Celebrity profile: Joseph Fiennes

You either overvalue or undervalue your possessions and assets. You can also go to extremes in dealing with bodily needs and desires, being either hedonistic or ascetic. You may deny yourself sensual pleasure and enjoyment of the fruits of your labours. You may also be stingy and unable to give freely. Many times you feel that you do not have ‘enough’ to make you feel secure, regardless of how much (money, insurance, etc.) has come your way.

Now, we will discuss patterns of behaviour which you instinctively and habitually revert to when under stress - a mostly unconscious process and one which 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.

Cultivating the qualities of empathy, gentleness and compassion will help counterbalance your deeply ingrained perfectionism and critical nature. When under stress, you are apt to try to rigorously analyse and to focus on what needs to be corrected or improved, and you can easily become problem-oriented, losing sight of the big picture and of what is working.

Learn to relax and surrender to the flow of events without having to figure everything out all the time. Let your feelings and intuitions flow more freely, be more flexible and fluid, use your imagination and let your dreams emerge.

Section 7: Generational influences: your age group

The subconscious and emotional drive of your age group

You are part of a 15-year group of people 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, countered by hopelessness and despair at the world’s condition.

These inner, emotional and conflicting qualities are reflected in the attitudes and lifestyles 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 grotesque in manners. There seems to be no middle ground for your generation. Usually, this rebellion comes out during adolescence, and tends to subside thereafter. 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, nutrition, ecology and education.

The ideals and illusions of your age group

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

What is new and different in your age group?

You are part of a seven-year group of people who strive for greater equality in relationships. You treat parents, children, and spouses much more like friends and equals than other generations do, and many of you will experiment with alternative marriage styles that allow for greater freedom and equality in relationships.