Dominant Keyword: I use

Lucky Numbers: and 8

Birthstone: Garnet-attracts popularity, high esteem and true love

Color: Dark Green and Brown-classic, comforting colors of nature and the earth.

Dangers: Other people may harbor hidden grudges and resentments because of Capricorn’s coldness and reserve. Secrets from the past are often used against Capricorn’s.

In the sign of Capricorn the practicality of earth combines with the initiative of cardinality to create a personality geared toward leadership and power. Your ruler Saturn is the planet of limitations, which includes the limitation of time. (To the ancients, Saturn was the symbol for Father Time.) You have a heightened sense of the value of time, which helps make you a superb organizer and planner. In the sign of Capricorn the quality of patience reaches new heights. One of the hallmarks of your sign is that you learn to wait for things you want.

An aura of melancholy and sternness often surrounds you. Saturn has been called the Celestial Taskmaster for it symbolizes responsibility, discipline, and restriction. You, as a child of Saturn, are practical and above all determined. As long as there is a top to get to from the bottom, you will persevere in your upward striving.

You think of yourself as a real person in a real world, which allows little time for idle pleasure seeking. You have a sense of purpose and a great faith in your own ability. Essentially, you feel you can depend only on yourself. This remoteness of spirit is often misunderstood by others; it has been described as cold passion. But you are not cold as much as self-sufficient. Beneath your reserve there is a sensitive and sympathetic person, and anyone who needs a strong shoulder to lean on needn’t look further than Capricorn.

Certainly you do not deserve your reputation for being sober and gloomy. One of your more striking characteristics is a sense of humor. Your wit may be dry, incisive, but it is extremely funny and has a way of erupting when others least expect it.

As is your nature with everything else in life, you are cautious and conservative with money. Chances are you will amass wealth during your lifetime (usually in the later years), for you know how to make sound investments. In business your success is due to painstaking preparation. The journey of ten thousand miles may begin with a single step, but you know you can’t get anywhere unless you first know where you’re going. You may not size up a situation as quickly as some, but that can be an advantage, for it means you won’t heedlessly plunge in. Instead, you will research, examine what others have done before and gather all relevant data. Only then, with a thorough understanding of the details, will you begin to move. And then you won’t be stopped until you reach your goal.

Your basic concern is for security. That goal comes first and you are usually materialistic. You can be spiteful toward those who stand in the way. You have a great sense of pride and will not forgive anyone whom belittles or slights you. By the same token you will repay favors done for you. Scorpios also go out of their way to repay a kindness, but in their case it is done out of a sense of gratitude and fidelity. With you the motivation is pride, which does not allow you to live comfortably under an obligation.

More than any other sign of the zodiac, Capricorn’s marry for money and prestige. In most relationships you must dominate, because when you are in control you do not feel vulnerable to another person’s power. In small ways you are continually testing the loyalty of those close to you. You are the loner of the zodiac, but have a great need to be loved and appreciated. Unfortunately, you won’t let this need be known-in fact, you are a past master at concealing it.

Underneath the mask, you wear still other masks, and it can take a long time to discover the real you. To others you may appear aloof, indifferent, hard to reach because you are so self-contained. But the very elusiveness of your Capricorn personality can be hypnotically attractive.

Dominant Keyword: I SEE

Lucky Numbers: 5 and 7

Birthstone: Turquoise-Attracts love, protects from harm and gives its wearer the ability to see into the future.

Color: Purple-Uncommon color of royalty and the artistic.

Dangers: Sagittarian people are subject to accidents of fire and explosion, especially while traveling. Their strong desire for freedom may also incite jealousy and possessiveness on the part of a lover.

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 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 where-as Gemini’s 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 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.

Prizing freedom, you willingly grant it to others. You don’t meddle in other people’s plans, interfere with that 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.

You Jupiter-ruled people are unusually versatile and do a number of tasks well. 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, 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. Your blunt remarks are not said in spite, however, but simply because you don’t know how to beat around the bush. Ironically, you are rather think-skinned and too easily hurt by a thoughtless action or careless rebuff.

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 and 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.

Dominant Keyword: I DESIRE

Lucky Numbers: 2 and 4

Birthstone: Topaz-Releases occult powers and brings serenity of mind. It also protects from enemies and illness.

