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  The complexity of your mind makes it difficult for you to skim the surface; you must uncover what lies beneath. Whether you are studying a new subject, learning a language, hunting down a fact, or just reading for amusement, there is a quality of penetration in the way your mind works.

  Your finest attributes—and your worst—are revealed in relationships. With Scorpio, relationships are usually complicated. This is not surprising when you consider that you can be simultaneously generous and affectionate, violent and unpredictable; in your sunniest moods there is always a hint of an imminent change in the weather. You are deeply loyal to friends but are also intensely jealous and possessive. You cannot tolerate the thought that anyone you love might have a yearning, or even a simple yen, for anyone else. With you, it is usually all or nothing at all. Moderation, restraint, and certainly casual are not in your emotional vocabulary.

  You never forget a kindness and will try to repay it handsomely. Conversely, you never forgive an injury and will wait years to get even. In fact, most of the time getting even isn’t enough—you want vengeance. It is strictly not advisable to do harm to any Scorpion. You make a dangerous enemy, for you are as subtle and deadly as the symbol of your sign.

  You are a fierce competitor, though often you manage to conceal this from others. You file away pieces of information, facts, and names, and don’t hesitate to use what you know if the occasion arises. When you spot a weakness in a rival, you move in quickly for the kill.

  You are adaptable, able quickly to channel your formidable energies into new paths and to embark on an entirely different career. Confronted with disaster, you will try to turn it into success. Practical and shrewd, you believe in tangible immediate goals, and your single-minded concentration on getting what you want is formidable.

  Clever with money, conservative about spending it, you have an excellent chance to amass wealth. In business, you tend to accomplish things first and announce them second. By the time an opponent is aware of your progress, it is a fait accompli.

  Your nature makes you subject to obsessive drives that can be resistant to reason. You will dominate and control anyone who lets you. Suspicious and wary, you are reluctant to trust your heart to anyone. But once you do, you love deeply.

  Too many astrologers, in describing the sign of Scorpio, forget to emphasize how loving, generous, kind, loyal, even gentle a Scorpio can be. Many idealists who adhere to high principles and are a great positive force for helping others are born under this sign.

  What all Scorpios have in common is intensity of feeling. Emotion not only rules, it characterizes you. You are passionate in love, and passionate about everything in which you become involved: work, relationships, hobbies, causes. You are an individual painted in vivid colors; there is no such thing as a pastel Scorpio.

  The Inner You

  You have great strength, determination, and willpower. But no matter how calm and cool you appear on the outside, you’ve got a well of seething emotions underneath. For the most part, though, you keep your intensity under control by channeling it into useful activities. You’re a high achiever, and you seem to “get” things in a flash—with powerful psychic feelings you’ve learned to trust. Your instincts tell you that you’re destined to do something important and you’re not going to let yourself fail along the way. When you latch on to a new opportunity, you explore it in great depth before going ahead. Deep inside you is a gladiator spirit, and if you channel this fighting energy into positive goals (your continuing lesson), you will always be one of life’s great winners. At times, however, you feel you are a lone warrior in a harsh world. You’re a complex person who can’t always express how you feel, but one thing is certain: The things you want, you want badly.

  How Others See You

  It’s probably your secretiveness that makes people so interested in finding out what you think. You’re often the guru in a group, the one with uncanny hunches about the future and piercing insights into other people’s motivations. Many believe that even your humor contains the barb of truth. People are aware of your reputation for sensuality and fantasize about you as a lover. You’re frequently viewed as over-controlling and too ambitious—even power-hungry—but also as someone who can be trusted, because you never make false promises.

  FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH THE SUN IN SCORPIO

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  Spiro Agnew

  Marie Antoinette

  Ed Asner

  Christiaan Barnard

  Roseanne Barr

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Edwin Booth

  Charles Bronson

  Tina Brown

  Richard Burton

  Laura Bush

  Albert Camus

  Johnny Carson

  James Carville

  Dick Cavett

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Charles, Prince of Wales

  Chiang Kai-shek

  John Cleese

  Michael Crichton

  Hillary Rodham

  Clinton

  Barbara Cook

  Peter Cook

  Stephen Crane

  Walter Cronkite

  Marie Curie

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Bo Derek

  Danny DeVito

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Feodor Dostoevski

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Sally Field

  Jodie Foster

  Felix Frankfurter

  Indira Gandhi

  Bill Gates

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Ruth Gordon

  Billy Graham

  Ken Griffey Jr.

