Chapter 3: The Inner You: Your Real Motivation

Your pleasant manner and desire to relate harmoniously with others (as discussed in chapter 2) combines with your idealism, receptivity, and impressionability (as discussed below) to make you very self-sacrificing and willing to go the extra mile for someone's benefit. Be wary of the tendencies to lack discrimination in your charity, to try to help someone who is incorrigible, and to avoid confrontations. You are inclined to hide your thoughts and feelings, make excuses and even lie, often just to avoid someone or some issue. Strive to be honest in your communications; it will also help you be honest with yourself. If you channel your energies well, you can be a great help to others, perhaps in a professional role as a counselor, teacher, or consultant or perhaps just your daily life and affairs. At heart you are very gentle, impressionable, and receptive -a dreamer. The world of your imagination, feelings, and intuition is as real to you as anything in the outer world, though you may have trouble verbalizing or interpreting your inner experiences in a way others can understand. Mystical, artistic, musical, emotional and imaginative, you have a rich inner life, though you may seem rather unobtrusive and quiet outwardly. You usually keep to yourself. You have great sensitivity and empathy with others, and you often sense things psychically or intuitively which prove to be correct. You are tolerant, forgiving, and nonjudgmental, accepting people unconditionally regardless of their flaws, mistakes, or outward appearance. You have deep compassion for the suffering of any fellow creature and often feel others' pain as if it were your own. You sympathize with the needy, the disadvantaged, the misfits of society. You are capable of giving selflessly, living a life of devoted and compassionate service to others, as a healer, physician, social worker, or minister. However, you tend to give indiscriminately, to let others take advantage of your kindness, and to encourage the weak to remain so by becoming dependent upon you. You have little sense of boundaries, of limits, of knowing when to say "no". Moderation and self-discipline are not your strong points. You are a lover and a peacemaker rather than a fighter, and you try to avoid open conflict. You will patiently ignore or "tune out" problems and hope they will go away by themselves, rather than directly confronting them, and you tend to lack the positive fighting spirit that is sometimes necessary to overcome challenges. You are fluid, open, nonresistant, and somewhat passive. You do things in a subtle, often covert, manner. Your gifts may also lie in the realm of the creative, artistic, or musical, for you have a great sensitivity, inspiration, and limitless imagination. You respond very strongly to beauty and to love. Your faults include a tendency to be lazy and negligent, and to wallow in self-pity rather than taking strong, definite action to change your life for the better. You also tend to become so detached from your immediate environment that you live in a disorderly, chaotic sort of hodgepodge, though this probably bothers those around you more than it bothers you. Your energies are directed to either perfecting your techniques, skills, and abilities in work, or in "perfecting", refining, and improving yourself as a person. Critical analysis and attention to minute detail are intrinsic in either process. The urge to bring about a state of wholeness or optimal functioning is a strong motivation of yours, and you are quite a perfectionist! You can easily become overly identified or involved with the function you perform, with your work, or with your own health and "growth process". You tend to see things from your perspective only and to be rather subjective. You also enjoy talking and expressing your views but you don't always listen as well. You have a clear mind, a love of learning and new experiences, and need constant mental stimulation and activity. You are assertive, energetic, active, courageous, and vital. You have a very strong physical drive which expresses itself as sexuality and passion, a desire to compete with others, and a tendency to fight. You have a victorious spirit and the will to win. Along with your energy and drive you have high ideals and an active fantasy life. There is a dreamer and an idealist in you, as well as a doer and a fighter. You want to win but not at others' expense, and this maybe something of a dilemma for you. You are extremely sensitive, compassionate, and giving, often to your own personal disadvantage. Your ideals and spiritual values motivate you, and you cannot live only for personal gain or materialistic concerns. There must be an element of beauty, magic, imagination, inspiration or creativity in what you do. Otherwise you become listless and aimless. The arts, theater, music, and/or charitable works suit you well. You have a great need for security which you may seek in a partner who could be older than you and perhaps married before. You probably feel restrained in expressing affection, giving the impression of being cool and indifferent toward those you love. With your charm and outgoing personality you have no trouble attracting people and enjoy pleasant and congenial relations with them. You may choose social contact with generous or wealthy people and would prefer to live in a beautiful home. You tend to be in a constant state of tension and seem to look for avenues to test your strength. You use all the energy at your disposal in order to succeed. Somewhat rebellious and inflexible, you fight any opposition or resistance you meet. Astrological influences analyzed in Chapter 3: Ascendant in Libra and Sun in Pisces Sun in Pisces Sun in 6th house Sun Conjunct Mercury Sun Conjunct Mars Sun aspects Mars and Neptune Sun Opposition Neptune Sun Conjunct Venus/Saturn Sun Opposition Jupiter/Asc. Sun Conjunct Saturn/Uranus