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  How Others See You

  You’re often regarded as slightly eccentric—not necessarily strange, but certainly an independent character, a kind of daredevil with an unusual way of looking at things. People consider you a pathfinder, a member of the real avant-garde. They think you have a wicked sense of humor, an ability to shock and amuse at the same tine. They know you’re open to new ideas, especially when these ideas are yours. People are drawn to your friendliness and enthusiasm, but they withdraw quickly when you turn acid-tongued. Sometimes, because you need so much personal freedom, you give the impression of being uncaring or distant. Those around you may also become annoyed at your stubbornness.

  FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH THE SUN IN AQUARIUS

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  Jennifer Aniston

  Susan B. Anthony

  Corazon Aquino

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  John Belushi

  Jack Benny

  Christie Brinkley

  Tom Brokaw

  George Burns

  Robert Burns

  Aaron Burr

  Lord Byron

  Eddie Cantor

  Lewis Carroll

  Carol Channing

  Stockard Channing

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Natalie Cole

  Charles Darwin

  Angela Davis

  Geena Davis

  James Dean

  Neil Diamond

  Charles Dickens

  Matt Dillon

  Christian Dior

  Placido Domingo

  Dr. Dre

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Mia Farrow

  Farrah Fawcett

  Federico Fellini

  W. C. Fields

  Clark Gable

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Philip Glass

  Christopher Guest

  Germaine Greer

  Zane Grey

  D. W. Griffith

  John Grisham

  Paris Hilton

  Langston Hughes

  Holly Hunter

  Virginia Johnson-Masters

  Michael Jordan

  James Joyce

  Jerome Kern

  Alicia Keys

  Nastassja Kinski

  Eartha Kitt

  Ted Koppel

  Mario Lanza

  Heath Ledger

  Jack Lemmon

  Sinclair Lewis

  Joseph Lieberman

  Abraham Lincoln

  Charles Lindbergh

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Ida Lupino

  David Lynch

  Douglas MacArthur

  John McEnroe

  Norman Mailer

  Edouard Manet

  Christopher Marlowe

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Carmen Miranda

  James Michener

  Jeanne Moreau

  Toni Morrison

  Robert Motherwell

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Paul Newman

  Jack Nicklaus

  Nick Nolte

  Kim Novak

  Yoko Ono

  Thomas Paine

  Anna Pavlova

  S. J. Perelman

  James Pike

  Jackson Pollock

  Leontyne Price

  Ronald Reagan

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Burt Reynolds

  Jackie Robinson

  Chris Rock

  Norman Rockwell

  Franklin Delano Roosevelt

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Babe Ruth

  Telly Savalas

  Franz Schubert

  Andres Segovia

  Tom Selleck

  Jane Seymour

  Cybill Shepherd

  Susan Sontag

  Gertrude Stein

  Stendhal

  George Stephanopoulos

  Adlai Stevenson

  Justin Timberlake

  John Travolta

  François Truffaut

  Lana Turner

  Barbara Tuchman

  Jules Verne

  Robert Wagner

  Edith Wharton

  John Williams

  Oprah Winfrey

  Elijah Wood

  Virginia Woolf

  Your Most Likeable Trait COMPASSION

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  JUST AS THE FIRST SIGN of the zodiac, Aries, represents a new beginning so the twelfth and last sign, Pisces, is the end of the circle, the sign of eternity, reincarnation, and spiritual rebirth. Many astrologers say that Pisces is a link to the spirit world and that you who are born under this sign are old souls, for they believe Pisceans to have experienced other lives in the past.

  Pisceans have an otherworldly quality. In mystical terms, you are described as being half-body and half-spirit, pulled between material existence and spiritual concerns, possessed of the knowledge that you will never be entirely at home in the real world.

  Like natives of the other water signs (Cancer and Scorpio), you have the ability to see deeply into the human psyche. Subtle and intuitive, you are born with the gift of prophecy, and may even become involved in the occult, ESP, and spiritualism. Because you have a close relationship with astral forces, you feel things before you know them and your feelings are rarely wrong. If you get a hunch, others would be wise to pay attention. Part of your clairvoyance stems from the fact that you understand first with your heart, and only then do you rationalize what you know intuitively.

  Ruled by Neptune, planet of mystery and illusion, your personality is elusive, fey, and quicksilvery. Your element is water, and the imagery of the sea is evident in how easily you adapt to the ever-shifting currents around you. More than natives of any other sign, you are enormously influenced by your surroundings and by the people who touch your life. Indeed, you have a unique ability to get under another person’s skin, to take literally as your own another’s problems, joys, and woes. You have tender sympathy for anyone or anything that hurts; sick plants, hungry animals, and friends in need—they all find a home with you. At times you give away the very strength and emotional security you need for yourself.

  You possess superb intuitions and a seemingly bottomless understanding of other people, yet your extraordinary sensitivity can be your most vulnerable point. You are too impressionable to each passing influence, too susceptible to someone else’s hard-luck story or plea for help. For you, learning to say no can be a lifetime project and you may never learn how to do it at all.

