(NOTE: The information below is somewhat condensed from more complete [and evolving] notes here.)

Taurus   Gemini   Cancer   Leo   Virgo   Libra
Scorpio   Sagittarius   Capricorn   Aquarius   Pisces   Aries

• Sensual side is most obvious surface trait. Very flirtatious, romantically roving (promiscuous?).
• The most luxurious, indulgent, sensuous Moon placement.
• Delicate, but not at all timid.
• Feelings appear superficial, but are usually groping for answers, sometimes settling on an approximation for the time being. Older ones seem to have found what they want and are pretty solidly set on it.
• Theme of sexuality is important, usually by being very pronounced but sometimes due to its stark absence. - No middle ground or moderation in sexuality.
• Slow-starting, blossoms late (especially emotionally). (Related to habituation? Part of “emotional seeker” theme?)
• Much of life is spent on a QUEST for insight, understanding, and meaning regarding their feelings.
• Initially learns rapidly, then locks in what was first learned. They then relearn very slowly and with difficulty. - Can an quickly expound upon subject learned. (Many teachers.)
• Dissatisfaction with dogma, intensely inquiring curiosity for truth and what makes Nature “tick.” Great thinkers probing for Life's buried meanings.
• Heightened aesthetics. At least art-minded; maybe artistic.
• Deep appreciation of Nature and Her beauty.
• Creatures of habit. Gravitate toward simple domestic setting rather than frenzied public life.
• Cordial, with much charm and personal magnetism.
• Inoffensive, appalled at thought of hurting others. May tolerate much personal difficulty or pain, however.
• Doting parents, “mothering.”

• Intellectual, communicative, curious.
• Often professionally involved in speaking, writing, etc.
• Needs considerable diversity in life. If they don't have it, they get bored & look for greener grass. (The needed diversity may include participation in multiple things at once, or a highly expressive and varied personal life.)
• Needs continual sensory input. Dislikes mental surprises. (May fear what might happen because of what isn't known.)
• Can't tolerate thinking another is smarter than s/he. Accuses others of flaunting knowledge, though freely flaunting own.
• Pragmatic, eager to transmute theory into application.
• Very commercial.
• Feelings and intellect are closely interrelated.
• Great perceptual sensitivity, increases awareness of world (psychic), but makes them especially vulnerable to exogenous influences. Frequently withdraws from the painful. Hyper-responsive, touchy, edge, even irrational.
• Sexually algolagnic. (In tastes or activities, sexually experimental but discreet.)
• Inherent nervousness. High-strung. (Smokers, etc.)
• Needs constant activity of mind & body. (Can't relax well.)
• Versatile talents. Music, poetry, mimicry, acting.
• “TWO-ness.” Security is found in companionship.
• Special need for attention and acceptance from others.
• Charming, engaging, capable of giving much affection.
• Fondness of GAMES. Needs to be “in on the game” with others.
• Frantic striving to hang onto youth.
• Keenest sense of humor in zodiac - one reason why Gemini stays young. (STATS: Common for satirists.)

• Main themes: Imagery, Security, Feeling.
• Emotions govern the life. Strong orientation to feeling.
• Possibly overwhelmed by own feelings. Emotional strength, yet insecurity of feeling. Unlikely to gamble with own feelings, so often hesitant to give them full expression.
• Soft, timid, delicate feeling nature blossoms into a yielding flower of exquisite gentleness, tenderness, and sensitivity.
• Love catches them easily. Love animals (pets).
• “Magnetic personalities” draw opposite sex.
• Warm, demonstrative, generous, generally sincere in affections. Honest in human relations.
• When emotional security is lacking, has difficulty succeeding in long-term relationships.
• They emotionally armor themselves with their egos. May be arrogant or cocky.
• Surprising amount of optimism. Confident. Almost mystical sense of hidden personal strength or invulnerability.
• Skilled bullshit artists, even when their motives are essentially innocent. The kind of person that is a natural at phone sales, for example.
• PUBLIC-ORIENTED. Enjoys publicity and limelight. Stage presence, performs with color and flair. (But uncommon for comedians.) [NOTE: I now question this general observation. The Cancer Moons I know best personally flourish with one-on-one attention but shy away from public disclosure, almost to the point of being secretive, avoiding the camera, etc. Even among celebrities, the likes of Barbra Streisand and Clint Eastwood can play to the camera and lights, but personally treasure their privacy more.]
• Physical presence is impressive to outsiders. Persevering, vital, imposing, serious, with mental firmness.
• Uncanny ability to create “systems” - Weltanschauung.
• Urge to take command and seek acclaim in the material world. Able to make decisions.
• Terrific organizers. Somehow “make things move” when they take charge.
• Solemn awareness of the phenomenal world.
• Highly intuitive - looks right through you.
• Marvelous memory - has to learn things only once.
• Ever willing to listen sympathetically to others' problems, but little insight into own personal motives.
• Shadow motif.
• Imagery is their most amazing faculty - can schematize and “Technicolor” things endlessly.
• Sensitivity, image-forming ability (art, theater, music, painting, design, literature).

