Aries rising

Physically you appear to be quite energized - as if something was about to pop. This is particularly noticeable in your eyes, which have an intense, pointed quality - rather like a bird's. And they dart about rather than hold a fixed stare. However, all physical features can also be affected by other planetary positions, as any First House planets can. You find your personal identity simply by putting yourself forward. Initially at least, it does not matter how you do this - just so long as you do. The keyword here is self-actualisation. As far as you are concerned, the act of physically doing something is what creates your feeling of Self. Nothing else will do this - except perhaps someone else acting in a typically Arian forceful or even violent fashion towards you - and this is likely to be damaging to you.

Your possibly overly forceful attitude and self-presentation would benefit from being toned down by some consideration for others feelings if you wish to maintain any agreeable relationships. Because of this somewhat egocentric way you have about you, it is likely that you will attract a partner who is graceful and socially aware, even to the point of being a bit of a yes-person. - Conversely, you may just as easily attract a mate as arrogant as yourself - and battle would ensue! Recognize that you are likely to come across as pushy or cheeky - even if you do not actually feel that way inside. On the plus side however, you are pleasingly chirpy. On the other hand, if you feel held back for some reason, then formulating some social purpose or ideal will help to mobilize your being.

If in doubt - Act! "Courage is not merely one of the virtues - but every virtue at its testing point".

With Aries Rising you have what has been called an "undeviated chart". This means that some or all of your planets fall in Houses which correspond to the Signs your planets are placed in - for example, a planet in the Fifth House being in the fifth Sign (Leo). This simply means that your innate qualities readily find optimum circumstances in which to flourish - for good or ill.

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

Sun in Virgo

Your essential purpose in life is to improve the expression or state of whatever it is that you regard as important. To enable you to accomplish this you are analytical, and are well able to spot the best and the worst in any given person, thing or situation. The danger here is that you can be over-critical and become anxious about things not being right or going wrong.

This can apply especially to the functioning of your own body and mind, although such an attitude could also mean that you are particularly good at caring for health generally. However, you need to cultivate tolerance and acceptance of things as they are. As a consequence of all this, on the one hand, you will attract or be attracted to circumstances and relationships which require your accuracy and eye for detail, and that employ your sensitive and helpful disposition. Yet on the other hand, they could try your fastidiousness to the point of isolating you.

Moon in Scorpio

Your reigning need is to feel close to someone or something. In order to satisfy this need, you have a profoundly intuitive sense of the emotional nature of people and situations. The trouble for you is that your need for closeness is compulsive and so you can feel lonely or abandoned all too easily and then your intuitive sense becomes a radar that picks up anything which bears the slightest suggestion of abandonment or threat towards your vulnerable emotions.

The mistake you're making is that you are interpreting others' negative emotional states as being aimed specifically at you. It is then only a matter of time before such paranoid conduct does actually attract a negative attitude or act towards you. So you need to identify how and where in your past you initially felt betrayed or abandoned, and exorcise that demon. Until then you will either be haunted by a fear of being alone, or you will find yourself in solitary confinement.

Having overcome what must be the oldest human fear, that of abandonment - or at least, when you're not feeling threatened by it - you have an emotional perception of others that is accurate to the point of being deeply reassuring. At your best, you can make personal sacrifices for the good of the whole.

Midheaven in Capricorn

Your place in the world has very much to do with the conditions and tradition in which you were brought up. There is an unconscious tendency to accept or go for your prescribed lot - be it prince or pauper, tycoon or secretary. Careers that involve the building or maintenance of any kind of structure can be suitable for you, whether it's an actual building, a corporation, or government - or dentistry.

The condition of Saturn by Sign, House and Aspect will reveal further details with regard to your professional fortunes and inclinations. (See Chapter 9) Overall, you subscribe to the traditional attitude that it is desirable to reach a position of authority through discipline and hard work.

Mercury in Libra

The way that you think is based largely on how you feel in relating to others. Consequently, you're inclined to agree at the expense of failing to contact how you yourself actually feel about a given issue - until later, when you then have to 'agree' with someone else. All this results in the person to whom you relate most intimately becoming frustrated because they don't know which side of the fence you're on. What they don't see is that you're striving to keep the peace amongst a wide variety of people and opinions. However, the point that any close associate is trying to make is that you have to have a yardstick of your own; otherwise no-one will get your measure and they will consequently find you hard to take seriously. This would be a great shame, considering that your decision - when finally made - is the one most likely to be the fairest.

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 Leo

You assert yourself best when doing so for noble reasons and through creative means, which gives direction to the hot and fiery streak that runs through you. You must respect yourself for what you are doing. Without such a noble justification for your powerful push you can be arrogant and domineering.

So, you can either command respect and allegiance from others, or become increasingly involved in a battle of wills with nothing but bruised egos to show for it. Equally, and for the same reasons, the quality of your sex life can either be pleasurably steamy, or a stalemate born of unyielding and precious pride.

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.