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Copyright Liz Greene and Astrodienst AG. Version 3.6

PSYCHOLOGICALHOROSCOPE ANALYSIS

forSteve Jobs, born 24 February 1955

Astrodienst AG, Dammstr. 23, CH-8702 Zollikon / Zürich, Internet: www.astro.com E-Mail: [email protected]

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Psychological Horoscope Analysisfor

Steve Jobs, born 24 February 1955Nr. 6212.502-2

Astrological Interpretation and Text by Liz GreeneProgramming by Alois Treindl

Astrodienst AG, Dammstr. 23, CH-8702 Zollikon / ZürichTel. +41-44-392 18 18, Fax 391 75 74

Internet http://www.astro.com E-Mail [email protected]

Copyright Liz Greene and Astrodienst AG. Version 3.6

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ASTROLOGICAL DATA USED FOR THE ANALYSIS:

name: Steve Jobs (male)

birthdate: 24 February 1955 local time: 19:15 method: Liz Greeneplace: San Francisco, CA (US) U.T.: 03+15 houses: Placiduslong: 122w25 lat: 37n47 sid. time: 05:22:12 24 February 2015

PLANETARY POSITIONSplanet sign degree motion

A Sun Pisces 5l44'53 in house 6 directB Moon Aries 7a44'50 in house 7 directC Mercury Aquarius 14k21'42 in house 5 stationary (D)D Venus Capricorn 21j10'19 in house 4 directE Mars Aries 29a05'26 in house 8 directF Jupiter Cancer 20d30'29 in house 10 retrogradeG Saturn Scorpio 21h09'46 in house 3 stationary (R)H Uranus Cancer 24d08'06 end of house 10 retrogradeI Neptune Libra 28g03'05 in house 2 retrogradeJ Pluto Leo 25e19'22 in house 12 retrogradeK Moon's Node Capricorn 2j30'18 in house 4 retrogradePlanets at the end of a house are interpreted in the next house.

HOUSE POSITIONSAscendant Virgo 22f17'39 Descendant Pisces 22l17'392nd House Libra 18g14'39 8th House Aries 18a14'393rd House Scorpio 18h21'16 9th House Taurus 18b21'16Imum Coeli Sagittarius 21i19'03 Medium Coeli Gemini 21c19'035th House Capricorn 24j28'41 11th House Cancer 24d28'416th House Aquarius 25k12'48 12th House Leo 25e12'48

MAJOR ASPECTSSun TRINE Neptune 7°42 Mars TRINE Pluto 3°45Sun SEXTILE Moon's Node 3°15 Mars TRINE Moon's Node 3°24Moon SQUARE Moon's Node 5°15 Jupiter TRINE Saturn 0°39Mercury SQUARE Saturn 6°47 Jupiter CONJUNCTION Uranus 3°38Venus SQUARE Mars 7°55 Jupiter SQUARE Neptune 7°33Venus OPPOSITION Jupiter 0°39 Saturn TRINE Uranus 2°57Venus SEXTILE Saturn 0°01 Saturn SQUARE Pluto 4°09Venus OPPOSITION Uranus 2°57 Uranus SQUARE Neptune 3°55Venus SQUARE Neptune 6°52 Neptune SEXTILE Pluto 2°44Mars SQUARE Jupiter 8°34 Neptune SEXTILE Moon's Node 4°27Mars SQUARE Uranus 4°56 Pluto TRINE Moon's Node 7°11Mars OPPOSITION Neptune 1°01Numbers indicate orb (deviation from the exact aspect angle).

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CONTENTS OF THIS ANALYSIS VI. Paths toward Integration

I. Introduction Making peace with the rhythms of ordinary life *Facing the fear of misunderstanding and criticism

II. Your Psychological Type

Sensitive responses to other's needs * Thestruggle for objectivity and self-containment * Adilemma in communication with others

III. Character and Shadow

The poet's vision of the soul at the heart of life *The desire to transcend mundane reality opens thegate to the imaginal world * Identification with amythic role * A mystical vision of love causesproblems in ordinary life * The daemon of crea-tive vision outweighs material needs

A hidden cynicism and materialism * The fear ofbeing boring * The dilemma of accepting a banaland ordinary shadow

A love of the unseen world * Hidden sensualityand materialism * The need to belong * Apowerful urge for self-expression lies in the shadow

IV. The Family Background

Family myths and psychological inheritance *The image of the father in a man's chart * Agraceful but indecisive figure * Balancing ideal-ism with realism

The image of the mother in a man's chart * Alack of real relationship * Neglect of emotionalneeds and expression * Self-sacrifice as a pose * Freeing a trapped romantic spirit

V. Relationship Patterns

The attractions of the rational partner * Learningto respect practicality * Domestic intimacy is notenough * A devotional quality of heart * Atendency to excess

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I. INTRODUCTION characters, and story, which lies at the core of yourlife journey. It might be useful for you to remember

Once upon a time, in a less scientific age than the metaphor of the theatre as you read through theours, astrology was a respected study, based on various sections of your astrological portrait,ancient and empirically compiled principles and because it can help you to understand the realused by the learned for greater insight not only into meaning of fate as it is reflected by astrology. Fatethe future, but into the soul. With the coming of the does not lie in your being subjected to random pre-Age of Enlightenment, and the increase in man's ordained events. It lies in the cast of charactersknowledge of the material universe, it seemed for a which represent the deepest needs, conflicts andtime that studies such as astrology, in company aspirations which lie within you. No person can bewith other symbolic maps of the cosmos, had other than himself or herself; and every life experi-become anachronisms - pieces of superstitious non- ence, whether tiny and transient or major andsense which reflected a more ignorant and gullible transformative, reflects in some way the characterera. But surprisingly, astrology, despite its de- of the individual.tractors, has refused to go the way of the flat earth,the conjuring of demons, and the turning of leadinto gold. It is alive and well, growing in popular-ity, and once again meriting the respect of in- - - -telligent minds - for it has been brought into themodern era through our increasing knowledge ofpsychology and of the inner nature of man. Sub- II. YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPEjected to many centuries of suppression and rid-icule, astrology has outproven and outlasted its The rich array of individual attributes portrayedopponents, and eloquently demonstrates that it has in your birth horoscope is set, as it is with every-something of great value to offer the modern indi- one, against the backdrop of a certain temperamentvidual seeking self-understanding. bias. We might call this bias your psychological