Color: Crimson, burgundy and maroon-The glowing colors of passion.

Dangers: Scorpio evokes anger in others by their secretiveness and jealousy. Their sharp stinging tempers can also enrage others to the point of violence.

The key to your personality is intensity. Magnetic, emotional, capable of exerting tremendous force, your strength is hidden in the depths. In the sign of Scorpio the element of water is fixed, an image that suggests an iceberg or a bottomless well. You may appear impassive, sometimes unapproachable, but turbulent passions are always roiling underneath, invisible on the surface.

You need a positive avenue of expression-in career of love or creative achievement-or your feelings turn inward, become imprisoned, at times even destructive. More than natives of any other sign, Scorpions live at a high pitch of emotion. Its negative aspects are brooding, jealousy, resentment and even vengefulness. The positive aspect is your unswerving dedication once your emotions are engaged. The Scorpion energy, drive and endurance are legend. Above all, you seek to give your life a meaningful pattern, to find a deeper purpose.

You have a philosophical turn of mind and may become interested in religion and the occult. Your sixth sense enables you to intuit things before they happen. You are blessed with a native understanding of the human heart and a great awareness of life’s secrets. All the water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) tend to psychic, but you Scorpions delve into the powers of the mind that others are afraid of. This is the zodiacal sign of birth, sex, death and regeneration-areas of human existence in which a person confronts the mysteries of the universe. Many Scorpio natives are brilliant doctors, surgeons, scientists and spiritual leaders.

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 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 and restraint are not in your emotional vocabulary.

You never forget a kindness and 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, 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 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, which can be resistant to reason. You will dominate and control anyone who lets you. Suspicious and wary, you are reluctant to trust you 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 and 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.

Dominant Keyword: I BALANCE

Lucky Numbers: 6 and 9

Birthstone: Opal-Brings financial success, frees its wearer from jealousy and greed, and imparts clear insight.

Color: Blue and Lavender-the colors of romance, harmony and refinement

Dangers: Libra people tend to stir up ill feelings from others in situations having to do with love. Because they are indecisive and sometimes make a declaration of love too easily, Librans both anger and disappoint lovers. They also have a tendency to be fickle and faithless.

Ruled by Venus, goddess of love and beauty, you admire loveliness in all its forms, in music, are, decoration-and people. Your home will always have a touch of elegance, and you love to entertain in style. You enjoy the comforts of life-all the things that money can buy.

A narcissist at heart, you expect admiration. You wish to be the jewel in the center of any setting, and you have a computer memory for any compliment ever paid to you. You tend to judge others by outward appearances. If someone has a charming facade, you won’t look any deeper. As a result you may become easy prey for a sophisticated schemer with an affable manner.

Libra is the zodiacal sign of Partnerships-in psychological terms the sign is outer-directed. Your energies are focused on melding and combining with other people; you are at your best in personal relationships. However, your main interest is on yourself within the relationship. You deal intuitively with other people’s emotions, and no one is better at understanding and taking into consideration another person’s point of view.  Yet all too soon that outside viewpoint will be lost or subsumed within your own subtly self-centered concerns.

Born under the sign of the Scales, you strive for balance and harmony and are happiest when your environment is ordered and serene. Peace is worth any price to you and usually you will go a long way out of your way to avoid friction and dissension. Because you see clearly every side of an argument, every possibility of a given course, you have the tact and ability to smooth over disputes. You are a born diplomat. In order to avoid an unpleasant scene, you will even stifle your own true feelings. In fact, far too often you are not sure what your true feelings are. Because you try to be all things to all people, there is a general impression that you are indecisive. You appear to be constantly poised on an edge, seemingly unable to move one way or another, balancing pro with con, advantage with disadvantage, risk with gain. Underneath your genial, calm surface, you have to struggle in order to make a decision.

Although you have superb instincts, you don’t trust them enough. You are likely to be an underachiever because of your easygoing, even-tempered attitude. For the most part, you don’t want anything badly enough to fight for it. The exception is when you’re denied a privilege to which you feel entitled. That ruffles your fur. Librans have a reputation for stubbornness. But that’s because you are sticklers for fairness. You resent being treated unfairly and become upset at inequity in the world at large.

You get along harmoniously with people who are even-tempered, particularly those who can laugh in the face of difficulties. You are particularly appreciative of talent in any field, whether art, literature or music and if you lack talent yourself you often indulge in artistic hobbies.

