially your own.
Taking the stairs two at a time on your way to a meeting
puts you at the boardroom table first to soak in the vibes
of the place before the big players arrive. No matter where
your name falls on the company's organizational chart, you
never feel like a big player. You see your role as the Good
Sense Glue to hold the group together to focus on the col-
lective objective.
"Doing the right thing" is no hollow motto for you, but
words to live by. The definition of the right thing changes
frequently, depending on the situation. You dig deep to
offer ways to make it a win-win for everyone, but when you
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can't, you ensure that you and yours come through the
flames okay. Hence the root of the "more than two sides to
the complex you" tales making the rounds.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Few can penetrate the tough shell that houses the heart
of a beguiling romantic. You search for the Prince Charming
on your personal wave length—the fellow with enough
brains to read a spreadsheet and enough guts to punch a
hole in the thick wall of unavailability you've built around
your vulnerability. Even with a shallow fling here and a
near-miss engagement there, you never give up hope that
Mr. Right will come knocking.
Marriages are built on partnerships, and partnerships start
on the playground, the gym, and at the office. Mixing busi-
ness with pleasure is a must because you live at work as
much as you do at home. You've been known to blur the
line between the two, so please remember to lock that office
door with its smashing park view from the eighteenth floor
before you sweep your sweetie onto the mahogany desktop
to indulge your mutual desires.

Money and Career

With an astute hunch, you surprise competitors by stop-

ping a deal in motion to study the possibilities thoroughly.
Of course, you want to make big bucks, but more than
money, you crave the accompanying accolades to validate
the achievement of becoming the best in your field that you
can be. Expect to have a few different careers in your life as
you alternate between the workaday professions and many
creative interests.
You manage employees with ease, and provide them with
every tool needed to perform. Ail you expect in return is a
job well done, acknowledgment for acting as mentor, and
respect for your privacy. You also envision money and first-
class bennies to be a reward, and once you find out about
the bonus plan, you figure out how to get in on it.
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The r62 Potential

A gatherer of facts, you do the research and have the

intuition to be a reliable forecaster of trends and outcomes.
A practical visionary, you share insights when appropriate
and always with someone near and dear. Gracious in spirit,
you soothe a worry with a kind word and a folded fifty-
dollar bill—no questions asked. The paycheck is important,
but you never neglect friends or family in the process of
earning one.
To make your own spirits sparkle, retreat from the daily
grind to beautiful surroundings on a regular basis. Ink "time
alone" into the schedule every month or so, and don't let
anything come between you and your date with yourself.
Teach others to be sensitive to timing, pay attention to de-
tails, and listen to their intuition to pursue the prizes that
will make them happy. Others have seen you do it, so they
know your special formula works, and look to you to share
the secret recipe.

FAMOUS CAPRICORN TWOS

Pat Benetar 1/10/1953 A. A. Milne 1/18/1882
Jane Wyman 1/4/1914 Edgar Allen Poe 1/19/1809
Shelly Fabares 1/19/1944 Vidal Sasoon 1/17/1928

ft • 3

Capricern Three
"The Imaginative Manager"

3+ 3-
Sensible Creative Jealous Extravagant
Conventional Sociable Nervous Cynical
Particular Imaginative Brooding Scattered Effort
Diplomatic Expressive

Thank goodness you had a practical fairy godmother as a

young tot. She and the Tooth Fairy left you hard cash and
fanciful dreams that put your tiny feet on Imagination Lane
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in search of fun and fortune. Even after you come to terms

with the fact that pixie dust won't make you fly, you keep
the glittery bottle and a sunny-side-up smile. If there is a
way back home from Oz without ruby slippers, you will
find it. Magic or no, there's always a way.
Youthful effervescence stays with you even after retire-
ment. Besides fanning your charisma, it's a fountain of ideas
and energy. That energy, complemented by the stash of
functional data you've acquired about how to get on in the
big, wide world, lets you remain active long after college
pals have hung up their track shoes.
Whatever career track you choose, you use those creative
talents and gut feelings to imprint your personal stamp on
the endeavor. Self-expression is your lifeblood, and no job
or relationship lasts long if it doesn't give you the freedom
to do your own thing. You always make it to the finish line,
but you do resent being told how to get there.
As quick as you are, you can easily switch from one activ-
ity to another yet, you never give up on favorite quest. If
something isn't working out, you simply set it aside for a
while. The hrst chance you get, you go back to see if it
might fly this time. You don't believe any effort is wasted.
The treasure may be yours years later, but it happens only
because of your particular brand of persistent magic!

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You know about all the different kinds of love—the forever-

and-ever kind, the right-now kind, and the tantalizing tango
kind who's got your full attention as he handles that sculpted
physique like the sensuous instrument it is! You wouldn't say
no. In fact, the glint in your eyes says you're figuring out how
to make it happen. It's not that you're a no-tell-motel girl,
but there are some sumptuous morsels simply too good to
pass up.
As the resident romantic, you know not every mating
dance ends up in "I love you" or "Hey, let's do the happily-
ever-after thing," but that doesn't stop you from grabbing a
partner and stepping onto the dance floor. In love, you
sometimes go to elaborate lengths to endear yourself to a
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prospective partner, but you are much too sensible to let

the game get out of hand. Since you're a child at heart
forever, little tykes and big teenagers are drawn to your side.
If you decide to do the family thing, you find your offspring
a delightful wonder.

Money and Career

As long as you can curb extravagant spending, you can

have the stocks and savings you want. Not only do you
believe in the hard-work ethic, you also know that if you
do it the right way and never give up on yourself, the sky's
the limit—even when it comes to money. Your so-called
unrealistic view of the world has worked for you over and
over again. The best opportunities come through friends and
occasionally a synchronistic meeting with a stranger. And it's
especially helpful to have your network of influential friends
you can call to make it so for you.
You like to run your own show, but are a patient ladder
climber. Disciplined, you watch and learn as you create and
do. By the time you are offered the lead, you are ready for
the part. Remember the tales of another Capricorn Three,
Horatio Alger? That's a legacy to live up to, which on some
psychic wave you already knew, didn't you?

The ^53 Potential

The unbeatable mix of Capricorn's down-to-earth good

sense and persistence mixed with Three's creative talents
and artistic flair make you an unbeatable combination in
business and pleasure. You are a thoughtful person with the
ability to be an amazing success once you pick a particular
direction. Like a bumper car bouncing through life, your
resiliency is inspiring.
Knowing you is a profitable and happy experience; every-
one who joins the party in progress at your place is made
to feel welcome and valued. Don't let stress pop your tem-
per valve or turn you ruthless. Stay focused and positive.
Celebrate achievements and make light of it when the bot-
tom falls out. With your enthusiasm, executive ability, and
fixed focus, you'll be back on top in a twinkling or two.
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FAMOUS CAPRICORN THREES

Katie Couric 1/7/1957 Kevin Costner 1/18/1955
Maggie Smith 12/28/1934 David Bowie 1/8/1947
Tracey Ullman 12/30/1959 Lloyd Bridges 1/15/1913

^5 • 4

Capricorn Four
"The Persevering Perlectionisl"

(t5+ 4+ (T5- 4-
Aspiring Persistent Conceited Too Busy
Competent Constructive Nervous Lazy
Organized Even tempered Impatient Stubborn
Particular Practical

From the first castle you built with chunky wood blocks or
snappy, bright Legos, you have never outgrown the joy of
watching a Huge Something be built from Nothing. In those
days a building-block project could take days or weeks, de-
pending on the patience of parents and the pounce-swat-
grab action of Chaucer cat, the tiger gold opportunist who
liked to hang out in your room. Chaucer made you furious
when he knocked over your version of a medieval palace,
but also taught you that anything can be rebuilt, and it usu-
ally comes out better than the first attempt.
You think big but nurture those ginormous goals in secret,
lest the cold, callous criticism of others casts a hint of doubt
to undermine your determination. A realist, you start small
and study world-class achievers to learn how to be competi-
tive—athletes, songwriters, actors, entrepreneurs, and knights
in shining armor. The resulting chain of successes startles
those who underestimate you, as many foolish adversaries
do. You have staying power.
Few will ever know how disciplined and ruthless you are
with yourself, nor will anyone convince you not to be hard
on yourself. Yet you go out of your way to let others know
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you accept them just as they are with words of encourage-

ment or an approving smile. You dispense humor to break
tension, and give a hug to show you care. Then you slay
the dragons to keep the kingdom safe. Oddly enough, you
don't expect the same in return from anyone, but once in a
while you think it sure would be nice.
Determined to achieve certain goals since childhood, you
experience setbacks in moving to the front of the line, but
know these are only delays in getting there. You evaluate
in detail the whys and why-nots, then take up the task once
more. In spite of all the effort and hard work, no one is
more surprised than you when they hand you a Grammy,
an Oscar, or the keys to your own castle.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Red-blooded lust flows through those veins hidden under

the gray gabardine suit. Looks alone don't create chemistry.
It's a combination of substance and sex appeal that has to
be just so before you make a move. Outside the bedroom,
you want qualities in a mate such as appropriateness and
high standards. Inside, anything goes with an eager play-
mate who loves you. You delve into straightforward sex and
playful with a lover who has the right mix of brains, wit,
and guile to explore the kinks. In addition, you expect your
partner to keep up with you between the sheets and out.
You tend to marry early in life and fully expect the mar-
riage to last forever. Should you find yourself divorced, once
you've come to terms with it, you actively seek another
spouse. Children provide that whimsical view of the world
you sometimes miss. You enjoy your own kids, and make
a responsible parent and a loyal partner to count on.

Money and Career

You learn astute business skills through trial and error.

Luckily, you are cautious enough to not gamble your entire
nest egg on a "sure thing." Well, at least not without a win-
ning prospectus and safety-laced contract involved. When
you do get knocked down, you're dazed to think you over-
 Capricorn 265

looked anything that could have backfired. But then you

take a deep breath and plan the next move.
A doer, you must be involved in the planning and execu-
tion of projects in order to be happy in your work. You
aren't the ivory-tower type, but will go it alone if you have
to. You prefer a staff of smart, solid performers to help you
get things done your way. Truly you aren't bossy or hard-
headed, but you do know exactly what you want and the
most efficient way to get it. You do well in accounting,
engineering, manufacturing, construction, archaeology, law,
education, and the arts.

The <^4 Potential

You always have a backup plan or two. Primarily an opti-

mist, you take pleasure in proving gloomy Guses wrong.
There is always a way to get to the finish line, unless, of
course, you decide you don't want to get to that specific
finish line. Diligent and discerning, you are a steadfast friend
and scrupulous ally.
Strive for balance between the professional and private
parts of your life. No one can be brilliant all the time without
pleasurable diversions, not even you. Enlarge your inner cir-
cle of friends and let them offer a helping hand when you
need it. There is time to do everything and go everywhere
you want—you simply can't do it all and have it all at the
same time.

FAMOUS CAPRICORN FOURS

Val Kilmer 12/31/1959 Dolly Parton 1/19/1946
Howard Stem 1/12/1953 Clara Barton 12/25/1821
Jason Bateman 1/14/1969 Chad Lowe 1/15/1968
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^ • 5

Capriccrn Five
"Tlie Reliable Risk Takef"

<t5+ 5+ 5-
Conscientious Versatile Cautious Reckless
Down-to-earth Curious Awkward Hasty
Economical Adventurous Ruthless Restless
Generous Resourceful

The metal-flake blue four-by-four that you drive indicates

the free spirit beneath the conventional everyday clothes.
When the five-o'clock whistle blows, you and your honey
will be on the beach for a quick swim and a long walk on
a sandy shore searching for sea treasures. If he or she can't
make it, there's shopping pal Jenny or sweet Aunt Joan just
a cell phone call away to share the ocean's beauty with you.
Because you're an organized adventurer, you manage to
pack in a chunk of unstructured moments alongside the
mandatory meetings, presentations, and phone calls. Mon-
day the beach, Tuesday the bowling league, Wednesday aer-
obics, and Thursday a private meeting with you-know-who
to do you-know-what. All that and you still manage to attend
Grandma's birthday party, and transport Keith's science proj-
ect to school.
Not a dyed-in-the-wool overachiever by any means, you
simply schedule equal time for work and play. You readily
accept that most of the day is already spoken for out of
necessity, and you do more than just make the best of it
when it comes to punching the clock. You observe and take
calculated risks to advance your position and plump up your
paycheck. As long as you don't get too impatient, the plan
pays off and keeps your services in demand.
Even your effervescent energy runs out sometimes and
forces you to make tough choices between the boating re-
gatta and finishing the proposal for the Becker account. Just
the thought of sacrificing fun for work is enough to rejuve-
nate your batteries. If there's a way to make it all happen,
you find it. On those rare occasions when you can't, you're
 Capricorn 267

sensible enough to remember where your bread is buttered

and reschedule the fun for later.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Your head might swivel around to get a better look at a

to-die-for physique as it glides by, but you introduce your-
self to the one holding a guide to Maui and no ring on the
finger. Shared interests, a ready laugh, and an attractive
smile are enough to lure you closer. Sex and having a good
time depends as much on a meeting of the brains as it does
the bodies. Okay, so you've sown a wild oat or two in your
day but when you settle down, that's over and even those
memories fade,
A mate by your side who stands ready to travel on a
moment's notice or take up parachute jumping with you is
the right match for the forever thing. When you two start
talking children, the hard rock and roll turns to conventional
classic. You want only the best for those little guys, and
with you two for parents, they learn not only how to get
on in the world, but also how to shoot the rapids, hold a
job, and keep strong family ties—the same as you do.