"type", for it is a typical or characteristic way of In this horoscope analysis we have endeav- responding to the situations life brings you. No oneoured, using the insights of astrology and psychol- begins life whole or perfect, and all people haveogy combined with the tools of advanced computer certain areas of strength - sophisticated and well-technology, to offer you an astrological portrait adapted inner characters - to help them deal withwhich is uniquely and individually focussed and challenges, conflicts and problems. Likewise, allwhich aims at providing greater self-knowledge. people have certain areas of weakness -inner char-This is not fortune-telling astrology, but rather, acters who are underdeveloped, neglected andpsychological astrology, developed to as deep and troublesome.sophisticated a level as is possible within theperimeters of computer interpretation. No com- Your psychological type does not remain staticputer can perform the task of an experienced and unchanging through the whole of your life.human astrologer. But we think you will find this There is something within all of us - whether weanalysis a surprisingly profound and subtle inter- call it the unconscious, the Self, or the soul -whichpretation of the complex dynamics at work within strives toward balance and completeness, andyou. which tries to integrate into our lives all those

qualities or inner characters which have been Shakespeare once wrote that all the world is a neglected or undervalued. At certain importantstage, and all the men and women merely players. junctures in life, it is as though some central core,In a sense, your birth horoscope is a metaphor for deeper and wiser than the conscious "I", draws usthe individual play, complete with stage set, cast of into conflicts which enable us to develop our weak-

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er areas, so that we can become more complete as The struggle for objectivity and self-contain-human beings. Thus you will find that, incorpo- mentrated in the following paragraphs about yourpsychological type, are some suggestions about Perhaps you sometimes place too muchhow you might facilitate this inner movement emphasis on human relationship, fearing to betoward a more balanced perspective on life. Life alone and separate, when in reality you are adoes this for us, sooner or later. But sometimes it complicated mixture of qualities and need at timesis more rewarding and less problematic if we coop- to be able to withdraw and find your meaning anderate with the process. sustenance within. You tend to allow yourself to

become too dependent upon a partner or friend orSensitive responses to other's needs teacher to provide the direction and structure in

your life, while at the same time stifling your own The world of human relationship means every- need to pursue interests which do not concern yourthing to you, and the feelings of others are primary loved ones. You are sometimes afraid of beingon the scale of your values. Yet you are often seen as selfish, yet your definition of this word iscaught in a conflict between your need for warmth suspect, stemming perhaps from attitudes prevalentand closeness with others, and your need for in the family during your childhood where "selfish"privacy, space and the freedom to pursue your own meant not doing what someone else thought youinterests - which often involve abstract concepts should do. You need to develop more confidencequite divorced from human reality. You have great in your right to your own opinions and viewpoints,compassion for the problems of others, and may trusting more in the relationships to which you haveoften find yourself playing the role of the good given so much love and time and care; for if youmother or father to those friends and loved ones ignore your own requirements for space, freedomwho need an understanding shoulder to cry on. But and honesty of expression then you will not be ableyour judgments and perceptions of others are often to avoid resenting and envying others when theysharper and more critical than the responses of your ask for such freedom themselves. Because youheart, and you are frequently torn between empathy love harmony, you may forget that you too some-and irritation. Sometimes your mouth speaks times need conflict and distance in order to grow.before you have had a chance to temper your wordswith your usual tact and kindness, giving voice to A dilemma in communication with othersan unexpressed yet powerful need to be left alone.You love to feel needed, and dislike hurting people; Another area where your conflict between feel-and you are capable of immense loyalty and ing needs and detachment may express itself indevotion to those who are close to you. You also your life is in the issue of communication of ideas.possess the rare gift of being able to put others at You certainly do not lack intelligence; on the con-ease and to sense their immediate needs without trary, you may be gifted with profound insights andhaving to be told. Yet you are often a stranger to ideas which are well worth expressing and whichyourself - sometimes kind to a fault, and sometimes are highly original and inspired. But you tend tocritical and opinionated about the same individual. feel inadequate in the mental realm, believing thatYour chief fulfillment in life springs from the feel- others are more clever than you because you re-ing that you have offered something to others and quire time to formulate and express your ideas.are part of a larger human family in which you have You need to be careful not to overcompensate witha valued place. Yet there is a detached and wander- a kind of false intellectuality, or to cultivate aning spirit within you which is attracted to those who angry contempt for intellectual pursuits which isare aloof and detached, and which chafes at the really a defense against feelings of envy and inad-emotional responsibilities which you take on for equacy. Pursuing studies and interests and perhapsothers so willingly. a career which test and challenge your mind is

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likely to be rewarding and fulfilling for you. But to The poet's vision of the soul at the heart oftravel in this mental realm you must be prepared to lifetravel alone - in other words, to define and expressyour own viewpoints. When you can risk argument Reality, the poet von Hoffmannsthal once wrote,and confrontation in the name of your own individ- is the greatest enchantment you have ever experi-ual values, then you can bring a genuinely original enced. Your reality is certainly an enchantedand independent spirit into those relationships domain, drawing its sustenance from an inner reser-which you value so highly; and the security and voir of images and dreams, and springing from awarmth of the personal world which you have deep, non-rational conviction of some numinousworked so hard to nurture can serve as a stable base power at work not only in your own creative effortsfor your exciting voyages into the realms of knowl- but in the whole of life. It is not that you are con-edge and self-expression. ventionally religious, nor even mystical in any

usual sense; for the world of the imagination is toochaotic, passionate and sometimes dark for you to

- - - worship it in the humble posture of the spiritualdevotee. But everything you experience outsideyourself - people, places, situations - is ultimately

