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SZILVIA has an ideal of which she is only partially conscious, but it has a great influence on her psychology. She is determined to preserve her integrity and purity. Even though she may not be aware of it, she is often preoccupied by this predicament: how can she live in this world and remain true to herself? How can she succeed in life without sacrificing her ideals? It's the eternal philosophical dilemma. SZILVIA has developed a solution, however; she elaborates a fairly strict code of behavior, and tries to obey it as much as possible. The path that she walks in life is straight and narrow. She yearns for a life that would reflect the ideal she has set for herself, as free as possible from irrational mysteries and human failings.

In fact, although she may sometimes seem a bit rigid, a bit lacking in perspective, it is because her mind understands the macrocosm through the microcosm, and she must observe the completed system before she will form her opinion. She is especially good at sorting and choosing, because her mind is like a filter. It rejects the impurities and only accepts the pure and useful. Analysis, deductive reasoning, and a sense of experimentation are SZILVIA's qualities. She has a great meticulousness and precision which make her a quick and efficient worker. However, she may rely too strongly on her analytical faculties, to the detriment of an overall perception of reality.

SZILVIA likes purity and therefore justice. Thus, she is sensitive to human suffering, especially as a result of social injustice, and she will try to remedy the situation according to what she has learned. Once again, the overriding themes of her personality emerge: she wants to preserve an ideal, avoid deterioration, change, adulteration. She is offended by imperfection and tries to find ways to correct it. SZILVIA is eager to help, to be useful, to serve a great cause, but she sometimes does not know whom or what she seeks to serve. Whatever purpose she adopts, SZILVIA must learn to help without surrendering herself entirely; she tends to try to disappear into the background of a hierarchy. She is sometimes attracted by readymade systems, which soothe a certain anxiety she has. She wouldn't mind devoting herself to a state, a big corporation, or a dogma: it would be reasonable and satisfying. But she sometimes forgets to rebel a bit - to evaluate whether the end justifies the means. SZILVIA is reassured by predictability. When she commits herself, she wants to know exactly where she is bound and how. This may be a bit of an obstacle to her love life. She tends to keep a tight rein on her urges, to inhibit her emotions.

She would not want them to upset her carefully organized existence, after all! But she should learn not to perceive spontaneity as such a threat. Powerful passions and sentiments may overwhelm SZILVIA, since she tends to prefer reason, moderation, and reality. But her tendency to be so cautious, so analytical and intellectual, carries its own risk: that she will never dare to live life to the fullest.

Due to the influence of Libra Rising, SZILVIA treasures harmony, and will actively strive to achieve it, both in her social life (in her relationships with others) and in her private life (in terms of art, grace, and beauty). However, her independent and individualistic nature gives her a high ideal of her own freedom, and a burning desire to stand out from the crowd and create an innovative and unconventional lifestyle for herself. As a result, much of her ambition for total harmony will be shifted to her intimate ties (to her partner, for example), and this relationship will take on central importance. She should be aware of this aspect of herself, and choose her partner or partners carefully, because she would be sorely disappointed if she had to sacrifice her freedom to her love life. Ideal mates will be hard to find for an individual who can be as impatient, restless, and demanding as she! Indeed, the only suitable choices are people who share her unconventional ideas and tastes for change and novelty. In terms of broader social and professional relationships, she must learn to exercise her innate sense of truth and generosity to serve others. She could then become a great diplomat or negotiator. Her creativity and taste for art must also be allowed some outlet, or they are liable to increase her feelings of restlessness and frustration.

SZILVIA thrives on relating to other people. She cannot live without love.

SZILVIA has a strong personality; she is sometimes a little self-centered. Her fate is in her own hands.

At the time of SZILVIA's birth, her Rising Sign was located in Libra (the Scales), while the Sun was passing through the constellation of Virgo (the Virgin). A summary of the various clues mentioned above provide SZILVIA's personality profile; the following key words distill the essence of her character and indicate certain contradictions which may be sources of tension:

Sociability - Modesty - Adaptability - Analytical thought - Emotion - Strict logic - Tolerance - Attention to detail - Peaceful disposition - Perfectionism - Sense of harmony - Worry and anxiety - Worldliness - Nervousness.

Beneath a calm exterior, SZILVIA conceals a deeply anxious and worrisome nature, which makes her hesitant and somewhat unstable. She is friendly and sociable, however, and enjoys the love, recognition, and acceptance of a large circle of friends. She has developed an original and attractive type of charm, but is sometimes tormented by persistent feelings of inferiority. Her keen analytical and discriminatory abilities combine with her sense of harmony and proportion to give her a flexible mind which is especially skillful at comparing, evaluating, and summarizing, but she is also capable of organizing and managing.

