Birth date; 16 August, 1958
Birth place:Bay City, Michigan, USA

Section 1: General Characteristics

You have two strong impulses that are somewhat at odds with one another but when blended can be highly creative and productive. On the one hand, there is the dreamer, the gambler, the idealist, the optimist who is full of hopeful confidence, spark and creative energy. This is the side of you that believes in magic and extraordinary possibilities. Equally strong, however, is the conservative, practical, adult side that seeks security and stability and that needs to be productive in a concrete way.

Having both of these urges can lead to some internal predicaments, such as whether or not to take the safe, well-travelled path that offers security or the one that's unpredictable but that offers more freedom and adventure. Questions are raised such as: is there a way in which to live out dreams rather than simply wish, hope and fantasise about them? Can dreams come to fruition without compromising too much for the sake of the marketplace? Is there a way in which to express oneself freely as an individual, whilst also being responsible and taking care of practical obligations and necessities? Should you be generous or careful and conservative? Should you play, and be more of a child, or work?

If you give up one side of the equation (for instance, opting for security at the expense of your creativity or your ideals, or choosing to spend most of your time enjoying your own creative pursuits without making any tangible contribution to the world), you will feel unbalanced and unhappy.

Your challenge is to learn somehow to have the best of both worlds - to have an inspiration or ideal to aim for and to do something tangible with it - or, put another way, to bring play and creativity and passion into your work. Your initiative, confidence and faith combined with your practicality would make you quite successful in business, especially one of your own.

You tend to lack the ability to analyse yourself or your life in an objective way. You feel and experience but do not necessarily understand or reflect upon your experience and thus find it hard to communicate it. Taking in what someone else has to say can be hard for you -- you do not readily adapt to new ideas or people and as a result may become inflexible. Exposure to different cultures and types of people is very beneficial to you. Otherwise you are apt to be rigid and even prejudiced against those outside your own circle.

You also tend to distrust people who are free with words or to feel inferior to those who are more articulate and intellectual than yourself. You learn much more readily by watching or doing than by reading or by being told about something.

You have difficulty dealing with your own and others' emotions. Feelings and the emotional reality of a situation are often ignored or discounted by you and you may thus seem insensitive or uncaring to others. Deep emotional rapport, empathy, compassion and sensitivity to the feelings of others is something that you need to develop; this will be more in evidence later in life than in your youth.

Though you may appear emotionally self-sufficient or 'above it all,' your denied feelings can result in physical problems, so it is important for you to learn to acknowledge and express all of your emotions. You may also find that you crave a great deal of liquid, or to live near bodies of water, as a way to gain balance.

Section 2: How you approach life and how you appear to others

Modest, unobtrusive and often rather quiet or shy, you are a person who is content to be in the background or to serve as an assistant, in the supporting role rather than in the lead. You are quite humble in your own assessment of yourself; you seek perfection, with a tendency to be overly self-critical. No matter how well you do something, you always see the flaws in it and how it could be improved. Often you will simply refuse to attempt something because you feel you cannot meet your own high standards.

You have an eye for detail and get upset when something is not done just so, usually something others consider rather inconsequential or trivial. You are hard to please and your relationships with others may suffer because of this. You also have refined sensitivities and are very discriminating and particular in your choice of foods, clothes, friends, artwork, etc. Order in your environment is very important to you.

You step into situations rather cautiously after realistically assessing all of the risks and potential advantages involved. You tend to underestimate your own capacities and to lack confidence and trust in life, which inhibits your spontaneity. Worrying is a bad habit of yours. On the other hand, you rarely fall flat on your face; what you do, you do very well.

Others see you as a self-sufficient and rather self-contained person. You have a strong sense of propriety. Politeness, good manners and correct behaviour are important to you. Your clear, cool, objective and unemotional attitude is apparent to others first and, though you are really quite helpful and caring, you do not radiate much sympathy. Others may not see your helpful side as readily. You may seem more businesslike and factual, and also more conservative, than you really are at heart. You are the person others might go to for technical advice or an unbiased opinion, but not for emotional support.

You are keenly observant, intelligent and have a great desire for learning and for self-improvement. You often find yourself in the role of supportive caretaker, assistant, helper or midwife to others' creative efforts and projects. Though seeming unemotional and poised, you care deeply and have a very strong nurturing urge, which you express in tangible ways such as baking bread for your loved ones, running errands for a sick friend or nursing them back to health, etc.

You are mentally active and restless and you like to talk, communicate and exchange ideas with others. You express yourself well and are suited to activities that involve presenting ideas to other people, such as teaching, sales, etc.

