Psychological portrait
There are many schools of thought regarding astrology, and they all are valid. However, the reading that we want to propose in this section is the psychological one. A tool which gives an excellent opportunity for personal awareness that can be of great help in a path of growth and understanding of one's own inner world, above all in those personal "parts" that are not easy to identify and to express directly.
Unfortunately, each of us has had a childhood, a period in which we were particularly fragile and needy, and it is precisely in this period of our lives that the need to adapt to external requirements often makes us transform, repress or even remove some our parts because they are perceived as being "unacceptable".
At a psychological level, the parts that are not acknowledged are those that will try to make themselves noticed, causing us difficulties: this is because our psyche moves towards completeness, and it is through the interpretation of symbols that the reading of our birth chart allows us to reasonably easily identify our potential and what instead needs to be extracted to reach a more solid and truer sense of identity.
The birth chart therefore becomes a very interesting tool to understand how things really are and what energies, if used better, will allow us to complete our life's mission.
The psychological portrait is developed by reading different elements that are present in each natal chart but that combine differently for each of us, thereby forming a unique and special mix in our ways of associating, distributing and exchanging energies: this unique mix is our individual personality, the one that makes you a different human being from anyone else.
To learn to develop and make things a reality
Your imaginative nature constantly drives you to improvise; it often forces you to face a sense of precariousness because it seems as if for you "to have seen with the eyes of the mind" was all that was necessary; in reality, time is always our master, and in your case, it is important to realise that you have started many things, you have been down many paths, you have ventured into numerous projects but you have behaved like a mayfly and you have not at all thought about developing something lasting and that could give you stability in the future. Your imagination creates adventures like those of the one thousand and one nights, but all human beings need to know that they can at least count on a solid foundation: we are born on this Earth and this is why we have a sense of gravity: if there is nothing solid in our lives we feel uprooted and unstructured, but we also feel without any attachment and without a base to which to do return. You have the habit of thinking that "tomorrow is another day …" and this is fantastic if you also manage to exploit the present, and above all, the experience the present gives you.
Even your sense regarding your body is not very well defined: you do not always understand that you need to orientate yourself on rhythms that are more natural to you; a little more self-discipline will let you organise your time better and allow you to accept some rules without feeling suffocated. You need to carefully review what is possible and what needs to be set aside.
Understanding limitations
Our material condition presupposes limits; the body itself is a limit; we cannot grow any more than our physical structure lets us. This limit cannot and must not be seen only as a restriction but also as something that lets you structure yourself and understand what your real potential is; it can also guide you in reinforcing your most fragile points.
Certainly it is a way to learn to know how far you can push yourself. Knowing these limits is also important in deciding whether to exceed or infringe them. These are parameters without which the world can have no rules or laws; unfortunately, it would also become a world in which there is no possibility of developing things and in which nothing is certain.
You would love to remain a long time in the realm of infinite possibilities, but this would mean permanently prolonging your childhood; growing up means abandoning the megalomaniac dreams of youth, or better; it means understanding which of them can become a reality and which instead cannot have a future and must be abandoned. To take life and responsibilities seriously feels better than you think; besides, being serious does not mean being rigid and not seeing the beautiful side of things!
Working on real personal values
To have a solid structure is the point of arrival of all individuals. To succeed in this intent you must work on your profound values and on what really matters for you. Rather than pursuing nebulous and confused faraway goals, you have to define clear objectives that are based on what you believe and supported by the constancy of seeing them come to an end. Only if you manage to identify and reinforce that which is authentic will it be possible to find the reasons that come from the heart to lead you to your desired goal. Certainty and stability are the end of the journey and cannot be improvised: to reach them you must have a plan, assess it and then, with patience and perseverance, you must build on it day after day: strength is not only based on action: there are areas in life and moments in which it is necessary to know how to use another facet of strength, which is resistance. Every time you reach an objective you will have laid another brick in the construction of your personal "certainty". Values and desires are what move you internally; to develop them and make them become a reality requires will, determination and the necessary amount of time. Impatience and construction are not easy bedfellows.
