You believe strongly in the power of positivity and in each individual’s ability to make life anything desired through one’s own initiative and effort. The more you rely on yourself, the better you feel, and you find it difficult to ask for, or accept, outside help. The joy of competing (and especially winning) runs deep in you.

You are prone to impractical dreams and schemes and quixotic visions of what could be. If your plans are too farfetched or grandiose, they are apt to never be realised. Even if other factors in your chart indicate that you are a well-grounded, realistic person, you still have this unfettered imagination which sometimes runs away with you. Occasionally you can be duped.

Section 6: Areas that challenge you or are difficult for you

You have an innate distrust of groups and/or a cynical attitude toward society that may leave you feeling out of step and unable to participate in activities with your peers. Overcoming a sense of aloofness and alienation from others is an important task for you.

Now we will discuss patterns of behaviour which you instinctively and habitually revert to when under stress. This is 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.

When under stress you are apt to close down the flow of your emotions, ignoring your needs and feelings in order to do what you perceive as your duty or simply what the practical realities of the situation require. This can lead to a certain rigidity and hardness. If overdone, self-control, self-discipline, or an exaggerated concern over what society, family or others expect of you makes life more a burden than an adventure.

Developing tenderness, caring, feeling and the feminine, nurturing aspects of yourself is an important step in your unfolding. You need to learn how to nourish and lovingly attend to both yourself and others. Letting yourself be taken care of sometimes is okay.

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, and often a feeling of hopelessness and despair about 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, while a small minority goes to the opposite extreme and relishes being strange or unusual in appearance, and sloppy or even 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 definite 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 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 very attracted to the strange, weird and unusual. The sense of the macabre and bizarre is strong, which is reflected in much of the music, art and fashions you pursue. 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 sense of mysticism, making Eastern religions and meditation very attractive.

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 seven-year group of people who employ their skills and creativity to bring about a great deal of practical reform in education, medical care and other social services. Your innovations are not radical or unusual, but they are usually effective.

Your generation also has a curious mixture of both conservative, ethical people, and rebellious, disruptive people. There seems to be little middle ground for your age group, and you swing to one extreme or the other. The conservative people strive to reinstate strict moral standards, want to swiftly punish criminal behaviour and strive to highlight the importance of old-fashioned values in our lives, laws and overall lifestyle. On the other hand, the rebellious people of your generation are angry at the established way of doing things and act in a defiant, crude and coarse manner.

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