III. CHARACTER AND SHADOW subordinated to the inner vision you have of itsmeaning and its essence.

One of the most important insights gained bydepth psychology has been the revelation that Life is only interesting to you if it contains thepeople are dual in nature, and contain a basic maximum resemblance to the mythic drama whichpolarity of a conscious and an unconscious self. you perceive within and which you strive, in yourThere is the individual you are familiar with -the own way, to express. If words are your chosen"I" that thinks, feels and acts in accustomed ways medium, they are only lenses for you, meant to in-which you identify as yourself. And there is anoth- voke deeper perceptions in the reader or listener;er, hidden individual -the shadow-side - which con- and you resent having to explain yourself and yourtains the less acceptable and less developed aspects strange vision too plainly to more literal souls whoof your personality, and which fights for a valued think an object is merely an object rather than aplace in your life at the same time that it disrupts symbol, a doorway and a vessel. Because yourthe complacency of your self-image. The interplay allegiance to the imaginal world is so strong, yourbetween the conscious and unconscious sides of adherence to the conventional codes of living isyou is a constantly shifting dance, changing at dif- sporadic; and many people are likely to think you aferent stages of your life and altering according to little peculiar or eccentric because what matters tothe pressures and challenges which you encounter. you does not make sense to them and what is im-The tension between the primary characters in your portant to them is often simply boring and banal toinner drama, described in the following para- you. On the deepest level you are wedded to somegraphs, is the source of energy which provides your inner voice, and any partner in your life needs tolife with movement, purpose, conflict and growth. understand and adapt to this if the relationship isThere are other characters inside you too - going to work. Even those whom you love mostsupporting players who blend and conflict with the you tend to turn into symbols which inspire andmain ones to make you the unique individual you constellate your inner world of images and dreams.are. Where these are strongly marked in your Or, put another way, the mundane world and thehoroscope, we have included a description of them ordinary actions of ordinary people, become in-as well. The story thus portrayed, with its compli- fused with something magical and meaningful,cated interaction of light and shadow, represents which provides constant fuel for your imagination.what is really meant by individual destiny.

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The desire to transcend mundane reality how great your inner devotion. You need to devel-opens the gate to the imaginal world op firm boundaries and a capacity to attend to the

moment, for this will allow you to draw on your Even if you walk about appearing to be clear- creative vision without exhausting yourself or find-minded and responsible, only half of you - if that ing that material problems accumulate to makemuch - lives in this world. The other half is a deni- your life a misery.zen of an unknown and magical realm, for you passthrough life as though you always had one foot out Identification with a mythic rolethe door and were waiting to go home again. If youhave never seen the film "ET", then you ought to There is something rather heroic and mythicdo, for sometimes you give the impression that you about your perceptions of life. You tend to identifyhave only accidentally landed here on earth, or are much of the time with one of your own fictionalincarnate because of some unfathomable cosmic characters, and it is not sufficient for you to simplydesign which no doubt they will let you know about express your inner world in creative forms. Therelater; and everything you do in ordinary life has a is also a streak of the heroic missionary in you, andkind of vague detachment about it, as though, like a you long to change the world so that it, too, cangood buddhist, you believed it all to be illusion march to the same magical drumbeat. You have aanyway. You have a clear pipeline to a mysterious tendency to take up worldly causes which reflectand numinous inner world, and if you have any your inner conflicts, thereby both personalising ex-sense at all you will take this gift very seriously and ternal events to give you a feeling of involvement,not try to pretend that you are really a reasonable, and transforming personal dilemmas into arche-logical creature; for this pipeline is the source of typal ones. Whatever your medium of expression,your creativity and your potential fulfillment. You there is bound to be some kind of message in it, forhave a deep need to serve something greater than you believe deeply and firmly that the vision whichyourself, and you are not likely to find this some- means so much to you could change the world'sthing on earth, no matter how much you adore and woes. Thus it is really the archetypal hero withidealise another person. It is the transpersonal whom you secretly identify - the lonely troubadour,realm to which you owe allegiance first, not a lover the courageous knight errant, the prophet with eyesor a family; and if you get the order of priorities that see far into the future and a voice thatright then there is no reason why, despite your pronounces the need for change. If you have norather melancholy cast of mind and heart, you immediate creative outlet - and you ought to do -should not find happiness in your personal life as then you need to be careful not to set to work likewell as fulfillment through creative work. Pygmalion on your family, friends and lovers,

because your urge to forcefully inject your imaginal It is probable that, in your childhood, one of world into concrete life is very great; and it canyour parents - most likely your father - was absent, sometimes make you intolerant of other people'sphysically or psychologically, or carried around ways of doing things and determined of reform.him an aura of sadness and sacrifice. This has left akind of orphaned feeling within you, which is not You believe that you are right, because you haveas negative as it sounds. Since you were psycho- been touched by the breath of the gods. The prob-logically unparented, you seek a deeper and more lem is not that you might be wrong, but that othersymbolic parent, and this leads you into the inner people have different gods, and some of them areworld of the imagination and the soul. The only more mundane than yours. Although your person-problem with this profound connection to a ality is not aggressive - you are too much of amystical source is that you also need to be able to dreamer for that - there is a touch of the firebrandget on with mundane life, for it will keep intruding in you, the poet who wants to change the worldon you no matter how fathomless your vision and through vision and dreams. This is your great gift,

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and if you are able to find the right medium, it is however, sometimes need to keep it from takingvery likely that you will eventually affect many precedence all the time; for otherwise you run thepeople quite powerfully and open them up to the risk of losing your sense of humour about life,inner world through your creative efforts. But you ignoring the loving gestures of those around youneed to develop tolerance - never a strong quality in who try to make you happy, and turning what mightthose who identify with archetypal figures - and have been a healthy and fulfilling relationship intopatience, and perhaps even a sense of humour about the last act of Camille.yourself occasionally, to keep yourself from beingtoo heroic all the time. The daemon of creative vision outweighs

material needsA mystical vision of love causes problems inordinary life Thus you have the soul of a prophet and a

troubadour, even if you have never tried to express Love, for you, has little to do with the actual your personal vision, and even if your imaginationeveryday personality and physical attributes of the and your creative talents have remained thus far un-beloved, and much more to do with that numinous tapped. It is very necessary for you to have somesomething which you perceive shining through him kind of creative medium, for your inner world isor her. You tend to idealise love, and the beloved, rich and boundless; and this world is ultimately farto the point where the other person becomes a kind more important to you than any more conventionalof muse, a catalyst for creative inspiration; and definition which society or loved ones might offersometimes this is so strong in you that the corporeal you on the subject of what life is really about.presence of your love-object gets in the way of Money is nice, security desirable, and everydayyour worship of the soul. You are highly sensitive pleasures appealing; but at heart you would foregoto sadness and suffering, seeing it as the inevitable all of these, or at least a good part of them, if youcondition of those who are open to higher worlds could find the right language, verbal or visual orbut are trapped on the earth. Your image of love is physical, to honour the realm of the soul which istinged with a poignant, sorrowing quality which is your true reality. The strange domain of myth andnot negative or destructive, but which idealises fairy tale is alive and well in you, and everythingsacrifice. Giving up immediate satisfactions seems you encounter in life is elevated to the language ofto open a gateway to a deeper and more universal symbol - or, if you cannot turn a sow's ear into aquality of love, and you have much in common silk purse, then it is not even worth considering.with the poets of courtly love in the Middle Ages You may infuriate those around you with your cas-who worshipped their beloved from afar. ual dismissal of things they find important; but no