Money and Career

Money isn't the only thing, but with the taste you have
for Dom Perignon and ski trips to Aspen, it helps to know
how to make a lot of it. During the lean times that come to
us all, you don't waste any time sitting around and pout-
ing—you buy Korbel and drive the family to Vermont for
winter fun. Just because you work hard for your money
doesn't mean you're stingy with it; you pay the bills first
and put aside a bit for vacation.
Though you like a dependable routine at work, you need
variety within the routine to be happy. You do well in busi-
nesses related to machinery, manufacturing, entertainment,
law, tourism, newspapers, and journalism. Since you like to
investigate new items on the cutting edge, and always have
a new idea to promote, people are curious about what you
have to say.
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The ^5 Potential

When you share your practical philosophy, your smooth

presentation and worldly air capture an audience of one or
one hundred. You didn't ask to be influential, but you are.
Your view of being conventional and pushing the bound-
aries at the same time is unique to other folks. They see you
weave adventure and responsibility into a workable lifestyle
and want to try it, too.
Be cautious enough to weigh the risks with the excitement
of conquering new territory, and consider those lining up
behind you to follow before you load up your gear and
head out. A physical person, you have a habit of overesti-
mating your endurance and how fast you can snap back.
Never lose that youthful enthusiasm for the next foray into
the unknown—you never know what's around the next
corner.

FAMOUS CAPRICORN FIVES

Benjamin Franklin 1/17/1706 Betty White 1/17/1922
James Earl Jones 1/17/1931 Susan Lucci 12/23/1950
Denzel Washington 12/28/1954 Barbara Mandrell 12/25/1948

^ • 6

Capricorn Six

"The Ambilious Idealisl"

6+ %>-
Industrious Nurturer Suspicious Self-righteous
Realistic Loyal Domineering Moody
Fearless Idealistic Critical Self-sacrificing
Resolute Responsible

Today when you casually lean over the copy machine to

tell a co-worker you've been having visions and hearing
voices, her first response is, "Find out anything useful?" Not
so for mystic Capricorn Six Joan of Arc, some 580 years ago.
Sure the voices made her "special" and she got to be a
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Chosen One, which we all know from watching Star Wars

and Mortal Kombat is as much a curse as the chance to be
a superhero. The good news is that your copier sidekick
isn't going to schedule a trial, then burn you at the stake
because she's sore about the miraculous victory you won in
the Hundred Years War.
Okay, so you don't swashbuckle around contemplating
strategy to win an impossible war. Instead you stroll around
the forty-second-floor offices with a determined "I've got a
vision of my own" look on your face. Everyone doesn't have
to know the vision is a size-six you in a hot red dress or
that you've decided to get that graduate degree no matter
what it takes.
Just because you're an idealist doesn't mean your idea of
"perfect" is the same as anyone else's. Sure, some people
carry the same banners to improve the environment and
raise smarter kids, but not everyone wants to give up choco-
late and fat. No matter, changing the world starts with you.
Even if you do become a crusader for a cause, keep your
wits about you when it comes to making sacrifices; remem-
ber dear Joan!
Let a tolerant heart and strong moral code guide you to
show the rest of us that what we do day to day does make
a difference. With your sincerity, you could chose a song
instead of a sword to lead us, and we'll listen.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

There's an image wrapped in a misty rose cloud of the

family you imagine. You play the dating game by multiple
rules designed to select the perfect mate from the herd and
still appear to be the "I just want to have fun" single kind.
Love, sex, and brains are important, but you don't expect a
three-in-one package to magically appear. The selection pro-
cess takes time, and can be a delicious quest.
So you call the faithful stand by guy on Wednesday night
and leave for work the next morning from his place. But at
Thursday lunch, you contact the Possible Bridegroom and
invite him to dinner. You're amazed to find that both these
men could fill the bill for the till-death-do-you-part thing.
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Assuming, of course, each is also drop-dead gorgeous, your

mother loves him as much as your boss does, and the sheets
sizzle when the two of you slip between them.

Money and Career

Loyalty isn't just a word to you. You fully expect the office
troops to pay attention and stick with you through thick and
thin. When moving from one job to another, you like to
take a trusted colleague or two with you to the next em-
ployer. No problem, since you routinely inspire others who
find you hardworking, intelligent, and downright chipper to
be around. Whistling while you work is more fun with a
group you know.
Your career vision is about being valued for what you do,
for enlightening, uplifting, and making a bunch of bucks in
the process. Should you land in a drudgery-filled job with
cheerless co-workers, you quietly post off a sharp resume
to about a million places and find a new place where your
vision, strategy, and get-it-done-the-right-way attitude can
be appreciated.

the ^6 Potential

Being a cosmic parent makes you an easy target, but then

what decent parent isn't misunderstood by those they try to
nurture, prod, kick, and coerce into doing what's best? The
Right Thing is always obvious to you, but you might not do
it or maybe you take a questionable path on the edge of
right to get there where you want to be. That's because you
believe the results can justify the means. Be prudent with
this sort of justification as it could land you nowhere.
Words of encouragement fall freely from your lips. You
urge everyone to have a direction to travel, to see how far
they can go, to try. Good advice for yourself, too. Don't get
so bogged down in appointments and promises that you
lose sight of your own hopes and dreams. Nothing makes
you prouder than to spearhead a project that brings solid
benefits to people you care about. And you know what?
The feelings are usually mutual. They are just as proud that
you made it happen, too!
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FAMOUS CAPRICORN SIXES

Kirstie Alley 1/12/1955 John Denver 12/31/1943
Yvette Mimieux 1/8/1941 Cary Grant 1/18/1904
Sissy Spacek 12/25/1949 Isaac Asimov 1/2/1920

ft • 7

Capricorn Seven

The Seleclive Specialisl"

7+ %- 7-
Generous Intellectual Reserved Shrewd
Reliable Articulate Workaholic Suspicious
Organized Analytical Cautious Aloof
Persistent Seeks Solitude

Still waters run deep. Your sultry eyes framed with lush
lashes promise volumes and miss nothing. They are the por-
tals to your soul and your sharp scientific mind. Not all
Capricorn Sevens are bona fide shout-it-from-the-rooftop
psychics like Jeanne Dixon, but she does represent the
combo well. Perhaps you should warn the unwary consider-
ing cultivating an intimate relationship with you that it will
be an unusual ride.
A private person, you enjoy a fine meal and interesting
conversation, but won't spill the specifics of the Australian
deal or details of your love life over spinach salad and
stuffed mushrooms with a friend. You drink a glass of deep
red Merlot, ask questions, listen attentively, and laugh. You
offer praise or constructive criticism as appropriate, but what
you don't do is talk about yourself.
Friends who have known you since Miss Inga's first grade
class are amazed at how many miles you've traveled to
follow your own guiding star. You would have been self-
conscious if you had realized that was what you were doing.
What you accomplish takes some effort, and unwavering
focus to understand a trying childhood or to assess whether
a current relationship is worth working out. You seldom
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recognize such tangles as obstacles, just a difficult knot or

two to work through.
You don't always get what you want, though when you
don't, it seldom ruffles your feathers. You fall back, study,
and regroup before revving up for another fearless run for
the gold. Easygoing but with steel resolve, you're a constant
surprise to everyone around, including yourself.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Sharing your lover's solitude for the long haul is no trip

you sign up for lightly. Candidates have got to do more than
appreciate your gorgeous gams or figure out how to push
the hot-hot-hot button. Well, okay, that part does work for
exhilarating sex that's a far stretch from the veil-and-satin-
shoes date. Sensitivity, sex appeal, and smarts are a start,
but giving you your own space is the top requirement. A
busy life of his own and a spectacular smile don't hurt either.
You select friends just as carefully as you do a housemate
and think of them as family, in addition to or instead of the
folks back home. Small children are great when they belong
to someone else, which you realize by about age thirty. If
you hop into parenthood young, you do your duty with
enthusiasm and make a fine job of producing independent,
intelligent offspring. Given the choice, unless you have a
big house and employ a nanny, parenting isn't an experi-
ence you need in order to make your life complete.

Money and Career

Your bank balance is nobody else's business. In fact, you

prefer a separate account from your spouse. Sure, you pay
more than your half of the expenses (and probably earn
more than half), but you don't like the idea of anyone else
having ATM access to your money any more than to your
secret thoughts. Saving and spending are often out of bal-
ance, but somehow you manage to have what you need to
pay the rent.
The big boss is puzzled when you turn down a promo-
tion, but how could he know that you run a thriving breed-
ing kennel for dalmatians on the side or just finished
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penning your fifth book? That's because you prefer to keep

the many different phases of your life separate. Eventually,
even if you resist, you're the best paid assistant in the com-
pany with a desk outside the CEO's office, and everyone
considers you worth your weight in gold.

The r&l Potential

You're critical of the work you produce; your drive for

perfection makes you continue to enhance and improve
your skills. By the time you're done, you're more of a techni-
cal expert than the teacher who instmcted you. You have a
gift for stripping away the trappings and pointing to the
essential issue. It's a skill that unnerves some and enthralls
others—that and the interesting way that very few events
surprise you when they happen.
Pursue mystic interests, develop psychic skills, and sched-
ule alone time every day to reflect, read, and write. Keep
track of friends who matter, because those precious intimate
ties are caicial connections not easily replaced. Don't jeopar-
dize future happiness with too many secrets. Show others
how to get up to speed by sharing what you learn. The
message you send is a simple but powerful one: If I can do
this, so can you!

FAMOUS CAPRICORN SEVENS

Dyan Cannon 1/4/1937 Mel Gibson 1/3/1944
Joan Baez 1/9/1941 Stephen W. Hawking 1/8/1942
Mary Tyler Moore 12/29/1937 Muhammad Ali 1/17/1942
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^ • 8

Capricorn Eight
"The Praclical Philosopher"

ZS+ 8+ 8-
Industrious Global View Selfish Impersonal
Realistic Ambitious Pretentious Workaholic
Fearless Capable Critical Materialistic
Resolute Arbitrator

Calculated risks are the name of the game, and not just with
respect to the career and roof over your head. Oh, no—
we're talking about the quick way you say, "I can do that"
whenever something interesting is up for grabs. Whether
stitching the first flag for a fledgling new country like Betsy
Ross, or popping off on an Alaskan wilderness jaunt for fun,
you aren't someone who likes to get left behind. In fact,
you like to lead the pack or be one of the top dogs, with
recognition as such. Not at all stuffy, you're a marvelous
friend, and when you achieve those sky-high goals, you
share the booty.
You don't expect the world to pay you homage because
you're Mr. and Mrs. Jones's darling offspring, you are the
model for the "10 percent talent and 90 percent perspira-
tion" idea. Immediate plans are always kept flexible, but the
long view is to be successful and make mucho moola. Un-
less you get sidetracked by too many personal missions, you
make that plan a reality.
Once on top, wherever that might be, and you've been
amply rewarded, you divvy up the wealth in various forms.
You're a patient teacher and wise counselor; your advice
and direction are there for the asking. An expert at playing
devil's advocate, you don't give advice unless asked, and
when you do, your practical words are laced with ideals of
freedom and spiritual well-being.
Underneath the casual clothes is a wise old soul who
through firsthand experience can tell you what and what
not to do. You have as many unbelievable highs as you do
lows, and every stage in between. It's this worldly wisdom
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that makes the rest of us sit up and listen attentively when

you speak.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Life is too short to spend with someone who doesn't make

you happy, so you don't. There's a long litany of pertinent
items to review before popping the question or untying the
knot, but even if you can't find logical justification to get
hitched or be cut free, you do it anyway when your heart
is screaming: yes, yes, yes. Your brain doesn't have any
argument that can drown out that ardent wail of your heart.
You strive to be politically correct in an offbeat way. Usu-
ally it has absolutely nothing to do with actual politics or
law, but with people. You've even been known to be a
voice of the people. The right spouse, then, has to let you
go your own way when you hear such a call, but is able to
reel you back home when you spend too many days pursu-
ing justice or the perfect wine. Sex is another matter, but as
you well know, it's delicious with or without the ceremony.

