Born on 1. 2.1901 at 5.30 o'clock
in Cadiz /OH (USA)
Longitude: 081.00 West, latitude: 40.16 Nord
Zone: 6h 0m 0s West

Astrology can enlighten our behavior and clarify correlations in life. However, it can't and shouldn't pin a person down. An astrological birth picture consists of symbols that have been translated into words and concrete examples in the following text. For the sake of clarity, some examples have been exaggerated.

What astrology has to say can be explained by using examples. You have different aspects of your personality like your will, feelings, rational mind, etc. Imagine these to be actors who are staging the play of "life" together. Astrology describes the actors, their qualities and weaknesses, and their relationships with each other. But astrology has little to say about the play that is being acted. You decide this with your free will.

Experienced actors to whom you can constantly give new stage directions are necessary for a good play. The more you know the needs of your actors, the more you can bring them together into a harmonious and unified "play" and let them express themselves on your life's stage. The following pages will be a guide for doing this.

When reading them, you will discover contradictions. For example: one section describes the need for a calm and stable relationship, and another section says that you need stimulation and variety within a relationship. Such a contradiction contains the demanding challenge to express both opposites.

The following text is not a "fortune-telling horoscope" because you alone are the architect of your own destiny. The horoscope describes the "raw material" that you have available.

Ascendent in Capricorn
Serious and Responsible Appearance

With the Ascendent in Capricorn, you make a responsible and serious impression. You advocate order and stability, accept hierarchies, and are perhaps an authority yourself. People consider you to be someone who takes life seriously, striving for goals in a disciplined and responsible manner. Life challenges you time and again to not only show single-mindedness, a sense of reality, and loyalty to principles and authority as a "mask" to the outside world but also to let these attributes become your inner qualities. By taking on a responsible role, clarity and purposefulness will increasingly become a part of your character.

The Ascendent is like a pair of glasses through which you can perceive the surrounding world with a special hue You see life from a serious perspective. You need structure and a goal. It may be that in this process you overlook a ray of sunshine, a butterfly, or a friendly word. By thinking that you are acting according to law and justice, you may limit your own personal freedom and that of others. If you take an unbiased look at your behavior, you will find many incidents in which you try to force yourself and others into fixed patterns and smother lively, spontaneous expression. The great challenge that life presents you with is creating as many structures and rules as necessary for a solid basis. However, do not try to create order and regiment things when your motivation for this is the fear of liveliness, emotional depth, or closeness.

Venus on the Ascendent
Appearing with Charm and Kindness

First on the list of your individual characteristics is the endeavor to approach the world with open arms and receive love and recognition in return. Perhaps you show this through a spontaneous sociability, emphasizing what you have in common with others and what connects you with them. Perhaps you attempt to attract the eyes of others to yourself through an attractive appearance, in the way you dress and behave. Never-ending harmony, beauty, and peace would best appeal to you. You virtually radiate this wish and offer others a hand for a peaceful solution. Your diplomatic abilities may be considerable, but your peaceful attitude can also suppress conflicts too much and insist on a passive idleness where active progress would actually be required.

Just as the Sun is the central star of the solar system in astronomical terms, it also symbolizes the essential nature of a human being in astrology. Its position in the birth picture tells us something about our ego-consciousness, about our will and the way in which we shape our lives.

Sun in Aquarius
An Individual Lifestyle

You are an individualist in your innermost being. Personal freedom is important to you. You are versatile and intellectually active. Your attention is focused on the future. You are open for changes and have a good antenna for the opportunities inherent in a situation. You may possibly have difficulty in being committed to something for a longer period of time. Obligations mean a relatively quick loss of freedom for you. So you presumably are often faced with the dilemma of either wanting to do something that requires endurance, commitment, and hard work or preferring to try things out a bit and join in here and there. The chances that you remain in your first profession are quite slim.

Your concept of life has a willful and idealistic touch to it. You want to go your own way, even if you have to do exactly the opposite of what other people suggest or expect from you. You have the role model of a rebel and reformer within you and are capable of breaking through obsolete structures and taking new paths. In the process, you are not all that loyal to your hereditary family but instead seek contacts to people who have guiding principles similar to yours.

You live in the way that appears right to you and hardly let yourself be forced into a social framework. Your will can display rather headstrong characteristics. Social norms and structures have relatively little influence on you. Human values may mean more to you than skin color or nationality. You can develop a great deal of social sense and tolerance for the differences among people. You will very likely prove yourself in situations requiring originality and unconventional behavior.

