Alfredo Duro is a complex person with contradictory impulses and desires, some of which are imperious. Although his rational mind is highly developed, the most significant realm of his psychology is his subconscious, where a conflict between understanding and feeling is raging. Until this conflict subsides, he might feel a sensation of emptiness. He is troubled by and unable to explain this feeling, which leads him to adopt an attitude of doubt and skepticism. This conflict, and its various ramifications, are the main obstacle to his individuation. His task consists of becoming the master of the energies of his subconscious, and developing his consciousness in terms of the hidden and invisible. His evolution will occur through a series of metamorphoses and rebirths. However, at certain points in his life, despite his caution and clear thinking, he finds himself in situations he neither desired nor planned, as a result of explosions and eruptions of the elements fermenting in his psyche. He always survives the worst physical, emotional, or intellectual tests, however, fairly unscathed, because of his ability to be reborn and start afresh. As a partner, he might struggle to make compromises. He may appear frosty and distant at times, and he has a taste for challenging, provocative remarks. With himself, as well as with others, he is sometimes excessive and complicated. In a discussion, he will express strong, honest opinions. In crisis situations, he wishes for his efforts to be noticed. He is obsessed with the problem of death. He tends to believe it holds the secret of life – that death can be overcome. Sometimes his anxiety about death is expressed as a search for answers – how can one learn to live with death, how can one detach oneself from the past and its flesh-curdlingly morbid realities… Decay, immobility, ultimate delivery – these images, which are all symbolically associated with death, sometimes haunt him.

Intellectually, he has powerfully developed intellectual faculties which yield the maximum effectiveness for his behavior. Deductive, analytical, prospective, he is at once a researcher, a detective, and a scientist. He is fairly introverted, and his discrimination tends to direct him toward the spheres of inner life. He is astute at drawing rational parallels between phenomena of different origins. His love life will be subject to desire and passion. But since he is more aroused by ideas and fantasies, he may experience lulls in intensity. When he yields to his penchant for emotional upheaval and his desire for coercion and pleasure,

Alfredo Duro is a person who is relatively detached from society and leads an independent life. He is skeptical and resigned, and has a fairly severe vision of life. His stability is based on enduring values, such as philosophical or scientific facts in relation to spiritual values. He does not easily express his feelings and emotions, but he does have a need to protect and restrain his inner sensitivity and emotionality. His sense of time is very important, and it governs and coordinates all of his activities.

Alfredo Duro had high social aspirations. He believed that by gaining total control of his intellect, feelings, and instincts, he could achieve them.

Alfredo Duro has a strong personality; he is sometimes a little self-centered. His fate is in his own hands!

At the time of your birth, your rising sign was located in Capricorn (the Goat), while the sun was passing through the sign of Scorpio (the Scorpion). A summary of the various clues mentioned above provide your personality profile.

You are ambitious and passionate, but secretive and reserved. You have a stormy and sometimes difficult character. You dominate, showing a certain edginess, repressing the expression of your sensitivity and mocking that side of others. But you are short-tempered and vulnerable, and react with causticity when you feel your ego is threatened. Your keen and penetrating intelligence and your lucidity make you curious about the hidden aspects of things—the action behind the scenes. As a result, you may take pleasure in divulging people’s emotional secrets. But on another level, you can expose the dysfunctional elements of something, resulting in a positive change.

Your endurance and stubbornness give you the energy necessary for long-term projects. You alone can decide whether your goals will satisfy your own personal ambition, or a more vast and humanistic ideal.

Alfredo Duro was born on the seventh to tenth day after the full moon rose. He is of the “last quarter” lunar type, which means that his personality is fairly independent and self-sufficient. His ideas are original and often bold, but unfortunately, they don’t often garner a majority of followers. His sense of humor is his best communications tool, but he often switches to a more severe tone which breaks his charm over his audience and his methods don’t always please the masses. His lack of flexibility hsits his strategies and projects, and he would gain by developing his sense of diplomacy and tact. Although he is not unduly attached to success, because he is so used to being ahead of his time, his failures take a psychological toll on him. Because each setback wears him down a little more, he should try to avoid further disappointments by conforming to contemporary reality a little more closely.