Money and Career

A master organizer, you have unlimited potential when

doing work you love. You always hold the big picture in
mind, and need at least one assistant to handle the mun-
dane tasks.
You have the same passion for making money as you do
for everything else. Besides wanting a mountainous pecuni-
ary pile to fall back on, you also want cash at your fingertips
to spend as you see fit. A true humanitarian, you aren't hung
up on anyone else's status, only your own. With your ability
to accumulate wealth, it's difficult to deal with limited re-
sources during one of those inevitable downturns. That's
when you beat yourself up and worry about those who de-
pend on you. Even standing at the Pearly Gates, when you
hear others mutter that they shouldn't have worked so much,
you think you could have worked a bit harder, could have
done it better or accomplished more. Don't be so hard on
yourself for playing hooky and chasing pleasure. Remember
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the Nobel Prize or Emmy already sitting on the mantel at

home and be happy.

The ^8 Potential

You have a firm belief in your ability to accomplish and

improve. Whether you wind up as CEO of a major corpora-
tion or step out onstage with guitar in hand, you have the
ability to touch people, to inspire them by example and
through the countless down-to-earth good deeds you do.
You also generously share your wisdom and laughter freely.
A sincere thank-you from one you've helped puts you on
top of the world, but it's a surprise if anyone say you are
their hero. You like a full life and get absorbed in whatever
you do. With a penchant for sensuous, tactile pleasure,
watch your diet and marshal your energy output. Your gift
is to show us what to do, how to do it, and caution us not
to overdo it. Remember to take some of your own advice
once in a while!

FAMOUS CAPRICORN EIGHTS

Naomi Judd 1/11/1949 Lorenzo Lamas 1/20/1958
Diane Keaton 1/5/1946 Jack London 1/12/1876
Diane Sawyer 12/22/1945 Rudyard Kipling 12/30/1865

^ • 9

Capricorn Nine

"Itie Dilipenl Showman"

9+ 9-
Persistent Generous Brooding Impersonal
Conscientious Compassionate Critical Self-interested
Ambitious Performer Nervous Inconsistent
Pragmatic Charismatic

Quicker than you can say, "Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a

rabbit out of my hat," there you are, hat in hand up on
stage, a ringer for Bullwinkle the Moose, another Capricorn
 Capricorn 277

Nine. Getting on the stage is easy, but staying there is an-

other story. Only a hint of rejection throws you into a thirsty-
sponge student mode, searching for a way to hold your
audience spellbound. You knew you had the performer's
flair when Granny didn't scold you too seriously for tap-
dancing on the teak dining room table at two years old; she
was such an appreciative audience.
So you practice, observe, and think about how to make
it big. Following in the footsteps of other famous Capricorn
Nines—Paul Revere, the silversmith-turned-patriot; the mis-
sionary scientist Albert Schweitzer, and entertainer Elvis
Presley—you never stop testing your limits and trying new
ways to make it better. Maybe you don't hit the mark on
the first or fifteenth try, but just like the Moose, you eventu-
ally do pull a rabbit out of your hat.
Along with the showmanship charisma is the caution to
not take yourself too seriously. You have the power to see
your name up in lights, or grace the cornerstone of an office
building, or to be remembered by scores of second graders
who will never forget you. Little did the youngsters ever
guess that your glib, fanciful stories showcased ironclad eth-
ics in a way to create a firm foundation of their own.
As a teacher, you can be very demanding, but also shower
generous praise when it's due. Yes, students remember that
you taught them much more than music theory or mathemat-
ics. Classroom teacher, movie star, or idea man at corporate
headquarters, you are always onstage, so take care to pres-
ent a favorable view for the world to see.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

In love, you take a long time to trust another person with

your private thoughts. It's important to have someone to
believe in you, but finding that soul mate to wear your ring
is a cautious undertaking. Though you might hop into bed
in response to one of "those" looks across a crowded room,
marriage is a different matter. You very much believe in
wedding bells, and know that a good marriage is as much
about compatible intellect as it is about emotions and sex.
Speaking of the Passionate You, performance matters to
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you in bed and out. A considerate lover, you are kinky in

a conventional sort of way but can nimbly acquiesce to your
bed partner's preferences. The Right Match is someone who
can play seductive games and shares your fascination with
career and how the world works. That's the one you invite
to share your private chateau.

Money and Career

As extravagant as you are cheap, you have unlimited earn-

ing potential, but always worry that the bank account will
dry up tomorrow. A money manager or a super piece of
software would help ease the worry by tracking the income
and outgo. It's not that you can't live within a budget, but
you feel as if you're either in financial survival mode or
lavishly wealthy. Since you could earn, lose, and earn back
several fortunes in a lifetime, take whatever help you can
get to be disciplined and in the know about cash flow.
More comfortable in a crowd than one on one, you do
well as a manager, executive, producer, or on your own.
You do fine managing just yourself, but enjoy the process
more with a staff of your own to help make deadlines and
field phone calls, besides offering valuable advice.

The ^59 Potential

Generally self-confident, you do need the occasional

pumping up before you trot out a presentation to a new
client. You may think it's out of character for you to ask for
help, but no one else does, and they stand ready, hoping
for the chance to quell your butterflies. Focus is sometimes
difficult for you, but only because you are constantly bom-
barded with new ideas at the rate of a thousand or so an
hour.
You might not consider yourself a visionary ready to lead
the masses, but don't be surprised when others use such
adjectives to describe you and your accomplishments. You
always want tangible results, which makes you proficient at
taking your brainstorms and translating them into reality.
Sounds like a simple thing to do, doesn't it? But the rest of
us admire you tremendously for being able to do it.
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FAMOUS CAPRICORN NEVES

Ethel Merman 1/16/1909 Paul Revere 1/1/1735
Diane von Furstenherg 12/31/1946 Jim Carrey 1/17/1962
George Bums 1/20/1896 Anthony Hopkins 12/31/1937
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Aquarius Cne
"The Pragiessive Pioneet"

1+ 1-
Leader Bold Extremist Aggressive
Diligent Independent Tactless Inflexible
Generous Decisive Aloof Willful
Sociable Innovative

Standing in front of the candy counter, quarter in your

chubby chili! hand, you knew what sweet you wanted be-
fore stepping up to the glass. "That will be one pecan divin-
ity, please," you say and place a shiny quarter on lop of the
high glass display case. If Mom smiled at the seriousness
with which you conducted this transaction, you never no-
ticed—you were intently watching your precious purchase
be dropped into the bag and you were sure to flash a smile
at the sales clerk as she handed it to you.
Mom had no idea that this was just one first step in a
larger master plan called "taking control of your own life."
You intend to know how to do any and everything for your-
self; you do so hale depending on anyone else. You figure
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that the faster you can learn how to take care of yourself,
the quicker you can get on with living your life they way
you want. Even as a youngster, bold ideas whirl in your
head. Maybe not ideas like Susan B. Anthony wanting
women to have the right to vote. But then, when it comes
to politics and social injustice you can be a bit naive, my
dear, and you make even that work for you. After having
the reality thrown in your pretty face, your glassy-eyed opti-
mism turns into diamond hard resolve to change that
harsh reality.
What starts out as the ability to learn quickly and the need
to make your mark could turn into a crusade. Futuristic ideas
that could become tomorrow's norms fascinate you and you
do your best to spread the innovative concepts around.
You're honestly more interested in planting a seed here and
there than you are in sticking around to water the plant and
watch it grow tall and straight. There are plenty of other
capable people to do that and besides, you have other for-
ests to plant elsewhere.

Love, Sex and Marriage

Your idea of a bedroom romp involves plenty of conver-

sation and laughter. In fact, some times, you'd rather have
a lively debate than hit the sheets. You relish making love,
make certain you know your partner's turn-ons but more
importantly you want them to know yours. And when it
comes right down to it, that's what you like best—the direct
approach with games and mysteries left at the door. You
pick up the conversation afterwards and talk through the
wee hours.
Having a family is important, but only if it doesn't tie you
down too much. Hire a nanny or housekeeper or find a
partner who relishes the Mom role with or without your
constant physical presence. Otherwise, you might want the
rethink the whole children/family thing. Anyway, you're not
in any hurry to tie the knot and don't mind if the neighbors
wonder who the gorgeous guy is that stops by your place
every Thursday night. You have your secrets, and your enjoy
those tantalizing moments. And once you figure out how
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sex-for-pleasure works, you can relax in a relationship and

enjoy the dance.

Money and Career

Unless your name is close to the top of the company org

chart, you aren't a happy worker-bee employee. You will
work for forty + hours straight on your own project or idea,
but have difficulty being a "just do it and don't-ask-any-
questions" drone. To prosper you need acknowledgment,
and an occasional kind word about what a genius you are.
There isn't any problem you can't solve, when you decide
you want to. You instinctively know how to find new solu-
tions and are always ready to try unusual approaches, often
tossing aside the entire procedure used by the guy who had
the job before you. You enjoy having a savvy group of peo-
ple around to bounce ideas off and make money with, but
you like it better if it's your voice that has the last word and
divvies up the budget for raises.

The Potential

You have a sharp, photographic memory, but before you

put a stage act together and head for Vegas to dazzle the
slot-machine crowd as Wanda the Amazing, think about bet-
ter ways to use such a skill. You see things as they are, and
also as you believe they could be. So what if you sometimes
get the two confused. Use the could-be view as the outline
to make improvements—large and small—to benefit yourself
and the rest of us.
Be careful not to withdraw too far from the very set of
friends who inspire you and can urge you on to greater
heights. Too often, you decide to remove yourself from the
fray to play lone-wolf and do such a thorough job of it
that reestablishing yourself into the fold becomes a daunting
effort. Of course, there is always a place for you to sit at
any table you might choose, but honestly, rather than be
with strangers, isn't it nicer to be with those who know you
secretly crave pecan divinity? Besides, sticking with those
who know you and love you anyway saves so much time
on your way to becoming a genius, doesn't it?
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FAMOUS AQUARIUS ONES

Christian Dior 1/21/1905 John Hurt 1/22/1940
Ayn Rand 2/2/1905 Somerset W. Maugham 1/25/1874
Ann Jillian 1/29/1951 Lou Diamond Phillips 3/2/1952

A/Vv
A/W

Aquarius Two
"Ihe Reserved Arislocral"

2+ 2-
Determined Persuasive Secretive Moody
Cooperative Patient Radical Shy
Generous Supportive Quarrelsome Worries
Eloquent Gregarious

From the moment you debuted in your recital for Ms, Raffer-
ty's tap-dancing class, you knew you had a split personality,
and wondered if it was just you or if anyone else did. Or
maybe it was later as you wandered around a college cam-
pus puzzling why everyone else seemed to be on a different
wavelength? Whether the realization happens at six or
twenty-six, it could hamper your progress until you figure
out that everyone else isn't different, it's you!
Yes, it is a big deal, but catch your breath quickly,
sweetie, because beneath the insecurities, you have a bril-
liant mind to develop. Choose one idea from the passel of
possibilities within your reach and watch it grow. Please just
try it. Oh, you can have a hard head sometimes, dear Aquar-
ius Two, and use it to hide your shyness or play for time—
anything to delay the decisive act of picking a direction and
leaving the dock of the familiar. So what if you're bored to
tears and have a burning desire to go, do, and comquer.
You think you will be safer here and then pow! Everything
right here is yanked out from underneath those cute little
tootsies, leaving you scrambling to make the same sorts of
adjustments and changes you were tyring to avoid.
Deep below the layers of anxiety is the flame of Ambition.
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You just "know" how to do it right, but are afraid to come

right out and declare yourself especially if it seems far-
fetched, in case you end up on the evening news. Life would
never be the same again, but then it never is anyway. Pro-
crastination is a lovely hiding place, but turns you into a
crusty curmudgeon if it stops you from being all you can
be. Remember this especially at those times when you're
criticized from departing from the norm and showing us that
intuitive genius of yours.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

It's not that you aren't interested in marriage; in fact, you

like to have someone to trade stories with, to compare strat-
egies about how to scale a cliff, and to play with under the
bright blue Grand Bahama sun. You need the wide-open
spaces as much as the togetherness and can't imagine find-
ing such a kindred soul out there. Stop worrying; with your
magnetic powers and psychic vibes you can pull a candidate
into your path from a million miles away.
Home and hearth is a place to revive creative juices and
enjoy quiet times with a spouse. Sex may be a separate issue
from the other reasons you got married, but you honestly
are more turned on with someone you love. This area takes
chemistry plus a secure connection to enjoy to its fullest. No
matter how wonderful the union and sex might be, you
won't hesitate to dissolve the whole thing and start over if
personal freedom becomes an issue.

Money and Career

Money isn't your game. Sure you want the privileges and
bags of gold that come with the deal, but first you check
the contract to see if you get top billing. Your dreams aren't
about power, but you wouldn't mind calling the shots or
applying your creativity. If you have enough free time you
could write a symphony or such on the side.
You perform better with the approval of others, so even
if you do decide to go solo in the work world, develop a
network to stay in contact with those who are like minded.
Praise from strangers is one thing, but acknowledgment from
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peers and competitors is the ultimate trophy. The dearest

friends in your life come through the work that you do—
no, not the time-clock part that puts food on the table, but
the work that pays for your creations and introduces people
who believe in you enough to write a check for what you
produce!

