If you want to improve yourself, the first step is to become aware of the weaknesses which may be holding you back and preventing your evolution. These could be your defensive attitudes, your fear of being dispossessed, your ambivalence, your radicalism, or your over-reliance on your instincts.

You sometimes feel a conflict between your desire for social and professional success and your need for a stable, secure domestic life. You are deeply committed to both ideas and do not always succeed in reconciling their schedules and demands on you. Sometimes it feels as though you will never be able to find a balance. However, no job promotion will really satisfy you if you have neglected your most intimate needs and desires. Although it sometimes seems easier to you to climb the rungs of the career ladder out there in the real world, if you merely sacrifice your domestic life, you are only trying to fool yourself. You should accept the fact that your domestic life is the true basis and foundation of your development. All your career endeavors and success will be even more rewarding if they are supported by a safe, warm personal life.

Alex Carter has deeply anchored emotional needs. Invariably, she tries to revive these sensations from her personal history, clinging to the security provided by the repetition of a feeling which produced a positive effect in the past. Her desire for possession (tangible or emotional) could become a problem, because she may fixate on an object which is negative or bad for her. She will do well to make a conscious effort to overcome this unconscious negative conditioning which may be related to her childhood.

As a result of your great ambitions, Alex Carter is fairly organized. He is able to work long and hard to achieve his goals and elaborates fairly rigid strategies to protect himself against any foreseeable obstacles. He is so absorbed in his business he does not always realize that he tends to be somewhat peremptory with the people around him and that he might do well to soften his tone and be more tactful at times. His friendships seem stifling and superfluous to him, and he is sometimes tormented by inner conflict when he is forced to submit to another’s will. To succeed, work to be less dogmatic. Trust in yourself and other people and flexibility.

Alex Carter is curious but undiscriminating. She is high-strung and fluctuating; she sometimes has trouble disciplining her mind. Because she finds change and variety especially stimulating and pleasant, she may be a bit fickle as a partner in a relationship or friendship. Many of her conflicts with other people are due to her instability and lack of self-control. If she succeeds in mastering and channeling her considerable mental energy, she could be extremely effective in such fields as communications and teaching.