Phase 8 Personal Choice

Recognizing your uniqueness. Personal needs and preferences. Defining characteristics. Endearing qualities. Rational approach vs. emotional response. Freedom and personal space. Companionship. Ties to family and close friends. Dialogues. Involvement. Safety and Security. How you shape your comfort zone.

Strong outside influences can cause you to think twice before committing to anything. Guard against becoming overwhelmed and try to find solutions which honor your own perceptions and emotions. The bonds that tie your life to others need to be self-affirming and positive. Create a space in your self for that love to peacefully exist and grow. Be sensitive and caring. Remember to ask for protection and guidance in opening your heart in a healthy and safe manner.

We all have private emotions and attitudes linked with our need to feel good about our own personal agenda. At the same time, we are all in this together. In order to keep our dreams on track, it's not possible to operate in a vacuum. It's all about creating an environment that supports and encourages everyone to speak up when they've got something to day, and letting people know when something triggers our emotions. Our hearts and minds play a powerful role in how our intentions take shape in the world and have a big impact on the outcome of what we set out to accomplish.

So, let everyone have their say and urge people not to hold back. You show them you care, and get used to dealing with their expectations and attitudes. Soon enough, you'll learn when to pay attention and when to tune out the noise. In the process, you're defining the role you'll play with them, putting your ideas out there, being available and strong enough to communicate your needs and personal preferences. Bit by bit, you form the bridge between your world and theirs. Establishing these boundaries takes lots of care, insight and trust. Never underestimate your sense of humor and imagination to keep thing moving and interesting. Give yourself plenty of room to grow and change, especially whenever it feels better to you. You're becoming conscious of how to be connected, but without losing your identity. Give yourself the space you need to make this happen. You're the one that has to live with it. Let them see the special gift you have and open up to what they are offering you.

The very thing that connects you to the outside world connects you to your own heart. There are so many ways to get your ideas and intents across. Sometimes the right words or phrases will suffice. Other times, what you do and project are intimately more effective. Find the treasure first in yourself. After that, you cannot but help releasing it to those you care about.

Gemini 25 thru 30 - Gemini sub-period

Gemini 25
Original and bright outlook. Pioneer for new ideas and approaches. Views ideas from a different light.
Gemini 26
Love of the arts and all forms of beauty. Appreciate for nature. Physical forms of expression.
Gemini 27
Brilliant mind. Able to capture a wide range of emotion and perceptions. Clever. Innovative.
Gemini 28
Grasp of public concerns. Love of home and heritage. Romantic and impressionable.
Gemini 20
Talent for dramatizing experience. Gifted with unusual insight into the portrayal of emotions and products of the imagination. Very creative and artistic.
Gemini 30
Writing ability. Student of human nature. Refinement and polishing. Capable and objective.

  • Energetic. Clever. Imaginative. Witty. Adaptable
  • Being recognized as a member of the group
  • Focusing and developing a dialog for exchange of information
  • Awareness of group dynamics and demands
  • Centering on those experiences that connect you to your core
  • Individuality vs Conformity
  • Learning how to deal with the freedoms and restrictions that go with any human involvement

Companionship and collaborations figure high on your list. Your spirit is bright and youthful, taking in everything and moving though all the possibilities so quickly that even you cannot make sense of them until later. You see nothing wrong with this, and will resist being called fickle or inconsistent by more cautious types. Reasoning your way out of any situation and getting on to the next thing is your way of keeping boredom at bay and presents absolutely no problem to you. People constantly fascinate you and you often are able to mimic their personalities, placing them into the most humorous positions possible. At the heart of it all, you love to be engaged with people and have them give you their attention, charming them with your clever wit. It's your way of letting them know how smart you are and how much they mean to you.

Your mind is quite fluid and the way you multitask makes it look easy. You often master several skills at once and have the unique insight of recognizing the key factors that produce complex outcomes and then are able to communicate your insights in very human terms. Any form of reporting or communications work would be a natural choice for you. Your special talent lies in making your subjects come alive with the way you portray them, often against the backdrop of their daily lives and struggles that define who they are. This take on human nature is something you carry with you wherever you go, in business, family life and romance. You see people in much the same way as you see yourself, being formed from their culture and society's influence, trying to let their individuality shine regardless of what obstacles they have to contend with.