Sun in the First House
Being and Showing Yourself

Life challenges you to spontaneously show the qualities described above and not belittle yourself. In this way, you will primarily meet with a positive echo when you know what you want, understand how to express your will, and not lose your composure too easily. You don't know what it means to hesitate and can quickly grasp difficult situations. The more you find your self-identity and self-confidence, the better you can go your own way without asking other people's opinions. In the process, you repeatedly experience that the people around you expect you to behave in a self-assured way, displaying courage and initiative. You need your "place in the sun," a position that brings you respect. So it's important for you to not perform your daily work in some hidden chamber but to show yourself with all your strengths and weaknesses.

Sun/Mercury in Conjunction
Clear, Subjective Opinions

Will and reason are inseparably connected here. You consider what you want, think your projects through from A to Z, and formulate them clearly. You are presumably skilled at representing your opinions in conversations. Other people's convictions rarely change your mind. Since reason is practically in the service of your will, you probably have a considerable talent when it comes to leading conversations, among other things.

In addition to the positive aspects described above, this connection of reason and will also has its difficult components. Since the rational mind so closely cooperates with the will, it can also lose some of its objectivity. It may happen that you - without noticing it - judge a situation too much on the basis of your personal perspective. You tend to consider and represent your opinion as the irrefutable truth.

Sun/Uranus in a Harmonious Aspect
Abundant Personal Freedom

In one aspect of your personality, you want freedom, independence, and self-knowledge. Like a bird turning circles above the land and surveying everything, this part would like to see the correlations and possibilities from a bright intellectual distance. It lives in the realm of ideas and brings a thousand suggestions for how everything could be changed.

Through your will, some of these ideas will manifest themselves. You presumably shape your life in such a way that you have a great deal of freedom. Accordingly, you would like to be your own boss, work as independently as possible, and be able to try out new ideas. You have a talent for inventing and improvising and the ability of quickly recognizing correlations. An inner urge lets you break out of outdated structures and seek new paths over and over again. You establish contact with people who bring intellectual stimulation into your life, are individualists like you, and who don't follow the existing norms.

Sun/Pluto in a Harmonious Aspect
A Strong Personality

Your birth picture symbolically shows a power theme. It can therefore be presumed that you experienced your father or another important person close to you during your childhood as powerful and dominating. According to this role model, you assume that there are stronger and weaker people in the world; the stronger people exercise power and authority and pull the strings. If your father was a good role model for you and didn't abuse his power, you will probably have developed into a strong personality as well.

There is an enormous potential in your constellation. The more you succeed in fully and completely believing in your own strength, the more you can become a type of gray eminence who holds the strings in the background, in your profession or even in your personal life. Exercising power could give you much joy in life. You have a remarkable power, are capable, have endurance, and can achieve a great deal in as far as you don't misuse your energy for egotistical purposes.

The Moon embodies the feminine principle and also stands for the aspect within us that, full of caring willingness, would like to be a "mother" in the broadest sense of the word. It wants to look after others and create a sense of security.

Moon in Cancer
An Impressionable Disposition

Your emotional life is quite pronounced. Emotional security is something you desire, but you can also look after other people in the kindest way. You are family-oriented and feel at ease in intimate and familiar surroundings. For your well-being, you need a place in which you are emotionally at home, find a sense of security, and can "recharge." Your moods are dependent upon your surroundings. If you don't feel good in an environment, you have the tendency to withdraw into your shell.

Are you sometimes moody and tired? Above all, when you miss the feeling of security, you become insecure and react very much on a gut level. You need an inner authority, who replaces the mother for you in a certain sense, recognizes needs early enough, and looks after their fulfillment. When you feel well in your skin, other people relax involuntarily in your presence. You become the center of a family climate. With your caring streak, you can give others the feeling of being safe and secure. You have an aura of caring and warmth about you. Other people quickly trust you, but may also feel cared for too much by you on the other hand.

You are very sensitive in grasping mood fluctuations. If, for example, there is annoyance in the air, you feel unwell, even if you aren't directly involved in it. Then you can easily have an emotional and childish reaction, which may possibly be misunderstood by other people. Yet, your childlike spontaneity is also a source of much joy in life, if you just select the right time and place for it.