Born in the three-and-one-half days before the Full Moon rose, SZILVIA is said to be a "Gibbous Moon" lunar type. This "soli-lunar" configuration gives her a rich, complex personality, although she is sometimes troubled by the feeling she is struggling to do something great. Indeed, a feeling that she is lacking something may preoccupy her until she finds a spiritual or humanitarian cause worthy of her devotion. Devotion will be important to her as a foundation for her inner and outer development. If she fails to encounter a great and noble cause to which she is willing to pledge herself, she could always make do with a person whose aura and magnetism attract her. Whatever she decides, it is by working to serve a cause or another person that she will approach her own self-transformation.

Due to the influence of Venus dominating her birth chart, SZILVIA is affectionate and extraordinarily attractive. She enjoys playing the game of seduction, endowed as she is with such irresistible personal magnetism. Her behavior is usually ruled by her feelings, to the exclusion of any other consideration, intellectual, material, or moral. She would be lost without love, and is sometimes haunted by the prospect of loneliness. The joys and sufferings occasioned by her relations with the opposite sex will be the center of her life. However, she might decide to transcend her emotional impulses through artistic expression. If this is the case, her artistic skills could be applied to social or professional endeavors.

Temperament

SZILVIA seeks to make her inner wealth outwardly manifest and substantial.

Relatively extroverted, SZILVIA leads a life which is open to the outside world. Her personal consciousness is forged by the heat of outer events. She is inclined to adopt the most objective viewpoint possible; to be pragmatic, and perhaps even materialistic.

While she contributes to important social causes or collective ideals, SZILVIA tends to keep her individual identity intact. For this reason, although she may become personally involved in social affairs, she is likely to resist any project she will be unable to lead herself, according to her own individual direction. She tends to identify herself with an activity with social implications, and attempts to know herself through this activity.

Thought, intuition, and inner perceptions predominate in SZILVIA's psyche. Open and curious, optimistic and enthusiastic, she is eager to participate in everything happening around her. Her affections are lively and spontaneous, but may be more intellectual than sensual. In a partner, she would seek a source of mutual spiritual or artistic inspiration. Light-hearted and perhaps even fickle, she never allows herself to be overcome by outer realities or emotions. In its most exaggerated form, her buoyancy borders on indifference.

SZILVIA is aware of a lack of confidence in herself and in life. Prone to apathy, as if deprived of optimism and cheerfulness, she may tend to be discouraged by the strains of living. This reluctance to accept the challenges of existence, which she may perceive as a major problem, may be the result of an ideal self-image which is elusive or flawed. Perhaps, as a child, SZILVIA was not given the means to develop such an ideal image, due to the lack of an appropriate role model for a positive hero figure. As a result, she is unable to project herself towards an improvement or an ideal. She may reject any challenge that would enable her to surpass herself, or accept it only after long meditation. Steeped in the awareness of her problem, she may be tormented and wish to change. Vigorous physical exercise and an effort to visualize an ideal hero figure would be beneficial to her, as well as a diet which includes large doses of vitamins and protein.

The behavioral roles and models SZILVIA adopts are based mainly on mental processes. She determines her purposes in life after careful reflection; she is attracted by intellectual theories and systems. A mobile personality, she is skilled at meeting people and may spontaneously establish very close friendships, even if they are not usually lasting. Impressionable and subject to the pressures of her environment, her relationships, both private and professional, are relatively unstable.

Psychological Analysis

Consciousness and The Ideal of Self:

SZILVIA is trying to overcome her feelings of insecurity. To do so, she needs a home: a dwelling, a territory, or perhaps a safe space or setting where she can rest, and let down her systems of defense against the outer world, which she finds aggressive and hostile. She is ready to make some sacrifices in order to maintain and consolidate the structure she has chosen. True inner security, based on real knowledge of herself, her abilities, and her shortcomings, her strengths and her weaknesses, would no doubt be most effective, and would allow her to remain open to the varieties of experience offered by the world.

Adaptation and Sensitivity:

Hypersensitive, SZILVIA is extremely receptive to the mood in her surroundings. She is unconsciously able to perceive the parapsychic signals or aura people give off, in addition to their words. As a result, she is extremely compassionate and ready to devote herself to their well-being. Her imagination has formulated the dream of an ideal life, and she sometimes feels ill-equipped for the realities of this existence. She tends to dodge difficult situations. With her partner, she seeks fusion.

SZILVIA has a sensitive and affectionate nature. She seeks tenderness and gentleness more than passion. Her relationships with others are smooth and pleasant, and she has a natural sense of tact and social grace.

Out of either shyness or caution, SZILVIA hides and protects her sensitivity behind a fairly cold, aloof exterior. She is fairly conservative, respectful of tradition and convention, and likes to follow the rules. Because she needs stability to alleviate her feelings of frustration and sometimes emotional dependency, she has great faith in contracts which seal relationships. Her ties to her past are fairly strong: they are a source of reassurance and safety, because her parents gave a lot to her.

