The specificity of your personality can be summed up by your nostalgic yearning for your roots – a “paradise lost” which is also a source of energy and vitality. Your power is linked to memory. You inhabit a present which draws sustenance from the past, from continuity and timelessness. The power of memory can either be dynamic or static. The consciousness of an inaccessible past can either immobilize you in melancholy and nostalgia, or shine as an ideal which motivates you to recreate a new harmony. Your attitude and approach to the past are of key importance. If you think of it as a refuge, your obsession with it may be such that your progress is impeded. If, on the contrary, you think of it as a starting point or launching pad for your comprehension of the human condition, you will integrate it into your self-realization process. You possess a potential for great maturation and wisdom. You are relatively slow-moving and may feel protected from the outer world by an armor of education, family surroundings (your most cherished environment), and social status. For this reason, you tend to limit the scope of your activities to a single well-defined sphere, and, within the boundaries you have established, release the entire spectrum of your rich and varied emotional expression. Sometimes you may feel overwhelmed by the prospect of situations which will introduce you to unfamiliar factors and elements; you see them as intrusions. Before you judge an event, a person, or a thing, you attempt to absorb it into your private universe. Of a fairly subjective and introverted turn of mind, you define everything in terms of the sensation it arouses in you as your consciousness embraces it. This predominance of sensation gives your extreme sensory finesse. Your perceptions are intense, keen, penetrating right to the heart of people and things. Your imagination, which is a function of your perceptions, is also lively, colorful, and prolific. Because you are sometimes self-centered, attentive to and protective of your inner self, you may tend to withdraw into your shell when you encounter aggression from the outer world. As a result, you may sometimes become distant and secretive. Your tendency to be rather short-tempered and easily offended, a classic flaw, is also the consequence of your need for protection and security. Despite your sensitivity, and your ability to be genuinely virtuous, you are not always gentle. Your outbreaks of hostility are all the more wounding because of their rarity. However, more than aggressiveness, your stubbornness, slow insistence, and

Alana Duval is a pleasure lover and will find self-fulfillment in creative activities.

Alana Duval feels a sense of satisfaction from being a part of groups. Friendship and membership in groups allows her to feel like she belongs and is loved.

At the time of your birth, your rising sign was located in Libra (the Scales), while the sun was passing through the sign of Cancer (the Crab). A summary of the various clues mentioned above provide your personality profile. The following key words capture the essence of your character and indicate certain contradictions which may be sources of tension:

Sociability – Sensitivity – Adaptability – Imagination – Emotion – Eccentricity – Tolerance – Savings and thrift – Peaceful disposition – Suspicion – Sense of harmony – Obstinacy – Worldliness – Premonition.

Your romantic, imaginative personality gives an original aura to your attraction and charm. Careful to shield your sensitive emotions from the slings and arrows of the outside world, you are happiest within the privacy of your family circle or among a small group of close friends. At work, you show yourself to be conscientious and well-organized, but somewhat plodding and stubborn. Your need for harmony and balance inspires you to respect other people’s opinions, and you are mindful of traditions and social conventions. Although your capacities for logic and intellectual reasoning are sometimes tinged by your emotions, you are endowed with a remarkable talent for knowing and appreciating beauty.

Alana Duval was born on the third day after the full moon, and as a shining moon type she has a personality that is apt to communicate and transmit ideas. Throughout her life she will be attracted to the idea of acting as a spokesperson for a cause, idea, or person whose message seems essential to her. She will need to develop her powers of discernment in order to determine which subjects or people are really worth her personal commitment.