one can question the sincerity of your vision, or the Thus you are likely to either willingly make im- richness of your imagination, or your unmistakableportant sacrifices yourself in your personal relation- vision of a life which is larger, deeper and moreships (through loving someone inaccessible, or meaningful than life.married, or living far away), or you are likely to beattracted to those who have suffered in life and bear A hidden cynicism and materialismthe marks with gentle dignity. There is a kind of"mater dolorosa" flavour to your loving, as though In contrast to your poetic vision of life, and theall human loving were ultimately tragic because colour and drama which you habitually inject intopeople are mortal and time and age destroy what it, there is another protagonist in your inner psychicwas once beautiful and full of promise. This poign- drama. This figure comprises all those moreancy and delicacy of feeling contributes consider- mundane, earthbound and ordinary qualities whichable compassion, gentleness and beauty to your you have had to exclude from your lifestyle andpersonality and to your creative work. You might, your system of values in order to retain contact

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with your rich inner world. Although you tend to ority - why should anyone waste time talking abouthave a certain secret contempt for those unimagina- meaningless banalities anyway? -it might be moretive people who cannot soar into the transpersonal truthful to say that you are frightened of ordinaryrealm nor intuitively recognise the hidden signifi- dialogue and secretly fear that you will sound unin-cance underlying every experience, you too have a telligent and boring. You tend to be defensivelybanal, ordinary and materialistic side. But this dogmatic in your insistence that only your innerdimension of your personality is likely to be re- reality is relevant, and this leaves you feeling awk-pressed, and unconsciously projected upon less ward in the time-honoured world of "How are yougifted or far-seeing souls toward whom you can today?". You might be horrified to discover thatthen feel superior and delightfully misunderstood. when you do begin to talk about ordinary things,This other character lives in the shadow-world of you become very ordinary indeed - even slow andthe unconscious, and when you encounter it within unimaginative and pedantic.yourself it is likely to make you feel embarrassed,inadequate and unsure of yourself. Yet you need a This may sound harsh, even insulting; but itbetter relationship with this secret shadow-side of would be a pity if you used your considerableyour personality - not only to help you cope with imagination and powers of expression as a defensethe limits of ordinary life, but also to keep you against being just a person sometimes. If you couldwithin human bounds, so that you do not inflate and allow yourself to relax sometimes, and be foolishlyfly away into identification with your inner mythic mortal, you would find that there are many positivefigures to the point where you lose contact with the qualities contained in your shadow-side which youpeople around you. need to balance the richness of your poetic soul.

Among these is a capacity to accept your humanThe fear of being boring lot, which means, in turn, that your creative

language can actually reach other people - those There is a strange shutter which sometimes people for whom, presumably, it is meant. Thiscomes down between your mind and the rich world earthy, slow and pedantic shadow-side, which ex-of the imagination which is your necessary food. presses itself chiefly as a kind of sluggish concrete-You may experience this shutter as a creative block ness of thinking, can also offer you the patienceof some kind - a sudden loss of vision and inspira- necessary to properly craft your creative outpour-tion - or it may express itself as a nagging feeling ings, so that they are comprehensible and notof inadequacy and inferiority which makes you merely esoteric and obscure. And there is a dry,doubt the worth of your creative efforts. The roots ironic quality of humour in this apparently dull andof this difficulty lie in the poor relationship which unimaginative side of you which can do wonders toyou have to ordinary life and ordinary people - as alleviate your occasional intellectual pomposity andthough the shadow-side of you, which is chiefly can keep you realistic about just what you are reallyconcerned with the everyday world of your imme- capable of achieving in marketable terms.diate environment, gets fed up with being relegatedto the basement of the psyche, and rises up in The dilemma of accepting a banal and ordi-rebellion. In contrast to the confidence, even nary shadowarrogance, with which you stride through mythicdomains and commune with the divine creatures of Thus your passionate, poetic soul is balanced byyour imagination, you are curiously clumsy with a hidden side of you which is much more staid,simple human communication, and find it hard conventional, earthbound and slow. Irritatingsometimes to carry on a conversation if the subject though you might find this side of yourself and thisdoes not touch upon the Meaningful and the Sig- description of it, the shadow-dimension of yournificant. Although you do a good job of masking personality has a great deal to contribute to yourthese sudden lapses with a kind of infinite superi- life. It can offer you the realistic sense of limits

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which can prune your creative aspirations down to of skin that other people seem to have; and con-manageable and achievable size; it can allow you to sequently, life bruises you easily. Because yoube ordinary and human when your inspiration has believe so wholeheartedly in a transcendent reality,temporarily left you, allowing you to enjoy your you usually manage to get intimations of it, how-life and other people even when you are not in the ever brief, that renew your faith sufficiently for yougrip of some inner vision or daemon; and it can pre- to cope.serve your sense of humour about yourself andabout life. These qualities need to be integrated in- This elusive, ethereal and other-worldly qualityto your world and your values, for the psyche does is the source of many of your apparently unpredict-not like excess. Too much identification with the able and unstable experiences. It is appropriate forcreatures of your fantasies can result in blockage you to seek a lifestyle and a vocation which canand depression overwhelming you and destroying enhance and validate, rather than crush, your ideal-the very thing that matters most to you - your serv- ism and faith. All the products of the imaginationice to an inner creative source which is your perpet- are meaningful to you, more so than the domain ofual companion and daemon, sometimes a friend and physical objects which matter so much to others.sometimes an enemy because it does not permit you Spiritual values and ideals are a necessity to you,placid contentment, but always vital and an un- but you will need the courage to challenge moreexplainable mystery, whether you call it the soul, conventional religious formulae and to trust yourthe unconscious, God, the Devil, art, or love. inner experiences. It is not a moral code you seek,

or a dogmatic interpretation of the divine; butrather, a direct experience of a transpersonal reality

Another pair of important characters which can offer you hope, comfort, and the vali-dation of your dream of beauty, goodness and truth