Due to her extreme sensitivity and irrepressible imagination, SZILVIA sometimes has trouble distinguishing dreams from reality. Although her bubbling imagination provides an abundant source of inspiration for creative or spiritual evolution, it tends to be less helpful and positive in matters that concern her self-assertion as a responsible and self-sufficient adult member of society. In a relationship, she is extremely romantic, and does not always see others the way they really are.

SZILVIA's sensitivity and emotions are sometimes in conflict with her instincts. This inner discord makes her a fairly complicated relationship partner, and her behavior sometimes strikes others as mysterious or baffling. Sexuality is an important part of SZILVIA's life, and her relationships are most often motivated by her desires. Nevertheless, due to her unconscious inner battle, she does not often succeed in reconciling and fulfilling her emotional and sexual needs. Due to the strength of her instincts, passion may overwhelm her and drag her into situations she cannot always control, which intermingle erotic ecstasy and anguish, guilt and aggressively.

Love and Sensuality:

SZILVIA tries to express her affections in the most graceful and harmonious way possible. Indeed, she has an innate sense of harmony and strives for a love relationship characterized by balance and perfection. She tends to idealize both her partner and the institution of marriage. Any disillusionment she encounters in the pursuit of her ideal may be experienced as a frustration. She does not always ply her powers of seduction skillfully.

SZILVIA's birth chart indicates an emotional function which is usually expressed carefully and reasonably. Distrustful of her emotional urges and somewhat wary of her feelings, SZILVIA tries to rid herself of all partiality, and tries to get some perspective and distance before making an emotional commitment.

Sensitive but plagued by self-doubt, SZILVIA has a contradictory personality torn between dreams and reality, between her nearly mystical need for love and the practical aspect of things. She is timid and rather inhibited, so she is generally careful to confine herself to the sidelines. As a result, many a chance passes her by. If a virile man took her under his wing, she would thrive. Otherwise, she might find happiness with someone as sensitive and timid as herself, who knows how to understand her in all her complexity.

SZILVIA is a pleasure lover who rarely denies herself an opportunity for sensual enjoyment. This aspect of her personality may complicate her love life. She should try to balance her feelings and her desires if she wants to build a successful marriage or end up with a man who might take advantage of her gullibility and her weakness.

SZILVIA may be characterized by strong sensual and affectionate urges which drive her to seek pleasure, sometimes to an unreasonable degree. Her need for romantic fulfillment may compel her to marry, because she also seeks the legal and social legitimacy the institution of marriage confers on an emotional bond. Indeed, the household is liable to be prosperous and even opulent, as if this offered further evidence that SZILVIA had indeed achieved success. However, privately, SZILVIA tends to be less committed; she sometimes neglects the obligations and duties to her partner she is now legally bound to fulfill, and may behave rather selfishly and egotistically. At worst, she might deny the commitments that her optimism and expansiveness made her rush into too soon. If this were to be the case, the outward image of the couple's success (wealth and comfort, etc.) would only be a façade which compensated for its emotional impoverishment and failure. Sooner or later, this hypocrisy might provoke a full-blown conflict. A second possibility is that a psychic incompatibility may gradually take root in SZILVIA, pitting her romantic nature against the prerogatives of her career.

Mental and Intellect:

SZILVIA has a fairly skeptical temperament which relies on remarkable analytic and critical faculties. She is sensitive and curious, a keen observer of facts who collects detailed information she will later pore over and analyze. This type of logical, rational mind is extremely efficient for elaborating methods or sorting and classifying information. However, it sometimes lacks flexibility or broad-mindedness, cannot usually theorize, and allows very little expression to intuition.

SZILVIA tries to shun subjectivity and be as objective as possible. Her thoughts are usually structured, and her reasoning, based on objective facts or experience, usually relates to practical goals.

Energy and Ability to take Action:

Although she may tend to be slow in getting started, it seems as though nothing can stop SZILVIA when she finally commits herself to an activity or finds an direction in which to channel her energy. The instinctive power which determines her behavior comes to the fore. Regardless of her choice of purpose, which may be positive and constructive or violent and destructive, a tangible result is sure to ensue.

SZILVIA displays a behavior pattern which is erratic and somewhat frustrating for her. The difficulties she encounters in trying to assuage her appetites and express her emotional urges may be related to her formative years. When she was a child, her parents or teachers may have been unable to recognize her desires and differentiate them clearly from her needs. The confusion still persists, and unconscious psychological memories intrude on her decisions and desires as an adult, sometimes disrupting her behavior. Her spontaneity is assailed by more or less conscious inner conflicts and doubts about her abilities. To free herself, she will have to make an effort to identify her true personal desire. Every time she faces an important choice, she will have to ask herself what she really wants, and if it is possible in regard to the context and circumstances.