Moon in the Sixth House
The Need for a Pleasant Everyday Life

You would like to include the emotional qualities described above in your everyday life. It's important to you to integrate your feelings, joy, annoyance, sadness, and all of your emotional reactions in the everyday work of your job or family. This means that you work together with people, possibly with children, or in a social-welfare or social occupation. If the working climate appeals to you and you feel good there, then you will really "show off your stuff." If you feel the environment to be rather cool and barren, it's hard for you to really blossom there. Like a plant put into the wrong location, you can't develop the qualities you actually have within you. For this reason, an appropriate and agreeable working atmosphere is very important for you.

Feelings and physical sensations are closely related to each other. You may react to stress and aggravation with stomach complaints or other physical symptoms. This correlation between the body and the feelings also manifests itself in the reverse direction: healthy nutrition and meticulous body care will considerably increase your feeling of well-being. In the process, the daily, almost ritual motions of caring for your body and eating the right food give you a pleasant sense of security.

Moon/Venus in Tension
Erotic Partner or Caring Mother?

Feelings and sensuality easily become opposites for you. For example, you feel well and secure in a situation, but don't find it pleasant at the same time. The other way around, a lovely environment may appeal to you, but you don't feel quite well and at home in it. It's hard to you to combine a happy family life and beauty.

What you find to be erotic may only provide little satisfaction on the emotional level. Or things that you enjoy, like a good meal, prove to be difficult to digest. Being involved with the contrasts of domesticity and esthetics or comfort and pleasure in areas like furnishing the home, working in a restaurant or with fashion, could help you creatively transform this tension into compromises including both elements.

Since our society likes to delegate the confrontation with feelings, closeness, and a sense of security to the female sex, this theme may seem foreign to you as a man and you experience it primarily through women; for example, if it bothers you to have to share your partner with your children.

Ultimately, all these opposites are indications and impulses for an emotional maturation process. This is a matter of how well you can love and accept yourself.

Moon/Saturn in Tension
Responsibility for Your Own Well-Being

You presumably became acquainted with the serious nature of life at an early age and weren't given enough opportunities for being a boisterous and cheerful child. As a result, you have taken on a basic attitude of "I have to achieve something." Above all, your mother has probably imparted this attitude to you. Although this inner pressure to achieve can bring you considerable success in your profession, it also hardly permits you to be completely carefree and happy. You tend to be skeptical and insecure about spontaneous emotional outbursts. This is why you would presumably show personal feelings only in situations where this is permitted by the social framework, such as with tears and consternation at a funeral and joy at a wedding.

Living through parent-child situations in your professional or private life can stabilize your sense of security in dealing with feelings. Not only do children impart this experience to you, but also anyone for whom you assume responsibility in one form or another. You probably are attracted to the role of parent or to a profession such as teacher, director of a home, personal manager, nurse, or a leadership role with the function of a parent.

Mercury symbolizes the area of our personality related to thinking, information, and communication. The position of Mercury in a birth picture throws light on a person's way of thinking, preferred interests, and learning methods, as well as language and rhetorical abilities.

Mercury in Aquarius
Rich in Ideas

Your thinking is oriented toward the future. You are good at perceiving the possibilities to be found in a situation and have a clear idea of how this or that could be improved. You think quickly and immediately create interconnections in your mind. You probably have no lack of interests and ideas; to the contrary, you tend to want to get involved with too many things at one time. You need mental stimulation and variety. At the same time, you easily yield to the tendency of keeping feelings and everyday banalities at a safe distance and mostly just deal with them in a theoretical manner. You don't particularly like entanglements.

Since you are very quick in the mental area, you may react quite impatiently to people who think more slowly than you. In discussions, you represent a clear opinion that can be quite individualistic and even eccentric. You prefer to talk to people with a similar wave length. Your interests are diverse and unconventional.

Mercury in the First House
Intellect, Knowledge, and Language in the Showcase of the Personality

Communication with your fellow human beings is an important component of your life. You need conversation and want to exchange your thoughts and ideas. The many discussions that you probably get involved in are a rhetorical practice field and you are quite likely to be correspondingly agile and skilled verbally.

You show a wide-awake interest in everything going on around you. Your mind is always immediately there; you attempt to analyze and understand every situation in thought or conversation. At the same time, your tendency to explain everything and classify it into mental cubbyholes can earn you the reputation of being overly rational. You need an appropriate profession or environment in which you can primarily respond to the surrounding world in thinking and speaking.