• Emotions intertwined with pride. Innate recognition of self-importance. “Don't tarnish the brass” bearing.
• Visible strength. Natural assumption of leadership duties. Dominating, command-oriented (military), decisive, industrious, courageous. Potent, effective, indomitable.
• Pervasive regal power. Nobel manner, self-assured, impermeable. Statuesque.
• Dominates others emotionally (inadvertent steamroller).
• Grasping reality is the key to Leo's power.
• Stubborn conservatism. Quiet, cool, reserved (high pain threshold?).
• Calmly intellectual, curious, with razor-sharp minds. Powers of retention sometimes astounding. Expressive.
• Deeply philosophical. (STATS: Uncommon among satirists.)
• In teaching (which can be in a conversation on the street!), will interrupt to explain something in agonizing detail for your own good because he is certain you can't perceive what he really means without so full an explanation.
• Practical, methodical, precise. Critical of all he handles (demanding). Discriminating.
• Deep moral nature - shuns profanity - luxury loving.
• Highly dramatic, but seldom pretentious.
• Mellow-tempered, generally easy-going.
• Gregarious. Attracts many friends/admirers (Leo's court).
• Loves to have visitors (not unannounced!), or be ringmaster of an evening's entertainment.
• In romance, highly discriminating in choice of partner.
• Needs a warm, affectionate interaction, but may have trouble dropping the cool, unaffected mask. Self-orientation can interfere with mutual understanding.
• May place a great emphasis on the business aspects of a relationship, to the detriment of the more sentimental side.

• CINDERELLA OF THE ZODIAC. Congenial, charming, warm personality. Inoffensive, unambitious, gentle handmaiden who can tolerate the worst abuse. Friendly responsive. Sympathetic.
• Mentally oriented. Literary talents and interests dominate. Fluency in speech.
• Leave it to Virgo to get the facts!
• Simple, unassuming, but expects manners in others.
• Talented, capable, courageous.
• Strong on service & contribution.
• Stubborn. Under pressure, very moody and indolent.
• Need very much to belong to someone. Very romantic, probably marry early and repetitiously if necessary.
• Socializers, love parties. Pay much attention to partner, are flirtatious.
• Frequent complainers. Critical and observant, considering decisions carefully. Judges others on the spot.
• More vocal than active, criticizing rather than trying to correct, often backing out when physical support is requested.
• Allergies, hypersensitive to texture, etc.
• Hygiene and pain-conscious, shy, blushes easily.
• Oriented to their immediate “environment” - are not stereotyped by tradition.
• Strong “purity” motif. Tend to take life too seriously, should learn to laugh a little more.

• Tries to strike a peace via mediation and compromise. Master of finding common denominators.
• Agreeable on the surface. Soft-spoken manner, soothing, tactful. Entertaining, debonair, “winning personality.”
• Desire for calm, likely to maintain tact despite irritation.
• Emotional and personal intensity. Glaring stare.
• Self-pleasuring, self-enjoyment. (But also, major capacity for repression or self-denial.) Sex is a matter dear to Libra.
• Seductive personality (not only in sex). TEASE motif (Bruce Lee, etc.). Very attractive to opposite sex; magnetic; little trouble enticing lovers.
• Physical beauty. Softness of appearance.
• Possessive attitude. Jealousies.
• Strong will and sense of determination. Perseverance.
• Feelings and motives run much deeper than shows. Sense of alienation. Self-disclosure comes rarely & with difficulty.
• What seems at first like independence is really a sense of alienation and compensatory emotional self-preservation by fiercely asserting some sort of “autonomy demand.”
• Subject to impatience. Low frustration tolerance.
• Poor memories.
• “Yes-men.”
• Aura of glamor.
• Suave, polished, charming, persuasive, graceful, courteous.
• Moves among people easily, softly, without apparent effort.
• Addicted to finery, stylish attire, even “fine-feathers.” Usually in good taste.
• Not given to much exertion, easy-going, loves idling in elegant ease, prone to dalliance and poetic utterances when the mood takes them.
• BLACK SHEEP of the zodiac. Capacity for being misunderstood and criticized is almost limitless. Inherent problem of social adjustment.
• Essentially introverted, “spiritual” but not “religious.” Libra allows full play to feminine souls.
• Love of peace. Usually too visionary and least practical.