The ££2 Potential

With the many gifts you have, it's no wonder that you
keep moving onward and upward every single day. You
constantly find ways to improve ideas and want to be recog-
nized as a professional in your chosen field. The spotlight
isn't always where you want to be, but you do want to feel
its warm glow sometimes.
Balance is a difficult state to achieve. You tend to switch
from extremes—between insecurity to overconfidence. Like-
wise, in your personal and professional life, it's all of either
one or the other. Try to balance both, lest you slip off the
deep end into the workaholic, crazed artist who hasn't a
clue of how to live up to responsibilities regardless of the
rewards. You are gifted, and loved for the gracious, gener-
ous spirit you willingly share. Remember, it is love that
makes the world go around.

FAMOUS AQUARIUS TWOS

Morgan Faircbild 2/3/1950 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1/27/1756
Isabel Peron 2/4/1931 Michael Jordan 2/17/1963
Earth a Kitt 1/26/1928 Philippe Candelar* 2/17/1972
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Aquarius Three
The Praqmatic IdealisT
/■/V-v-vx
VW —
3+ 3-
Eloquent Expressive Insecure Extravagant
Generous Romantic Naive Verbose
Sociable Sociable Withdrawn Scattered
Independent Creative

No one notices how skillfully you dance around the mul-

berry bush until he wants a direct answer. "Will you go to
Vermont with me this weekend?" The Artful Dodger hat
pops on and the smoke screen of soothing words starts as
you busily glance at your watch a thousand times, then
make apologies and vanish—to somewhere out there with
the other wizards.
It's not that you're all image and no substance, but you
do talk a lot and avoid giving out many personal details. As
a young adult, you take special care to avoid being pigeon-
holed or pinned down, with the exception of when the con-
versation is particularly intriguing or there's a certain magical
air about the person attempting to do the pigeonholing. You
want to keep open the option to change. If you haven't
figured out what you want to do with your life yet, how
can you tell anyone else? Sure, you want to be a star, musi-
cian, writer, a baker, a candlestick maker. You may work in
your chosen craft at a young age, but you don't buy in to
anything as a career until you've been doing it for many
moons.
Your ability to dart from your own social class to a foreign
culture or to the complete unknown can be intimidating.
Seldom do you let a little thing like lack of skill keep you
from saying yes when asked if you can ride a horse bare-
back. How hard can it be? Twenty-four hours and two
busted buns later, you admit to yourself that you might have
been a tad optimistic. A quick learner when motivated, you
go from novice to expert rapidly, but even you aren't an
instant pro at everything. Don't forget you also need focus,
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because all it takes is an enticing invitation to share a jug

of wine in the butterfly-filled fields to turn you in a differ-
ent direction.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You adore exploring the unknown and are an eternal ro-

mantic, a ripe candidate for the M word. As youthful a spirit
as you are, you enjoy being attached to another, and having
someone to share the whole darned journey with. Should
you shy away from early involvement with a live in lover
it may be much later in life before you venture into the
forever territory.
In marriage, you need space interpersed with stimulating
conversation and romantic adventures. Though you initially
aren't so sure about children (you never completely leave
that realm yourselO, if the marriage is going well, you get
curious about parenting. Actually adding little ones to the
entourage often depends on the spouse you choose.

Money and Career

There are many things you want to do and really resent

the nine-to-five job thing. This is why you head to college,
art school, or acting class—it allows you to tread a little
water. You take courses that interest you, and some that
don't, to confirm you don't want to be an accountant. Funny
thing is that if you learn how to handle credit and not give
away two nickels for every one you get, you can develop
the talent to turn a little money into a lot.
You could earn big bucks—it just takes focus and disci-
pline (is that all?), and choosing how. Many Aquarius Threes
are happier running their own show. Because you enjoy
people and like to flex your creative muscles, you do best
working with the public. Whatever you choose—from chef
to professional psychic—it's your enthusiasm and warm per-
sonality that open doors—yes, that's all the doors.

The ^3 Potential

To you, the world is even more beautiful than others see

it, even on an amazing summer day on Nantucket. You spin
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a web of fascination with your tales of wonder and woes.

No one tells a morality tale or a weepy romance better than
you. Reality can be a tougher gig, but you aren't afraid to
break a pattern and try a new one in your search to find
the life you envision.
Use your gift of gab and creative vision to set the pace
for others. Knowing you are often an example to others
improves the quality of your life and is more rewarding than
any other gradiose plan you might have. Determine the val-
ues that matter most to you and stay focused to achieve
what you think you want. You can always use the invitation
to Wimbledon as an excuse for not finishing the widget
report on time, but it's a hollow excuse when you miss out
on the pay raise that was tied to it. People naturally like
you and want to see you succeed. And you are talented.
For your own sake, go with it.

FAMOUS AQUARIUS THREES

Mia Farrow 2/9/1945 Richard Dean Anderson 1/23/1950
Jody Wat ley 1/30/1961 Charles Dickens 2/7/1812
Tina Louise 2/11/1934 John Travolta 2/18/1954

/VW
/vw

Aquarius Four
"Ttie Cooseivalive Rebel"

4+ 4-
Innovative Practical Radical lln demo nstrative
Informative Constructive Secretive Too Busy
Philosophical Detennined Insecure Contrary
Freedom-loving Good-hearted

One look at your desk is enough to make the heartiest boss

cringe. One moment there are a dozen neatly stacked piles;
an hour later, umpteen layers of files scattered about and
littered with pink phone messages. Ah, the mark of a cre-
ative mind, and you are organized, thank you very much.
 Aquarius 289

Just let anyone touch so much as a two-month-old memo

and you know the paper has moved two centimeters. Free-
style organization works for you, and anyone who lives with
you can verify you have an uncanny knack of pulling Aunt
Sue's address scrawled on the back of a used envelope out
of an apparent pile of trash.
If you're lucky, you have a secretary and a housekeeper
to match up the earrings and cuff links. If not, you lose a
few items before getting a system together to hang on to
important things while cogitating how to present a new idea
to your honey, boss, mother, or teacher. You always have
a new idea ready, keeping everything in a continual state
of flux.—It may not be obvious, but you're always looking
for a new desk, antique clock, seascape, etc. And heaven
help those around you when you do find it, because you'll
move everything around to make the room fit with the
new prize.
You surprise people who think your head is so far in the
clouds that you never accomplish anything. While it's true
you ponder, theorize, and philosophize, you also gather
facts. You adore information. "Knowledge is power" must
have first been uttered by an Aquarius Four who then
moved on to see how to make that concept work.
Whether you take giant steps or baby steps, with good
humor for a cover and an endless supply of what-if ques-
tions, you march steadily towards your goal. Along the way
you gather facts and inspire supporters as you place one
brick on top of another. Before anyone else realizes what
you're up to, you're there atop the tower you built and don't
even have to stretch to touch the stars.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Like a bee to honey, you draw prospects to you in droves.

Many buzz around until you invite them in. But you appear
too busy, too preoccupied, too worldly—the same generous
laugh and enthusiasm that attracts them also keeps admirers
at a cautious distance. If you want more than a buddy or
be more than just ships that pass in the night, you've got to
make the first move.
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Marriage is complicated. While you believe in a collabora-

tive approach to the relationship and your roles within it,
there are certain aspects that aren't negotiable. If you've got
to pack off to Croatia, or review a concert in London, you're
going. Also, mutual respect, endless conversation, and the
spark and sizzle of romance are necessary to consider the
big "I do." Then there's absolute loyalty to confirm. Talk out
all the quirky requirements beforehand too okay?

Money and Career

You're bursting with ideas. You have an artistic eye and

intuitive grasp of what's important, and your opinion matters
to the big boss. It's okay to be the Big Boss, too, as long as
you're surrounded with a capable crew and expert advisers
to translate your concepts into real events or products.
Money is important because it represents freedom and
creates the platform from which you can launch humanitar-
ian efforts and artistic projects, or play out those inventive
surges. In addition to helping others and furthering your
own plans, you want to own a piece of the planet and a
home—maybe two. This is a good thing and keeps you
grounded.

The ^4 Potential

Your patient, steady manner comforts people. You know

change is inevitable, and place yourself in the game to im-
plement positive change. Because of your cosmopolitan air
and voluminous education, you have a gift for explaining
the past and possible future in a way that makes a good
outcome appear achievable. A practical rebel, you sketch
out an improvement map and send us down it in your no-
nonsense, friendly way.
Take care of you, too. When ample money is available,
you adore being pampered, but cut it out as an extravagance
when time or money is in short supply. Even if you can't
afford a trip to the spa, make an effort to effectively recharge
your batteries. Many others depend on your merry eyes and
the way you always seem to know when a pat on the shoul-
der or encouraging words are needed. Choose confidants
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carefully. Even you need a shoulder to lean on sometimes.

Everyone does now and then. You say you know that, but
where is that shoulder that's there for you right now?

FAMOUS AQUARIUS FOURS

Oprah Winfrey 1/29/1954 Tom Brokatv 2/6/1940
Mary Lou Retton 1/24/1968 Neil Diamond 1/24/1941
Kim Novack 2/13/1933 LeVar Burton 2/16/1957

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Aquarius Five
"The Big-Hearted Relormer"

5+ 5-
Congenial Resourceful Radical Impulsive
Humane Adventurous Gullible Fickle
Eloquent Progressive Impetuous Restless
Scientific Curious

In private dreams, you're transported to a land where any-

thing is possible if you can just hold on to Pegasus's back
until he places you on the next lofty ledge. The image makes
you smile as you scan the three dozen names on your phone
list to find out who is delivering the blankets to the flood
victims south of the city. You write a check or arrange trans-
portation, but prefer to let someone else form the committee
and hand them out. Hence you worry until you know these
shivering folks have gotten the blue-wool comfort that you
intended.
You are, in fact, loved by many for the generous yet prac-
tical way you point them in the right direction, offer an
answer when they seem confused, or validate their deci-
sions. You find solutions and implement unusual ideas,
sometimes taking a lot of heat for, say, dumping the coffee
machine for a fruit juice dispenser in the office. Nothing
compared to the challenges of Aquarius Five presidents
Abraham Lincoln, who had a broken nation to mend, or
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Franklin Roosevelt, who dealt with a devastating economic

depression.
When you withdraw to contemplate a problem's solution,
you know your resolution might be unusual, but eventually
you present it you always want to be helpful. So what if
that makes you controversial! Even when you aren't at the
center of the storm, you always get credit for being the
activist element—your reputation does precede you.
While some people call you a godsend, just as many are
apprehensive about what you might do. Then there are
those (the majority) who are somewhere in between—won-
dering what marvelous new plan you have to lighten the
load and brighten the day.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Intelligent and studious, you have a keen interest in the

mystery of intimate relationships. Marriage could be based
either on friendship born of common interests and goals, or
one of complete magic when you bumped into each other
on the street and saw stars—a sure sign of an angel's bless-
ing. If you're both carrying an Eddie Bauer bag and both
love Thai food, the relationship is well on its way.
You think of life as a journey and consciously walk to-
wards the stops you intend to make along the way. As much
as you love zooming around the planet at Mach 3, you also
crave a tranquil, comfy den with the latest stereo and com-
puter equipment available. Children are a nice thought, as
well as having a close-knit, loving family. The family gig
works if you have a live-in spouse to share responsibilities
so you can keep zooming around now and then.

Money and Career

Your public and private personalities are different but ac-

curate faces of the real you. You have a wide array of con-
cerns and talents to work with. For this reason, and because
you get bored easily, you tend to dabble in anything that
interests you. Paint watercolors, be a psychologist, a dancer,
a writer, a doctor, a politician, or a scientist; you always
pursue several interests that earn money at the same time.
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Should you be born into money, you won't have to waste

time building up the cash reserve you like to have. You
don't think about the green stuff much, but you never under-
estimate its value either. Born poor, you earn your way and
stash some away for tomorrow when you might need a va-
cation or want to follow up on a hunch instead of punching
the clock. Boss or worker bee, you succeed with people
who tell you what has to happen and the bottom line, and
then get out of your way.

The ^5 Potential

You help people achieve higher heights than they be-

lieved they could by helping them believe in themselves.
Your unique perspective sometimes gets you into trouble
with the establishment, but that doesn't stop you from mak-
ing beneficial suggestions before moving on. Take care to
include the people you care about in your schemes and
dreams as well as your workaday world.
Protecting your individuality in a marriage, friendship, or
team business environment is a worthy goal, but could back-
fire if interpreted as indifference or as an effort to avoid
intimacy. It's difficult sometimes for others to realize that the
big "I" word has a different meaning for you. You love just
as deeply, but never want to hinder anyone from fulfilling
their own potential. There is a fine line between encourag-
ing personal freedom and appearing indifferent to loved
ones. Think about it. You know the difference. And if you
want to be happy, act as if you are!