Money has a way of slipping through your fingers because it isn’t money you love, it is the things money can buy. Essentially frivolous, people born under this sign dislike hard work-unless someone else is doing it. A love for beauty leads many natives of this sign to careers in art, decorating, the theater, and composing, but the approach often remains that of a dilettante who enjoys the reward but avoids the effort needed to attain it.

Dominant Keyword: I ANALYZE

Lucky Numbers: 3 and 5

Birthstone: Sapphire-brings tranquility of mind and protects against illness and injury while traveling.

Color: Navy Blue and gray- classic colors of refinement and taste.

Dangers: Virgo people sometimes arouse anger and violence in others because of their tendency to interfere, their critical tongues and unemotional attitudes.

The planet Mercury, which rules both Virgo and Gemini, inclines its subjects toward constant activity. However, in Gemini the nervous energy is directed primarily toward stimulation and adventure, while in Virgo the ceaseless drive is to accomplish and perfect. It’s impossible for Virgos to put off until tomorrow what might be done today, or to do later what might be done now. You are in a word, organized. Your idea of taking it easy would seem like hard work to most people. You are not a daydreamer, you are a day doer.

Your emotional life is a constant striving to bring order out of chaos. Although you have a great capacity for love, love alone is not enough for you to be happy. You need more than a mate, home, friends or children. You must justify your life, conduct yourself as a good bookkeeper keeps a ledger-always ready to give a reckoning on whether there’s a profit or loss.

Intelligence is the hallmark of your sign. The symbol is a young woman gathering wheat, and Virgo people harvest information, assimilate facts and put what they learn to practical use. You have an excellent memory, an analytical mind and are known for crystal clear thinking. You also have a keen ability to probe into human motivations.

People like to check their plans with you before putting them in action because you have microscopic vision when it comes to detecting a flaw. Your superb logic cuts through muddled thinking like a laser beam. Because you believe life should be approached rationally, you are without peer in solving knotty problems or tangled disputes. You are convinced that a reasoned presentation of the facts will carry the day. Until you have the facts before you, you are reluctant to make a decision. Your faith is not in Chinese fortune cookies or in weighing-machine cards, but in facts, and you distrust ideas that don’t stand up to critical appraisal or people who make emotional judgements.

The first thing you learned about money matters is that money does matter. Although you tend to be critical of your own ability in financial affairs, no one is better than you at staying within a budget are. You aren’t tempted into foolish ventures. Your bank balances usually jibe to the decimal point. You want the finest but you won’t overpay, and you have a built-in resistance against self-indulgence.

One of your major faults is that you don’t see the forest for the trees. A preoccupation with neatness and precision sometimes limits your breadth of vision. That estimable faith in logic also confines your imagination and leaves you a little shy on inspiration, too dependent on established practices and methods. Your nature is to look back and analyze rather than push forward in a new direction. You must know the why and how of everything. Virgo is a mutable sign, however, so you can adjust easily to change once you find a way of fitting the new situation into your routine.

You may run into difficulty because of a tendency to complicate everything. No problem is ever simple for Virgo. For every answer you’ve got a question, and making mountains out of molehills is one of your specialties.

Your nature is shy and reserved; it’s hard for you to relax, to make small talk, or be gregarious with strangers. You prefer one on one encounters, in which you can offer the full benefits of your sharp insights and discerning opinions. That’s also when people discover how well read, perceptive, charming and witty you are.

A highly developed sense of discrimination may lead you to be hypercritical. You are unsatisfied with things as they are and continue to analyze situations and people in the hope of finding a way to make them better. At times your finely tuned sensibilities can make even you unhappy, for they give you a heightened awareness of the world’s imperfections. However, you resist criticism of your faults from others. It’s a rare Virgo who takes criticism well or who can admit to being in the wrong.

You are health conscious and try to make sure you get enough vitamins and go for regular checkups at the dentist. However, in this area as in other areas, you can’t help being a worrier. As a result you are prone to tension and nervous ailments. Hypochondria is common among Virgos.

A warm loving relationship brings out the best in anyone born under this sign because basically you are kind, devoted and very loyal. When your affections are engaged you tirelessly try to serve loved ones. They never have to worry about who will balance the checkbook or who will look after them when they are ill.