• Socially active, “fun people,” yet basically a withdrawn and emotionally cautious personality. Good-natured, friendly to certain non-intimate levels. Humor.
• Appear forthright, candid (even biting); but often withholding clear communication or emotionally nondisclosing (“not showing their cards”) [for self-protection? to control?]
• Cold intellect just as biting as their words. Lucid Powers of expression (writers).
• Adventurous, urge to “try anything once,” spring from event to event. Restless, impatient.
• Prone to form personal cliques to somehow maintain autonomy, even in group autonomy.
• Music and composition marked.
• Philosophy and religion may be unorthodox.
• Nervous and sexual frustration often extends below the surface. (“Volcano” build-up.)
• Easy to anger, easy to forgive. Can't hold a grudge.
• Math aptitude/skills.
• True vision - a life “dream” - not passing fancies or ephemeral inspiration.
• Not squeamish, but very sex-sensitive.
• Remarkable analytic ability - hidden motives seldom escape their cognizance.
• Prone to "synthesis" (fusion) - easily mix politics with art of science. Seldom one-track minds.

• HIGHER AND HIGHER (arrow motif)
• Infatuation with weaponry (military commanders, soldiers, murderers, sadists) - but not so sadistic as some other signs.
• Flight (pilots, astronauts)
• Philosophical and religious orientation, great spiritual goals. (Purity motif grants an obsessive-compulsive style.)
• Most ambitious, climbing, pass-others-by type in zodiac. Strivings for notoriety. Usurp power, wealth, and titles in search for regard.
• Political (including the religious fanatics who are reformers and zealous converters). Nationalistic.
• Hostesses and hosts.
• Masterful in business. Tireless drive, dogged perseverance, extremely practical and materialistic. Achievement is all.
• True to some preconceived “form” or “pattern: (formality), hence often rigid and inflexible. (Pickier than Virgo.)
• Sagittarius Moon is a puppy that will bark for attention.
• Open to intellectual stimulation.
• Infatuation with history.
• Strong dramatic interests. Actors.
• Very low sexual appetite.
• Seeks to impress people, to get validation from others for their existence.
• Non-committal (withholding information). Never know where you are with them. (Desire not to offend or close any doors?)
• Strong family ties (blood-family).
• Mercenary.

• Sharp minds, capable intellects.
• Thoughts often unconventional and innovative. Unpredictable personalities. Independent.
• Persuasive rhetoric, talented in lingual skills.
• Promethean (Ea archetype). Often try to gift mankind with their own ideas and solutions. “Savior complex.”
• Quite attractive as a sexual object. Enjoys good opinion of his friends and colleagues (feared or held in awe more often than disliked).
• Apparently candid, open, forthright (the opposite usually being true on close examination). Strives for truth in an admirable fashion. Wit makes them delightful.
• Subject to despondency and melancholia.
• Advanced thinkers, scientific, sensible. Profundity, interest in deep thought.
• Mystical or metaphysical interests.
• May appear superficial - a mistaken notion.
• Difficulty giving vent to feelings in expressing their love.
• Skeptical of those who “oversell.”
• Lack of emotional understanding.
• Discontent and escape (juvenilish).
• Economy (in words and music). Frugality.
• Difficult childhoods, troublesome upbringings.
• Often a strong tendency to be in trouble with respect to their lives and circumstances, to “push it” and come up short.

