Pisces rising

You experience your body as one big feeler or antenna, so you are very open to pleasure and pain, and therefore you identify with whatever stimulus seems the most appropriate to your ever-shifting outlook. If you feel like languishing ecstatically, then you become an exotic hedonist; if guilt prevails, then you are drawn to pain and punishment, or purity and asceticism. When feeling positive and noble, the artist or the healer appears as your persona. The list is endless - and likewise, you can appear to be many things to others.

Sooner or later your life has to be organized in a fashion that stops your various identities constantly changing into one another, for this breeds some confusion in others, and oceans of it in yourself. In order to acquire this integrated identity, you should embark upon a definite task or service in order that your super-sensitivity can be positively employed, otherwise you are in danger of dissolving into the boundless.

Such sensitivity could be divided into three types: Intuitive-Healing; Imaginative-Inspiring: Mystical-Enlightening. In the first case, it is your soft and soothing presence, which is also deep and powerful, like the sea that can give rise to a healing ability. In the second, the myriad impressions you receive from your inner and outer environments can be translated into sound or vision or words. In the third case, your psychic awareness allows you to tune into presences, atmospheres and ethereal realms in such a way as to broaden and enrich your own and others' senses of what constitutes reality.

In order to balance out and focus these subtleties, you tend to attract partners who are helpful and discriminating, and point out the precise and practical details of life.

Neptune is your Ruling Planet, which governs the link between your exterior being and your interior being. So study Chapter Eleven - Your Neptune Profile, with this in mind.

Sun in Scorpio

Your essential purpose in life is to deepen and make more genuine whatever it is that you regard as important. To enable you to accomplish this you have an ability to see into the heart and soul of a person or situation, and to heal or transform what you find there.

The response that you get to this insight of yours varies. You can elicit from others extremes of mistrust or devotion and consequently be either mistrustful or utterly devoted yourself. Your probing intensity can certainly reach the parts that other Signs cannot reach. But if you don't wish to emotionally exhaust those people that matter to you, give the probing a break occasionally, for the world will get by for a while without it. This ability of yours to penetrate into another's emotional reality is sexually based. This means to say that Scorpio's renowned sexuality is more to do with your mind and feelings than your body.

This is what sets you apart from other Signs, for you are able to 'enter' someone else's space without even touching them. This psychological insight and the powerful influence that it can wield is compromised by one thing only: you suspect that others are doing the same to you with dubious intentions. This in turn gives rise to a downward spiral of discord that appears to prove your suspicions correct. Behind all this is your fear of having a weak link in your chain mail - your vulnerability - spotted and taken advantage of. Spot it yourself first, and you are invulnerable.

Moon in Capricorn

Your reigning need is to feel needed. This can prove quite precarious for you as others, especially your parents, can come to see you for what you can do rather than for what you are. Or, one of your parents was not there for you physically or emotionally.

From the word go, your need for external approval put you in a situation where your own emotional nature was not taken into consideration. As a child, were not acknowledged as one, and neither perhaps is the child in you now. Because your emotional interior was not nurtured, and was possibly even abused, you grew up with only a poor idea of how to cherish and value it.

Such emotional denial could cause you to be quite a survivor in the harsh outside world as a kind of substitute for a feeling of inner support. This could turn into a rather grim and lonely alternative, although your cool efficiency would possibly conceal this fact. Or again, you may look for the nurturing parent that you never had in a partner.

Conversely you could be a parent to your partner, and others too, as you deftly manage material affairs but this would eventually only serve to isolate you further. What you have to set about doing with your innately industrious nature is to look for, and find, that sad child inside of you, and possibly with professional therapeutic help, look after it yourself. In becoming the parent of your own inner child in this way, you then develop into an extraordinarily balanced and capable human being.

Midheaven in Sagittarius

For your professional life to be satisfying and successful it needs to be ever expanding, growing beyond itself, so this poses some work or subject that is never finished - teaching, religion, philosophy, archaeology, anthropology, history, law, publishing; anything that is seeking to include and understand more and more. In a physical sense, this would also include any kind of sport or occupations involving travel.

You are happiest trying to reach as many people as possible; Sagittarius likes to bring and bind people together with a sense of enthusiasm. You also like plenty of room to operate so a restricting sort of work life is very inadvisable. Furthermore, religious influences in your life greatly affect your choice of profession or the moral way that you conduct it.

