Sun Sign, Moon Sign: Discover the personality secrets of the 144 sun-moon combinations. Charles Harvey

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СКАЧАТЬ flowers when these two sides – solid realism and light brightness – are kept in balance. Then you can become both prolific and practical in your projects, always willing to entertain a new idea and put it to work.

      If you give precedence to your body and your desire for control and certainty in your life, you can end up denying the playful child in you who breathes life into your feet of clay and puts a spring in your otherwise ponderous gait. If you emphasize the mind at the expense of the body, you can end up attempting to rationalize the sensual life out of existence. Taken too far, this can divorce you from your own sensuality and appetites and cut you off from the direct experience of life as a living reality. When you work with both sides of yourself it can produce the delightful free-flowing movements of a Fred Astaire dance or the delightful zest and irreverant fun of the music of Sullivan’s operettas with Gilbert.

      Your gift for practical communication makes you a natural teacher, but you will flourish equally in any kind of work or business connected with the media, publishing, negotiations and sales. You have an enviable gift for both understanding the real value of things and for being able to express it. This makes you a natural fund-manager or fundraiser, with a gift for promoting your own or your company’s best long-term interests.

      Although you would like to be the strong, silent type and want to be able to brood on things, you are an impulsive talker, needing to communicate your experiences. In consequence, you can be an extremely witty yet penetrating conversationalist, though perhaps rather given to laying down the law and wanting the last word. You have a strong will but an ability to hide your natural determination behind a flexible exterior and your natural gift of the gab. Since your approach to life is strongly practical and you want to see results from your activities, you quickly learn that you can get your own way best through a light touch and a willingness to be flexible rather than from confronting others.

      Relationships

      If you do not acknowledge your tendency to blow hot and cold, your relationships can be a constant souce of perplexity to yourself and all concerned. You are not an emotional type; indeed you can seem quite dry, unflappable and detached, whilst at heart you are a passionate sensualist. This can lead you to play the field – a butterfly flitting from flower to flower, seeking ever new sensual delights – unwilling to commit yourself, yet becoming ever more deeply dissatisfied as your need for permanence and possession of your loved ones asserts itself. You bring both playfulness and common sense into a relationship. Just remember that a ‘logical’ emotional relationship does not exist. A perfect match would bore you anyway.

      Your Greatest Strengths

      Practical intelligence; fine reasoning abilities; ability to translate sensual experience into words and far-reaching ideas; sheer capacity for being effectively busy and for talking others round to your point of view.

      Your Greatest Weaknesses

      Tendency to become dry as dust, reducing life’s pleasures to matter-of-fact ideas; inclination to argue your way through life with bullying bombast; lack of sympathy for the emotional needs of others (and yourself) and for the loftier aspirations of the human spirit.

      Images for Integration

      A sculptor carves the figure of a dancer … A wealthy publisher launches another new project … A restaurateur earns a reputation for delicious soufflés and meringues … A scientist brilliantly discourses on the mysteries of nature.

      Famous Personalities

      Fred Astaire (dancer), George Carlin (stand-up comedian), Catherine the Great (Empress of Russia), Teilhard de Chardin (philosopher and mystic), Sigmund Freud (psychologist), Edward Lear (author of nonsense verse), Lyle Lovett (country singer), Eric Morecambe (comedian), Robert Peary (explorer), David O. Selznik (film producer), Shirley Temple (actress).

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      SUN TAURUS

MOON CANCER

       The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

      TITLE OF BOOK BY DR BENJAMIN SPOCK

       You can’t tell people they must consume less when their children are hungry. We, the fortunate people, must consume less so they can consume more.

      DAVID ICKE

      Themes

      EARTH/WATER Sensitive and determined, or easily hurt and obstinate; caring; nourishing; resourceful; the world is my family; likes to be thought well of; fertile; creative; imaginative; sensual; romantic; enduring loyalty; tenacious.

      Whether you are male or female, and whatever you do – be it in business, catering, the caring professions or indeed at home – you are undoubtedly one of the great ‘mothers’ of the world. You have a strongly protective, sensitive and nurturing approach to all that you do. But are you a self-sacrificing Earth Mother who lavishes endless loving care upon your offspring? Or are you a strict Scottish nanny concerned that children learn from an early age to be strong and self-sufficient? Are you an emotional, indeed sentimental, mum or are you practical and common-sensical? When you connect both these sides of you, like Dr Spock of baby-book fame, you can become the ideal parent, teacher and friend. Immensely sympathetic, understanding and supportive, you are able to encourage and bring out the best in those people and organizations you care for and with whom you come into contact.

      Your strong sense of the value of things gives you an excellent business and economic sense, enabling you to spot a bargain and to conserve and build up your financial resources. This is assisted by your capacity for getting others to feel protective towards you. Whilst you tend to lack the more dynamic get-up-and-go self-confidence of the classic entrepreneur, you have nonetheless a quiet determination which gets you wherever you want to go.

      Your home, and no doubt your evergreen garden, will be especially important to you and you will make your ‘nest’ both secure and comfortable. You are a naturally good neighbour, and although you tend to be a rather quiet, private and indeed even secretive person, you do feel a sense of responsibility for those around you. This can mean that you are the child who ends up looking after your parents when your brothers and sisters are off doing their own thing.

      You are strongly sensual and tend to be rather allergic to ideas and theories. You think best in pictures and symbols and by simply doing and experiencing things, and getting the feel of how they work. You are naturally creative and artistic with a strongly lyrical, musical and poetic bent. You can get swept away on a soaring melody, or by a particular nuance of colour, scent or texture. You can use your body as a barometer, for it will tend to reflect faithfully your inner moods and emotions.

      Childhood was, and probably still is, enormously important to you. In an often threatening world, you may well seek to retreat into the secure and familiar. This may lead you to seek out a steady, routine occupation which offers long-term security rather than something that can feed your rich imagination.

      When these two sides of you are working in creative tandem, this is an immensely caring combination. It is an ideal mix for anyone in the caring, counselling or nursing professions or indeed in any kind of work where the care and nourishment СКАЧАТЬ