Daily routine does not necessarily mean banality
The practical world, routine and necessity are the things that horrify you; life nevertheless also leads you to facing things that are part of a daily routine: bills to be paid, deadlines to be met, commitments that must be honoured; these "banalities" are a part of the life of each person, and without facing this reality you will never know if you are able to develop true independence, or if instead you will be a person who always leans on others for manifold things that you cannot or do not want to see. You will be able to enjoy wonderful moments much more, as well as be able to play and dream if you have a greater sense of value for the things that, while being less sensational, enable an organised and healthy life-style.
The impact of rhythms, of the things which need to be done each day at times can seem "inferior" and "devaluing" to someone who has a mind which reaches skywards and towards the impossible; however, it is important that you understand that you need wings to be able to fly; everything you do must first of all be learnt, refined and then governed: if you do not manage to stay on a material level, your life will be distorted at all levels.
The meaning of somatization
The ease with which you erect walls that protect you from the world, creates obstacles for your ability to feel the inner movements and to identify the things that you do not tolerate; all this produces blocks that find their way to a physical level: thus you end up somatizing what you cannot analyse or understand on other levels; somehow you symbolically live those aspects which are difficult to consciously be aware of. The impossibility of true involvement and of getting to the bottom of your emotional world renders you unable to properly integrate your experiences and creates difficulties in assessing the world that surrounds you.
Since you have this particular way of expressing your uneasiness you will have to pay a lot of attention to what happens in your body: by carefully analysing the symptoms you will be able to glean better insight into your internal processes.
When one's emotional reality is disconnected from daily life this produces energy blocks that can impact health, your affections and your intimate relationships.
There is something crude and infantile in your emotional world, something that you feel is threatening: underlying emotions tend to present themselves in dreams, in little irrational reactions or in particular moments in life, especially those less favorable and less ideal moments.
You must let yourself listen and learn to "feel" what is happening and stirring inside you: this is the only true alternative to the overbearing power of rationality that, in the end, is a very sophisticated alibi.
Letting you inner world flow
You are so accustomed to blocking the things that come from inside you, to nip intuition or flashes in the bud: you do so claiming that they are "irrational", and "not logical". However, you do not notice how attracted you are to people who instead use these faculties and make you feel welcome and understood. The world of "ideas" is not all that exists; there are also other aspects of the psyche that allow you to experience intimacy, union, the need to feel close to something or someone, not just by talking and sharing ideas. There is a side of you that seems cold, so logical that it cannot but arouse suspicions that there is, in fact, something that torments you inside. If you do not manage to enter into contact with your emotions you will end up feeling cyclically subject to the power of your internal dynamics which, since you are unable to assess them clearly, you try to repel and ignore as soon as they arise. The world of emotions leads to the development of ideas and the ability to let go of the things that belong in the past so they can become experience to be used in the future.
It is through emotional thought alone that you can reallocate life experiences, leaving in the past those things which are rightfully a part of your history but which cannot and must not tyrannize your present and future. To close off this connection means bringing all your baggage with you.
Re-contacting the power of imagination and dreams
Perhaps you are not so solid, strong and rational as you think. Maybe inside of you something has remained of that child who suffered and who now needs to be connected with again through letting yourself go, allowing yourself to use your imagination, to fly among the clouds of your dreams; without necessarily experiencing this as something to be cast aside because it's weak or immature, or believing it to be a leftover of your childhood. This is the world where true strength can come from.
Imagination is the quality that lets you raise yourself above reality: only those who do not accept it and consider it to be "inferior" risk being swept away and being swallowed up; without its counterpart, reason becomes infertile, sterile, almost glacial in its incapacity to give sense to life. Only the world of feelings is capable of giving it some kind of "value".