The characters described so far represent in in life. Otherwise life will hurt you, for withouttheir fundamental antagonism the main theme of such values to provide your base you are too thin-your inner story. Besides these figures, there is an- skinned and lack the toughness to digest some ofother pair of conflicting figures indicated in your life's more brutal offerings. Then, disillusioned andbirth chart which are likely to be recognisable in lost, you run the risk of turning other people -your life. These figures are briefly described in the particularly partners - into semi-divine protectorsfollowing paragraphs. and carriers of that spiritual reassurance you crave;

and others will, when placed in such an impossibleA love of the unseen world situation, inevitably let you down -for what you

seek is inside you. Life will eventually challenge Although you appear to live on the earth like you on the issue of your adaptation to the materialother people, your mind dwells in loftier, more world, for higher insight is not worth very much ifethereal realms. You are a sensitive and idealistic it cannot be lived in the context of the actual world.person who is not wholly comfortable within thelimits and boundaries of material life; for, like Hidden sensuality and materialismPlato, you crave the Good, the True and the Beau-tiful - and if you are unable to find glimpses of your In contrast to the bright light of your mysticaldream amidst the mundane circumstances in which aspiration, there is dark figure in your inner psychicyou find yourself, through love or creative endeav- drama. This hidden dimension of your personalityours or study, you are capable of becoming de- contains all that you have excluded from your con-pressed or even ill. There must be Something scious values and behaviour in order to pursue yourMore, you tell yourself, because you are quite un- higher ideals; it encompasses the domain of yourable to live with and accept the harsher aspects of body, your sensual nature and the repressed materi-reality. It is as though you are missing some layer alism which you prefer not to acknowledge. This

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shadow-side can be an inner enemy if you deny it people in all sorts of situations - on trains andvalue, working against you through difficulties with planes, in cafes and restaurants, and wherever a fewhealth, money and mundane circumstances. This exchanges of ordinary conversation convey to youinner enemy, because you turn your back on it the experience that you have a relationship withwithin yourself, may appear to belong to others in your fellow men and women. You instinctivelythe world outside - individuals who make life hard know how to blend with the crowd, and pick up al-for you because of their physical demands, their most telepathically the unwritten laws of any sociallack of appreciation for finer values, and their milieu - what is "done" and "not done". You arecoarseness or brutality, emotional or physical. uncomfortable if you become isolated in an imper-What a person cannot deal with in himself or sonal big city with no one to meet or telephone, orherself inevitably is attracted from the environment. if you are stuck in the distant countryside away

from others; for you are most at home where there It would be in accord with your spiritual ideals are neighbours to say hello to and shopkeepers whoto believe that the darker, rougher and more sensual recognise your face. You tend to have a lot ofcomponents of your personality could be tran- friends - or, at least, a lot of acquaintances whomscended through personal effort. Certainly many you call friends, although few of them might reallyesoteric doctrines suggest that, with work, we can have much in common with you - but you wouldall rise above our baser natures and experience a rather have some relatively congenial companypurer state of being. No intention is meant here to than no company at all, even if the company is notdiscourage you from trying; for without ideals such that of a soul-mate. Sometimes it is hard to knowas yours, we would all still live in caves, clubbing just who you really are and what you really feel, soeach other to death. But from a psychological firmly have you entrenched yourself in yourperspective, this shadow-side of your personality - surroundings and adapted yourself to the prevailingthat character in your inner drama who stands in attitudes and mannerisms of your circle.opposition to your refinement, your lofty idealism,and your aspiration toward a more transpersonal It is no mean achievement to have almost every-dimension of life - is as valuable and important to one you meet find you likable. But your power toyour evolution as your conscious beliefs; creatively attract the friendship of others springs from yourhandled this character can give you substance, deep affinity with people, and this affinity existsvitality and a capacity to be genuinely, rather than not merely on the superficial level of common in-hypocritically, loving. Trying to exclude the realm terests or physical proximity, but on the profoundof instinct because it is "lower" can only result in level of a sense of belonging to a human family.the unconscious rising up in rebellion against you. There will come a time when life will eventually

challenge you on the issue of defining your realidentity and expressing your own inner values and

In your birth horoscope, several important creative potential, all those things which need to bethemes are portrayed, and there is an additional able to stand the test of criticism and disapprovalpair of characters which also plays an important from the group in which you move. You are hap-part in your story. These figures are described pier when blending than when you must stand upbriefly in the following paragraphs. alone and expose yourself to attack or judgment;

and this can sometimes be a handicap because yourThe need to belong own gifts deserve more showing. But individual

recognition means less to you than the secure and The feeling of belonging to a larger human fam- fulfilling experience of being part of the lives ofily and finding nourishment from its support runs others, and of discovering that, wherever in thevery deep in you. Everyone is worthwhile to you on world you go, there are people who will welcomesome level and you enjoy meeting all kinds of you as a friend.

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A powerful urge for self-expression lies in offer you vision, courage, and the opportunity tothe shadow create something truly original with your gifts.

In contrast to this amiable and gregarious per-sonality, there is a hidden dimension of your per- - - -sonality which you have excluded or repressedfrom your conscious values and behaviour in orderto preserve your network of friendships and your IV. THE FAMILY BACKGROUNDfeeling of security within your peer group. The un-conscious shadow-side of you is fiercely individu- Family myths and psychological inheritancealistic, independent and aloof, and not in the leastconcerned with preserving good relations with any- Although you are an individual, you havebody. It is extremely difficult for you to reconcile emerged from a family background. A family is likethe natural arrogance, superiority and self-centred- a living organism, and it includes certain heredi-ness of this inner figure with those socially attuned tary characteristics which have passed downvalues that embed you so firmly in the collective. through the generations. It also contains a partic-If you remain unconscious of this hidden aspect of ular set of psychological dynamics, an emotionalyourself, it is likely to surface as a kind of angry climate which provides the first soil in which yourrestlessness, a sudden feeling of being alone and nascent individuality took root in childhood. Thusmisunderstood and frustrated in the midst of the you contain certain inner patterns, myths andvery people you need so much; you may also have attitudes toward life which you have acquired fromto face the problem of envy of those who are more the psychological soil of your family background.brazen than you and are unafraid to show off their In other words, to return to our metaphor of thedifferentness and independence of spirit. You are a theatre, the characters in your inner drama areparty kind of person in both senses of the word - unique; but they carry a family inheritance.inclined to like jovial social gatherings, and alsoinclined to join a group which espouses a particular Astrology cannot tell us about physical heredity.political and social philosophy. Your shadow-side But it can tell us a great deal about psychologicalis apolitical, antisocial and self-willed, to which heredity, which runs through families in the samenothing is as important as your own development way that red hair or blue eyes do. Psychologicaland your own achievement, and to which the appro- inheritance of deeply rooted attitudes often takesval of the mass means nothing at all. place on hidden, unconscious levels of which indi-

