Celebrity profile:
Hugh Grant

You have a wonderful capacity for self-denial in the pursuit of a difficult goal. Like many Virgos, you are capable of hard work and persistent labour, but you may lack joy and the ability to have fun. You often feel burdened by life's demands and responsibilities and may envy those who seem to attract what they want in life without much effort.

There is a very judgmental, stern and uncompromising side to you that may inhibit your interaction with others. You must avoid becoming heavy and cynical or becoming a rather callous, sophisticated adult whose practicality and realism overtake the fun, imaginative side of life.

You may feel inhibited in your contact with others and, like many Virgos, give the impression of being unapproachable. You think about your feelings a long time before you express them to anyone and tend to hide your inner self.

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 return to because it is so familiar and easy for you. The direction you need to follow in order to develop balance, greater awareness and wholeness is also described.

Your natural instinct, especially when under stress, is to passively flow along with the easiest option, not clearly analysing or assessing your situation and perhaps even trying to escape seeing your situation clearly by indulging in fantasies, intoxicants and the like. Dreaminess, impracticality and being unfocused are ways you manage to cope with stress. You also have trouble setting boundaries and saying no.

Your path of development lies in cultivating clarity, becoming more precise and developing technical and practical skills that will enable you to function more efficiently as a Virgo in the world. Finding a way to be of practical service is also important.

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 true self-confidence and the willingness to put yourself out in the world. Be willing to take on a leading role, to be a hero, to be a protagonist in your own story by cultivating the courageous, active and positive masculine qualities you possess. Doing creative work that you are proud of and anything that comes from your heart and bears the stamp of your individuality is important. Also, being a mentor, a helpful, encouraging force in the life of someone less experienced than you are is a way for you to grow and become more whole yourself.

You consider the ability to think and speak convincingly as the most powerful instrument one can possess. You always strive for intellectual control in your environment and tend to dominate others. You have a strong desire to be the spokesperson in your community.

Your feelings are heightened when you are with others and you have the ability to open up to them and show your feeling without reservation. Lead by your instincts, you are likely to have many spontaneous contacts with other people.

Section 8: Generational influences: your age group

The subconscious and emotional drive of your age group

are part of a 15-year group of people that are driven by the need to find an ethical standard and a clear sense of what is right and what is wrong. There is a subconscious drive to straighten out all the world's evils and create a world of perfect order. There is a feeling of repulsion to anything ugly, dirty or grotesque. Oddly enough, there is also often a fascination with these very things that are so distasteful as well as a feeling of hopelessness and despair about the world's condition.

These inner, emotional and conflicting qualities are reflected in the attitudes and life styles of your generation. Most people of your age group are conservative and ethical; a small minority goes to the opposite extreme and relishes being strange or unusual in appearance and sloppy or even grotesque in manners and appearance - characteristics that most Virgos detest. There seems to be no middle ground for your generation. Usually, the rebellious type of behaviour comes out during adolescence and tends to subside thereafter, and your age group tends to be very conservative in later life.

Your age group is not very good at compromising and tends to have strong ideas about what is right and what is wrong. There is a strong feeling that you must extinguish evil in the world. Certainly, fostering good works is very commendable, but a categorical and simple-minded response to complex issues is not helpful. Your age group will undergo great transformations in attitudes regarding Good and Evil and will swing to great extremes. Your generation will also make great contributions in the areas of medicine and nutrition, ecology and education.

The ideals and illusions of your age group

You are part of a 14-year group of people that have very intense psychic sensitivity and imagination. Your age group is very attracted to the strange, weird and unusual. The sense of the macabre and bizarre is strong, and this is reflected in much of the music, art and fashions of your age group. Novels and movies with mystery and chilling suspense are also popular with your age group. Emotional depression, drug use and suicide are likely to be relatively high in your age group. There is also a deep mystical sense; Eastern religions and meditation are very attractive to your age group.

The entire generation to which you belong has tremendous opportunities for spiritual rebirth and awakening. This will not be forced upon you or precipitated by unavoidable events, rather it comes from an inner yearning and a natural propensity to seek the depths.

What is new and different in your age group

You are part of a 7-year group of people who are unusually self-willed, proud and egotistical, Hugh Grant. You are a group that defies authority and insists on having its own way. Parents and schoolteachers found that it was extremely difficult to discipline your age group. Governments that are repressive to individual expression and freedom meet a great deal of resistance from your age group; you tend to rise up against any form of tyranny and oppressive rule.