FAMOUS AQUARIUS FIVES

Christie Brinkley 2/2/1954 Charles Darwin 2/12/1809
Natalie Cole 2/6/1950 George Segal 2/13/1934
Gloria Naylor 1/25/1950 Burt Reynolds 2/11/1936
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Aquarius Six
"The Loyal Liberal"

:+ 6+ 6-
Informative Responsible Thoughtless Outspoken
Friendly Nurturer Obsessive Possessive
Generous Seeks Harmony Withdrawn Self Sacrifices
Diligent Idealist

When inventing the electric lightbulb, Thomas Edison was

known to say, "We haven't failed seventeen times, we've
found seventeen ways that won't work." What else could an
Aquarius Six with a mission say to keep going to invent a
revolutionary improvement for mankind? Okay, so all you
want to do is find a way to make M&M's make you lose
weight (an equal improvement for our times), or on a more
modest scale, make sure that everything that finds its way
into your kitchen cabinets is healthy, and actually good for
you.
Your hunches have substance and you aren't afraid to dig
around for a bona fide fact or two to get the funding, buy-
in, or green light from the powers that be so you can get
on with it. Whatever the vision, if there's a benefit involved,
you make it happen. This is why you hide Grandpa's ciga-
rettes, feed the cat brown rice, and encourage everyone to
get married. So what if you haven't taken the plunge your-
self. You tell everyone you're relentlessly searching for the
perfect yin to your yang.
A loving friend, you expect every relationship to be a
combination of give and take and are stunned when
Grandpa goes berserk looking for his smokes, and your ex-
ercise chum at the gym blames you for his race to the altar.
As for the cat looking down his nose at the rice, you aren't
really surprised, but do rush to the health food store for
upscale cat food for Fatima, the spoiled Manx. Peace and
harmony are restored. Peace in the family is more important
than your ideas; you frequently make sacrifices to calm trou-
bled waters.
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Love, Sex, and Marriage

Being all things to all people makes you an easy person

to love, but it's not easy to find a mate capable of the same
selfless love. Before getting to the kiss at the front door on
the first date, you review your criteria. The marrying kind
of love is friendship plus passion, though you have been
known to settle for the skyrocketing passion of an occa-
sional dalliance.
When you find a like-minded soul, you eagerly make the
forever-and-ever promise without reservation. Don't forget
to tell him that you expect a broad-minded but utterly faith-
ful mate because you have lots of other friends, want chil-
dren, and hope to have the whole group under your roof
(maybe under his feet) whenever you want. In return, you
are a jewel as a partner and an uninhibited lover when you
know that in and out of the four-poster, you are appreci-
ated—no, treasured.

Money and Career

In addition to that brilliant brain of yours, you have the

foresight to choose a career that takes care of your worldly
needs (or a partner who's an excellent provider). Because
you are liberal-minded, you give everyone at the office the
benefit of the doubt and find rolling with the punches fairly
easy. That's because you have a private life that lets you be
the artist, inventor, and cosmic parent.
When it comes to work, you keep it in perspective. Your
only hot button in the office is unjust politics or outright
prejudice. As a boss you are legendary—willing to help oth-
ers move up or pull up stakes to pursue their dreams. As a
counselor, you're top-notch, and while you can be too gen-
erous with your money, it's usually for a good cause, like
shoes for the girls' soccer team, or an inspirational art print
for a co-worker who's hit a rough patch.

The ^6 Potential

With your excellent memory, you remember every kind-

ness and slight. The kindnesses warm you and you minimize
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the slights. Everyone has their bad days, you think, even if
the disappointment cuts deep. You give people every op-
portunity to figure out the error of their ways but can't for-
give anyone for careless or hurtful behavior.
While opening minds to new ideas and motivating every-
one to live life to the fullest, it's easy to lose sight of your
own dreams, But you won't "settle" forever, and when
enough is enough, you can leave a messy trail in your wake.
Try to keep communications open and honest to avoid
such trauma.
You may have financial success, but the most enduring
achievements happen when your beautiful spirit shines out
and beyond your beautiful physical appearance. Stay true to
your own ethical code and find out firsthand what this
means. You'll be glad you did.

FAMOUS AQUARIUS SIXES

Jane Seymour 2/15/1951 Lewis Carroll 1/27/1832
Vanessa Redgrave 1/30/1937 Clint Black 2/4/1962
Melissa Manchester 2/15/1951 John McEnroe 2/16/1959

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Aquarius Seven

"The Cosmopolilan Charmer"

^*1*^ 1
7+ 7-
Generous Analytical Insecure Secretive
Philosopher Private Detached Suspicious
Independent Articulate Radical Aloof
Diligent Perfectionist

Rocking the boat or developing a plan to put things back

together after a crash are what you do best. Farsighted with
visions swirling around in your head, you are always stretch-
ing the envelope. You never miss an opportunity to put one
of your novel ideas into play. It might start with talking
about taboo subjects such as how to seduce a man, and end
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up with a product like Cosmopolitan—a la Helen Gurley

Brown. Her sharp eye and willingness to push the bound-
aries produced a magazine used as a valuable resource by
several generations of women. Aquarians are always think-
ing about doing something like that, but leave it to an Aquar-
ius Seven to make it happen.
Instead of a Ms. Brown or Gertrude Stein, you may use
the qualities of Aquarius Seven to strive to be an actress
like, Cybill Shepherd with a polished glamorous side. One
thing is certain: It's your flexible sense of humor that lets
you take the considerable ups and downs in stride. That and
your analytical talents make you a key player who's in the
game long after others have dropped out. Confrontation is
something you avoid, but when in a toe-to-toe position, do
take pity on the opposition. Few are your match at fingering
the truth, and others are astonished at what you know and
the strength of your convictions.
Varied interests bring scores of friends from assorted back-
grounds. You genuinely find everyone interesting and have
no prejudicial barriers to hold you back. Whatever hesitation
you might have comes from previous unpleasant personal
experience. Though you move in diverse circles at will, you
prefer some people to others but are courteous enough to
never let those preferences be known.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Falling in love is serious business, With your combination

of psychic flashes and keen skills of observation, you imme-
diately know if an encounter has potential. Courting you is
sometimes a frustrating experience, so give any would-be
suitor a break. Don't let your amazement that someone loves
you as a reserved, charming intellectual who occasionally
jumps off the deep end stop you from exploring the possibil-
ities. Remember, your warts are as attractive as the smooth
satin skin part.
You fall in love with a brain, but won't investigate its
existence unless the package is attractive, when looking for
a lifelong partner. Not that you would exclude anyone, but
you might hold yourself at a distance for observation. Don't
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forget, even the most beautiful of butterflies needs a snort

of nectar to stick around.

Money and Career

You have very definite ideas about spending money,

which means you put the brakes on and spend as little as
possible on anything not On The List. You invest a bit of
cash here and there as you see fit, and undoubtedly have
some accumulating interest in places that no one, not even
a spouse of thirty years, knows about. You need surplus
cash for your inventions and those trips to Tahiti that beckon
from time to time.
You approach work in a practical and studious way. What-
ever you decide to be—in creative or scientific fields—you
will stick with it until you do what you set out to do. Earning
a particular amount of money, getting to be an executive
director, seeing your name in lights, conducting a sym-
phony, or making the winning touchdown, you pay atten-
tion to every contributing factor and find a way to be where
you want to be. Of course, after reaching the goal line and
making a generous donation to your favorite charity, you
might bail without notice to find a new place to fly.

The Potential

Since you're an enigma of sorts, a friendship with you is

confusing for mere mortals. You are not an open book, but
are honest about the areas where you interact with others.
There will be those who don't understand why you work
where you do, or married the person you did, or are going
to so-and-so's party. Not only do you not explain yourself,
but you appreciate it when they don't ask these questions
out loud.
You learned young that explaining your plans to improve
your lot in life often falls on deaf ears or elicits a look that
says, "What are you talking about?" Before kindergarten,
you've tucked away the really good ideas to share later with
a soul mate. Strive to find the right venue to blossom, get
the education necessary, and cultivate the friendship of like-
minded spirits. You may think intimacy is a risky rumba,
 Aquarius 299

but without those intimate interludes, you wouldn't have the

security to be all you can be and find true happiness.

FAMOUS AQUARIUS SEVENS

Justine Bateman 2/19/1966 Rob by Benson 1/21/1956
Farrab Fawcett 2/2/1947 Robert Wagner 2/10/1930
Roberta Flack 2/10/1939 Arsenio Hall 2/12/1955

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Aquarius Eight
"The Versatile Specialist"

8+ 8-
Cooperative Global View Thoughtless Indecisive
Determined Professional Self-defeating Workaholic
Unbiased Ambitious Detached Aggressive
Eloquent Enduring

Never say never—you haven't, have you? Because at some

time or another in this long life, you will try a multitude of
angles to get results, including changing sides of the fence
when it works to your advantage. From the first title of Jacks
Champion Supreme in the school yard at PS 27, you know
that when it comes to any game, someone has to win and
someone has to lose. Though you are gracious in defeat,
life is sweeter when you win. The win/lose thing might
make you hesitate before accepting a job offer. You have a
big-picture mind and have to see a winning angle, personal
or professional, or you say thanks, but no thanks.
Getting to know you isn't as hard as people might think,
and you warm up to people who love the same work and
causes that you do. Communication poses no problem,
whether it's to thank the travel agent for putting together a
magnificent trip for you, or to express complex ideas to a
group of strangers in a lecture hall. You do have an opinion
about everything but usually keep it to yourself—unless
your reputation is involved.
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Underneath that busy, work-until-midnight-and-wow-'em-

in-the-meeting-tomorrow exterior beats a heart of gold. You
are happy to give advice and tell others how you got where
you are. You honestly hope your experiences can help them
reach their own particular heights. A natural mentor on
everything from yummy sex to baking apple pie, you love
to be needed, though hate to be tied down. A whirling der-
vish of activity, you never lack for friends or destinations.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Falling in love and/or lust isn't the problem, and stepping

up to the altar isn't either. The difficult part is wooing a
partner as ambitious and loving as you are. Oh sure, you
both like watching sunsets together, and never run out of
things to discuss, but when you veer off to chase a dream,
will he stick with you? That's the tough part in the partner
search.
Home is important—the Monet print on one wall and the
sparkling blue ocean view out the other are parts of the
home you hope to share with a lover. A domestic home-
body, you're not. You can combine career with a family, if
you choose, but often find yourself too busy to think about
it until later in life. Well, the same can happen with mar-
riage, too.

Money and Career

Staff members consider themselves lucky to call you boss.

You are respected in any field you choose to work because
of the effort and energy, plus the foresight, you put into
planning. They love you because you also help them be
successful. You motivate everyone to evaluate their talents,
get more training, and contemplate their personal future. In
addition you do an outstanding job at separating the private
from the, professional parts of your life.
Your relationship with money is challenging until you bite
the bullet and get reliable counseling/training in how to
make it work for you. How to make money with other peo-
ple's money is no problem, but when it comes to handling
your own, the silver-spoon appetite and confidence in your
 Aquarius 301

abilities are sometimes the trigger for being far too generous
with your own resources. Dwindling cash flow is a huge
motivating factor in why you continue to earn money long
after friends have retired.

The Potential

Since you're a genius at getting ahead and playing the

political game, little stops you in your campaign for joy and
prosperity. Helping others is a genuine pleasure, and not
only in the impersonal philanthropic way. Taking their
needs into consideration one on one, you are always a will-
ing mentor. Once you have the recognition and security you
want, you look to enjoy the other things in life, such as a
loving family—those things that make the whole game
worthwhile.
You can swing from the top of the world to the bottom
of the barrel in the blink of a Newt's eye, without someone
to believe in you every step of the way. As independent as
you can be, flying solo simply isn't very much fun. (It may
take you several orbits to find that out.) You give everyone
the benefit of the doubt, the compassionate hug, and the
practical conversation to quell their self-doubts. Take your
own advice. Everyone falls off the carousel horse now and
then, and most of us need help to get back on. Why did
you think you wouldn't?

FAMOUS AQUARIUS EIGHTS

Geena Davis 1/21/1957 Wayne Gretzky 1/26/1961
Laura Dem 2/10/1967 General Douglas Mac Arthur 1/26/1880
Molly Ringivald 2/18/1968 Paul Newman 1/26/1925
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Aquarius Nine
"The Magnetic Mover and Shaker"

9+ 9-
Inventive Worldly Indecisive Impersonal
Sociable Compassionate Outspoken Careless
Concentrates Performer Thoughtless Self-absorbed
Expressive Charismatic

You've been known to live on the edge, even if it's just occa-
sionally. You push the fringe because you believe in yourself.
Well, at least you're a believer until a plan backfires and sends
you off the ski jump headfirst into the woods. Up until that
moment, you thought you could pull it off because you be-
lieve in any theory until you don't believe it anymore. Fickle?
Not exactly, it's simply that you have an open mind that readily
evaluates Actions vs. Results when the results fall short. Next
time, you want to be better prepared when another opportu-
nity falls in your lap, as they often do.
It's not as if you popped into the world filled with ambi-
tion to own half of it or anything like that. No, you envision
a tranquil existence of painting landscapes and solving mys-
tic mysteries. Maybe you'll teach people to solve problems
a la Aquarius Nine Sir Francis Bacon's concept of deductive
reasoning, or learn more about Copernicus, who told us the
Earth revolved around the Sun instead of vice versa.
Experimenting and questioning, you wait until you reach
maximum inspiration before you let the rest of us in on your
latest revolutionary idea. As much as you love to give advice,
the performer in you wants to put on a good show. Okay,
so you might not think that you have a flair for the dramatic,
but you have to admit that being the center of attention suits
you, especially when you get the chance to show off your
musical skills and make the audience smile.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

All the world loves a lover, which is why it's difficult to

go through the selection process with any enthusiasm. You
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do so love to be that lover, and consider your performance

as a playmate and a sweetheart a vital part of any relation-
ship. You might not actually pop the big question to anyone
(or say yes) until the last one of your college chums is al-
ready living in suburbia with a mortgage. And even then,
you want a loving marriage, but not one quite so predictable
as a white picket fence implies.
Tasteful art and interesting gadgets are found in the place
you call home. You adore picking out new items with the
love of your life to make it a perfect haven. Finding that
first home for the two of you, whether married or not, is a
painstaking process. You need room for books, art supplies,
and multiple PCs, but if there isn't a wonderful view of green
trees and water, you won't completely unpack.