Mercury/Pluto in a Harmonious Aspect
The Power of the Mind

You are interested in the hidden things of life and like to track down secrets. When you intensively occupy yourself with something, you can become acquainted with many aspects of life that other people overlook. Knowledge is power, and you repeatedly get into situations where you must use this power in an intelligent manner. For example, you are good at recognizing weak spots and can deeply hurt others through simple comments. However, you also have the potential of using your words to help your fellow human beings make positive changes. So your profound mind can have a healing or hurtful effect on you and others to the same extent. Since you at least sense the power of words, you carefully consider whether you want to let others take a look at the cards in your hand. If information about you gets to the wrong ears, you react sensitively.

You want to get to the bottom of things. Your interest is probably directed at things that are not apparent and not rational. Whatever is beneath the surface and behind the scenes, whatever is secret or taboo, is what interests you.

When Venus sparkles in the sky as the morning or evening star, it is an expression of harmony and beauty in terms of reality and as an astrological symbol. It stands for the need to be balanced and have things in common, for the striving to build bridges. It is a distinctly feminine and erotic principle and corresponds to the aspect within us that longs for a partner, seeks and creates relationships, and can be open for and enjoy all the beauty in life. The Venus in us chooses what is appropriate and agreeable for us from the diversity of people and things.

Venus in Capricorn
Love Should Be Taken Seriously

When you like someone, you hardly approach this person spontaneously but first wait to see whether he or she fulfills the conditions that you place on a relationship. However, once you are convinced of the appropriateness of making someone's acquaintance and getting closer, you can be quite tenacious. You radiate a serious sense of reserve. Others don't necessarily seek your proximity and a trusting relationship with you. You are usually the one who establishes the external conditions and the degree of mutual caring and intimacy in a partnership. In terms of your relationships, you value a respectable, socially acceptable framework. You bring a sense of security and stability into a partnership and seek it as well.

Your idea of beauty is concrete and objective. In terms of art, sculpture may appeal to you in particular. In any case, you presumably prefer clear and simple forms. With respect to colors, language, music, and many other areas, you find simple harmony more attractive than many frills and ornaments. In terms of clothing, simple elegance probably appeals to you. You see beauty in structures and laws, such as in nature or architecture.

Venus in the First House
I Am Me - Who Are You?

You like to display the qualities listed above. You are sociable and stand by your relationships; you don't think much of secretiveness. When you like someone, you also want to directly express this feeling. Wherever you may go, you probably have the need of immediately speaking up for peace and harmony. You also radiate a willingness to reach out to others. Your tactful and diplomatic nature can help you achieve great popularity. You need recognition. This may lead you to conforming too much or getting taken in by falseness.

Beauty - in any form - is probably important to you; you also like to show this to the outside world in the way you dress or behave, for example.

With great probability, the type of woman who fascinates you personifies a refreshing directness and spontaneity. This means that active and assertive women who radiate an Amazon-like quality appeal to you.

Mars symbolizes masculinity and physical strength, as well as the capacity to take action and be assertive. It represents the part of our personality that is active in the outer world and wants to cause things to happen, that makes decisions and simply does things without asking, and that doesn't shy away from conflicts or confrontations. If something doesn't suit us, this is the part within us that defends itself and, if necessary, reacts with aggression and anger.

Mars in Virgo
Optimal Application of Strength

You take action in a deliberate, thorough, and reliable manner and have good abilities when it comes to dealing with material things. This may be handicraft skill, a love of detail, or a good approach to the earth itself. In any case, you want to put concrete and material things in your hands and make something out of them. At the same time, you proceed in an analytical and painstaking manner. Extravagance isn't your style. You achieve your goals, which are rarely set too high, by critically examining the circumstances, proceeding with caution, and making optimal use of your strengths.

So you hardly take action without considering things ahead of time. This gives you a solid foundation in life; on the other hand, it also takes away much of your spontaneity. If you exaggerate your tendency to do thorough work, you may become pedantic and petty. Plunging head-over-heels into an adventure or even taking a medium risk isn't how you do things. However, once you have decided on something after a thorough clarification, you possess the gift of planning your steps and adapting to the given circumstances. This means that you can ultimately achieve a great deal through your exact detail work.

You have a good relationship to your masculinity, your body, and sexuality. It's very much a foregone conclusion for you to recognize your needs and make sure they are satisfied.

Mars in the Eighth House
Penetrating into Unknown Depths

You prefer to be active in areas that aren't clearly obvious and controllable, demanding your entire commitment. You don't like superficial work, but want to ponder and probe something or create an effect in others. You prefer to take on the role of a gray eminence in the background who pulls the strings and lets things, situations, and people dance like marionettes. Perhaps unconsciously, you want your actions to change you on a profound level.