The world of the thoughts, which is so clear, linear and precise in its contours, is in fact cold, rigid and defends itself by trying to hold at bay a more shapeless, certainly less well defined, but infinitely softer and more enchanting world; a world that has a memory and that seduces you with the promise of returning to that "centre" from which everything originated, for which you are nostalgic. It is important for you to once again discover a desire for dreaming and to express this part of you that has been buried for such a long time; without it you will not be able to feel involved or to live experiences intensely. You can do it; gradually, on tip-toes, you will find again your senses and a feeling of belonging.
The fear of getting lost and of letting yourself go
Your great potential abilities to discriminate and evaluate may in themselves be a strong barrier against the fear of being swallowed in the vortex of what you feel is "chaos" without structure: to enter this chaos with your mind can be an experience that is initially difficult and confusing, but it can be transformed into something extremely rewarding and healthy: it can directly lead you to "feeling" what is pulling the subtle strings underneath your preconceived ideas and the solid structures that so reassure you and give you the illusion of always being able to understand what is the best thing to do and say.
You will be able to see clearly many prejudices about strength and weakness and you will see first hand that nothing is as defined as the mind would like it to be: that which seems to be chaotic and disturbing may simply manifest itself in an order that is different from the usual one, perhaps because it is closer to being "absolute". Giving yourself up to what you feel and to your various emotional states allows you to get to know them without experiencing them with a sense of loss or negation of the mind, but instead, as an experience that can reorganise the power of the mind, recovering its capability to listen to and contact the wide realm of the soul.
The route to integration
The birth chart is not only an ensemble of characteristics that regard personality; it is much more; a birth chart encloses a plan concerning your life. This plan contains the perception of your past and future, a vast area of experience from which we draw, through which we have already developed much of our potential and a new direction, which is the one that we have in front of us and that we must know to be able to make what we have chosen to come true and which represents our future.
None of us are born without capabilities; the potential that is indicated in the birth chart can be considered a "trend" that we have acquired in the past and that influence our present: they are true skills which can be useful to us in moments of difficulty since they are already tested, and therefore known to be effective.
However, this passage does not always turn out to be easy: there are in fact features of our past that rather than being useful simply as experience, can actually hold us back, they may be features that are too rigid which are difficult to shrug off; if this happens we have to pay particular attention to learning to mediate what we know - this must be an important source and not something to hinder us so that we remain within its constraints - and instead we must grow learning to use new capabilities, which therefore have not yet been fine-tuned - this is a passage that cannot be seen exclusively as a difficulty that will require a great deal of effort.
In this sense, our past represents the capabilities and competences that we have already acquired, something which we can use, our tools; the future regards what we are called upon to develop during our lifetimes because this there will be of fundamental help in the journey towards our future.
Relationships with others
You have a strong personality that can overpower others and not allow them the space for their expression. In order to have a sense of balance with the world outside you should be able to realize when you are exaggerating and stop others from expressing themselves. Let them speak and express what they have inside. You also need to work on yourself in that you too can be vulnerable when it comes to getting in touch with others and developing authentic relationships. At times questions of primacy and principle overtake all else, including rationality.
One of your tasks is to be able to perceive others as having rights and opportunities as you and as persons with whom you can relate with instead of desperately shouting "who are you". It is very important that you are able to monitor your "ego" and see which are the things that seem to challenge you by triggering in you strong reactions and leading you to employ defensive attacks that seem more like aggression and abuse. You must work to build a stronger "ego" to be able to tolerate even the most difficult situations.
Conflict as a way of present yourself
You have experienced a lot of conflicts in your life: both internally and externally. You need to be able to ask yourself why you have this very strong feeling of anger and impotence inside yourself that makes it difficult and precarious for you to communicate with the world. You have too many fears and insecurities that hold you back and that make you suspicious and irritable; it is this way of being that unseats your strong need for affection and attention that seems to be consistently denied. While conflict seems to be the only way of communicating it will be difficult to find acceptance and trust.
The solution lies in trying to achieve more balanced relationships where you can experience a real sharing with others, without looking at them as an enemy who must be kept at bay. What you are asked is to take into consideration the world, with all its range of diversity, and the only way to do this is to lower the spotlight on yourself. Learn to mediate, to become more diplomatic without needing to be reassured every time. Learn to manage your anger: the success of your relationships will depend on this.