Your intellect and your emotions are well-balanced. You have the ability to manage your feelings superbly; you have a cautious, adaptable and open way about you. You like to associate with the public and have an understanding for just about anyone you encounter.

Section 3: The inner you: your real motivation

Although you appear to be modest and shy (as described in the previous chapter), at heart you have a strong need to shine and be the centre of attention. You are very self-conscious and self-critical, however, and you often shy away from the limelight. Your dilemma is this: You want to take centre stage but you doubt your abilities. You need to avoid being overly self-critical and to practice hard at whatever you do so that you feel fully confident.

Proud and intensely individual, you really want to stand out, to be the very best you can be and to be recognised and appreciated for your unique contributions. Doing something well and being respected for it are extremely important to you; you cannot tolerate being in the background, taking orders from others or being 'just one of the team.' You must put your personal stamp on whatever you do and direct your own course in life. You need to have a place where you can shine, express yourself creatively and be the one in charge.

You have big dreams and the determination, spirit, vitality and enthusiasm to bring them into being. You also have a noble, romantic heart and a love of the dramatic, colourful and extravagant.

For you it's true that 'all the world's a stage' and you secretly (or perhaps not so secretly) desire to be the Star or Hero in the play. You want to be great and to receive the love and applause of an adoring audience, even if the 'audience' is just one other special person. You need someone to believe in you and your dreams. Though you appear radiantly self-confident and independent, you are actually very much dependent on the affirmation, love and recognition of others. You cannot bear being unnoticed or unappreciated.

You also love wholeheartedly and generously and really know how to make the person you love feel special. You love the magic of being in love and know how to keep the romance alive in your relationships. You are also immensely loyal and will defend your loved ones and stand by them to the end - as long as they never offend your pride or betray your trust. However, you like to be the strong one in a relationship and you really do not share the leading role very easily. Ideally you need to find a person who is as strong-willed as yourself, but who will not try to dominate or compete with you.

Your strengths are your zest and love for life, your creative power and your warm and generous heart. Your primary fault is your tendency to be very egocentric, so concerned with the impression you are making and with your own creative self-expression that you forget there is another, larger world that does not revolve around you.

You tend to get involved in the helping professions or in activities where your efforts are hidden, behind the scenes, unacknowledged or unknown to the public. Asserting yourself or getting up in front of an audience may be exceedingly uncomfortable for you.

Your life is apt to be blessed with more than your share of helpful friends, fortuitous connections and doors opening to you at just the right time. Because you are usually willing to share and to give back to others in a generous way, you continue to generate successes in your life no matter how unfortunate prevailing circumstances are. Beware, however, of becoming an opportunist.

However you also have a heavier side that keeps your optimism from becoming ungrounded or overblown. You tend to seesaw between your faith, vision and high aspirations and your caution and realism (or fear!). You cannot and do not rely on good luck or grace alone; you accept the need for hard work. Your doubting or 'heavy' side is described below.

Realistic and practical, you set goals for yourself that are modest enough for you to actually achieve. You are able to tackle long, difficult projects and see them through, for you possess self-discipline, concentration and perseverance. You also have a strong sense of responsibility and are very conscientious in fulfilling your obligations. Often you do things because you feel it is expected of you.

You may be a bit high-strung and overzealous in the pursuit of your endeavours. You always seem to be in a hurry and have the ability to evaluate situations quickly. You have a brilliant mind and possibly could invent something.

You have a great desire for freedom and independence and are subject to strong emotional tensions. You are very creative and forge ahead tirelessly. But you tend to make the highest demands on your physical energy and are prone to over-stimulate your nerves.

Section 4: Mental interests and abilities

You are an exacting perfectionist with a clear, logical, analytical mind and an aptitude for work that requires meticulous attention to detail and efficient organisation. Well-grounded and pragmatic, you tend to develop specialised skills and technical expertise in some practical field. Knowledge, ideas and theories don't really interest you unless they are useful in a tangible way. You are inclined to analyse, measure and dissect everything and to miss nuances, subtle shades of feeling and meaning. Your strengths are in your precise thinking, careful craftsmanship and mastery of technical skills. You tend to be very good at what you do and critical of others' work if it does not meet your high standards.

You don't speak up readily, even when you have a lot to say! Also, your mind tends to drift and you find it difficult to study very factual material that doesn't have much colour or imaginative appeal. Your intuition and first impressions are likely to be quite accurate, however, and you tend to depend upon this faculty in making decisions.