The ability to not stick to the surface but also penetrate to the heart of things can prove to be a blessing, particularly in times of difficulty. When there is a crisis, it's therefore possible for you to display an outstanding ability to act and perform.

This may mean that you want to be active in areas of power, such as in politics, economics or business, and management, as well as in fringe groups of the society or with social taboos like death and sexuality. You possibly tend to seek other people, such as a boss, who are involved in these areas.

Mars/Saturn in a Harmonious Aspect
The Ability to Take Resolute Action

You take a matter-of-fact and purposeful approach to your work and have a good sense of how much energy you want to exert for each project. Your self-discipline, diligence, and patience are indications that you can achieve a great deal in your professional life. As a matter of principle, you prefer what has proved itself to something new, and you don't get involved in risky business deals without reservations. You know what you want and can give a resolute appearance. Your actions are characterized by a certain seriousness. You carry out what you have started and also bear the consequences for it. You expect irreproachable behavior from yourself and others. If someone gets too close to you, it may be that you close off to your fellow human beings.

Jupiter symbolizes the optimist in us, the part that wants meaning and expansion and sometimes gets out of control. It lets us look out for something higher and rise above the banalities of everyday life. It symbolizes the part in us that creates a relationship between things. It fills sober reality with a meaning by apportioning significance to each thing and imparting symbolic content to situations, words, and deeds.

Jupiter in the Twelfth House
Being Connected with All Existence

Since early childhood, you have probably been encouraged to be open for the entire world. In addition to a sense for romance, imagination, and dreams, you also have open eyes and ears for the injustice and suffering of this world. You sympathize and consider yourself part of humanity. When children in the Third World are starving, this doesn't leave you cold. You are receptive to other people's yearnings and pain. It's most likely that you find meaning in life by doing something about it; for example, in social-service work.

Helping your neighbor is often more important to you than your personal wishes. You do a great deal in order to diminish the suffering in this world. In the process, you have the tendency of neglecting yourself; this can lead to you feeling worn out someday. It's therefore important for you to maintain your own personal freedom.

You are open for things inexplicable, and you have an enormous ability to be devoted. Religion means less of a personal grappling than the possibility of mystical and spiritual experiences. You also have good access to your dream and fantasy world.

Jupiter/Neptune in Tension
The Call for Oneness

The desire to dissolve all boundaries and lose yourself in something greater is hidden in a corner of your heart. It gives you much idealism and lets you place high expectations on the surrounding world. This side of you could also be called the dreamy optimist. When reality comes to light, you are perhaps disappointed about your fellow human beings. When you learn to differentiate between illusion and reality, the optimistic belief in the good in human beings and nature will open many doors for you. These doors ultimately lead you into a mystical and irrational world that can give you the feeling of being well-cared for. This means, for example, that you sense a type of longing for religion and mysticism and the meaning of life in the non-rational and otherworldly. It's also plausible that you sympathize with those who suffer in this world, which can develop into a substantial willingness to help others.

Saturn symbolizes the raised index finger within us, the inner authority with which we set ourselves boundaries and demand structure and responsibility from ourselves. The Saturn aspect within us is often very rigid, and then we block ourselves. However, if we have learned during the course of the years to reduce our fears and our standards of perfection, we will primarily experience Saturn as inner stability and security. In both the concrete and figurative sense, it symbolizes our backbone.

Saturn in the Twelfth House
The Demands of Finding Stability in the Irrational

You would like to bring everything that is irrational, intangible, or chaotic into a clear form. The unspeakable and transcendent is what you would like to make comprehensible. Perhaps you are afraid of non-concrete and intangible things, above all of your dreams, wide-open spaces, or cramped rooms. When you are alone, you occupy yourself with something in order to not be forced to encounter the depth within yourself.

Uneasiness is always also an exhortation for attentiveness. The task here is to confront the intangible and accept that the incomprehensible can't be made understandable, as well as devoting yourself with complete trust to this cosmic dimension, God, the greater whole, or whatever you want to call it. To do this, you must develop a great deal of inner stability so that you can let things happen without having to immediately protect yourself. Then you can be compared to a rock in the ocean that lets itself be flooded, yet still doesn't yield to the water.

It's possible that you live this theme of structure and dissolution in a helping field. You feel responsible for the weaker members of society, for those who are ill or socially disadvantaged. With much devotion, you attempt to structure the chaos in other people's lives and also find stability and a sense of security within yourself through this path.

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