Celebrity profile:
Madonna

Your strengths lie in your ability to co-operate, to be diplomatic and to know just what behaviour is called for in whatever social situation you find yourself. You also possess a strong sense of fairness, the willingness to listen to opposing viewpoints and opinions and the ability to be impartial and moderate, rather than extreme and one-sided.

Wealth, material well-being and prosperity are very important to you and you would never choose a profession that didn't offer you great promise and opportunity for growth (financial and otherwise).

You are very generous and sometimes careless with money; you don't want to hold on to it, you want to enjoy it and use it to enrich your life. Whatever you do with your money, you do in a big way - making or spending it. You may accumulate elegant, high quality things (art, jewellery, etc.).

You have an unusually expansive, far-reaching outlook on life. At times the everyday routine is far too dull and boring to you; you are inclined to travel, daydream, fantasise or philosophise on a grand scale.

You have a serious and structured perception of reality, are able to concentrate well and you do everything in a methodical way. Very thorough and industrious, you work hard toward the accumulation of possessions and property. You are extremely modest and prefer a plain and simple life. You have a great tolerance of others and a tendency to sacrifice yourself for them. But you also could become carried away by some religious, metaphysical or social ideas.

You have a critical, cynical attitude toward many religions and philosophies. Without realising it, you prevent yourself from appreciating new viewpoints and attitudes. You are more rigid and dogmatic than you realise. Your approach may also be too intellectual or moralistic. You take your own political beliefs and spiritual philosophy very seriously, worrying and fretting if you are not 100% clear about some ideology or theory.

Your childhood or your relationship with your parents may have been restrictive, unloving or unhappy in ways that may prevent you from allowing other people to get close to you in later life. You may have felt deprived in some manner, whether or not you actually were. Emotional separations or repression of your needs and feelings may typify your early life, at least as you remember it. Forgiving your parents and/or letting go of any resentments you have about the limitations you experienced early in your life is crucial. Also, you need to build your own solid foundation; investing time and energy into your home, domestic relationships and inner life can help you accomplish this.

Now we will discuss patterns of behaviour that you instinctively and habitually revert to when under stress - a mostly unconscious process and one that you are apt to overdo because it is so familiar and thus easy for you. The direction you need to follow in order to develop balance, greater awareness and wholeness is also described.

Instinctively you are a fighter and an individualist who can stand alone when necessary. Very often, however, you stand alone when you don't need to, not realising the support, assistance and resources others may have to offer. You have a tendency to feel self reliant and that only you can come up with the answers you need. Implicit in this attitude is a kind of arrogance as well as a rather competitive approach that, at its worst, can alienate you from others.

Social skills and graces are not really natural to you. You need to learn how to share and join with others and how to negotiate and resolve conflict with others in a co-operative way.

You are most likely to wrestle with these issues is in your dealings with money, financial security, tangible assets and possessions. The qualities described above are ones you need to integrate in tangible ways: how you make a living, building assets and a secure material base and what you do with the resources you have. Try to avoid too much involvement or entanglements with other people's money matters, legal business and personal affairs.

The following are specific activities that will support you in your growth. These may or may not feel natural to you; often there is some feeling of resistance or initial awkwardness about doing these things, but they are important on your path to wholeness.

Develop faith and confidence both in yourself and in a higher power that can guide, nourish and help you. Expand your willingness to dream and envision better things in life. Study religion, philosophy and other subjects that enable you to see a larger, more inclusive view of yourself and the world.

Be generous with your time, energy and resources in helping others achieve a better life, and this in turn will benefit you.

Become more aware of the spiritual side of life, the underlying unity, by involving yourself in generous and charitable activities and by opening up your psychic channels. Meditation practices that develop your intuitive abilities, and learning about the unseen side of life through your own dream experiences or altered states of awareness, can be important steps in your path. Also, musical and artistic or imaginative endeavours will be important to you.

Because of some other people and circumstances around you, at times you may find it difficult to follow your ambitions. It could be to your advantage to sever your relationship with those controlling or trying to abuse you.