How Others See You
You’re often regarded as slightly eccentric—not necessarily strange, but certainly an independent character, a kind of daredevil with an unusual way of looking at things. People consider you a pathfinder, a member of the real avant-garde. They think you have a wicked sense of humor, an ability to shock and amuse at the same tine. They know you’re open to new ideas, especially when these ideas are yours. People are drawn to your friendliness and enthusiasm, but they withdraw quickly when you turn acid-tongued. Sometimes, because you need so much personal freedom, you give the impression of being uncaring or distant. Those around you may also become annoyed at your stubbornness.
FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH THE SUN IN AQUARIUS
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Jennifer Aniston
Susan B. Anthony
Corazon Aquino
Tallulah Bankhead
Mikhail Baryshnikov
John Belushi
Jack Benny
Christie Brinkley
Tom Brokaw
George Burns
Robert Burns
Aaron Burr
Lord Byron
Eddie Cantor
Lewis Carroll
Carol Channing
Stockard Channing
Paddy Chayefsky
Natalie Cole
Charles Darwin
Angela Davis
Geena Davis
James Dean
Neil Diamond
Charles Dickens
Matt Dillon
Christian Dior
Placido Domingo
Dr. Dre
Thomas Alva Edison
Sergei Eisenstein
Mia Farrow
Farrah Fawcett
Federico Fellini
W. C. Fields
Clark Gable
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Philip Glass
Christopher Guest
Germaine Greer
Zane Grey
D. W. Griffith
John Grisham
Paris Hilton
Langston Hughes
Holly Hunter
Virginia Johnson-Masters
Michael Jordan
James Joyce
Jerome Kern
Alicia Keys
Nastassja Kinski
Eartha Kitt
Ted Koppel
Mario Lanza
Heath Ledger
Jack Lemmon
Sinclair Lewis
Joseph Lieberman
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Lindbergh
Ernst Lubitsch
Ida Lupino
David Lynch
Douglas MacArthur
John McEnroe
Norman Mailer
Christopher Marlowe
W. Somerset Maugham
Felix Mendelssohn
Carmen Miranda
James Michener
Jeanne Moreau
Toni Morrison
Robert Motherwell
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Paul Newman
Jack Nicklaus
Nick Nolte
Kim Novak
Yoko Ono
Thomas Paine
Anna Pavlova
S. J. Perelman
James Pike
Jackson Pollock
Leontyne Price
Ronald Reagan
Vanessa Redgrave
Burt Reynolds
Jackie Robinson
Chris Rock
Norman Rockwell
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Arthur Rubinstein
Babe Ruth
Telly Savalas
Franz Schubert
Andres Segovia
Tom Selleck
Jane Seymour
Cybill Shepherd
Susan Sontag
Gertrude Stein
Stendhal
George Stephanopoulos
Adlai Stevenson
Justin Timberlake
John Travolta
François Truffaut
Lana Turner
Barbara Tuchman
Jules Verne
Robert Wagner
Edith Wharton
John Williams
Oprah Winfrey
Elijah Wood
Virginia Woolf
Your Most Likeable Trait COMPASSION
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JUST AS THE FIRST SIGN of the zodiac, Aries, represents a new beginning so the twelfth and last sign, Pisces, is the end of the circle, the sign of eternity, reincarnation, and spiritual rebirth. Many astrologers say that Pisces is a link to the spirit world and that you who are born under this sign are old souls, for they believe Pisceans to have experienced other lives in the past.
Pisceans have an otherworldly quality. In mystical terms, you are described as being half-body and half-spirit, pulled between material existence and spiritual concerns, possessed of the knowledge that you will never be entirely at home in the real world.
Like natives of the other water signs (Cancer and Scorpio), you have the ability to see deeply into the human psyche. Subtle and intuitive, you are born with the gift of prophecy, and may even become involved in the occult, ESP, and spiritualism. Because you have a close relationship with astral forces, you feel things before you know them and your feelings are rarely wrong. If you get a hunch, others would be wise to pay attention. Part of your clairvoyance stems from the fact that you understand first with your heart, and only then do you rationalize what you know intuitively.
Ruled by Neptune, planet of mystery and illusion, your personality is elusive, fey, and quicksilvery. Your element is water, and the imagery of the sea is evident in how easily you adapt to the ever-shifting currents around you. More than natives of any other sign, you are enormously influenced by your surroundings and by the people who touch your life. Indeed, you have a unique ability to get under another person’s skin, to take literally as your own another’s problems, joys, and woes. You have tender sympathy for anyone or anything that hurts; sick plants, hungry animals, and friends in need—they all find a home with you. At times you give away the very strength and emotional security you need for yourself.
You possess superb intuitions and a seemingly bottomless understanding of other people, yet your extraordinary sensitivity can be your most vulnerable point. You are too impressionable to each passing influence, too susceptible to someone else’s hard-luck story or plea for help. For you, learning to say no can be a lifetime project and you may never learn how to do it at all.
