You are a very observant person, attuned to the subtleties of your surroundings. You have a natural ability to understand people and situations, based upon your intuition. This ability is based on an openness to others, and a certain duality: a budding extroversion, and the predominance of the object over the subject (yourself) in your consciousness. As a result, you have a strong sense of the group, and would be willing to sacrifice your own ego to maintain harmony within it. However, you can sometimes be perceived as unreliable or untrustworthy, due to your opportunistic and disloyal nature. However, these are superficial characteristics, and the real reason for your behavior is psychological. You are ready to do anything to maintain the harmony of the group, or simply satisfy the expectations of the other. You sometimes lack self-assertiveness, which makes you contradictory and unreliable when making decisions based on superficial factors. Additionally, you have a chameleon-like ability to blend in with your surroundings, making you quite successful in social settings. Your mind is remarkably flexible, arranging harmonious and productive encounters between people and ideas. However, all of your emotional health is invested in a desire to participate, to mingle, and to exchange. Although you are consciously aware of this ardent desire, you unconsciously blame yourself for failing to achieve your ideal goal, which always seems to elude you. This is why you sometimes experience phases of discouragement, followed by renewed zeal in your work efforts or group participation. Because you are always seeking the perfect group, the ideal form of cooperation, you sometimes despair of ever attaining it. You have a natural tendency to find common ground for people, to reconcile differing opinions and viewpoints, and you are partial to any arrangement which promotes cooperation or fellowship. Because you are not aggressive by nature, you know how to make peace. You are a skillful diplomat and go-between, and as a corollary to your opening to society, you are closely related to your environment. The society in which you move contributes in large part to the formation of your character and attitude. Through social contacts and friendships, you have elaborated a personal code of ethics which reconciles societal norms and the values your family, friends, and relations have passed on to you. It is important for you to find a way to make all these components harmonize, or you will feel lost and bewildered. You have a vital need for others, and loathe solitude. Emotional functions are central to your

Due to the influence of Sagittarius (the Centaur-Archer) rising, Alex McCord has a dual, ambivalent nature, vagrant and capricious. It is natural for him to be simultaneously conventional and rebellious. He can happily submit to society and convention for a time, only to emerge committed to rugged individualism, or vice versa. His inner attachment to an ideal of liberty and emancipation does not prevent him from adopting a sociable, pleasant attitude at social events. This dichotomy in his personality grants him such useful social skills as adaptability and poise, but inside, he faces a quest for his true identity and consciousness. His primary psychological task is to maintain the harmony reigning between the two entities dwelling within him. He must not limit himself to being either one or the other. He will achieve true psychic and existential stability by personifying a blend of these two behavioral tendencies. When he is comfortable with his individuality, he can radiate optimism and energy; flexible and elastic, he will delight in any change or unpredictability, without losing sight of his long-term purposes. Eminently social, he will express his true nature by becoming deeply involved with groups and taking on duties and responsibilities as a member. An excellent teacher, he will enjoy his ability to infuse them with his idealistic enthusiasm and visions for the future.

Alex McCord wants to wield power and enjoy social prestige. He feels quite at home in the modern world others find frightening.

Alex McCord is attentive to work and profit. He will probably be financially comfortable throughout his life.

At the time of your birth, your rising sign was located in Sagittarius (the Archer), while the sun was passing through the sign of Libra (the Scales). 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:

Impetuosity

Sociability

– Enthusiasm
– Adaptability
– Group spirit
– Emotionality
– Impressionability
– Tolerance
– Analytical mind
– Peaceful disposition
– Worldly concerns
– Sense of harmony
– Projection
– Worldliness.

Deeply social and liberal-minded, you have a great sense of diplomacy and a gift for reconciling differing viewpoints. Friendly and willing to be of service, you are unable to refuse an appeal for help, and your courtesy can tend toward a certain sentimentalism. As a result, you commit yourself to too many people at the same time, and may sometimes feel spread too thin.

As an artist or student of art, you have a profound sense of beauty (harmony, rhythm, composition, associations and juxtapositions, etc.). You like your independence, but will nevertheless bow to custom and usage in good grace. Your sense of fairness and justice is keen, and you spontaneously take up the cause of the defenseless.

Born three and a half to seven days after the rising of the new moon, you are said to be a “solo-lunar” configuration indicating that you may need to make an effort to free yourself from the past. Something related to your childhood, parents, or ancestors is holding you back, impairing your effectiveness and could stand to be overcome. Due to your past, you refuse tried-and-true models, are always fighting to justify your innovative viewpoints, and tend to break away from tradition. You are seldom aware that you are making career and lifestyle choices which are based on an urge to modify your relationship to society, and the rigid standards and models from the past.