  Ancient astrologers called Pisces the sign of Sorrow from Self-Undoing, and you can easily become the creator of your own downfall. You are impractical and fall prey to overindulgence. You also have a penchant for picking the wrong companions. A fatal flaw in Pisces is the tendency to flee from what you don’t want to deal with, and this can lead you into a world of addictive behavior. At times, your life may become so punctuated with trouble and heartache that you try desperately to escape, and then you are like Eliza jumping from ice floe to ice floe, with no clear sense of where you are headed. Your symbol, two fishes tied together swimming in opposite directions, represents conflicting emotions and desires that pull you to and fro. You must fight hard for stability, for the strength of purpose and balance needed to combat the negativity of laziness, carelessness, and emotional confusion. You need to develop a positive self-image, play on your strengths and ability to take responsibility, not let yourself fall victim to bad choices and your predilection for self-undoing. Your life lesson is to learn self-doing.

  Certainly, you do not lack backbone. Indeed, you are capable of great sacrifice and hard work in the service of a cause or an ideal. Intellectually you are curious and like to explore the unusual and hidden. Although you can be impractical, even lazy, you are also capable of prodigious work when you are involved in a project you truly care about. The thing is that despite the fact that you work unselfishly for others, you find it hard to be strict and discipli
ned with yourself. Not many natives of this sign are suited to the harsh, rough-and-tumble world of business and commerce. Pisces is the mystical sign of the poet and the dreamer, and you are more successful as a writer, musician, or artist. You’re intensely imaginative and addicted to make-believe, and you strive to create a world that comes closer to your own unique vision. When you put your energy into creating fantasies, you’re the most creative artist in the zodiac. Among famous Piscean creators are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frederic Chopin, Enrico Caruso, Vaslav Nijinsky, Rudolph Nureyev, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Because you blend compassion and understanding with great verve, you exert a unique power on people whose lives touch yours. You may feel you lack self-confidence to be a leader, but you are definitely a guide, teacher, and role model to many. You are also a fey charmer and a mischievous wit who loves to laugh. Yet because you are fundamentally unsure of yourself, you prefer to work alone rather than with people. You have an instinct for finding what appears to be the easy way out, and founder in the shallows of least resistance. This is why so many talented, charming, superior natives of this sign never attain the position in life to which their gifts entitle them.

  You are a very special person whose sensitivity and awareness will always appeal to a select group. You are capable of high intellectual achievement and your magnetic, mysterious, engaging and delightful personality is heightened by an intriguing sense of drama.

  You are also loyal, unselfish, and generous, always ready to help a friend who has fallen on hard times. In fact, you often create a special kind of magic—when you concentrate on the best and reject what is ugly and mean-spirited, people are likely to live up to your vision. You have a deep appreciation for the inner qualities of others; you are not concerned with the superficial and with what others see on the surface. You look at the inner soul, the essence. There is no more sensitive, perceptive friend, nor one more warmhearted, caring, devoted, and sentimental.

  Your Inner Self

  You absorb impressions, images, and emotions from everything around you, and then filter them through your rose-colored view of how you’d like things to be. This is not to say you cannot deal with reality—it’s just that you like to think of life as an ultraromantic movie filled with happy endings and where everyone has the best possible motives. You’re a big bundle of feelings. You feel intense joy and happiness when you’re involved in a creative project or a loving relationship. The opposite is also true: you can suffer greater depths of sadness than most. Yet you’re tougher than most people think. Push you down and you keep bouncing back like a rubber bathtub toy. You’re charged with energy and get caught up in what’s going on around you. Your greatest strength is in giving to others; you’re always ready to help whoever needs you.

  How Others See You

  Everyone thinks you are his or her special friend, that they have your undivided attention. You’re thought of as solicitous and concerned. You’re also known as a sparkling social presence—witty, vivacious, and always interested in new activities. People consider you artistic and somewhat bohemian, and are impressed by your psychic sensibility. They value you as a confidant but, oddly, the more people lean on you, the weaker they think you are.

  FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH THE SUN IN PISCES

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  Edward Albee

  Mario Andretti

  W. H. Auden

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Drew Barrymore

  Harry Belafonte

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Osama bin Laden

  Erma Bombeck

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Luther Burbank

  Michael Caine

  Karen Carpenter

  Enrico Caruso

  Johnny Cash

  Edgar Cayce

  Cyd Charisse

  Frederic Chopin

  Glenn Close

  Kurt Cobain

  Roy Cohn

  Nat King Cole

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Tom Courtenay

  Cindy Crawford

  Billy Crystal

  Honore Daumier

  Michael Dell

  Jimmy Dorsey

  Lawrence Durrell

  Wyatt Earp

  Albert Einstein

  Bobby Fischer

  Peter Fonda

  Galileo Galilei

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Jackie Gleason

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Kelsey Grammer

  Cedric Hardwicke

  Jean Harlow

  George Harrison

  Rex Harrison

  Patricia Hearst

  Ben Hecht

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Winslow Homer

  Ron Howard

  Victor Hugo

  William Hurt

  Henrik Ibsen

  John Irving

  Steve Jobs

  Jennifer Jones

  Barbara Jordan

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Edward M. Kennedy

  Jack Kerouac

  Ring Lardner

  Spike Lee

  Sybil Leek

  Jerry Lewis

  Rob Lowe

  James Madison

  Anna Magnani

  Gabriel García Marquez

  Michelangelo

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Glenn Miller

  Liza Minnelli

  Piet Mondrian

  Zero Mostel

  Rupert Murdoch

  Ralph Nader

  Kate Nelligan

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  David Niven

  Pat Nixon

  Rudolph Nureyev

  Merle Oberon

  Shaquille O’Neal

  Sidney Poitier

  Aidan Quinn

  Tony Randall

  Sally Jessy Raphael

  Lynn Redgrave

  Carl Reiner

  Rob Reiner

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Miranda Richardson

  Bobby Riggs

  Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  Philip Roth

  Kurt Russell

  Willard Scott

  Neil Sedaka

  Dr. Seuss

  Irwin Shaw

  Dinah Shore

  John Steinbeck

  Dean Stockwell

  Sharon Stone

  Darryl Strawberry

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Elizabeth Taylor

  James Taylor

  Ellen Terry

  Franchot Tone

  Tommy Tune

  Carrie Underwood

  John Updike

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Irving Wallace

  Earl Warren

  George Washington

  Kurt Weill

  Lawrence Welk

  Vanessa Williams

  Bruce Willis

  Joanne Woodward

  FOOTNOTES

  *The three modern planets are Uranus (1781), Neptune (1846), and (1930).

  *When the Sun crosses the four cardinal points in the zodiac, we mark the beginning of each of our four seasons: Aries begins spring; Cancer begins summer; Libra begins fall; Capricorn begins winter.

  With the above caveat, I include in this chapter a summary of general compatibilities for your Sun sign in the hope that it may prove both instructive and amusing.

  Vive l’amour!

  ARIES

  The Amorous Nature

  You and Aries Woman

  If you fall in love with an Aries woman, you’ll never lack for excitement. But are you the kind of man who can handle a full-blooded independent, forceful female? Because that’s what Aries woman is.

  This passionate, intense creature can’t give a tepid response. She’s a fully stocked fireplace, with logs, kindling, and paper, waiting for the touch of a match to set her on fire.

  What Aries woman wants, she gets. When a man meets an irresistible force like her, he tends to become a high
ly movable object. Indeed, when she is first attracted to a man she throws herself into the enthralling game of seeing how fast she can capture him. For her, one of the peak experiences of an affair is the beginning of the stalk. She’s fascinated by challenge. The more aloof you are, the more she wants you; her goal is to make you her love slave.

  A love affair with her is not easy. She wants freedom and total togetherness and ecstasy all at once. She has an enormous need for love and gets more than her share, but no man becomes her lord and master. She meets a man on equal terms. If he offers loyalty, she repays him in kind. If he is untrustworthy, she also repays him in kind. Basically, in her relations with men she is domineering. You can either accept it or leave. If you stay, you’ve made the first concession on a long road. At the end, you’re likely to find you’ve been molded and shaped to fit her image of what her lover should be.

  In love she will be faithful, but she expects total fidelity in return. Her jealousy is rooted in possessiveness. She doesn’t want a lover who has too many other interests. She wants all of him—or nothing at all.

  There is an important distinction to make about her jealousy that may be useful in helping to understand her fundamental character. She isn’t jealous because of a feeling of insecurity (the root cause of most jealousy), but because she has to be number one. She’ll become a towering inferno if her man so much as thinks about two-timing her.

  The Aries woman finds happiness in a long-term relationship. She enjoys sharing everything with a lover, and is a giver of and partaker in pleasure. She is a highly affectionate and demonstrative lover who exudes sexuality and magnetism. Every sex encounter (even with the same lover) takes on the drama of a conquest. She will also be your staunchest ally, fight side by side with you, believe in you, encourage you. She’s a marvelous companion for a man on the way up or fighting to stay at the top because she’ll give him all the strength and determination she has. She’s definitely ambitious.

  When she does not feel she is loved she can become shrill and demanding. Above all, she won’t tolerate being ignored or neglected. The straight road to perdition is a relationship with an unhappy Aries woman.

  She wants to be understood and appreciated for her unique qualities. If you handle her with tact and give her the admiration she needs, this vivacious, active, mischievous, sensual, fascinating woman will do anything you ask.

  You and Aries Man

  It would be superfluous to say he has fiery emotions because he has practically no other kind. He’s always in search of something that will satisfy his pioneering, ever-aggressive lust for adventure. He moves within a self-created aura of excitement and somehow things happen wherever he is.