vidual family members are unaware. Family myths The apparently negative qualities inherent in this move down the generations as surely as a distinc-hidden side - the arrogance, wilfulness, coldness, tive facial structure does. An example of a familyruthlessness and autocratic behaviour - are, turned myth might be: "All the men in this family havearound and viewed through a different lens, self- been self-made and successful." Or, "All the wom-confidence, strength of will, self-reliance, courage en in this family have been disappointed by theirand loyalty to one's own soul. Repressed and men." Myths such as these do not need to berelegated to the netherworld of the unconscious, spoken, or even recognised, for they pass from onethis shadow-side will peep out from behind your generation to the next via the unconscious, and theyequable exterior, revealing a more dictatorial and are communicated in a multitude of subtle, non-arrogant personality than you wish others to see; verbal ways. Thus the male child born into theand it will draw you compulsively into entangle- family of "successful" men will inherit a particularments where you are thrown back on your own re- set of expectations to which he will respond accord-sources. Integrated into your conscious life, it can ing to his own nature and his own inner characters.

And the female child born into the family of "dis-

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appointed women" will inherit certain attitudes your ethical codes and ideals; and, lastly, how youabout relationships which will affect her later in father your own children.life if she remains unaware of this inner script.

A graceful but indecisive figure Because your family background is an integralpart of your life story, it is reflected in your birth The subjective image of your father portrayed inhoroscope. Astrology can offer considerable help- your birth horoscope is in many ways an attractiveful insight into this realm of life, for according to and positive one, full of kindness, charm, affectionhow conscious you are of the interplay between and refinement. Even if your father was not con-your own nature and your family inheritance, you ventionally handsome, he may have seemed so towill have more or less freedom of choice in life. you; and many of your attitudes, in terms of tasteYour parents themselves are also reflected in your and social behaviour, echo your experience of him.horoscope, although they appear not as real three- This father-image may also reflect his artistic or in-dimensional people, but rather as images who em- tellectual gifts, and he may have embodied a kindbody a particular theme or set of attitudes. These of mental or social or aesthetic ideal which hasparental images reflect how mother and father become the basis for your own personal values.appear to you personally, how they operate as Your father was probably also a peacemaker whopatterns within your own psyche, and how they sup- wished for harmony at all costs, and it is in this areaport or conflict with the unfoldment of your own that the ambivalence of your relationship with yourinner drama. The power of the family background father lies. His craving for peace may have madeshould never be underestimated, for it is not the him seem weak to you - particularly if he allowedpast. It is a living present within each of us. As the your mother to dominate the household and makepoet Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote: "Never major decisions concerning their children. Albeitbelieve fate is more than the condensation of child- lovable, this avoidance of direct emotional con-hood." frontation could also be understood as disinterest -

and as a kind of betrayal. In fact, it is possible thatThe image of the father in a man's chart you are too identified with the image of your

idealised and beautiful father - and with your own Father is not only a real person. He is also the need for peace, harmony and beauty, and notsymbol of an inner pattern or perspective through enough in touch with those times in your childhoodwhich you relate to life. The image of your father where you might have needed a stronger father.portrayed in your birth horoscope thereforedescribes three things. Balancing idealism with realism Firstly, it is a subjective picture of the qualitiesyou experienced as most dominant in your relation- Your experience of your father is therefore aship with your father - or whoever played the role complex one, for you have have inherited this loveof father in your early life. of beauty, refinement, clarity and dislike of difficult Secondly, it is a symbol of what the masculine emotional exchange. You are yourself a person ofrepresents to you, for your father was the first man refinement and intellectual or aesthetic tastes; andin your life and is therefore a powerful unconscious you also possess a certain indecision and passivityinfluence on how you express your own masculinity that makes you avoid confrontation and attempt toand how you relate to other men. please others at the expense of your own real feel- Thirdly, it is a picture of your own inner father- ings. Perhaps, like your father, you are too much ofqualities: how you order and structure your life, an idealist, wanting life will to be lovelier and morehow you envisage and pursue your goals, how you harmonious than it sometimes is; and you tend toactualise your potentials in the world, how you ex- suffer disappointment and disillusionment whenpress and direct your will, and how you formulate more toughness and realism is required of you. It is

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important for you to separate from unconscious detached and inhibited personality whom no one,identification with your father's values and to find including you, could get very close to, unable oryour own, so that your need for peace and pleasure unwilling to express her real feelings and thoughts.can be balanced with the necessary strength that life Thus, your childhood seems to have lacked genuinesometimes requires of us all. warmth, and you have responded to this situation

with a curious aloofness of your own. It is difficultThe image of the mother in a man's chart for you to acknowledge or express your own feel-

ings and needs, as though somehow they were not Mother, like father, is not only a person. She is real - for on a profound level your relationship withthe symbol of an essential principle in life, and of your mother was not real, and it is hard for you toan inner dynamic or perspective through which we take your inner life seriously.relate to life. The image of the mother portrayed inyour birth horoscope therefore describes three Neglect of emotional needs and expressionthings. Firstly, it is a subjective description of thequalities most dominant in your relationship with There is much that is positive in this apparentlyyour mother. Many of these will be known to you, difficult early experience of your mother, for youbut some might be surprising, because they reflect have learned to become emotionally self-reliant andnot only her outer behaviour, but her inner life - have no doubt developed the rational side of yourthat side of her which was unexpressed and there- nature extremely well in compensation. But itfore of great power in terms of its effects on you. might be important for you to look past the surfaceSecondly, the mother-image in your horoscope is a of what might seem to be normal in your childhood.portrait of what the feminine represents to you - You do not give sufficient value to your instinctshow you experience women, and how you relate to and feelings and you are not especially full of trustthe emotional and instinctual dimensions of your in life. The absence of a real connection to yourown personality. And thirdly, it is a picture of your mother is the key to your understanding much ofown "maternal" qualities - for men possess mother- your own emotional isolation.ing capacities too - your ability to nurture and carefor yourself and others, your sense of safety and Try to develop more of an appreciation of thetrust in life's essential kindness, and your ability to child in yourself, and treat your own needs with theflow with time and circumstances and to know in- care and gentleness which you might have missedstinctively when to wait and accept with wisdom the in your early life. For if you can find the positivesituations which life brings. dimension of the eternal mother within yourself,