The Sign, House and Aspects of your Jupiter (see Chapter 8) will reveal more about the style and conditions of your professional position and development.

Mercury in Scorpio

Yours is the mind of the interrogator or spy. So any occupation that needs or uses this kind of delving mentality is bound for some measure of success. This particularly inclines towards psychological, research or police work. You don't miss many tricks. Your failing, however, is that you can suspect malice of intent where there is none and this can lead to mental convolutions which are almost impossible to work out or work through. It's likely that you create intrigue in order to keep your mind on its stealthy toes and this is probably okay - just as long as your own mental swordplay doesn't foil you in the process. Essentially, you have a good, sharp mind, because there's always something (or someone) that needs looking into so your mental muscle is constantly exercised.

Venus in Libra

You are a social or artistic touchstone and therefore have a natural sense of beauty and harmony, which you express in a social or artistic way. The inherent weakness of your aesthetic awareness is that you are very easily attracted to good-looking surface appearances - especially in a sexual, glamorous or romantic context. This is a bittersweet situation for you because your undeniable charm or artistry has no trouble attracting popularity, pleasure and even wealth, but you can become a slave to your vanity and appetites. Nonetheless, you are still a social or creative asset - and you certainly know what pleases.

Mars in Sagittarius

You assert yourself best when you have something to promote and believe in. This is why you have such energy and desire to travel and get around - in order to discover what it is that you are supposed to be championing, and then to actually do the championing. So initially, the essential thing is that you have the freedom to make off in any direction when and with whom you want to.

The trouble is that such wild energy as this - especially with regard to your sexual exploits - could become a law unto itself and you might forget that it was a means to an end, not an end in itself. So, at some point, you're likely to get 'hobbled' - that is, restrained by certain circumstances - until you've realigned yourself and your prodigious energies with some cause that's worthy of them, rather than simply horsing around. As a way of managing your great energy, or even as a pursuit in its own right, sporting activities should come naturally to you.

Jupiter in Libra

Your philosophy of life has mainly to do with your sense of justice, as you experience it in a personal way within your one-to-one relationships. It can also come from how you perceive it, or the lack of it, in society in general. In other words, your faith in life rests upon a belief that justice exists. If it does not - or it appears not to - your faith diminishes.

Conversely, when you're aware that justice prevails, you feel happy to go on. What you have to bear in mind is that justice is not always apparent on a surface level. By its very nature, justice often has to be sought - be it in your mind or a court of law.

Saturn in Libra

You are learning the most important lesson in life - balance. This means that you find yourself in situations where you have to decrease what there's too much of and increase what there's too little of. One-to-one relationships are particularly demanding as you have the task of establishing who is responsible for what, of being utterly fair in granting yourself and the other person equal rights, allowances for human error, etc.

Because balance is more of a critical factor for you than it is for most others, it would seem that there is often a steep imbalance between your position and the other person's. Grist for the mill, you could say. Upon passing this test, finding that crucial balance, you can land yourself with a relationship that is far more stable than most and become, in general, a fair judge of social affairs.

Uranus in Scorpio

You belong to a generation (born during the mid 1970's to early 1980's) whose intention was to reform attitudes towards sexuality and intimacy, as well as other kinds of hidden power. During this period these elements of life started to reach a critical state, be it the advent of dangerously defiant sexual freedom or a nuclear power station blowing up. Mt St Helens, the volcano in Washington State, also blew its top in 1980. Because of all this your generation basically has to wake up to what power actually is.

Neptune in Sagittarius

You belong to the Neptunian generation born between 1970 and the mid 1980's. As this generation came of age, confusion was experienced with regard to what was right or wrong. The underlying reason for this was a want of distinction between the Law of Man and the Law of God. In other words, this generation, and the time they were growing up in, had to contact a more spiritual and less material, yet at the same time practical, means of directing human morals and appetites. A real sense of the divine or the quantum began to emerge now.

Pluto in Libra

You are a member of the Plutonian generation (1971 - 1984) that grew up into a world where revolutionary changes began to take place with regard to marriage and social values. Being a child of a single parent family would be a typical example of your generation's social conditions. In any event, you grew up in an atmosphere of great uncertainty as to what social justice and the social norm were. Essentially, as a generation, you are re-writing the social rulebook, which unavoidably means being without, or refusing to observe, the old rule book.