Celebrity profile:
Madonna

You are very sensitive, cautious and shy about showing others your feelings. Though you may love and care for someone a great deal, you rarely express those feelings openly and freely. Very often your love for someone will be expressed by trying to help them, doing something tangible to benefit them or serving them in some way.

It is also difficult for you to receive warmth, affection or appreciation, for you often feel that you don't really deserve it or that 'they don't really mean it.' You can therefore seem rather cool and aloof, much more so than you feel. A deeply ingrained critical attitude often makes you difficult to live with. You need to learn to be gentler and less of a perfectionist with others and with yourself. You have a soft exterior and tend to relate very personally and sympathetically to other people. However, you sometimes let your emotions overpower your reasoning and logic, and consequently you are sometimes biased in your opinions. You are impressionable and rather gentle, or at least that is the way you appear. Your feelings are on the surface and you cannot hide your emotions.

You are assertive and confront difficulties in a direct, no-nonsense sort of way. You cannot tolerate self-pity or passivity and you can be rather brusque with others' emotional problems.

You have a strong desire for genuine understanding with others and find it easy to share your feelings with them. Your feelings toward others are very loving and you are likely to have a lot in common with many of your friends.

Emotionally, you are very vulnerable and tend to have your feelings hurt quite easily. You are very impressionable and inclined to suffer states of melancholy or depression. You may choose a profession where you are allowed to be your own boss.

Warm-hearted and generous in love, you cannot tolerate pettiness or stinginess in your partner. You want a Hero, a Prince or Princess to idolise and adore, someone you wholeheartedly admire and can be proud of. You are tremendously loyal and devoted once you give your heart to someone.

You crave love, appreciation and attention from others and hate to be ignored. You are rather susceptible to flattery and love to feel special. You enjoy some drama and colour in your love life and grand romantic gestures or an extravagant expression of generosity impresses you.

You are a very sociable, congenial person and you wilt very quickly without the company of good friends and people to share good times with. You thoroughly enjoy working with others on group projects or community activities. You are quite happy when you are a part of a club, support group or team of some sort.

You share freely whatever you have and your friends know they can always count on your generosity and support, both emotional and material. Your good-hearted acceptance and tolerance of others' foibles goes a long way in maintaining harmony in your relationships. You also have a lazy streak and sometimes avoid confronting difficult issues in relationships simply because it seems like too much trouble and too petty. You like to socialise and will use any excuse to celebrate with friends. You cannot tolerate too much restriction by your partner and encourage your partner's freedom as well.

You have a very romantic, idealistic vision of love and may be disillusioned to discover that no real, flesh and blood human being ever quite lives up to your dream image of the perfect love. Though you frequently fantasise about love and romance, you may avoid becoming intimately involved with anyone or making definite commitments. You can be evasive and dishonest with yourself and others, when it comes to love. Some of your yearnings may be expressed through art, music or an involvement with mysticism.

Section 6: Drive and ambition: how you achieve your goals

Once you set your mind on a goal, your dedication, determination and commitment to it is extraordinary. You pursue your ambitions tenaciously and will stubbornly refuse to give up, let go or be influenced in any way. You are a reliable, consistent and productive worker, and often shoulder more of the workload than your co-workers, usually without complaint. You prefer a regular routine, with definite hours and clearly defined responsibilities and tasks. In fact, establishing a pattern or routine is very important to your success because once you get started in a certain direction, is easy for you to follow it through to its completion. Getting started is more difficult. You have a lazy, comfort-loving side and there is often a good deal of inertia for you to overcome before you get going. Once you get a momentum going, your energy level is strong and steady.

You are interested in concrete results and solid, practical achievement. You need to have some tangible product or contribution to show for your efforts and cannot be content with only intangible rewards. Material well-being and security play a large part in determining what you do. Your stamina and persistence is your great strength but it can also work against you; you can get caught in a rut and refuse to seize new opportunities. You also tend to play it safe and to limit yourself in that way.

You have passionate convictions and will fight for them when challenged. You are willing to dedicate a great deal of your energy and force to an important cause; you'll act decisively on your beliefs. Sometimes you get so involved and identified with your ideas that you cannot really be receptive to anyone who opposes you philosophically.

Intensely restless, dynamic and energetic, you are always on the go. When you want something, you want it NOW, and you act decisively, impulsively, sometimes hastily and prematurely. Impatient, high-strung and often nervous and tense, you find it difficult to slow down, pace yourself or relax. You are fiercely individualistic and independent, self-willed and intolerant of restraints and restrictions imposed by others. You have a reckless disregard for authority and can be extremely rebellious. Co-operating with others is not your strong point! You are often brutally frank and abrupt with people and can be quite impersonal when you are pursuing a desired goal. You may have an explosive temper when your will is blocked. You have a superabundance of energy and need much personal freedom to do things in your own style and at your own pace.

To achieve your long-range goals and ambitions, the process must be interesting and mentally stimulating, as you get bored with work that isn't challenging intellectually. You need variety and social stimulation as well. One problem you may have is saying the wrong thing at the wrong time or to the wrong person. You need to watch your words. Your tongue or even your sense of humour can get you in trouble with superiors at times.

In some ways you may feel that you have little choice about your role in society. You're compelled either by unusual outer circumstances or by an inner drive, to bring things that may be dark, difficult or taboo, into public awareness. You delve into the hidden side of life, things that may have been purposefully concealed or repressed, and bring these things to light. You could come into direct conflict with the authorities or powers-that-be as a result. You're apt to have extraordinary ambitions and could become overly zealous and fanatical also.

Your career is apt to involve beauty, adornment, the arts or entertainment. You personal charm and appeal are significant factors in your profession, as well. You are very good at selling and promoting - whether it is yourself or your product or company.

Your professional goals and long-range ambitions may be vague and difficult for you to define for quite a long time. Partly this is due to the fact that they are not very conventional, concrete or worldly. You're apt to have more of a spiritual vocation or calling. Healing, counselling, the ministry, music, art - or some combination thereof - may well be part of your role in life. On the other hand, you may simply be confused and seemingly not ambitious at all in the professional realm.