Money and Career

You're a money magnet; figuring out how to make it stick

around is the challenge. Generous to a fault, you can never
turn away a friend in need or a particular charity even when
you aren't that flush with funds. When considering the next
job or promotion, you barely have to make a few phone
calls to get the wheels in motion. Of course, without your
careful orchestration, the job search might not get off the
ground, or it could take you someplace you don't want to
go.
You prefer to stick with your best talent and keep plug-
ging away until kudos are offered for a job well done. But
you recognize when you're spinning your wheels and make
the necessary changes to get going again. You are happiest
in entertainment, engineering, law, and education, but only
if the position allows you to work with a large group. You
thrive on group energy and cross-pollination to boost you
to even greater success.

The ^9 Potential

When you feel cut off or shut out from those you love
the most, it bothers you, but you manage to pick yourself
up and stay focused to get the job done. You were born a
trouper, especially when you know others are depending
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on you. When your self-confidence is low, all you need do

is remember the last shower of compliments you received
and it revitalizes you.
Personal love is difficult. Somewhat naive, you assume
that nothing is personal that anyone does or says to you.
You know people "love" you but are stunned when they
make it personal, such as Aaron following you to the kitchen
to collect a kiss. You have difficulty accepting the Personal
You, but don't be afraid of the wonderful person you are.
Experience the full range of personal love as well as the
impersonal, and you become even more adept at under-
standing all the people in every facet of your life.

FAMOUS AQUARIUS NINES

Brett Butler 1/30/1958 Norman Rockwell 2/3/1894
Lisa Marie Presley 2/1/1968 Garth Brooks 2/7/1962
Carole King 2/9/1942 Gregory Mines 2/14/1946
 PISCES

X • 1
Pisces Cne
"The Empalhelic Execulive"

K+ 1+ X- 1-
Co mpassio nate Direct Careless Myopic View
Knowledgeable Courageous Extremist Inflexible
Innovative Inventive Procrastinates Overbearing
Focused Leader

A single red rose placed carefully atop your Filofax starts

the day off with a sunny shot of enthusiasm. Later you can
seductively—ahh, properly—thank the gift giver, but right
now there are things to do. Love is every bit as important
to you as friendship and business, and you like to have a
full plate with a little of everything on it every day.
Routine is a big snooze, but you put up with it because
there are certian things you want to accomplish. Technically
you're not a rabble-rouser, which makes it all the more inter-
esting to watch you zigzag around the planet asking imperti-
nent, thought-provoking questions, pushing hot buttons, and
urging everyone you meet to find a better way to run things.
Seldom do you mean '7 have a better way of running
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things," though you do such a good job mixing rhetoric with

charm that your audience not only agrees with you, but puts
you in charge of orchestrating the change. In zero to sixty
seconds, you go from expressing an abstract ideal to having
the responsibility to make it so. Whew!
Not only do you take your responsibilities seriously, but
you genuinely want others to be happy. Whether leading a
fledgling country like famous Pisces One George Washing-
ton, or charming generations of youth like Dr. Seuss, you
endeavor to convince people to live better. Then you tell or
show them how. In the process, you ruffle the feathers of
the Keep the Status Quo Because I Get a Kickback Gang,
but hey, what's a missing feather or two in the big picture?
Speaking of roosters and eagles, you do your fair share
of being both the Big Man in the Barnyard and a Soaring
Eagle at Large. Yet even when you get to soar, you're prag-
matic enough to keep one eye on the folks at home and
the other on your bank balance.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Falling in love is as high an experience as you will ever

have. Romance is the food of the gods, and you expect to
get an ample helping of the "pinch me, I've gone to heaven"
sort. This doesn't mean that you haven't sown a few (or
maybe a bushelful of) wild oats in your day—the chemistry-
motivated or romance kind.
A serious love match is a binding partnership, and you
prefer defined ground rules before cleaning out a closet for
the new roomie. You KNOW you try to be everything to
your partner and want to minimize the adjustment time.
Somehow when the front door opens with your lover, lug-
gage, and taffy brown cocker spaniel ready to move in, you
and your "can't believe a dog's moving in" cat are prepared
to embrace the whole package.

Money and Career

Starting out, money is confusing. You understand that

earning money funds your escapades and lets you dress in
style, but it doesn't mean much beyond that. Once you
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know how to earn it, you learn that money and recognition
are not the same thing, and that you need a bit of both. The
employer who figures out that a hearty slap on the back
and a deserved compliment go as far in keeping you happy
as the annual raise does employs you indefinitely.
With the ability to focus that you have, you can figure out
a zillion different ways to climb a tree. You do best when
you specialize in a particular talent and profession. Of
course, during your life you will also explore all sorts of
detours and offshoots in the course of pushing on to the
next level. You do so love using that creative mind of yours
to improve, explore, and entertain.

The Xl Potential

You figure it's okay if you take yourself too seriously

when away from the prying eyes of the crowds. Behind
closed doors you visualize how to implement your latest
and greatest idea and. keep everyone happy in the process.
But when you are out with the crowd, you become a gra-
cious coach and lively companion. As much as you love
being alone, you love meeting new people and staying in
touch with old friends.
For about a minute, you might let a "friend" walk all over
you, but you bounce back and stand tall and firm to main-
tain your self-respect. This resiliency makes you a natural
champion of others who don't seem able to stand up for
themselves. You might not consider yourself one of the Pol-
lyanna persuasion, but you'd be surprised to know how
many others think you've made a noticeable difference in
their lives.

FAMOUS PISCES ONES

Lynn Redgrave 3/8/1943 Sbaquille O'Neal 3/6/1972
Drew Barrymore 2/22/1975 Rob Reiner 3/6/1945
Taylor Dayne 3/7/1962 Michael Bolton 2/26/1953
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X • 2
Pi§ce§ Twe

"The Myslic Malchmaker"

K+ 2+ K- 2-
Inspirational Diplomatic Procrastinater Argumentative
Focused Conscientious Extremist Sensitive
Good Humored Supportive Cynical Worries
Compassionate Patient

When it comes to protecting your privacy, you are a master

of the slight of hand. So careful are you to focus on the
other person that an inquisitive acquaintance won't notice
until hours later that you never answered a single personal
question. Should an uncivilized cretin persist in posing im-
pertinent questions, you pull another favorite trick—the Dis-
appearing Act.
Even friends know how good at it you are. Now they see
you—at the theater, at the Italian restaurant on the corner,
shopping at your favorite store—and then poof! Now they
don't! You disappear and messages pile up on your machine
asking where you are. Chances are you've hit the road again
for work, pleasure, or reflection, but unlike famous Pisces
Two Jack Kerouac, when you're on the road, it's with a cell
phone, laptop, and American Express.
You are somewhat of an enigma—a romantic touchy-feely
creature with a fascination for gadgets and curiosity about
the technical aspect of everything. Information matters. You
want to know what's going on behind the scenes as well as
on center stage. You not only want the truth, you want
details.
Creative and chatty today, you change to a silent observer
tomorrow for no apparent reason. There are many layers to
you, from gregarious gadabout to serious competitor a la
another Pisces Two, former world's chess best Bobby Fischer.
You're surprised when someone says you've changed. You
simply decided to try out a new look and express an unex-
pressed opinion. Since your preferences change continually,
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it probably is a good idea that you don't play out every new
notion. It would be too much for friends to handle.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Love is complicated for a Pisces Two. As much as you

want your personal freedom, you want lots of attentive qual-
ity time and a mate to slip between the satin sheets with
you for cuddling and fireworks. You wonder if there's an
accomplished, handsome professional who would treat you
like a lady in public and like the wench of his dreams in
private.
Guess again! The toughest hurdle you climb in any inti-
mate relationship is tuning the communication dial from
Fantasy to Reality. You often connect with a lover through
ESP and have an intuitive way of knowing what the other
person is going to say. But real love doesn't flourish with
psychic vibes alone. Not talking could be a fatal relationship
flaw. SAY what you think and need, and discuss plans. Lis-
ten to each other. You might not agree, but it is the ONLY
way to have the seamless, loving relationship you want.

Money and Career

Making money is a form of magic, and while you aren't

anxious to own Microsoft, you never underplay the impor-
tance of the green stuff. You believe in stashing a bit in the
bank for the inevitable drain on your resources that's sure
to come. You would like to work only when you need the
money, but also know precious few people are lucky
enough to pull it off. Still, no nose to the grindstone 365
days a year for you! Unless it's in a field that lets you be as
creative as you want and manipulate your daily schedule,
you won't stick with it.
The honest goal of most Pisces Twos is to make a bundle
and retire young, but instead of toasting your toes in front
of the fireplace straight on into your golden years, it often
turns out to be a vacation break between careers. Besides,
you want to know what's happening out there and need the
personal contact and discipline of the workaday world to
stay grounded. Whatever you do will be noticed. Whether
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you're famous or infamous, people know your name. It's up

to you to make sure that they remember it with a smile.

The X2 Potential

You have considerable personal power, yet often submit

to the whims and needs of others. Use your charisma and
develop diplomatic skills to charm (or coerce) those who
might otherwise overlook you because you don't speak up.
Because you long for personal freedom and a genteel world,
you hope we learn how to behave better and with more
sensitivity towards each other.
With your devilish sense of humor and intuitive under-
standing of people, you are a joy to know. It's the whiplash
changes and disappearing acts that are uncomfortable, so
for goodness' sakes, tell someone when you head out to
walk Big Sur. And remember we all make mistakes; even
you for all your psychic powers. Allow time to grieve, de-
brief, and rework the plan after a setback before getting
back to business, lest you lose that winning smile.

FAMOUS PISCES TWOS

Paula Prentiss 3/4/1939 William Hurt 3/20/1950
Nancy Wilson 3/16/1954 Peter Fonda 2/23/1939
Chelsea Clinton 2/27/1980 Billy Crystal 3/14/1947

X • 3
Pisces Three
"The Sociable Slatesman"

K+ 3+ K- 3-
Intuitive Sociable Frivolous Easily Distracted
Unbiased Creative Lethargic Gossipy
Inspirational Expressive Extremist Extravagant
Altruistic Romantic

It isn't as if you planned to leave the new building sketches

at home, you were distracted with all this glorious sunshine
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and thoughts of the Hunt Ball coming up. A quick, sweet

smile accompanies a more acceptable excuse for the boss
as you proceed to produce ten hours' work in two. Amaz-
ingly, you pull it off, and the client is dutifully impressed.
Impressed enough to sign on the dotted line? Sure, and
you're not a bit stunned even if your boss is.
Duplicating your efforts isn't your forte, but bringing peo-
ple together to solve common problems is. You use a dose
of gentle persuasion and one of your many artistic talents
to land the project. Not only do you make a top-notch pitch,
you also land another project requiring a lot of work and a
big stretch. Remember those pesky voices that keep telling
you to look before you leap. Tut, tut, there you go—leap-
ing again.
A glittering companion, you teeter between saint and
scoundrel, landing somewhere in the middle. You embrace
various philosophies out of personal curiosity and to con-
found the opposition. The tables are turning all the time,
and you make important allies when you can. "Love your
enemies as well as your friends" is a personal credo that
has saved your bacon many times.
New horizons beckon, and while you're an adept juggler,
it still galls you to deal with the dreck left behind by others.
Finishing someone else's half-baked plan is a drag. Besides,
you have a better vision of the future than many give you
credit for. What other star/number combo besides this one
can boast a Levi Strauss, who, some 170 years later, still has
his name sewn on almost everyone's pants for all the world
to see?

Love, Sex, and Marriage

The bedroom is one place you don't need to use persua-

sive charms. Quite the opposite as you have many more
invitations to sample fragrant oils and steamy videos than
you care to accept. Besides, you're a little choosy and prefer
love, candlelight, tenderness—the whole dreamy enchilada,
thank you, and nothing less.
Marriage provides a protective haven from which you ven-
ture out to build bridges and exchange smiles and beads
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with the other natives in foreign places. It's the breaks in

a marriage, you believe, that keep chemistry bubbly and
conversation lively. Together you pursue a myriad of inter-
ests, making every year a unique one. That's the real reason
you get married. In addition to the romance and fun, it's to
have an enduring friendship to counterbalance the normal
craziness of life.