Communicate, above all with your partners - it is a real art and is the one you have chosen to learn. Learning to be an equal partner in a relationship will allow you to experience a real sense of balance.
The role of real communication
Quality of life depends to a large degree on the capacity to have good relations with others, above all, partners. You must be aware that having relationships that work and where there is a level of real exchange does not depend on luck and the people you meet, but from the awareness that comes from being able to listen to your own needs and creating a space in which to communicate them while listening also to the needs of others. Beginning to truly see the other as an intelligent interlocutor even if he is nothing like you, is the first step towards this achievement.
You need to be aware of the fact that most conflicts arise from diversity of views and opinions and this also triggers anger in you; you must learn to be tolerant. If you take this step and try to understand the people who are close to you, without changing them or denying who they are, you will take the high road.
Successfully starting relationships is a constructive and healthy strategy and for you will be the first real step towards achieving your personal goals.
From irrational impulse to rational choice
You have strong energy that makes you a person of great initiative and, at times, strong impulsiveness; the need for visibility at times puts you under stress, forcing you to act before you have even decided if this was what you really wanted. All this energy should not go to waste, it should not be used in the form of coercion, forcing others to do as you want but, rather than reacting against strong inner impulses, it's time to act in a more adult way, in a way dictated by rational choices based on personal values and a real capacity for action, otherwise you will always have the feeling that something else is acting in your place.
Being a partner within a relationship cannot be the result of chance or even the impulse of the moment. It is a skill that you must achieve and comes from a real desire for knowledge of self and your partner, driven by real interest of sharing and cooperation, the desire to share what you are and what you have.
You need to become more fluid and less monolithic and figure out how you can get close to another, rather than dwell on the points of "division."
If you begin to observe your behavior you can retrieve your "projections" and stop seeing external enemies, which you know are primarily internal.
The purpose of your journey
In order to overcome the feeling of discomfort you feel when you are not at peace with the outside world, you need to learn to consider that winning should not be the most important thing in a relationship. To be fair, in a relationship, personal victory leads more often than you think to relationship-loss. You must be able to be aligned with yourself, but at the same time also with others: this is not a choice between individuality and relationships; we all need both of them.
You must be able to better identify and express your needs and only in this way can you create with your partner this land of intimacy necessary for a real relationship in which both of you can understand and express yourselves.
Only a true comparison with the other will allow you to achieve that sense of harmony you have hoped to find for such a long time.
The hero's journey
Each sign has a higher purpose and a precise individual myth to discover and understand: this does not mean that the purpose and myth have to coincide perfectly for everyone; however, the sign's myth will provide a kind of structure which the person can use and it will be a reminder of the overall path that regards the people born under this sign; Joseph Campbell stated that myths represent a path which allows people not to feel alone, since at all critical moments they remember that exactly the same kind of events, these crucial passages in life, have already been faced by others before them.
The purpose and the myth of each sign are therefore also a path for us that helps us go forth on our personal journey.
The myth is an overall way of living that fits well with the personal one, which is why its validity persists over time; the purpose is instead something personal which indicates what we have to become.
Everybody should therefore discover what their "solar purpose" is and which is their personal myth, because this will accompany them in their journey through life, without doubt affecting life's main stages.
Each journey has certain symbolic characteristics which everyone can relate to.
To enjoy the direct light of the Sun
You have an extremely strong and bright purpose to pursue: it is the perception of a strong light, of a powerful energy that radiates through joy, generosity and giving of itself.
Therefore, you will have a particular need to find "your place in the Sun" and will have to conquer this with your strength and with the weapons of the loyalty and courage, slowly discovering inside you what it is that animates you deep down. You have strongly tied yourself to the symbol of the Sun, which is why you possess certain qualities that you will not be able to ignore: you have warmth inside you and a light that must be emanated to the outside world, as if you have the task of lighting everything that surrounds you: like this, while you are spreading light, you manage light your own way to more and more clearly. Your powerful imagination and vision will let you go beyond yourself and your ego; in this way your light will light your path towards your self-fulfillment: this path you have undertaken will also let you be a particular reference point for others that, through the vision of your centrality, will be able to orientate themselves with greater clarity.