  Moss Hart

  Harry Hamlin

  Goldie Hawn

  Shere Hite

  Bob Hoskins

  Rock Hudson

  Mahalia Jackson

  Peter Jackson

  James Jones

  George S. Kaufman

  John Keats

  Grace Kelly

  Robert Kennedy

  Larry King

  Calvin Klein

  Kevin Kline

  Hedy Lamarr

  Burt Lancaster

  k.d. lang

  Fran Lebowitz

  Vivien Leigh

  Martin Luther

  Charles Manson

  Joseph McCarthy

  Joni Mitchell

  Margaret Mitchell

  François Mitterand

  Claude Monet

  Demi Moore

  Mike Nichols

  Georgia O’Keeffe

  George Patton

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Pablo Picasso

  Sylvia Plath

  Emily Post

  Ezra Pound

  Claude Rains

  Dan Rather

  Ann Reinking

  Condoleeza Rice

  Julia Roberts

  Auguste Rodin

  Roy Rogers

  Will Rogers

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hermann Rorschach

  Meg Ryan

  Winona Ryder

  Carl Sagan

  Jonas Salk

  Martin Scorsese

  Maria Shriver

  Grace Slick

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Lee Strasberg

  Billy Sunday

  Joan Sutherland

  Dylan Thomas

  Leon Trotsky

  Ted Turner

  Voltaire

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sam Waterston

  Stanford White

  Owen Wilson

  Your Most Likeable Trait OPTIMISM

  RULED BY JUPITER, planet of fortune, you appear to breeze through life. You are Lady Luck’s companion who seems always to be in the right place at the right time. Astrologers say you have the gift of providence—luck protects you. In work, friendships, career, money—a door opens just when you need it. Naturally, this makes for a cheerful and ebullient disposition. You have your dark moments, but clouds roll over quickly. You are too interested in what is going to happen to
morrow to fret long about what went wrong today. You are always sure that around the next bend of the road something wonderful is about to happen.

  In Sagittarius, the enthusiasm of fire, the restless mutable quality, and the jovial influence of Jupiter combine to produce an expansive personality who cannot be confined. Independence is your guiding principle. You are progressive, restless in spirit, eager to get on with the business of living—a free, adventurous spirit who thrives on new ideas and constant change of scene. Somewhere you picked up a chronic case of wanderlust, and you have no desire to be cured. The grass is always greener someplace else, and your restless, inquiring nature requires travel, excitement, and the unconventional. Sagittarius, like its opposite sign Gemini, wants to know. But whereas Geminis are happy to sample a new idea, Sagittarians will follow it as far as it will go. In the zodiac, Sagittarius symbolizes the search for wisdom; this is the sign of the philosopher and the explorer.

  Sagittarians are hard to pin down emotionally. You don’t want to get bogged down in messy entanglements or anything that ties you down. You’ve got places to go and you’re not about to sign up for anything that keeps you in one spot. The way to stay unfettered is to shy away from emotion. Sagittarians rarely talk about their feelings—they talk about what they think about their feelings. Time and again Sagittarians are bewildered when their romantic partners ask for more passion and feeling. Because you keep one eye on the exit door and don’t welcome enduring, profound relationships, sooner or later, you’ll unknot the tie that binds.

  Friendship, however, is a different matter. You are always willing to be a pal—and you are the nicest friend in the zodiac. Kind, openhearted, jovial, completely free of malice, you are always doing favors for others. Your way of helping doesn’t put the recipient under heavy obligation. “No strings” is a guiding Sagittarian motto.

  Freedom is your most valuable possession. If it comes to a choice you’ll take a difficult path, accept less money, dispense with security, do anything as long as you have to answer only to yourself. Your passion for liberty underlies all your other qualities. Prizing it as you do, you also willingly grant it to others. You don’t meddle in other people’s plans or interfere with what they think best for themselves, and you aren’t possessive or jealous.

  A sense of humor is among your most endearing traits. High-spirited and congenial, you are a gifted conversationalist, a wonderful storyteller, and a born entertainer. Writing, publishing, TV, communications are enterprises in which there are many Sagittarians. Famous Sagittarians in these fields include Noel Coward, James Thurber, Mark Twain, Garson Kanin, William Buckley, and Woody Allen.

  You Jupiter-ruled people are unusually versatile. You have wide-ranging interests—music, nature, philosophy, computer technology, theater, animals—and enough energy to do six things at once. What you lack is staying power. Before you finish with one project, you are off to meet the next challenge. One reason is that you become bored doing the same things, and boredom is your worst enemy, but another is simply that you must move on—and up.

  In business you are imaginative and clever, ready to accept the new and to use it. But you perform best when there’s something really important at stake. When you’re down to your last chance to win, when it’s now or never, you’ll put everything you own on the turn of a card and redouble the stakes. You believe in your luck.

  You are straightforward and honest. Your frankness makes you easy to deal with because one doesn’t have to spend time figuring out the hidden significance of unspoken clues or nuances. There is no hidden significance. What you say is what you mean. And you’re willing to tell all who ask exactly what you think of them, their lifestyle, hairstyle, choices, lovers, you name it. The best part, however, is people can trust what you tell them. Your candid remarks are not meant to hurt; they spring from a desire to tell the truth. Ironically, you are rather thin-skinned and too easily hurt by a thoughtless action or careless rebuff.