you will never lose this deep connection with yourA lack of real relationship own instincts, and may, in the long term, develop

rare gifts in those very areas where you were The subjective image of your mother portrayed denied or deprived - offering empathy and contain-in your birth horoscope is a difficult one, for it is ment and support to others, children or adults, andcuriously aloof and disconnected - as though you to the children of your imagination in the form ofdid not really know your mother as an individual, creative work.nor she you. In physical terms you may have beenlooked after properly and given what would con- There is still another image portrayed by yourventionally constitute good mothering, but on a birth horoscope, which in certain ways conflictsdeeper level there was an absence of real communi- with the experience of your mother described pre-cation. Circumstances might have caused this sit- viously.uation - perhaps she was ill, or absent, or unable tooffer as much time and attention to her children asthey needed. Or she may have been a rather

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Self-sacrifice as a pose - - -

There was a quality in your early experience ofyour mother which might best be described as an V. RELATIONSHIP PATTERNSeternal girl. Despite any behaviour of a more con-ventional and responsible kind, your mother had Relationships are among the most mysterious,secretly within her a restless and adventurous spirit, rewarding and frustrating of all human experi-full of enthusiasm and a need for romance and ex- ences. Both astrology and psychology teach us thatcitement, and prone to seeing life, and others, as nothing that occurs within a relationship is chancecharacters out of a play or a fairy tale. This essen- - neither its beginning, nor its fluctuations and con-tially creative and joyous spirit was no doubt in flicts, nor its ending. But astrology cannot sayconsiderable conflict with the traditional maternal whether you are "fated" to have a good or a badand wifely responsibilities, and if your mother was marriage, or whether you ought to be with aan intrinsically conservative or timid soul, then she Cancer or a Sagittarius. Your birth horoscopewould not have been able to live her sense of life as describes what you are like inside, and thereforehigh drama and no doubt felt trapped and un- what kind of patterns, needs and compulsions youfulfilled. As compensation, she may have resorted are likely to bring into your relationships withto various manipulative ploys, such as becoming ill others. You cannot become somebody different, orat timely moments, in order to ensure that she re- send in your birth horoscope and request a new setceived from her loved ones the attention she of character. But you can be more or less con-craved. scious; and you always have the freedom to look at

your own issues, to deal with needs which are yourFreeing a trapped romantic spirit responsibility and not your partner's, and to re-

spond to both joy and pain in creative ways. It may be important for you to see the theatricaland colourful spirit within your mother, for you The following paragraphs describe youralso have it within you; and if you are not con- attitudes, needs, and typical patterns in closescious of her inner life and its probable distortions relationships. This description is written about youinto manipulative forms, then you may find in terms of your dealings with the woman in youryourself identified with her frustration and driven life. However, if you are involved in a closeby the need to live out what she could not - even to relationship with someone of your own sex, you willthe point of remaining an eternal adolescent find that the same attitudes, needs and patterns stillyourself who runs from reality into grandiose apply. Whatever your sexual tastes, you areromantic dreams and never achieves anything solid yourself - and it is your inner nature whichin life. This dimension of your mother-image is ultimately dictates the course of your love-life.essentially a joyous one, full of a spirit of adventureand curiosity about life, and you have an innate Themes connected to relationship issues havegift for seeing potentials and inner meaning where already been mentioned in the previous chapters,others perceive only facts and objects. But you will where the basic archtypal figures dominating inneed to separate yourself from seeing your mother your birth chart were described. Therefore some ofas a martyr and unconsciously identifying with both the following description will repeat and broadenher unhappiness and her wilful and imperious spir- parts of what has been said already. Some mightit; for then you can live the best of the eternal child also contradict, and indicate an inner contradictionwithin yourself in your own individual way. inherent in your attitude towards relationships.

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The attractions of the rational partner You know how to let your woman exist as a sepa-rate individual independent of your need of her,

You live so close to the immense and fecund which means that you are deeply tolerant - evendepths of the unconscious that you can easily when you are feeling angry or offended. Yourbecome inflated - which means that, accustomed to partner's idiosyncrasies do not surprise you, for youthe treasures of the imagination, you can easily know that it takes all kinds to make a world; andbegin to feel that you are too special, unique and whether or not you are in an established relation-gifted to be bothered with more mundane concerns. ship or marriage, you are not likely to limit yourYou have learned to flow with your fantasies, and human contacts to one person alone. If you have ahave therefore not developed the capacity for clear partner who is by nature more emotionally depend-analysis and decision-making in the outer world. ent or domestically focussed than you, this openBecause your nature is so strongly marked by and friendly quality can cause some problems; andpoetry and romance, you are attracted to those you need to be very clear and honest with yourselfwomen who can calmly and clearly order their own about just what kind of relationship arrangementslives - and who, you secretly hope, will also order you need, for you are not a good liar and would beyours and save you the trouble. happiest not having to resort to deception. But it is

not sexual promiscuity that drives you; rather, youLearning to respect practicality are truly interested in people of both sexes and all

social backgrounds, and if your work and your per- A relationship with a more rational and ana- sonal life can include enough interesting contacts tolytical temperament can be very creative for you. feed your need to be a citizen of the world, you canBut you need to keep an eye on that inflation, be happy in a stable and enduring relationship.because you can easily think yourself exempt fromworldly matters and can therefore inadvertently A devotional quality of heartstart treating your partner as a cross between ahousemaid, an accountant and a public relations You are a truly kind person, with a quality ofofficer who will keep the nasty outside world from universality to your love that makes you sym-intruding into your sacred domain. Try to learn to pathetic to just about everybody -particularly thosegive equal value to your partner's abilities, for you who seem to be victims of life. This makes youneed to let her teach you how to look with clarity particularly responsive in your close relationships,and pragmatism at your mundane concerns, rather and you are inclined to make many sacrifices, greatthan expecting her to do it all for you. You would and small, in the name of love and because younot survive long in a garret if someone did not keep understand all too well the needs and difficulties ofan eye on the electricity bill, the children's schools, your woman. You love with a rather devotionaland the friends whom you forgot that you invited to quality, and you need to make sure that you do notdinner. All the better if you could balance your spread yourself on the ground like a carpet for yourlifelong pursuit of the Holy Grail with the occa- partner to walk on simply because you are so gen-sional foray into ordinary communication. Both erous-hearted. Your woman can easily take advant-worlds are real, valid, and necessary, and you need age of you without meaning to; and you need toa partner who can share them both with you. learn to say no sometimes, and to ask for what you

want occasionally rather than adapting yourself soDomestic intimacy is not enough exclusively to her needs. Not only your partner but

all your friends are likely to appreciate your sym- You have the gift of offering real friendship to pathetic nature. What might not be quite sothose you love; and ultimately this may mean more appreciated is your tendency to be so sympatheticto you and them, and endure longer, than more con- that you get pulled into romantic and sexual entan-ventional or sentimental declarations of affection. glements out of pity and the inability to say no - en-