The true "leader" of yourself and for others
The qualities that you have received as gifts from your solar sign lead you not only to be able to shine for yourself, but to also have to enliven people who are close to you: you have the ability to find sense and meaning in life, and this may be the experience that you will be able to pass on to all the people who surround you and that, for this reason, will be able to see the light.
In mythology, the figure of the hero is tied to the sign of Leo, or of the one who overcomes huge misfortunes but who keeps his objective firm: he is the leader, the one who understands the value of life and wants to be real natural leader. The tools that you have at your disposal are a high level of confidence in your potential and ability and a real strength that does not consist of opposing, but in attracting.
The hero is also the person who will not be able to keep what he has conquered for himself, because in this case he would be a victim of the power he has attained; treasure symbolically represents an "asset" that belongs to everyone, to the whole of humanity; it represents the knowledge that is found in collective unconscious of which only the best - the heroes - can attain, because they have the qualities to overcome the trials they will find on their path. At the end of the day the heroes let everyone know about their exploits- which is the only way a hero can grow and find his dynasty (the hero becomes something for others to emulate and gives continuity to the life).
Only at the end of his journey will the hero's light illuminate the world, and its warmth will be a source of life for all, since it will truly come from the bottom of his heart.
Like the Sun that is in the sky and that attracts and keeps the entire solar system united and like the hero who conquers the treasure, so you must learn that your strength has the particular capability of attracting others to you, because they all perceive your energy, because it is clear, linear and authentic and does not work for exclusively personal reasons.
You will have to understand that your regality and your strength are not derived from an acquired right, but from what you will have capable of conquering; if there is no conquest, your life will be invaded by a sense of failure and uselessness.
Contact with Being
To realize your heroic journey you will have to do without a grandiose image, which is always present in your solar sign, and to contact real interior power, which must be supported by great ideals that push you towards the development of your strong sense of identity. To understand that you have a great elevation ability, but that not for this reason you are or should feel superior, will be one of the issues that will concern your life. A perception of brightness often produces a kind of grandiose image of yourself in the early years of your life. However, if this is not understood, it will prevent you from using your real abilities in the best possible way. Your journey thus consists in distancing yourself from your light and in identifying how to use your energy to conquer this regality in the realm of life. Exactly like Apollo - god of the Sun - who had arrows that he could use to illuminate and give life: however, this depended on his conscience and his will.
You must develop a strong sense of identity because this will lead to the possibility of acting and of thinking in an illuminated way: superiority must therefore be authentic and not expected, and above all, it cannot be reflected or even provided by others, since it is you who must bring light.
Confronting the shadow
The stronger the light the more likely its shade will be wide and long. Your shade consists of looking for attention and prestige in the outside world and in non-working deeply on your self-confidence: if it is not you who inspires and shines you will always have a need to take light and in a certain sense "steal" fire from others. You need to be "the centre", and not "at the centre": if you do not manage to have the security and naturalness that come from inside you, you will risk bringing everything on the image and not the essence of yourself. It is your light that must inspire others and not the contrary. If you are the light you will not be able to shine reflected light; it must be you who is able to give value to yourself and to be able to valorize those who follow you, and it is from your innate capabilities, and from your courage and generosity that the possibility of benefitting from the things you have so generously received as gifts will come. Otherwise you will be pretentious, haughty and you will need to be supported; you will be neither a king, nor a leader, because you lack the strength of attraction and will not be able to inspire anybody for their journey to discover themselves. Also, you must make your generosity become true and authentic, and you will not be able to use it to conquer or even to obtain admiration. Confidence and trust in you and in others will be the only weapons that will slowly replace pride and presumptuousness. Once you have really made contact with these innate gifts, you will know how to live on equal terms with others, without having the temptation of thinking you are superior to them.