You are a natural psychologist or counsellor, interested in the inner motivations, feelings, personal life and problems of others. You are a sympathetic listener and you also love to discuss (endlessly!) your own experiences and feelings. You tend to be very personal and subjective in your point of view. You have a talent for getting others to talk about their lives, dreams, desires and other things that are personally meaningful to them. You could be an excellent interviewer, reporter or biographer. Idle talk and gossip are your vices. The study of the past - history, archaeology, genealogy, etc. - is of great interest to you. Psychology, symbolism, mythology and languages are also areas that you are drawn to.

Imaginative, intuitive and non-linear in your thinking, you have a gift for writing poetry, fiction or fantasy. You also have a natural openness to the spiritual, intangible side of life and could write or speak on these subjects. You could also develop an innate clairvoyant tendency quite easily.

Suspicious that appearances are superficial and masking the 'real nitty-gritty,' you are always probing beneath the surface to uncover the deeper, hidden aspects of a matter. You are interested in anything secret or mysterious. You have great powers of concentration and a penetrating mind, with an aptitude for research, investigative reporting or detective work. You are also keenly observant and seem to have 'x-ray vision' regarding the inner motivations and intentions of other people. You could make an excellent psychotherapist, uncovering the deeper causes and roots of a person's emotional problems. You may also be drawn to esoteric or occult studies and the development of unusual mental powers. Stories of mystery, intrigue and espionage fascinate you.

You tend to have big plans and pursue your ideas with great zeal. You also have the power to influence people and sway them to your point of view. You may accomplish this through public speaking or writing and could do well in publicity or advertising.

You have a strong desire to dominate people's minds and would make an excellent hypnotist. Your own personal vibration seems to influence people and possibly could change their lives. It is important to use this power you seem to have for the general good.

Section 5: Emotions: moods, feelings, romance

You are very sensitive, cautious and shy about showing others your feelings. Though you may love and care for someone a great deal, you rarely express those feelings openly and freely. Very often your love for someone will be expressed by trying to help them, doing something tangible to benefit them or serving them in some way.

It is also difficult for you to receive warmth, affection or appreciation, for you often feel that you don't really deserve it or that 'they don't really mean it.' You can therefore seem rather cool and aloof, much more so than you feel. A deeply ingrained critical attitude often makes you difficult to live with. You need to learn to be gentler and less of a perfectionist with others and with yourself. You have a soft exterior and tend to relate very personally and sympathetically to other people. However, you sometimes let your emotions overpower your reasoning and logic, and consequently you are sometimes biased in your opinions. You are impressionable and rather gentle, or at least that is the way you appear. Your feelings are on the surface and you cannot hide your emotions.

You are assertive and confront difficulties in a direct, no-nonsense sort of way. You cannot tolerate self-pity or passivity and you can be rather brusque with others' emotional problems.

You have a strong desire for genuine understanding with others and find it easy to share your feelings with them. Your feelings toward others are very loving and you are likely to have a lot in common with many of your friends.

Emotionally, you are very vulnerable and tend to have your feelings hurt quite easily. You are very impressionable and inclined to suffer states of melancholy or depression. You may choose a profession where you are allowed to be your own boss.

Warm-hearted and generous in love, you cannot tolerate pettiness or stinginess in your partner. You want a Hero, a Prince or Princess to idolise 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 colour in your love life and grand romantic gestures or an extravagant expression of generosity impresses you.

You are a very sociable, congenial person and you wilt very quickly without the company of good friends and people to share good times with. You thoroughly enjoy working with others on group projects or community activities. You are quite happy when you are a part of a club, support group or team of some sort.

You share freely whatever you have and your friends know they can always count on your generosity and support, both emotional and material. Your good-hearted acceptance and tolerance of others' foibles goes a long way in maintaining harmony in your relationships. You also have a lazy streak and sometimes avoid confronting difficult issues in relationships simply because it seems like too much trouble and too petty. You like to socialise and will use any excuse to celebrate with friends. You cannot tolerate too much restriction by your partner and encourage your partner's freedom as well.

You have a very romantic, idealistic vision of love and may be disillusioned to discover that no real, flesh and blood human being ever quite lives up to your dream image of the perfect love. Though you frequently fantasise about love and romance, you may avoid becoming intimately involved with anyone or making definite commitments. You can be evasive and dishonest with yourself and others, when it comes to love. Some of your yearnings may be expressed through art, music or an involvement with mysticism.

Section 6: Drive and ambition: how you achieve your goals

Once you set your mind on a goal, your dedication, determination and commitment to it is extraordinary. You pursue your ambitions tenaciously and will stubbornly refuse to give up, let go or be influenced in any way. You are a reliable, consistent and productive worker, and often shoulder more of the workload than your co-workers, usually without complaint. You prefer a regular routine, with definite hours and clearly defined responsibilities and tasks. In fact, establishing a pattern or routine is very important to your success because once you get started in a certain direction, is easy for you to follow it through to its completion. Getting started is more difficult. You have a lazy, comfort-loving side and there is often a good deal of inertia for you to overcome before you get going. Once you get a momentum going, your energy level is strong and steady.