You feel positive that way, especially with people who you share your resiliency and ingenuity. Regarding yourself as one of them, you enjoy every minute of any lively conversation or engaging activity. Life is an endless game of connecting the dots and interacting with the personalities formed by it as the game progresses.

Your mate will learn quickly that you will insist on being free to go from one thing to another and let your vivid imagination fly unencumbered by the weighty and burdensome. You do better when you're able to engage freely and confidently, getting your point across, impressing people with your positive optimism. Children will recognize your free and creative spirit easily as well. Many a story of heroes and curious characters will animate the tales you weave for their entertainment

In the end, you leave us all with a valuable gift. The face we show the world tells the story of our happiness and disappointments, our everyday attempts to be authentic and reasonable, regardless of the circumstances we're thrown into. Other people see that and we see them. In this, there is a confidence in the human spirit that makes all our shared experiences worthwhile and precious. In your way, you remind us that we are constantly in touch with each other as we are with the bigger forces that shape our lives. This is your gift and with it comes the bright confidence and joy you send along side.

Cancer 1 thru 6 - Cancer sub-period

Cancer 1
Socially oriented. Aware of own interests and the demands of the world. Interested in forming alliances.
Cancer 2
Deep and intense private life. Serious nature. Seeks authentic life. Attracted to intense sources of security.
Cancer 3
Scholarship and travel. Seeks connection with social ideals and moral principles. Energetic and unafraid to take risks.
Cancer 4
Executive nature. Profound insights. Rigorous intellect and commitment. Sensual and indulgent.
Cancer 5
Idealistic and inclusive. Believer in the rights of man. Pattern breaker. Innovations and breakthroughs.
Cancer 6
Compassionate and sympathetic. Dealings with people from all walks of life. Understanding and accepting.

  • Loyal. Dependable. Caring. Adaptable. Responsive
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Forming healthy boundaries
  • Developing emotional maturity and discrimination
  • Bonding. Trust

Your feelings and loyalties run deep and very wide. You're able to pick up on an incredible amount of undercurrents in your experiences and are very tuned in to how people are coping with the everyday struggles of their everyday lives. As much as you pick up their emotions, it pales compared to the strong responses you make to your own experiences. Finding safe refuge in a cruel and bitter world is not only a constant concern for you, it is the defining characteristic of your personality. You worry about your health, your finances, your family, your pets, not to mention those lost souls that comes into your world looking like they could use a little sympathy. In this you are, above all, practical. Children have to fed and properly dressed. In-laws need to be considered and included in major decisions. In time, you become overwhelmed with everything pulling at you and need to escape periodically with some old-fashioned R and R. It's your concern for people that drives you to find real solutions to their needs and create an environment that is stable and predictable, loving and supportive. You have a very strong connection with the natural world and with your own inner nature. This goes beyond the roof over your head and healthy home cooked meals. You are concerned about how people feel about practically everything, and what you go through when you have to deal with them.

Every family and community is a haven of sorts, a sort of safety zone from the chaos of the outside world. You're acutely aware of how the demands of any group affect you, often struggling to maintain your individuality while being there and available. You see yourself as part of the group. They are your people, your roots. The bond you form them can be incredibly strong, underlying much of your behavior, even when you have moved on. Issues of being included and how you engage can usually be traced back to the memories of those first initiations into your early experiences with family or community life. Becoming comfortable with the legacy they provided you, for better or worse, is a critical part of your overall psychological health.

Your mate will learn soon enough that even if you had negative experience with your family, they were still very important to you and their influence, one way or another, will make itself felt in your relationship. Your home will be be a place where the personal touch must be allowed and intimacies and confidences exchanged. Children will want you to care for them and, unless something is very wrong, feel the sensitive and loving presence of your care, regardless of your all the other things you do in life. In business, you are more straightforward and often shrewd, never losing sight of how your work finances your real priorities in life, which are the people you care for and your own needs and lifestyle preferences. Moodiness and a tendency to live in the past should be kept at bay. Caring for yourself comes first. There will be more than enough time to attend to everyone else's needs after that.