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tanglements which you must then lie your way out - - -of. It is possible to be too kind and too willing togive yourself away because of momentary empathyor enchantment, with the result that you wind up VI. PATHS TOWARD INTEGRATIONdoing the thing you hate the most - hurting some-one else. As you have seen from the preceding pages,

your birth horoscope offers a detailed and in-depthA tendency to excess portrait of many aspects of your life. It is also

possible to step further back from the horoscope, Your motto in love is that more is better. This and to use the faculties of a telescope rather than ameans more romance, more candlelight, more microscope - so that an overview of the play comescourtly declarations of affection, and, perhaps, into focus. The following provide also somemore partners. You may justify your profligacy by suggestions of ways in which conscious effort mightmeans of an ideology which says that people should make it possible for you to achieve greater har-not possess each other, or a spiritual vision which mony between the different components withinsays that you need the right soul-mate, or an yourself, and to strengthen that centre of the per-aesthetic ideal which tells you that your present sonality which psychology calls the ego, the "I".companion is not quite perfect. Or you may simply Free will may not include the possibility of becom-be honest about your love of variety. But you are ing somebody else. But it might include the abilitygoing to have certain difficulties if you make the to stand firmly at the centre of your horoscope anddecision to commit yourself to one woman for a feel related to the different aspects of your psyche,lifetime. It is not that you cannot love; for, if any- rather than wandering about blindly, feeling im-thing, you love to excess, and throw your whole potent and victimised by conflicting cross-currentsself into it. But you crave adventure too, and you and impulses from within yourself and from theare deeply idealistic about love; and time and famil- world outside. Two people may have certain astro-iarity are the enemies of such a romantic spirit. No logical configurations which are similar, but onerelationship, however passionate, will automatically might be buffeted by his or her inner demons like aremain mysterious and challenging if you do not rudderless small boat tossed on a difficult sea;nurture its unpredictability by frequent holidays and while the other individual remains somehow solidtravel with your woman, frequent absences from and real as a person and can therefore navigate thethe domestic front with its endless responsibilities, boat intelligently through the ocean's changingand frequent admonitions to yourself not to take currents.your partner for granted. Otherwise you might befaithful from a sense of honour and idealism, but Making peace with the rhythms of ordinarynot from real inclination. It would be better to be lifehonest about your own restlessness, for there aremany levels on which your adventurous spirit can You will never find fulfillment by trying tobe lived out, and some of them can include a stable escape the confines of ordinary life. Whatever yourrelationship and do not necessitate deceit and be- creative gifts, and however powerful your person-trayal. But it would be better not to repress this ality, your path toward inner contentment lies inside of yourself, for then you are really asking for making peace with the rituals and rhythms of thetrouble. You are more prone than many people to world of earth - including the use of time and thefalling in love at first sight, at the wrong time, in care of your body and mind. You need to learnthe wrong place, and with someone other than the what might be called the Art of the Small - theperson with whom you came in the door. appreciation of each moment of each day, and the

careful attention to detail which gives quality toeach hour. Your body can be your greatest friend

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and guide, for the more you attune yourself to your particularly when you were younger and had toown natural habits and rhythms, the more at peace confront siblings, teachers and peers. Everydayyou will be. Concerns such as a healthy diet, conversation comes hard to you, and although yousufficient sleep, and the attentive reading of the might excel at practical knowledge or deep under-body's warning signals are an important part of this standing of a chosen field of interest, you are un-attunement. So too are issues such as the love and comfortable when it comes to the social niceties.care you give to ordinary tasks, however banal and The problem is that you do not expect others to likequotidien they may seem. In short, your fulfillment or understand you, and you fear seeming stupid andcan only come from a harmonious relationship to inarticulate and boring in their eyes. But the moretime, matter and the cyclical nature of all life, both you make the effort to meet this challenge, and ex-great and small. Without this relationship nothing press your ordinary self to others - complete withyou achieve can fully satisfy you; for more than all those apparently banal feelings, attitudes and ob-most people you need to base your accomplish- servations that may lack profundity but which arements and your personal aspirations firmly on the eminently human - the less isolated you will feel,earth of your daily life, and your service to those and the more confidence you will have in the ex-rhythms which are no less divine than more glam- pression of those deeper values which matter soourous spiritual visions of reality. much to you.

However, such recognition of the importance of Thus one of your chief fears - of being mis-ordinary things may be difficult for you, because understood, inarticulate and unintelligent in theyour true allegiance is given to an inner vision that eyes of others - can become an indestructible baseattempts to transcend mundane life. This means on which you organise and structure your daily life.that you may have to work quite hard to find an ap- For in learning to formulate and communicate yourpropriate balance; for although your nature strives ideas and feelings, you will develop confidence into leave the earth behind, your body is likely to call your own self-sufficiency and intelligence, and canyou back again - perhaps rather forcibly - if you apply yourself in a more relaxed way to the refine-identify too strongly with the mythic figures of ment of those skills which reflect your deepest val-your imagination and your spirit. Trying to ground ues - without feeling at the mercy of others' dis-yourself will not crush your vision, nor destroy approval and rejection.your faith. It will only improve the vessel throughwhich your vision pours - you yourself, as a realand ordinary person who can deal with limitationand disappointment as well as with beauty andmagic.

Facing the fear of misunderstanding andcriticism

There is one area of your life where any effort toface and overcome your anxieties would result in agreat increase in your sense of strength and self-re-spect. This is the sphere of communication, ex-pression and sharing of ideas with others, and it ishere that you are most awkward and sensitive tocriticism and rejection. You have a deep, reflectiveand serious mind, but you have probably hadtrouble making yourself understood to others -

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