You are interested in concrete results and solid, practical achievement. You need to have some tangible product or contribution to show for your efforts and cannot be content with only intangible rewards. Material well-being and security play a large part in determining what you do. Your stamina and persistence is your great strength but it can also work against you; you can get caught in a rut and refuse to seize new opportunities. You also tend to play it safe and to limit yourself in that way.

You have passionate convictions and will fight for them when challenged. You are willing to dedicate a great deal of your energy and force to an important cause; you'll act decisively on your beliefs. Sometimes you get so involved and identified with your ideas that you cannot really be receptive to anyone who opposes you philosophically.

Intensely restless, dynamic and energetic, you are always on the go. When you want something, you want it NOW, and you act decisively, impulsively, sometimes hastily and prematurely. Impatient, high-strung and often nervous and tense, you find it difficult to slow down, pace yourself or relax. You are fiercely individualistic and independent, self-willed and intolerant of restraints and restrictions imposed by others. You have a reckless disregard for authority and can be extremely rebellious. Co-operating with others is not your strong point! You are often brutally frank and abrupt with people and can be quite impersonal when you are pursuing a desired goal. You may have an explosive temper when your will is blocked. You have a superabundance of energy and need much personal freedom to do things in your own style and at your own pace.

To achieve your long-range goals and ambitions, the process must be interesting and mentally stimulating, as you get bored with work that isn't challenging intellectually. You need variety and social stimulation as well. One problem you may have is saying the wrong thing at the wrong time or to the wrong person. You need to watch your words. Your tongue or even your sense of humour can get you in trouble with superiors at times.

In some ways you may feel that you have little choice about your role in society. You're compelled either by unusual outer circumstances or by an inner drive, to bring things that may be dark, difficult or taboo, into public awareness. You delve into the hidden side of life, things that may have been purposefully concealed or repressed, and bring these things to light. You could come into direct conflict with the authorities or powers-that-be as a result. You're apt to have extraordinary ambitions and could become overly zealous and fanatical also.

Your career is apt to involve beauty, adornment, the arts or entertainment. You personal charm and appeal are significant factors in your profession, as well. You are very good at selling and promoting - whether it is yourself or your product or company.

Your professional goals and long-range ambitions may be vague and difficult for you to define for quite a long time. Partly this is due to the fact that they are not very conventional, concrete or worldly. You're apt to have more of a spiritual vocation or calling. Healing, counselling, the ministry, music, art - or some combination thereof - may well be part of your role in life. On the other hand, you may simply be confused and seemingly not ambitious at all in the professional realm.

Section 7: Growth and expansion: areas that you enjoy

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.

Section 9: Originality and imagination

Areas where you are creative, unique, unstable or compulsive

Most people do not see your wild and daring side, and you yourself may be unaware of it. You tend to hold back the unconventional, inventive, impulsive side of you nature - or to live it out only in your private fantasies.

Daydreaming, lack of concentration and inattention to your surroundings can be problems for you. Your mind tends to wander unless you are using it in an imaginative, creative way. Dry facts and cold logic hold no appeal for you; unless a subject has a colourful or personally inspiring element, you won't stick with it for long. You have a sensitive, intuitive side.

You have a deep interest in secrets, the underworld or unconscious and anything hidden and mysterious. Psychoanalysis, investigating your dreams and other methods of uncovering secrets are very interesting to you. You may be exceptionally perceptive intuitively or psychically. Your emotions and subconscious energies are complex and periodic transformations and personal crises are sprinkled liberally throughout your lifetime.

A bit self-willed and emotionally tense, you have a sparkling personality. You probably will be involved in many unusual liaisons and tend to end romances suddenly.

You have a strong desire to become a person of influence and power and resent being dependent on anyone. It is likely that you will constantly have to deal with compulsive behaviour; you always seem to be on duty, unable to disconnect from your work.

Sticking obstinately to your work, you have the ability to work long and hard, but tend to work yourself to exhaustion. You also could have intense conflicts with others, resulting in frequent run-ins or fights.

The subconscious and emotional drive of your age group

You 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, 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, and a small minority goes to the opposite extreme and relishes being strange or unusual in appearance. 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; your age group tends to be very conservative in later life.

Your age group is not very good at compromising. 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 you.

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. You are a group that defies authority and insists on having its own way. Parents and school teachers 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 and you tend to rise up against any form of tyranny and oppressive rule.