Money and Career

Business finds you to be a true original and welcomes

you with open arms, You might prefer to while away the
hours in your studio overlooking the park, but care too
much about living a good life (not to be confused with THE
good life, which is a different thing altogether) to settle for
a constant diet of the mundane. A quick study with a per-
ceptive mind, you can succeed when you decide to.
The money thing is something you would honestly like
someone else to handle, but when forced to get your hands
dirty with it, you can do a remarkable job. You instinctively
understand the whys and the wherefores of people's motiva-
tions, which includes the movement of money and pur-
chases on any scale. You might not ever stick your finger
in the financial whirlpool, but it's that understanding (plus
a dash of effervescent charm) that keeps you in the corner
office as other workers come and go.

The X3 Potential

You touch others with the merry twinkle in your eye, your
unprejudiced compassion, and by being a perpetual fountain
of inspiration. You know things have a way of working out,
and encourage others to take comfort from that thought
while doing everything they can on a practical level to make
it happen. You teach how to combine logic with vision and
to solve problems while charting a future course.
As your own worst enemy (and who isn't?), watch your
tendency to go overboard, You are somewhat extravagant,
particularly with praise and credit cards. One lands an un-
wanted suitor on your door, and the other makes trips to
the beauty spa next month impossible. And when in doubt,
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stick to the facts. As much as you enjoy embellishing them,

the cold, hard truth will keep you out of big trouble. You're
needed to help us continue believing in our dreams. You
can't do that if you don't separate fact from fiction or let
mood swings color everything, but you knew that, didn't
you?

FAMOUS PISCES THREES

Samantba Eggar 3/5/1939 Ted Kennedy 2/22/1932
Barbara Feldon 3/12/1941 Peter Graves 3/18/1926
Levi Strauss 2/26/1829 Fats Domino 2/26/1928

K • 4
Pisces rcur
"Itie Capable Wizatd"

K+ 4* K- 4-
Empathetic Persistent Gullible Too Busy
Methodical Thorough Indecisive Serious
Knowledgeable Practical Temperamental Lazy
Creative Constructive

First there were the pair of Sister Ducks who lived in the
closet and would only come out to play when no grown-
ups were around. They attended your tea parties with Bon-
nie Bear and shouted, "You can do that!" Later the Discov-
ery Channel informed you the Sister Ducks were penguins
who lived in ice and snow (Santa's House?) and wouldn't
know a teacup from a crumpet.
No matter, they listened while you in preschool overalls
spun tales of wonder that formed the basis of a To-Do List
for Life. Simple goals turn into sophisticated plans, and by
the time you rent your first apartment, you're torn between
shouting, "Look out, world, here I come!" and staying in
bed with a raunchy novel and a box of popcorn. Those big
dreams of yours take mucho sweat to make them come true.
Not that sweating bothers you, and you don't mind working
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hard, especially when you're able to use your what-if skills

to find a direct route to the finish line.
It's walking out the front door that's the hardest. It was
easier to believe in yourself with the pudgy penguin audi-
ence. Now it's up to you to get up the gumption to show
your stuff. Remember the encouragement you got at those tea
parties? And you can always call Mom for a pull-yourself-
up-by-your-bootstraps chat. All right then take a deep breath
and prepare to join the throng of the productive crowd.
On the first day, wear your lucky ring, the one that looks
like a crystal ball, and stick on that penguin pin Mom gave
you. Whatever it takes, walk through that door and get to
the office on time. Once you actually engage in the game,
you see the lofty heights hovering over your head, almost
within reach. Well, what are you going to do about that?

Love, Sex, and Marriage

When it comes to love, you prefer the straight-arrow, hon-

est approach. This is one area where any game a pursuer
plays is sure to backfire. Affection, poetry and lace, nachos
and margaritas, and the right stage set work. Bonding has
to happen before having sex, which is why it's not at the
top of the Find a Mate list.
You function better if married because you weren't meant
to go it alone. You have great fun setting up housekeeping
with a heartthrob. From searching for the perfect flat to un-
packing new dishes from Williams-Sonoma, you're happy
nesting and have high hopes for your future together. Find
a place to live with a fireplace and a room for a nursery,
and you're no longer sorry to leave childhood behind.

Money and Career

Security rather than cold cash is what the whole work gig
is to you. You prefer a flexible routine and are a hands-on
manager. Your door is always open and you are reputed to
have a heart of gold plus a passel of good advice to dish
out. No, you're no wanna-be Dear Abby; it's just your way
of helping others, which you do readily.
You have the versatility to succeed in countless endeav-
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ors. As long as the establishment is run with common sense

and financial finesse, and you're amply rewarded, you stay
put. Money isn't the end all and be all to you, but you do
want a home of your own and do have those two kids to
put through college—not to mention the ballet lessons and
new computer. Oh, those are for you? Good for you!

The K4 Potential

The picture in your head of who you are changes continu-

ally—faster than the weather and twice as dramatic. You
Strive for stability and in the process demonstrate how we
can all build a strong foundation. Although somewhat of a
nonconformist, you join in with many traditional celebra-
tions with gusto. Why should the two conflict?
With the ability to intuitively link with friends, it's surpris-
ing that you seldom count on anyone but yourself. Doing
that makes the responsibilities you carry grow into big bur-
dens. This is an opportunity. You know, you aren't the only
one who needs to be needed—ask friends to share the load.
It's mutual love and respect that provide the elusive security
you crave. To get it, surrender to a little give-and-take. Sure,
the first time is a bit scary, but the rewards are exactly what
you're looking for!

FAMOUS PISCES FOURS

Rob Lowe 3/2 7/1964 Vanessa Williams 3/18/1963
Roger Daltrey 3/1/1944 Tea Leoni 2/25/1966
Nat King Cole 3/17/1919 Rue McClanaban 2/21/1952
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X • ^
Pisces five

"Tlie Resourcelul Dfeaner"

K+ 5+ K- 5-
Perceptive Resourceful Indecisive Impulsive
Inspirational Progressive Trusting Restless
Idealistic Curious Escapist Fickle
Versatile Adventurous

Elephants don't have the corner on the not-forgetting thing.

You, too, never forget a slight or a generous act, though
you are much too cordial to mention the slight. Everyone
has their off days, and every tomorrow brings a new sunrise
and a new trail to try. On the next trail, roles could be
reversed—a thought that keeps your tongue in check. Be-
cause yes, you always have a lot to say.
An eternal optimist, you believe what people say, and that
naivete is as charming to others as it is frustrating to you.
When Donna says she wants to vacation together in the
Greek islands, you believe her. Visions of azure seawater
dance in your head, and she doesn't call. So you call her,
leave a message, and then mark her name off the list—that
mental one you keep of Inner Circle Friends. Does this mean
you go through people like wet Kleenex? Nope—when the
moon is right and there's a reason to reconnect with Donna
(business or pleasure), you still may be smarting from the
last encounter, but you make the call and hope for the best.
Relaxing under the stars of a crisp Rocky Mountain night,
you let a mental reel rich in fantasy roll. All talented people
have a library full of those technicolor dreams, don't they?
Some folks think you're a drifty dreamer, but one look at
your checkbook or calendar shows how busy you are earn-
ing a living and sharing your creative spirit. You not only
know how to survive in this big, bad world, but also know
how to be congenial about it.
A self-made idealist, you have an ingrained personal code
of ethics and conduct to guide every step. Problems stay
private; you solve them yourself, which earns the respect of
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friends and foes alike. When life is a bowl of cherries, you

share. You pause, put the horse you always ride to the next
adventure in the pasture and call one of those Inner Circle
Friends lucky enough to have your unconditional love.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

The first love affair or two are easy-breezy, but you do

expect to be loved forever by any lover—altar in view or
no. Pisces do better with a partner, but fives like to come
and go, free of any hint of a ball and chain. "Love me for
who I am, not what I can do for you!" you cry to would-
be wedding partners (and friends). Marriage is founded on
friendship in your book, but it has to have its steamy side
too in order to sparkle.
Your idea of chemistry is two-dimensional (at least). You
want not only a physical reaction when the date of your
dreams walks into the room, but also a psychic link and
mutual fascination of the metaphysical realm. Your partner
may have a very different sort of personality, but must value
what you think is important and understand your quirks.
Pisces Fives never think they will be good parents because
of their own needs and issues, which is exactly what makes
them excellent parents. Besides, they love any excuse to
play, and rambunctious tots certainly supply that.

Money and Career

When it comes to business, you are a genial networker

and let wisdom direct your actions. A realist about work,
when you go after a job you want, you know you can charm
folks with your patter, even those you don't particularly ad-
mire. Everyone has an ego, and you put yours under wraps
until the contract is signed.
Even if you have a punch-the-clock kind of job, you also
have freelance activities going on the side. This side of you
believes in what you're doing, paycheck or no (though hav-
ing one is better). You recognize money is a necessary evil
and you always manage to attract a job offer when it's
needed.
Opportunist is just another word for knowing a break
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when you see it. Not only do you have that down pat, but
also how to seize an opening however small. You know
that the best opprtunities are those you create.

The X5 Potential

Beautiful dreamer that you are, you also have much to

say to the world, and the motivation to get out there and
say it. Writer, actor, songwriter, explorer, director, painter—
the work you do will be innovative and must be about a
topic that fits your vision of a better quality of life.
Don't let the worries and broken dreams immobilize you
or put a martyr's cap on your head. You are loved and there
are people who will always be there for you. You have a
unique connection to the realm of fantasy, today's reality,
and visions of the future. With your tender heart and creativ-
ity you teach the rest of us about changing ourselves in
order to change the world.

FAMOUS PISCES FIVES

Ursula Andress 3/19/1936 Dirk Benedict 3/1/1945
Catherine Bach 3/1/1954 Jon Bon Jovi 3/2/1962
Chastity Bono 3/4/1969 Ron Howard 3/1/1954

X • 6
Pisces Six

'The Visionary Teacher"

X+ 6+ X- 6-
Altruistic Nurturing Procrastinates Jealous
Versatile Idealistic Gullible Self-sacrificing
Creative Responsible Inconsistent Overbearing
Gracious Loyal

When you meet new people, you see them as they are, as
well as recognize their potential. Even if you aren't a class-
room teacher, you still encourage people to reach for the
stars as you point them in the right direction. You also,
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nudge, kick, push, and pull, particularly if it's a family mem-

ber or a good friend. You're adamant that they get their
greatness off the ground. Lucky them! There is a risk of
pushing the right buttons at the wrong time, but you have
a gift for spotting talent in its early stages.
When people let you down, as they inevitably do, you
take it personally. Why don't they listen? They hear you, and
may recognize the truth in what you say, but if they aren't
ready to take The Plunge, all the encouragement and whee-
dling in the world won't make them jump. Don't take it
personally. Do everything you can do, then step back. Ac-
cept that you aren't responsible for anyone's life choices
except your own.
The main reason you like to go away is to come home
again—including long trips to faraway places. Sure, you
adore meeting new people and photographing exotic lo-
cales, but you never fail to get a warm rush at the sight and
smell of the living room you so carefully decorated with
silver-framed pictures on the grand piano overlooking the
snapdragons in the garden. Not only do you love beauty
and music, you surround yourself with them.
You bring out the best in people but are chameleonlike
even with close chums. You have an innate understanding
of the human condition (and a whole lot more). Consider
Pisces Sixes Albert Einstein and Donald Duck. Between
them they cover all your states and moods, from brainy to
zany, don't they?

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You're a dyed-in-the-wool romantic, but no one would

guess your private passion for roses and champagne when
you first meet. You are so gifted at concentrating on the
other person that you might forget to find out the important
things, like is this someone who revs up your engine?
Hmmm.
You deftly deflect prying questions with the Turn the Ta-
bles ploy. But before his attention wanders, you start your
own subtle twenty questions to decide about him. Whether
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to pursue or say good night becomes crystal-clear before

the entrees arrive.
At heart, you're a domestic type (even if you don't cook)
and want a partner who enjoys the home scene as much as
you do (and maybe does cook). That's after the sex-and-
sizzle test, of course, which happens just after the exchange
of love promises, of course.

Money and Career

You're a soft touch for money, and for some reason feel
responsible for everyone else. You have faith in people, and
that's not a bad thing unless you sacrifice your rent money
today so a friend can pay his Visa bill. Be discerning and set
boundaries. There's no disgrace in sticking to those limits. If
you haven't heard, martyrdom is out, and you're in charge
of your cash flow.
A career in the entertainment field, medicine, art, cosmet-
ics, public relations, or service of any kind is where you will
be happiest. Music is an integral part of your life, and not
just as a performer. You strive for the same harmony and
balance in other endeavors, too. Since you detest the hum-
drum, meeting new and interesting people makes an other-
wise ho-hum job just perfect for you.