  The keyword in understanding Sagittarius is possibility. To be restricted or feel your choices are diminished is very depressing for you. You tend not to look at life as it is but as you want it to be. In many ways, you rebel against being a grownup. Certainly, you know how to take on responsibility and you’ve proven yourself strong in the face of setback. Crisis brings out the best in you. It’s the “dailiness” of life that defeats you. You have grand and wonderful ideas for an adventurous career or carving out a utopian life or helping the world become a better place. Then you procrastinate, let others deal with the details, lose interest in a plan—and wonder why you’re stuck in the same place.

  However, Sagittarians are among the most likeable people in the zodiac. True, you can be extravagant and wasteful, even on occasion reckless and irresponsible. True, your life is full of forgotten appointments, missed deadlines, unfinished projects. True, your emotions can be shallow and your commitments almost nonexistent. Overriding everything, though, is the fact that you’re fun to be with. So what if you promise the moon and everyone knows you won’t deliver. You know it too. There’s nothing underhanded or secretive in the way you deal. You play with all your cards on the table.

  Impetuous, buoyant, charming, you hitch your wagon to the merry-go-round of life and ride it with insouciant elegance.

  The Inner You

  Like Scarlett O’Hara, your motto is, “Tomorrow is another day.” Even in your darkest moods, you believe there’s a light shining around the corner. Your confidence in the future is genuine, but you hate anything interfering with your plans. You have a hunger to experience life to its fullest—to travel, meet interesting people, and see things you’ve never seen before. Anything new sparks your interest. In fact, you’ll usually say yes to a suggestion without weighing its merits simply because it lifts your spirits. And while you’re not exactly a moody person, you are high-strung and can become irritable when you start to get bored. You may think no one cares about you or understands you when you’re feeling this way, but luckily your belief that you’re someone special always sees you through.

  How Others See You

  People like your sense of humor and your buoyant presence. No matter what goes wrong, you’re ready with an upbeat explanation and forecast for the future. You’re also the first to volunteer help; colleagues and friends appreciate your willingness to do favors. People like your frankness, although sometimes they think you can be too frank and that you put your foot in your mouth too often. To some you seem fickle and undependable, perhaps a bit too detached emotionally. In general, you’re viewed as an unpredictable, independent spirit.

  FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH THE SUN IN SAGITTARIUS

  Christina Aguilera

  Louisa May Alcott

  Woody Allen

  Christina Applegate

  Jane Austen

  Tyra Banks

  Kim Basinger

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Busby Berkeley

  William Blake

  Kenneth Branagh

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Beau Bridges

  Jeff Bridges

  William F. Buckley

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Dale Carnegie

  Winston Churchill

  Dick Clark

  Joseph Conrad

  Noel Coward

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Miley Cyrus

  Sammy Davis Jr.

  Emily Dickinson

  Joan Didion

  Charles de Gaulle

  Joe DiMaggio

  Walt Disney

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Kirk Douglas

  Patty Duke

  George Eliot

  Chris Evert

  Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

  Jane Fonda

  Lynn Fontanne

  Jamie Foxx

  Redd Foxx

  Ira Gershwin

  Margaret Hamilton

  Ed Harris

  Teri Hatcher

  Jimi Hendrix

  Abbie Hoffman

 
Katie Holmes

  Jay-Z

  Boris Karloff

  John F. Kennedy Jr.

  Billie Jean King

  Fiorello La Guardia

  Max Lerner

  John Malkovich

  David Mamet

  Howie Mandel

  Mary Martin

  Harpo Marx

  Margaret Mead

  Bette Midler

  John Milton

  Carry Nation

  Mandy Patinkin

  Drew Pearson

  Edith Piaf

  Brad Pitt

  Richard Pryor

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Edward G. Robinson

  Lillian Russell

  William Safire

  George Santayana

  Charles Schulz

  Eric Sevareid

  Garry Shandling

  Frank Sinatra

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  Britney Spears

  Steven Spielberg

  Rex Stout

  John Stewart

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Jonathan Swift

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  James Thurber

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Tina Turner

  Mark Twain

  Cicely Tyson

  Liv Ullmann

  Dick Van Dyke

  Gianni Versace

  William Wegman

  Rebecca West

  Eli Whitney

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Andy Williams

  Flip Wilson

  Your Most Likeable Trait STEADIENESS

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  CAPRICORNS ARE AMBITIOUS, and the lives of those born under this sign are marked by a purposeful pursuit of their destiny. Your motivating force is desire for success, money, status, position, authority, and (though you may not realize it) for love.

  Capricorn is both an earth sign and a cardinal sign, and the combination of practicality (earth) and initiative (cardinal) produces a personality geared toward leadership and power. In the zodiac Capricorn is linked to the Mid-heaven—the point at the top of the horoscope that represents high achievement. You’re a born climber who’s not content to poke along down in the valleys. As long as there is a top to get to from the bottom, you will persevere in your upward striving. Your symbol is the Goat, and everyone knows how goats bound up impassable terrain, finding footholds where no one thought they existed. You always carry with you the knowledge that there are tasks to be fulfilled and if you can’t move mountains, then at least, like the Goat, you can scale the heights.