When she has a relative abundance of resources (financial or energetic) at her disposal, SZILVIA is liable to spend them too freely, or to accumulate the advantages for herself in a rather egotistical way, although she praises the fair division of assets acquired in common. This contradictory attitude may anger those who are close to her. She could use the conflicts and confrontations which are likely to arise as an opportunity to assess and perceive her position in her relationships. Without ever forgetting that her only wealth is what she shares with the partner or partners she has chosen for herself, she should be capable of defining how much of her own energy and time she is willing to give or sacrifice to the common good.

Dominant Astrological Characteristics

Venus is the first dominant in SZILVIA's astral chart. In the following paragraph, we shall indicate the significance of this fact:

In traditional astrology, Venus (or Aphrodite, her Greek name) is the planet of love. A source of universal attraction, this planet corresponds to the original urge which bonds two human beings together in love. Venus is thus both the magnetism which brings human beings together (not lust, which is symbolized by Mars, but the object which attracts lust) and the gift of love. This ambiguity is interpreted astrologically by the fact that Venus rules two houses of the Zodiac: in Taurus, Venus symbolizes the awakening to bodily lust, and in Libra, the bond of marriage. As a result, Venus may take on very different aspects depending on the individual's degree of awareness. Likewise, this ambiguity explains Aphrodite's equivocal conduct in Greek myth and her innumerable couplings and motherhood. Depending on the legend, she may embody brutal, passionate love (with Anteros), the wisdom of the heart which rescues from passion (Harmonia); she also becomes tenderness and purity (with Adonis), pure sexuality (with Eros), a transforming energy (with Vulcan), etc. Mistress of the Arts, she represents beauty, understanding, and peace. Psychologically, the individuals under the influence of Venus are struggling with their love instincts. This is why SZILVIA cannot conceive of living without a personal emotional relationship to someone else and sometimes fears solitude and the encounter with herself. She is extremely attractive to others, and is a creator and artistic genius who seems to imbue all she touches with beauty and harmony. Her artistic skills are obvious to the people around her, and may be applied to career endeavors. Pleasure, outings, seduction, love, and a thriving but sometimes superficial social life are the hallmarks of her life. Nevertheless, one day she will have to learn to give out of the goodness of her heart, and not as a means of seduction.

Uranus is the second dominant in SZILVIA's astral chart. In the following paragraph, we shall indicate the significance of this fact:

This planet symbolizes the principle of independence and self-sufficiency, as well as a principle of transformation. Its most striking characteristic is distance from others: the Uranian strives to stand out from the herd, and distances herself from structuring influences like convention, tradition, etc. Although this need to free herself from the confines of convention, tradition, and family symbolizes an appeal for freedom and a desire to evolve beyond the bounds of physical limits towards a spiritual dimension, it may also correspond to a form of escape. This is why SZILVIA sometimes needs to cut herself off from situations or relationships which feel stifling to her. Her intense fear of being swallowed up psychologically causes her to react to certain emotional demands by making herself remote or running away. She needs a lot of space and frequent change. In a relationship, she is seeking a certain degree of intellectual excitement. Without it, she feels as though an unbearable, suffocating boredom sets in. By refusing certain concessions to convention which are practically inevitable, she may find herself in unpleasant situations. Finding an intelligent alternative to the routine set by the rigid forms of the past is extremely different from rebelling against any form of authority, in the settings of family, school, business, or society. One of the major problems SZILVIA has to solve is how to wield her freedom, in her emotional relationships as well as her relationships with society.

Jupiter is the third dominant in SZILVIA's astral chart. In the following paragraph, we shall indicate the significance of this fact:

In traditional astrology, Jupiter has always been considered as the Great Benefactor, the planet of luck and success such as personal fortune, social prominence, professional prestige, high political position... The Jupiterian bounty is peerless! In psychological terms, this planet has a much vaster significance. As the biggest planet in the solar system, it does preside over the process of personal expansion, interpreted to be fitting into society better and finding an appropriate match between one's individual ambitions and the aspirations of the group. These growth is accompanied by a feeling of self-confidence, which, in turn, buoys up an even greater externalization and expansion of the ego. hence the planet's flattering reputation. But this snowball effect (Jupiter smiles and the world smiles with her), in which social skills magnify confidence and boldness reaps many rewards, betrays the negative side of Jupiter: extreme and excess. Although grandeur was the characteristic of the " king of the gods ", errors of judgment, poor taste, and sometimes selfishness and pride are also likely to be part of the Jupiterian package. It is important to note that the extension of the ego may be a form of escape; it is tempting to hide behind one's popularity and social success, which are fairly easy to obtain, rather than be really demanding with oneself. The Jupiterian has a tendency to amplify her qualities out of compensation, to avoid seeing her weaknesses and flaws. As a result, she must be aware of the risk of over identifying with her social mask, which would cause her to neglect her inner self and deep nature.