The K6 Potential

Happy at home writing or reading an intriguing novel,

tossing together a primo salmon pesto, and napping on the
couch with Mr. Periwinkle curled up beside you are classic
scenes from the days of your life. Find what you do well
and concentrate your efforts there: It inspires others to do
the same. "Look at me," you say. "If I can do it (whatever
it is), so can you!"
Don't be too possessive of the people you love and/or
mentor. Keep an open mind about new opportunities and
avoid the "I would have, should have, could have" trap.
Keep at least one ball in the air even when you aren't too
sure of the game. It prevents you from lapsing into Techni-
color dreams and contemplating time travel so you stay
sharp for the next genuine break that comes along. Be care-
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ful not to aim too low, because as we all know, you get
what you expect to get.

FAMOUS PISCES SIXES

Joanne Woodward 2/27/1930 Quincy Jones 3/14/1933
Adelle Davis 2/25/1905 Bruce Willis 3/19/1955
Erma Bom beck 2/21/1927 Michael Came 3/14/1933

X • 1
Pisces Seven

The Discerning Dream Weaver

K+ 7+ K- 7-
Perfectionist Analytical Inconsistent Aloof
Charming Articulate Shy Suspicious
Knowledgeable Intellectual Escapist Stingy
Methodical Private

With a wizard for an imaginary friend, you don't need

anyone else. At least not until you want to play Lord of the
Rings and need someone to play the other parts. Basically
you're shy and curious—smart, too. Develop a specialty—
become an expert about something fascinating to give you
a cover of sorts until you figure out who you are.
Mr. Rogers wasn't always in the neighborhood beaming
in on your TV every day, but he is typical of the Pisces
Seven energy, combining childlike whimsy, basic psychol-
ogy, and technology to teach children about the nice and
caring adults out there. Like him, you know how tough it
can be on a little one with a head buzzing with questions,
bursting with enthusiasm, and too timid to bounce and
bubble.
Able to alter your appearance and personality in a flash,
you have different circles of friends to pursue your varied
interests. So you're a closet skydiver. Why worry the boss
by telling him? And if you told him it's a solo sail to the
island this weekend, he'd probably worry about that, too.
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You just need alone time at the helm to recharge and

refocus.
You have an unending stream of incongruous thoughts
flowing from the left to the right side of your brain continu-
ally. No wonder you sound like the wizard Gandalf directing
an action movie half the time—you don't know whether to
weave spells, chant om, or reprogram all the computers
you've encountered. Tough choices until the sexy redhead
from the public-speaking class calls and inquires about your
weekend plans. Toss the magic wand, laptop PC, and
leather-bound book of chants. Pack the margarita mix, beach
clothes, and George Winters for the boat. The trip has turned
into a very different event. Is that a big grin on your face?
Much better!

Love, Sex, and Marriage

Few would guess that you've got a technique for torrid

tangos that would make the most experienced lover blush.
Few people see that side of you, and as a lover-in-waiting,
it might be "only fair" to warn anyone interested before he
gets charged up, that you might be more uninhibited than
they realize. But if they don't turn you on—physically, men-
tally, and with gusto—the trip to the water bed doesn't
happen.
Marriage has an entirely different set of criteria for you.
Romance and sex are hard to find, let alone keep. To con-
sider the wedding-bell routine, you have a tough list: must
love me in spite of myself, looks out for "us," and not have
a sharp tongue. Everything else is workable, including the
quiet time you need. Should children join the love nest, you
become a fine parent with more understanding than most
when little Brian takes the bathroom clock apart to see how
it works and then blames the broken clock on the purple
tiger who lives under his bed.

Money and Career

Bouncing back and forth, a Pisces Seven has to grip the

earth tightly to not swing to one extreme or the other and
get lost in the process of searching for the center. Money to
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tuck in the bank is a hollow trophy. Hence you spend it on

a wood-paneled study lined with intriguing books, or a jew-
elry box holding select gems and twenty-four-karat gold.
You're as likely to spend a bundle on camera equipment as
on a T-bill. At least until you see the whole money-stock-
security thing for the adult game it is.
A profession that allows you to set your own hours plus
use your intellect and penchant for perfection is the one for
you. You earn more money at it, too, than you thought
you would. You spread a piece of it around—to the AIDS
Foundation, drug rehabilitation centers—and never breathe
a word. Money is only good for what you do with it, isn't it?

The X7 Potential

You have a relatively slow start in life, observing mankind,

experimenting, and getting a formal education. Specialized
training is essential to devleop your talents. You enjoy shar-
ing your considerable knowledge and enchanting narratives
with kindred spirits in and out of work.
It's fine to look to others for approval, but don't be so
consumed with it that you toss out beliefs or veer too far
away from the road that takes you where you want to go.
Self-doubt can be turned to an asset when you use it to
pinpoint areas of improvement, but never use it as an excuse
to let yourself down. You have a gift of understanding com-
plex concepts and quantum mysteries of life along with the
ability to enrich the lives you touch.

FAMOUS PISCES SEVENS

Glenn Close 3/19/1947 Johnny Cash 2/26/1932
Bernadette Peters 2/28/1948 Frederic Chopin 2/22/1810
Patrick Duffy 3/17/1949 Mr. (Fred) Rogers 3/20/1928
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X • 8
Pisces Eisht

"The Shrewd Sifter"

8+ x- 8-
Professional Sensitive Indecisive
Romantic Open-minded Critical Workaholic
Mystical Capable Diffident Overreacts
Focused Global View

Now, let's see, what goes best with my new diamond

(pave, turquoise, silver, bold gold) bracelet? It's a dockside
lunch for lobster in the rough, so don light denims and
strappy sandals, and off you go. The original denim-and-
diamonds sort, you always have a packed schedule without
a precious playtime second to waste, so you hustle. Besides,
you can't wait to hear the buzz about Jan's latest Greek god
or Marilyn's shopping coup.
You bring along an envelope of facts and figures Joanne
requested—much easier than bundling them up and mailing
them. When it comes to creating a mood, picking an outfit,
or researching the national debt and how it relates to the
consumption of Java Chip ice cream, you're on top of it—
see? Already done! Surfing the Net, sorting the vibes and
political climate of every room you enter, and digging for
facts to support your point of view, yes! Printing and collat-
ing a hundred copies and mailing to all the stockholders,
no, not unless you absolutely have to.
For all the glitter and charm you lavish on the general
population, the neurons are always firing in that brain of
yours—filing away valuable information, adding sparkling
comments, while worrying about meeting Lorenzo's plane
tonight (what were you thinking when you invited him to
visit?) or wondering if the papers arrived at the office for
the Jones deal.
You always appear well put together, but you know what
it's like to have the bottom fall out. After the first half dozen
times, you get the hang of getting back up, but seldom chat
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about it. Friends love you because you know when to keep
everything but the positive strokes to yourself.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

You're attracted to the diamond-in-the-rough type as a

fantasy companion. Though this is out of step with your
otherwise sharp scrutiny approach, it is the romantic you
who sometimes places too much credibility on the circum-
stances and chemistry of a first meeting. Who wouldn't fall
in love with an able-bodied man who swept you off your
feet seconds before the mannequin in Nordstrom's crashed
to the ground where you were standing?
Also attracted to powerful men, you seldom marry them.
They become friends, mentors, and occasionally lovers. And
there has to be room in the tie that binds for personal and
shared goals. For you, love is sweeter when you stop hear-
ing or using the words dependent and codependent. Most of
all you need another adult player who doesn't want a par-
ent, but a red-hot lover and true-blue friend who's got his
life in order and viable dreams for the future.

Money and Career

In the beginning of your foray into the How to Earn a

Living process, you enter quietly, in spite of your education
or financial background. After the bevy of dreams and
schemes that do little more than rattle around in your head,
you learn the language of money. Since it's an early lesson,
you would think it would stick, but you always pay attention
to what comes in and goes out.
You are a magician at helping friends and clients make
the most of their money. As for your own, keep a firm grip
on your checkbook and be sure you fully understand all the
fine print of any contract you sign. Friends can sometimes
cost you money, too, but you can control the depth of the
touch and still be a compassionate resource for them. You
will try a variety of careers, but do best when focusing on
one endeavor at a time, because you choose such challeng-
ing ones. Inventor, poet, teacher, musician, financier, actor—
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whatever your preference, don't settle for second best or

you won't be happy.

The X8 Potential

Though you were forced to depend more on yourself than

anyone else at a relatively early age and thought it was a
bore, you got the jump on the rest of us in becoming an
adult. Obligations and commitments get heavy, but you keep
your perspective and strive to keep a balance between the
Important Three: Family, Yourself, and Business.
Learn to say no when your body is screaming no; don't
let logic or loyalty drown it out. As a young adult, you often
feel like the only adult out there. Sometimes your mere pres-
ence inspires others to reach for greater heights. In your
positive practical way, you teach others how to turn fantasy
into reality—that and leave them feeling better for having
met you.

FAMOUS PISCES EIGHTS

Edna St. Vincent Millay 2/22/1892 Kelsey Grammer 2/21/1956
Elizabeth Taylor 2/27/1932 Fabio 3/15/1961
Liza Minnelli 3/12/1946 Michelangelo 3/6/1475

X • 9
Pisces Nine
The Perceglive Perlormer'

X+ 9+ X-
Visionary Performer Lazy Impersonal
Versatile Charismatic Extreme Demanding
Perceptive Artistic Fickle Perfectionistic
Creative Worldly

The sky is the limit? Ohhh! Is that as high as I can go?

An innocent question from a three-year-old surrounded with
finger-paint pictures he's drawn. Mom wanted to let you
know you could paint like a pro if you wanted, but you
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have other ideas such as winning a karate tournament, mar-

rying royalty, and setting up the folks in a mansion. And
then maybe rocketing off into the sky to, oh, beyond our
sun to gaze at someone else's sky.
A few stubbed toes and noses later, you get serious. You
know exactly how to make things happen even if it takes
years of being a bumper car bouncing from one highway to
another. As perceptive a perfectionist as you are, once you
decide a vehicle will take you where you want to go, you
stick with it. That focus and persistence gets you to the top
with a scrapbook of memories.
So you win a trophy or two, marry an enchantress worthy
to be a royal, and add on that family room with the slate
fireplace to your parents' house that they've always wanted.
You glance at the sky and know you can still get there if
you keep going. Look how far you've come already!
Instinctively you know what others want. This is a great
help as a child, because you always know what the adults
expect of you. Of course, that also means some confusion
later when you don't know what YOU really want. Thus
starts the lifelong process of your education, and using the
two talents together—what do I want to do that others really
want to have, see, or do? The tools get sharper, and no
matter how long it takes, you never doubt you're going to
get there.

Love, Sex, and Marriage

As you tell everyone at the dinner table at the ski resort

that you won't ever get married, your eyes scan the room
looking for a likely candidate. Winning looks, a spirited
laugh, and intelligent eyes grab your interest, and if he is
dressed in an elegant/casual sort of way, you're hooked. At
least for now.
Fantasy and romance play a big part in the relationship
formula, and you've been disappointed before when the re-
ality fell short of the promise, which is why you say no, no,
but think, well, just maybe ... A happy relationship means
having a lover who not only delights in various bedroom
games, but who also has the intellect and energy to keep
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up with you in the outside world, too. Compassion and self-

motivation complete the package. Tall order? Maybe, but
knowing you, if it's out there, you will find it—whether by
psychic beacon or an intensive search.

Money and Career

You've got to spend money to make money, and that

explains the huge swings in your net worth. As astute a
businessperson as you are, get a second opinion from a
reputable money man before signing over any huge sums.
Sometimes what you think will be hot tomorrow is actually
a few years into the future—you have a knack for being
ahead of the crowd. And other times you just want to help
someone or lots of someones. As a friend, you never forget
a debt owed.
You prefer to be part of a working team, but this arrange-
ment only works if you're the boss and calling the shots.
Routine and you are not a good mixture; you prefer travel
and variety. At some point you must express the creative
side—athlete, actor, writer, dancer, or straight-arrow vision-
ary. You have what it takes to push the limits; that is, of
course, if that's what you want to do.

The K9 Potential

You approach the great mysteries of life with the same

fervor with which you do everything else, and have two
immediate realizations. Being connected to the cosmos psy-
chically is fascinating, and yes, we are all connected on that
psychic wave, but without having tangible, physical contact
with fellow earth-walkers, it isn't all that valuable.
You only publicize your good works enough to reach the
people who can benefit from them. You always figure a way
to have what you need, and hope to show others how to
do the same. Dump ideas that don't work—be a bumper
car bouncing through life. Let go of the past and embrace
the new. Until you do, more heavy-duty rain fills your skies.
You were meant for more. Develop self-compassion and
flexibility and your car turns into a rocket ship to take you
wherever you decide to go.
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FAMOUS PISCES NINES

Sharon Stone 3/10/1958 Spike Lee 3/20/1957
Irene Cara 3/18/1959 Kurt Russell 3/17/1951
Chuck Norris 3/10/1940 Jean Harlow 3/3/1911