Ancient astrologers called Pisces the sign of Sorrow from Self-Undoing, and you can easily become the creator of your own downfall. You are impractical and fall prey to overindulgence. You also have a penchant for picking the wrong companions. A fatal flaw in Pisces is the tendency to flee from what you don’t want to deal with, and this can lead you into a world of addictive behavior. At times, your life may become so punctuated with trouble and heartache that you try desperately to escape, and then you are like Eliza jumping from ice floe to ice floe, with no clear sense of where you are headed. Your symbol, two fishes tied together swimming in opposite directions, represents conflicting emotions and desires that pull you to and fro. You must fight hard for stability, for the strength of purpose and balance needed to combat the negativity of laziness, carelessness, and emotional confusion. You need to develop a positive self-image, play on your strengths and ability to take responsibility, not let yourself fall victim to bad choices and your predilection for self-undoing. Your life lesson is to learn self-doing.
Certainly, you do not lack backbone. Indeed, you are capable of great sacrifice and hard work in the service of a cause or an ideal. Intellectually you are curious and like to explore the unusual and hidden. Although you can be impractical, even lazy, you are also capable of prodigious work when you are involved in a project you truly care about. The thing is that despite the fact that you work unselfishly for others, you find it hard to be strict and discipli
ned with yourself. Not many natives of this sign are suited to the harsh, rough-and-tumble world of business and commerce. Pisces is the mystical sign of the poet and the dreamer, and you are more successful as a writer, musician, or artist. You’re intensely imaginative and addicted to make-believe, and you strive to create a world that comes closer to your own unique vision. When you put your energy into creating fantasies, you’re the most creative artist in the zodiac. Among famous Piscean creators are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frederic Chopin, Enrico Caruso, Vaslav Nijinsky, Rudolph Nureyev, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Edna St. Vincent Millay
Because you blend compassion and understanding with great verve, you exert a unique power on people whose lives touch yours. You may feel you lack self-confidence to be a leader, but you are definitely a guide, teacher, and role model to many. You are also a fey charmer and a mischievous wit who loves to laugh. Yet because you are fundamentally unsure of yourself, you prefer to work alone rather than with people. You have an instinct for finding what appears to be the easy way out, and founder in the shallows of least resistance. This is why so many talented, charming, superior natives of this sign never attain the position in life to which their gifts entitle them.
You are a very special person whose sensitivity and awareness will always appeal to a select group. You are capable of high intellectual achievement and your magnetic, mysterious, engaging and delightful personality is heightened by an intriguing sense of drama.
You are also loyal, unselfish, and generous, always ready to help a friend who has fallen on hard times. In fact, you often create a special kind of magic—when you concentrate on the best and reject what is ugly and mean-spirited, people are likely to live up to your vision. You have a deep appreciation for the inner qualities of others; you are not concerned with the superficial and with what others see on the surface. You look at the inner soul, the essence. There is no more sensitive, perceptive friend, nor one more warmhearted, caring, devoted, and sentimental.
Your Inner Self
You absorb impressions, images, and emotions from everything around you, and then filter them through your rose-colored view of how you’d like things to be. This is not to say you cannot deal with reality—it’s just that you like to think of life as an ultraromantic movie filled with happy endings and where everyone has the best possible motives. You’re a big bundle of feelings. You feel intense joy and happiness when you’re involved in a creative project or a loving relationship. The opposite is also true: you can suffer greater depths of sadness than most. Yet you’re tougher than most people think. Push you down and you keep bouncing back like a rubber bathtub toy. You’re charged with energy and get caught up in what’s going on around you. Your greatest strength is in giving to others; you’re always ready to help whoever needs you.
How Others See You
Everyone thinks you are his or her special friend, that they have your undivided attention. You’re thought of as solicitous and concerned. You’re also known as a sparkling social presence—witty, vivacious, and always interested in new activities. People consider you artistic and somewhat bohemian, and are impressed by your psychic sensibility. They value you as a confidant but, oddly, the more people lean on you, the weaker they think you are.
FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH THE SUN IN PISCES
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Edward Albee
Mario Andretti
W. H. Auden
Tammy Faye Bakker
Drew Barrymore
Harry Belafonte
Alexander Graham Bell
Osama bin Laden
Erma Bombeck
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Luther Burbank
Michael Caine
Karen Carpenter
Enrico Caruso
Johnny Cash
Edgar Cayce
Cyd Charisse
Frederic Chopin
Glenn Close
Kurt Cobain
Roy Cohn
Nat King Cole
Nicolaus Copernicus
Tom Courtenay
Cindy Crawford
Billy Crystal
Honore Daumier
Michael Dell
Jimmy Dorsey
Lawrence Durrell
Wyatt Earp
Albert Einstein
Bobby Fischer
Peter Fonda
Galileo Galilei
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jackie Gleason
Mikhail Gorbachev
Kelsey Grammer
Cedric Hardwicke
Jean Harlow
George Harrison
Rex Harrison
Patricia Hearst
Ben Hecht
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Winslow Homer
Ron Howard
Victor Hugo
William Hurt
Henrik Ibsen
John Irving
Steve Jobs
Jennifer Jones
Barbara Jordan
Jon Bon Jovi
Kiri Te Kanawa
Edward M. Kennedy
Jack Kerouac
Ring Lardner
Spike Lee
Sybil Leek
Jerry Lewis
Rob Lowe
James Madison
Anna Magnani
Gabriel García Marquez
Michelangelo
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Glenn Miller
Liza Minnelli
Piet Mondrian
Zero Mostel
Rupert Murdoch
Ralph Nader
Kate Nelligan
Vaslav Nijinsky
David Niven
Pat Nixon
Rudolph Nureyev
Merle Oberon
Shaquille O’Neal
Sidney Poitier
Aidan Quinn
Tony Randall
Sally Jessy Raphael
Lynn Redgrave
Carl Reiner
Rob Reiner
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Miranda Richardson
Bobby Riggs
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Philip Roth
Kurt Russell
Willard Scott
Neil Sedaka
Dr. Seuss
Irwin Shaw
Dinah Shore
John Steinbeck
Dean Stockwell
Sharon Stone
Darryl Strawberry
Jimmy Swaggart
Elizabeth Taylor
James Taylor
Ellen Terry
Franchot Tone
Tommy Tune
Carrie Underwood
John Updike
Gloria Vanderbilt
Irving Wallace
Earl Warren
George Washington
Kurt Weill
Lawrence Welk
Vanessa Williams
Bruce Willis
Joanne Woodward
FOOTNOTES
*The three modern planets are Uranus (1781), Neptune (1846), and (1930).
*When the Sun crosses the four cardinal points in the zodiac, we mark the beginning of each of our four seasons: Aries begins spring; Cancer begins summer; Libra begins fall; Capricorn begins winter.
With the above caveat, I include in this chapter a summary of general compatibilities for your Sun sign in the hope that it may prove both instructive and amusing.
Vive l’amour!
ARIES
The Amorous Nature
You and Aries Woman
If you fall in love with an Aries woman, you’ll never lack for excitement. But are you the kind of man who can handle a full-blooded independent, forceful female? Because that’s what Aries woman is.
This passionate, intense creature can’t give a tepid response. She’s a fully stocked fireplace, with logs, kindling, and paper, waiting for the touch of a match to set her on fire.
What Aries woman wants, she gets. When a man meets an irresistible force like her, he tends to become a high
ly movable object. Indeed, when she is first attracted to a man she throws herself into the enthralling game of seeing how fast she can capture him. For her, one of the peak experiences of an affair is the beginning of the stalk. She’s fascinated by challenge. The more aloof you are, the more she wants you; her goal is to make you her love slave.
A love affair with her is not easy. She wants freedom and total togetherness and ecstasy all at once. She has an enormous need for love and gets more than her share, but no man becomes her lord and master. She meets a man on equal terms. If he offers loyalty, she repays him in kind. If he is untrustworthy, she also repays him in kind. Basically, in her relations with men she is domineering. You can either accept it or leave. If you stay, you’ve made the first concession on a long road. At the end, you’re likely to find you’ve been molded and shaped to fit her image of what her lover should be.
In love she will be faithful, but she expects total fidelity in return. Her jealousy is rooted in possessiveness. She doesn’t want a lover who has too many other interests. She wants all of him—or nothing at all.
There is an important distinction to make about her jealousy that may be useful in helping to understand her fundamental character. She isn’t jealous because of a feeling of insecurity (the root cause of most jealousy), but because she has to be number one. She’ll become a towering inferno if her man so much as thinks about two-timing her.
The Aries woman finds happiness in a long-term relationship. She enjoys sharing everything with a lover, and is a giver of and partaker in pleasure. She is a highly affectionate and demonstrative lover who exudes sexuality and magnetism. Every sex encounter (even with the same lover) takes on the drama of a conquest. She will also be your staunchest ally, fight side by side with you, believe in you, encourage you. She’s a marvelous companion for a man on the way up or fighting to stay at the top because she’ll give him all the strength and determination she has. She’s definitely ambitious.
When she does not feel she is loved she can become shrill and demanding. Above all, she won’t tolerate being ignored or neglected. The straight road to perdition is a relationship with an unhappy Aries woman.
She wants to be understood and appreciated for her unique qualities. If you handle her with tact and give her the admiration she needs, this vivacious, active, mischievous, sensual, fascinating woman will do anything you ask.
You and Aries Man
It would be superfluous to say he has fiery emotions because he has practically no other kind. He’s always in search of something that will satisfy his pioneering, ever-aggressive lust for adventure. He moves within a self-created aura of excitement and somehow things happen wherever he is.