Dominant Keyword: I will

Lucky Numbers: 8 and 9

Birthstone: Ruby-protects against physical injury and insures faithfulness. It also brings its wearer serenity of mind.

Color: Gold and orange-the magnetic colors of the Sun.

Dangers: Leo people tend to be bombastic and challenging and often knowingly provoke others into impulsive violence. They are also prone toward being victims of slander.

All Leo’s possess a kingdom. The kingdom may be big or small, it may be your home, a lover, a piece of creative work or your whole career. But whatever it is you are unquestioningly ruler of this kingdom. Self assurance surrounds Leo people like a ghost image on a TV set. You don’t have to look for a role to play in life. You’ve found it. You are the monarch of all you survey.

When you enter a room you secretly hope everyone will stand up and sing a few stanzas of the Hallelujah Chorus! At a party it isn’t long before you assume control of the evening. Witty, vivacious, a fluent talker, you are a born entertainer who can lend spice to any occasion. People gravitate to you as steel filings to a magnet.

Your Sun sign confers a great flair for drama and an instinct for getting attention. Because your nature is flamboyant and expansive, you despise the humdrum, the ordinary and the dull. When real life does not supply all the excitement you need, you try to create your own. Hyperbole is second nature to you. You are born to do things in a really big way.

If you invite people to your castle (which is how you think of your home), you entertain them royally. You are a splendid party giver.

Others may become reconciled to accepting second best; not Leo’s. Born under the most royal sign of the zodiac, there is absolutely nothing Leo people can think of that’s too good for them. Luxury is a vital to you as breathing. You want to enjoy the good life and never mind what it costs. You are not a good haggler or bargainers because basically you want what you want when you want it.

Your public image is very important to you. When a Leo woman’s checking account is down to two figures somehow she’ll find the means to buy a glorious new dress, and when his credit cards are overdrawn a Leo man will still make reservations at the best restaurant in town. Leos are the most lavish spenders in the zodiac (Librian run a close second).

Generous, kind, and openhearted, you find it hard to believe ill of others. If injured, you strike back quickly, but you also forgive easily and never hold a grudge. Marvelously affectionate and cheerful, you have genuine joie de vivre. The Sun is your ruler, and you always bring some sunshine into the lives of others. Obviously, this is one of your most endearing traits. In many ways you are like the sun itself-life enhancing radiating energy and magnetism, burning with steady fixate. Astrologers call Leos eternal children, for you take pleasure from the moment and are uninhibited in giving affection.

No one could ask for a better friend. If approached in the right way (flattery is the right way), you will do almost anything, but you expect praise and appreciation and admiration in return. Pride is your Achilles heel. Your ego demands not respect but adoration, not compliments but flattery, and when you receive lavish praise you never stop to wonder if it is insincere. Despite your self-centeredness, you need others to give to if only to get back their appreciation. However, because you’re too proud to ask for appreciation, you often suffer silently from a wounded ego.

In business you are the one in command. Another sign that gravitates towards authority is Capricorn, but its natives steadily climb toward a high position. However, you are also a hard worker who doesn’t ask more of more of anyone else than you do of yourself. You won’t quail before a challenge or flinch from a confrontation. You are ambitious, but not ruthless. All you ask is to be in the limelight.

Routine quickly leads to boredom, and makes you desperately unhappy. Your unhappiness doesn’t last long, because you simply won’t put up with it. You have an unshakable belief in your luck and quickly bounce back from despondency.

Dominant Keyword: I feel

Lucky Numbers: 3 and 7

Birthstone: Pearl-Changes bad fortune into good and discord into harmony. It also brings support from influential people.

Color: Sea green and silver-the shimmering colors of the water and the moon.

Dangers: Cancer people are susceptible to accidents in the home. They are also prone toward becoming victims of theft.

What’s your secret? Cancer, which is ruled by the Moon and has water as its element can be likened to the shifting tides of the oceans. Like the tides, Cancer is the sign of powerful forces moving under the surface. That surface, however, is quite difficult to penetrate, for Cancerians tend to build up an elaborate array of defenses to hide their deep feelings and extreme sensitivity.

