Celebrity profile: Nicole Kidman

Section 1: The inner you: your real motivation

You are, in many ways, an eternal child. Your mind is
bright, alert, curious, flexible, playful, and always eager for
new experiences - and your attention span is often quite brief.
You grasp ideas quickly and once your initial curiosity has been
satisfied, you want to go on to something else. You crave
frequent change, variety, meeting new situations and people.

It may be hard for you to decide just where your talents and
true vocation lie, for you have a multitude of interests and are
loathe to limit yourself by concentrating on just one. You are
easily distracted by all of the other fascinating possibilities.
Your curiosity and restlessness propel you into many different
experiences in life, and you are willing to taste or try
anything once. Doing the same thing over and over again, even it
is something you do well, is real drudgery for you.

You live in your head a great deal - reading, observing,
thinking, spinning ideas around - and you need mental
stimulation every bit as much as you need food and drink. In
fact, if you had to choose between a good book or movie and a
good lunch, you would very likely choose the former. You have a
creative mind and often live by your wits.

You are also a very social creature, with a strong need to
communicate and to interact with people. You enjoy using and
playing with words and have a real flair for getting your ideas
across in a clever, interesting, articulate manner. Writing or
speaking are areas you have talent for.

You also have a rather light and mischievous sense of humor,
and often do not take anything too seriously. Though you crave
emotional involvement, it is hard for you to achieve it, for you
are frequently unwilling to commit yourself to anything, to take
responsibility, or to limit your personal freedom and mobility.

Your happiness lies in using your creativity and your
language skills to communicate something meaningful, to teach,
inspire, or bring people together. You have an unbiased mind and
can usually offer a fresh, clear, uncluttered perspective. Your
faults are your lack of constancy and persistence, and your
tendency to overlook or ignore deep emotional issues and other
people's feelings.

You have a strong will and great determination and are
willing to work hard to reach your goals. You often take on more
than your share and labor untiringly, sparing yourself no pain
in your work. You should guard against over-exerting yourself
physically.

Section 2: Mental interests and abilities

You are highly interested in inner, subjective, and personal
issues, and your thinking is based more on feelings, intuition,
personal experiences, and prejudices rather than reason or
logic. Intellectual abilities and accomplishments without heart
or soul mean little to you. You are empathic and would be an
excellent counselor, for you are a sensitive listener and deeply
interested in a person's feelings and inner life. In addition to
psychology, you are drawn to education, art, poetry, music, or
mythology. You are not especially confident about speaking in
public, but will open up and share your thoughts in small,
intimate groups. You enjoy keeping a diary or personal journal
and reading the chronicles of others' lives and personal
development.

Argumentative and rather aggressive and critical in
discussions, you tend to turn any conversation into a debate,
and sometimes a verbal war. You could be a spokesman for a
righteous cause, a lawyer vigorously defending a client, a sharp
analyst or critic. You are a convincing speaker, but are not
especially receptive to the ideas and opinions of others. You
have a forceful intellect and an aptitude for mental work.

Your intellectual interests tend toward the offbeat or
unusual. Anything "alternative", innovative, experimental,
creatively inspired, or new is right up your alley. You may not
have the patience to study these things in depth, but you have
an instinctive grasp of them. The esoteric sciences like
astrology, numerology, and the like are subjects you could pick
up quite easily.

Even though you can be a decisive and convincing speaker (as
indicated earlier), you also have a highly imaginative and
intuitive mind. With this combination, there are a number of
possibilities: you could accurately articulate the images and
fantasies you have, you could forcefully convince others of your
own brand of idealism (or illusion!), or perhaps you swing from
being very clear and direct to being rather evasive or poetic.
The following describes the more fluid, nonrational aspect of
your thinking.

You are open and receptive to subjects which defy rational
explanation, such as psychic phenomena, mental telepathy,
metaphysics, etc., and you could teach these subjects to others.
Your mind is imaginative and inspired and you have an aptitude
for art and creative writing.

Your mind is characterized by a penetrating depth and
thoroughness. You ferret out the facts, and especially enjoy a
problem if there is an element of mystery, darkness, or the
forbidden. Generally, you don't shy away from the truth, no
matter how unpleasant.

You have a charming disposition and love to socialize and
meet new people. You also like to be surrounded by beautiful
things and like to talk to others about your views on love
problems as well as your views on beauty, fashion and art in
general.

You are very imaginative and inclined to spend a lot of time
fantasizing. Although you have an intuitive awareness of things
around you, at times your feelings could suddenly mislead you.
Quite often you may act on ideas that come to you suddenly.

Section 3: Emotions: moods, feelings, romance

Warmhearted and generous in love, you cannot tolerate
pettiness or stinginess in your partner. You want a Hero, a
Prince or Princess to idolize 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 color in your
love life and grand romantic gestures or an extravagant
expression of generosity impresses you.

Loyalty, fidelity, and security are very important to you in
love. You are cautious about giving your heart away but true to
the one who does win your love. Your tastes are simple, even
austere, and you do not appreciate frivolity. You are interested
in a person's character and inner qualities far more than their
appearance. Casual or superficial relationships don't interest
you at all, for love seems to get deeper and richer and more
satisfying for you with time.

You tend to be a bit envious and are inclined to begrudge
other people. Quite suspicious, you may misconceive the
relationships or associations of others, and become dissatisfied
yourself. You also could be subject to improper liaisons.