• Humane. Sensitive, sympathetic, endearing soul always interested in the troubles of others, standing for the underdog, wanting to lend a helping hand.
• Attuned to deeply sensitive musical and artistic creations. Empathic with agony. Romantic (i.e., humanities).
• Idealist, inspired intellectual, intuitive planner.
• A troubled, quiet, easily hurt person (who thus acquires understanding of others). Non-discriminating. A little unstable, erratic (sometimes emotional) personalities.
• Discouraged a little too easily.
• Outwardly good-humored and carefree, but actually troubled much of the time.
• Tolerant, not easily riled. Views world through permissive, nonjudgmental eyes.
• Most entertaining - significant musical ability.
• Psychic, interested in occult. Astrologers.
• River Nile Delta. Inherent genius not from exhaustive study, but from ability to mentally encompass all related fields and thus comprehend almost any situation at once. Variety of interests. “Renaissance” people.
• Messiah Complex.
• Writing (common vernacular), musical endeavors, social work, “helping professions” are good areas. -- Keen sense of humor, but not so subtle. Talkative.
• Sexually: Very widely intellectually experimental. Strange marital conditions (often significant age difference). Very approachable sexually.
• Particular lack of age-consciousness.
• Most “scientific” of all constellations. Delights in “discovery” - inventive, analytic.
• Shy away from complex Weltanschauung.
• “Magnetic” appeal to “Groups,” yet characteristically “set apart” socially.
• Very sensitive to pain and injury, including the horrors seen in the world (in society in general). Knows there has to be more to life than the outer veneer suggests, so is in constant search of the meaningful.
• Philosophically biased toward non interfering with another's life. Won't budge from their own position and therefore often trample on others in the process.
• Often much traveling.

• They are never more truly themselves than when they are being someone else. (“Better than the original.”)
• Religious/mystical/ceremonial. Fascination with the unknown and recondite. Explorers.
• Enter adventure aggressively.
• Powerful urges.
• Mental faculties sensitive, senses finely honed.
• Reliance on blind faith. Gambling. Unshakable confidence and optimism but tend to over-estimate odds in their favor.
• Some overcome phenomenal negative chart conditions to reach self-actualization by pursuit of personal idealism. (Refuses to accept the problem's existence, thereby relegating it to oblivion.) (They don't dwell on problems in these cases, because they are strongly involved with other things.)
• Chauvinistic, resistant to suggestions and ideas of others.
• Aura of power & self-determination is one they feel they must constantly project. (Often they play “big shot” games.)
• Aesthetic, sensitive, artistic. Musical, painters, playwrights, poets.
• Wanderlust, love of travel.
• Passion to teach others. “Missionaries!”
• A rather mystical, subjective approach to life & living. Interest in the occult. Ability to dramatize & lend color. Love to make a production out of everything. (Something unusual or out-of-ordinary about their dress.)
• Idealists. Visionaries. Romanticists.
• Dramatizes own ego (in the imagination?). Relishes thrill of having “another side” to themselves (actors in their own melodrama). “Craving and concealment go hand in hand.”
• Easy capacity for celibacy or confined, prosaic sex.
• Judgmental.

• Maintains a powerful autonomy concerning feelings. Emotional responses guarded. Rarely speaks about feelings.
• Sexually bold, assertive, passionate. Women often are sexually male-ish in their aggression, need for rapid gratification, sexual practicality, etc.
• Hesitant about intimacy, erecting false airs or acting outlandishly nasty to prevent intimacy. Socially aloof, distancing. Not especially comfortable with opposite sex.
• Sentiment yields to practicality, even at crest of personal tragedy.
• Their nature is exciting, though, dynamic, impulsive, maybe rude, hard-hitting, “paves the way.” Intensity and adamant certainty of manner makes others step aside.
• Personality bent toward the immediate & efficient.
• Organizational and motivational ability. Establishes solid groundwork then acts decisively.
• Impatient, hurrying. Rapid metabolism. Successful in business due to steady progress & opportunism. Authoritative.
• Easily distracted - can't trudge through one task very long without interruption or distraction. (Can also take forever to decide to do something.)
• Usually energetic and productive late in life.
• TECHNICAL orientation (math, mechanics, etc.)
• Fixed in opinions, obstinate. Extremely intolerant of other views. Won't acknowledge errors.
• Will fight insistently to get what they want because they can't stand to lose (at least has to rationalize it away).
• Respected more than admired.
• Disruptors of status quo.
• Excellent speaking voice.
• Fatalism regarding supernormal powers.
• Analytic minds. Can “see through” almost any scheme, trait, trend, etc. Objective thinkers.
• Inclined to die violent deaths. “Accidentitis.” Suicide rates high in Aries. Always a “troubled mind.”
• Aries is cyclothymic. (Cf. Manilius.) “Ups and downs,” “heights and depths,” “Mania-Depression.” Roller-coaster.
• As authors, enjoy “intellectual freedom,” so are unhesitant to be unconventional in view and subject matter. Aries can see “men's real wants, not only luxury.”
• Other General Observations: Tend to be reclusive as a device for ensuring autonomy. Often brooding and less than fully communicative (i.e. bad on self-disclosure on emotional issues, not inclined to be reflective with respect to their own motives, etc.). Many display a moderate (or worse) substance abuse problem.

This page last updated 29 Jul 2012 E.V.