| Celebrity profile: Joseph Fiennes
Birth Date: May 27, 1970 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. All of which means your attention span is often quite brief. You grasp ideas quickly, but 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 the world has to offer. Your curiosity and restlessness propel you into many different experiences in life, so youre always willing to try anything once. Doing the same thing over and over again, even if 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 humour, and rarely take life 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 a lack of constancy and persistence, and a tendency to overlook or ignore deep emotional issues and other peoples feelings. The unusual and unorthodox appeal to you. You dont allow tradition, convention or other peoples expectations to dictate how you are going to live your life. You crave freedom, adventure, excitement, and discovery, and are not afraid of change. You possess inventive and creative genius. You tend to think and act bravely and have a positive and firm demeanour. You have what it takes to make your own way in life. You may be a bit excitable, but youll never shy away from a good argument. You alternate between aggression and apathy and sometimes feel that you are unable to meet all the demands made on you. Once you become aware of what you need to do, however, you are capable of working long and hard, not giving up until your work is done. Section 2: Mental interests and abilities Your mind operates in a very deliberate and methodical manner and you dislike being rushed or forced to give an opinion before you have thoroughly ruminated and digested an idea. You are also difficult to influence once your mind is made up. Though slower to grasp new concepts or learn new skills, you are patient and persevering and, in fact, often become quite adept at whatever you put your mind and hand to, for you are willing to devote much time and attention to it. You succeed not so much because of your mental brilliance, but because you have the ability to concentrate and follow a project through to its completion. You have an aptitude for singing or drawing. Your mind is serious and deep. You have excellent powers of concentration and enjoy studying or thinking deeply in solitude. You have an aptitude for research or doing mental work that requires precise, organised thinking, attention to detail and a methodical approach. You are conservative, something of a skeptic, and may be narrow-minded and closed to new ideas, especially if there is no concrete proof or scientific verification of them. Socially, you are rather reserved, uncommunicative, and uncomfortable with light, frivolous conversation. You have good powers of perception and visualisation and an intense imagination. Greatly inspired, you feel optimistic and hopeful for the future. You are likely to talk a lot about your plans and are inclined to put on an act at times. Section 3: Emotions: moods, feelings, romance Sensitive and sentimental, you are deeply attached to your family, old friends, familiar places and the past in general. You are romantic and tender in love, and the remembrance of birthdays, anniversaries, family rituals, and other days of personal significance is very important to you. You seek caring, emotional support, and security in love. You like to be needed, to cherish and protect your loved ones, and you are somewhat possessive of them. Feelings of love are easily aroused and your romantic relationships begin with a sudden electric attraction, but they often end abruptly. You may be in and out of love frequently - especially in your younger years. You crave emotional excitement and need to feel spontaneous and free, so you may avoid making firm personal commitments. Unusual or non-traditional forms of love and relationships appeal to you, and you are attracted to unique, creative, or unstable people. Section 4: Drive and ambition: how you achieve your goals You are a busy bee - energetic, restless, and forever on the go. Your active mind is always buzzing with ideas and, sometimes, you find it difficult to relax, slow down, or take time to reflect and replenish yourself. You tend to live on nervous energy. You can accomplish much in short bursts but projects that require long-term commitment, stamina, and steady, persistent effort are not easy for you. You often scatter your energies into so many directions and activities at once that you cannot finish or follow through on them. You need variety, change and mental challenges. You have a sharp and eager mind, and you enjoy games and competitions that have a mental component. You like to match wits with someone else. You often achieve your desires by your verbal skill, your ability to speak clearly, vigorously and convincingly for what you want. Your drive and energy is more mental than physical. You use your wit, intelligence, communication skills, social sophistication and awareness to achieve your goals. Your self-confidence and vitality are strong and you believe you can do just about anything you want to. You have an enterprising spirit, a good sense of timing, and the ability to sense what will succeed and what wont. You usually make fortunate decisions in work or business activities. You enjoy healthy competition and you have a rather playful, good-humoured attitude towards it. You compete with yourself to see how far you can go or how much you can accomplish because you like to keep stretching your limits. You have a powerful will and, when you want something, you pursue it passionately and relentlessly until you achieve it. You may be so driven by your desire that you lose all objectivity. You often become compulsive, even obsessed, with doing or achieving something, no matter what the costs or how hard you must work for it. Your forcefulness may be veiled or subtle, for often you do not reveal your real aims and intentions to others until they cross you. Intense power struggles and relationships with a strong dominance/submissiveness theme are likely. You have enormous energy reserves and are capable of extraordinary effort and great achievement if you use your energies for constructive purposes. Section 5: 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 (or at least seem to be) impartial and moderate, rather than extreme and one-sided. You tend to be religious, have a peace-loving nature and a high degree of inner awareness and perception. Very humane, your love embraces everyone without distinction. You could be attracted to metaphysical research and could be a successful mystic or medium.
Section 6: Areas that challenge you or are difficult for you 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 worlds 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 worlds 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.
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