Complex, fragile, unpredictable, temperamental, the typical Cancerians needs constant support and encouragement.  You want desperately to be loved and approved of but resent needing approval so badly. When you get what you need, you give the best you have in return. Those who make you feel secure command your undying loyalty. When you really care for someone there is nothing anyone can say about that person that will make the least bit of difference. You have a real blind spot when it comes to seeing a failing in those you love.

You tend to be a worrier and a silent brooder. People may pour out their hearts to you, but the flow never goes in the other direction. You guard your secrets well.

If offended, you do not strike back directly. Your method of retaliation is often very effective. The technique is somewhat like being whipped to death by a dozen strands of boiled spaghetti.

Cancer’s symbol, the crab, has a hard outer shell that protects soft, vulnerable flesh underneath. The same is true of Cancerians, who are often crusty, gruff and grumpy, but possess a proverbial heart of gold. Beneath your tough exterior you are a sentimental softie who will make any sacrifice for someone in need. If someone asks for a favor, your first reaction will probably be no, but the final answer is always yes. You should be judged not by what you say but by what you do.

You are possessive. Anyone who becomes part of your life will never again be entirely free. You try to stay in touch with friends, ex-lovers, former spouses, business associates, person you knew as children. If you let anyone of out of your life, it is unwillingly and never completely. This reflects your preoccupation with the past. An aura of nostalgia dwells about you; the events and people of bygone years continue to inhabit your memory and usually grow dearer to you as time goes by. You are devoted to family and home and continue to believe in the old fashioned idea that marriage is forever even if the events of your own life contradict this.

It is hard to deceive you, for you can spot the tiniest nuances of behavior. In fact, you are almost psychic in your intuitions. A photographic memory added to intense powers of observation makes you extremely canny about divining other people’s inner motivations.

Cancerians are crab-like in their indirect approach to an intended target. Observe a crab moving on a beach and you will notice its strange sideways movement toward a goal.  People born under the sign of the Crab never take the direct approach. You step to one side, then step to the other side, and sometimes go completely around. But you get where you intend to go.

If channeled in the right direction, your enormous sensitivity can be a great source of strength. Once you overcome your shyness and touchiness and master your turbulent emotions, your intellect and imagination enable you to become a success in almost anything you undertake. Contrary to the impression you often give, you can be shrewd and canny in business. Cautious, conservative in your approach, you possess an antenna that quickly gauges public taste and opinion and senses new trends in the making. This instinct for business combined with imagination is visible in such famous fashion designers as Bill Blass, Oscar de la Renta and Pierre Cardin.

Dominant Keyword: I HAVE

Lucky Numbers: 4 and 6

Birthstone: Emerald-Protects against infidelity and deceit, insures loyalty and improves memory.

Color: Pale blue and mauve. The soft colors of refinement and gentleness.

Dangers: Taurus people have a tendency to get involved in violent situations that have to do with love or money. They often antagonize others and incite the passions of lovers because of their stubbornness and possessiveness.

You are not the pioneer who first strikes out for new territory, but the determined settler who follows and build houses and towns and cultivates the soil. If you were born under this second sign of the zodiac, there is a pronounced stubborn streak in you. Your greatest strength resides in your tenacity and steady, relentless drive. You are the original immovable object and irresistible force.

Taurus is a fixed sign, which means its natives are not fond of change. You simply cannot be rushed into anything new. A different approach creates unease and anxiety in you. You are most comfortable and secure with the familiar, and your attitude might be summed up as “If everything is working fine the way it is, why try something new?”

Everyone knows you have a temper, although you rarely show it. As a subordinate remarked of a Taurean executive, “No one actually saw him loose his temper, but no one ever doubted that he had one.” Generally, you are equable and patient, as patient as time itself, and it is only when opposed (even then it will take a lot of pushing) that you become angry. However, there is volcanic activity going on underneath your easygoing, genial exterior. Like a bull quietly grazing in a pasture you’re not looking to challenge anyone, but it would be a fatal mistake for anyone to challenge you.

There is a soft and gentle side to your personality. Ruled by Venus, goddess of love and beauty, you are endowed with genuine creative gifts, responsive to color and design, inspired by art and music. In those born under Taurus, the stability of and earth sign combines with the esthetic influence of Venus to create a responsible, steadfast personality with a deep appreciation for the finer aspects of life. The Taurean taste is elegant. You have a keen eye for what is valuable. Usually an avid collector, it’s a rare native of this sign who does no think that possessions, objects, wealth, and money are definitely for having-and the more the better.

Security is your byword. You look for permanence in career, lover, marriage, and home. Let others gad about, jet set, gallivant, and sleep around. You are happiest at home, surrounded by the beautiful, expensive things you have collected, secure in the warmth of a mate’s devotion, steadfast and faithful to those whom you love.

Beneath the surface you are sensuous and sentimental. You don’t give lavish gifts, as a token of affection because you are not a carefree spender-value is what you expect for your hard-earned dollar. Although you are willing to follow where your heart leads, you find it difficult to display your feelings openly. Your personality is private and self-contained.

Living with you isn’t always easy. You can be dogmatic, secretive, stingy, opinionated and suspicious, and your silent manner may conceal feelings of envy and rivalry. It’s hard to get you moving, for you tend to be self-indulgent, even lazy. You have great stores of energy, however, which you put to use when you want to-not when others want you to.

Venus emphasizes the social side of Taurus. Although basically shy and reserves with strangers, you can be a wonderful host or hostess. You like to entertain those you are fond of. You may not indulge as freely in frivolous pleasures as, say, Leo or Libra natives, but you are renowned for enjoying good food and good wine in plush surroundings. You believe in pampering yourself with the comforts of the good life.

Ruling Planet: Mars-Ancient god of war, aggression and conflict. In astrology, Mars’s influence fosters tension and accidents; it rules over fire and danger.

Symbol: The Ram-Assertive, sexual and able to climb to great heights.

Dominant Keyword: I am

Lucky Day: Tuesday

Lucky Numbers: 1 and 9

Birthstone: Diamond-Attracts love, financial success and brings luck in new ventures. The diamond is particularly lucky for Aries people when worn on the left side of the body.

Color: Red-The color of fire and excitement.

Dangers: Aries people are susceptible to harm from fire and sharp instruments. They are also prone to accidents involving high speeds and tend to get into violent and dangerous situations.

When others first meet you their instant impression is of someone exciting, vibrant and talkative. Others will be lucky if they can get a word in edgewise. If someone brings up a topic, you will be delighted to tell in great detail exactly what you think about it.

As an Aries person you gravitate toward the center of action. You are a natural leader who exudes self-confidence. From an early age you feel you are headed for success and you treat opposition as an annoyance to be brushed out of the way.

There is nothing faint-hearted about an Arien. You are willing to take a gamble, follow a dream, set your mind on a goal and pursue it with irresistible enthusiasm.  Your supreme quality of optimism attracts others. Underneath there may lurk insecurity, but no one will ever know it.

This is not to say you don’t get depressed or moody. But the winter of despair doesn’t last a week with Aries. You have an un-crackable optimism. It is true, however, that Aries people are notorious for taking offense at fancied slights and injuries. Hot tempers and childish tantrums abound, and your threshold of boredom is extremely low. If success is not immediate, you may lose interest and go in search of other excitement. As a result, patient, plodding types often get to the head of the class before you do.

Ariens have a well-deserved reputation for not finishing what they have begun. You sometimes spend your energy in too many different ways, like the Ring Lardner hero who mounted a horse and rode off in all directions at once.

Independence is a keyword. You can turn sulky and peevish if you have to take orders. You would much rather be the world’s largest lizard than the world’s smallest dragon. You want to run the whole show. If you can’t, you pull up stakes and look for a situation in which you can show off your style and brilliance.

Should you come up against a superior force, you will bend but never break. Your aggressive and combative spirit cannot be broken by anyone, except yourself.

Though generally sincere and honest, you will tell a white lie if it seems advantageous. You are not a very adept liar, however, others see right through you. Sometimes you lack tact and diplomacy-but no malice is intended. Sagittarians also lack this quality of tact because they don’t know how to be oblique or roundabout. With you, tactlessness is an impulsive act-a careless expression of your innate force.  Too often you speak without thinking and say whatever pops into your mouth, and usually regret your impulsiveness later.

Aries is lucky with money, but can’t hold on to it. You tend to run up big bills, live extravagantly and soar over budget. However, you usually find a way to pay off what you owe. You have too much pride to be in anyone’s debt.

In friendship you give magnanimously if someone is in need-but you want credit for your good deed. In the garden of Aries, there are no shrinking violets.