Andre Gurode has a confidence in himself that sometimes falters. He tries to compensate for this weakness by insisting on his authority over others. With the people he is emotionally committed to, the same nagging feelings of insecurity prevent him from expressing his generosity and love fully; his extreme independence sometimes hides an inability to abandon himself and a lack of assurance.

You have a strong need for independence and self-assertion. You were often deprived of the security and guidance you needed as a child, and so you had to learn how to protect yourself. This system was helpful when you were a child, but it has now become a problem. You use psychological defense mechanisms to protect yourself from difficult situations, but they get in the way of your development. You are usually an awkward and passive observer, and you guilt yourself for your behavior. You should build up a strong inner discipline and learn to deal with the problems of life in a detached and mature way.

Andre Gurode has great strength of character. His courage and endurance enable him to accomplish even extremely arduous tasks. Although he sometimes behaves impulsively, he generally knows how to plan out an effective strategy, and, as a result, he reaches his goals without meeting any major obstacles. His forcefulness gives him certain leadership skills, which he may implement to creative and constructive ends.

Andre Gurode enjoys sharing and has a constant need for contact with other people. He tends to be free and uninhibited in his relations with other people, rarely allowing himself to be influenced by convention or prevailing opinion; he associates with whomever he pleases. This attitude makes his life refreshing and exciting, and he is never bored. In career terms, Andre Gurode is quite gifted for any field related to communication, where his intellectual singularity and lively wit would make him an amazing hit. He would also be likely to succeed in any activity where the work required a multidisciplinary approach: teaching, advertising, politics, etc.

You are very sensitive and receptive, and you tend to live in osmosis with your surroundings. Your individuality almost seems to be diluted in a flood of sensations and impressions which are continually washing over you, and you sometimes find it difficult to communicate your feelings to other people. This tide of emotion is a source of inspiration and intuition, but your fluid inner structure and organization sometimes make it difficult for you to grasp the essence of your dreams and share them with other people. You are not at all combative, and this tends to hinder your efforts to fit into society and assert yourself productively. You are likely to prefer fantasy to reality, but your refusal to abandon your unattainable dreams is a psychological trap you have fallen into without realizing it. You must understand that by running away from your obligations and commitments, you only increase the feelings of guilt which made reality so distasteful in the first place. Once you free yourself from this pernicious process, you have a great deal of potential for fulfilling yourself in the outer world, either by devoting yourself to some sort of social work or by cultivating your considerable artistic talents.

Andre Gurode has an inalienable awareness of the void and the vanity of existence. He is sometimes disoriented and deconstructed by an unknowable, unconscious force and tends to ignore or disparage the superficial pleasures and pains of daily life, preferring to dive into the depths of human experience as deeply as his intellectual, emotional, and spiritual capacities permit. Grappling with his “fundamental nature,” with the deepest and most primitive part of himself, he is sometimes aghast at the discovery of the sheer power of his instincts and feels an imperious need to cope with them. This special consciousness he has been endowed with is somewhat beyond the bounds of conventional schools of human understanding and thought and may be a source of identity problems for him at the outset. It is not easy for him to recognize himself in any social or narcissistic models, or identify with any existing roles or attitudes, so he sometimes finds himself forced to assert and express his own identity in a way which may strike his contemporaries as strangely intense if not eccentric.

Andre Gurode values freedom and independence. He expends a great deal of energy to ensure that his private life expresses these values. To avoid being tied down, he tends to be skittish when it comes to any profound involvement in a relationship. As a consequence, he might intellectualize his emotions and feelings and feel as though he can live more easily on friendship than on love. Extremely socially-minded but idealistic, he almost certainly feels an affinity with the ideals of some social reform movement. His imagination looks to the future.

You are often emotional and react rapidly when your sensitivity is touched. Although you believe that your independence, freedom, and self-sufficiency are fundamental values, you can be frustrated by your need to rely on your family or friends. Moreover, you do not always grant the same freedom to others that you give yourself. Likewise, you can be angry when expressions of maternal tenderness are displayed, as if you fear that you will always be dependent. Your ambivalent behavior, full of sharp edges, may be traced back to your relationship with your mother or a mother figure. Although you were dependent on them, they may have rejected you. Now this attitude is extended to any situation in which your sensitivity comes into play and emotional bonds are likely to form. To avoid being dependent, you sometimes become destructive. Based on denial, your reactions might be fierce, impulsive, excessive, erratic, or contradictory.

Andre Gurode tends to be mysterious, and often withholds information. He has a penchant for intense emotions, and sexuality is a prominent part of his life. His relationships are usually passionate, and are motivated by his desires. He enjoys understanding the hidden side of people, their secret or unconfessed motivations. If he could find a career which placed him in contact with troubled people, he would be very satisfied.

Andre Gurode has a sensitivity that sometimes overwhelms his partners, and his compassion for the other is profound. He readily sacrifices his own interest to others, to provide help and assistance. A romantic as well as an idealist, he sometimes lacks discernment in the choice of his partners. He is fairly confused and evasive and has trouble expressing his feelings clearly. Nevertheless, he is capable of devoting himself entirely to the person he loves. He has a tendency to daydream and become lost in himself.

Andre Gurode’s birth chart indicates that he usually expresses his emotions carefully and reasonably. However, he is distrustful of his emotional urges and somewhat wary of his feelings, so he tries to rid himself of all partiality and get some perspective and distance before making an emotional commitment.

Andre Gurode is an unconventional and eccentric individual who is joyous and humanistic. People and things attract his attention intensely, and as a result, he allows himself to be drawn into incomprehensible affairs in which he confuses the real and the impossible.

Andre Gurode is emotional, and when it comes to romance, he lives in a dream world, all too often going from one lover to the next in search of an impossible love. His volatile moods leave him floundering in confusion. Because he tends to get involved with people who are elusive or in love with their own independence, it is likely that his life will be marked by a number of relationships. Each of these could bring great upheaval.

Andre Gurode has the fiery, importunate nature of a fervent lover. Indeed, affairs of the heart are one of his main purposes in life. His personal charm and magnetism give him nearly irresistible powers of seduction, and nearly every one of his well-aimed attempts at conquest leads to the fulfillment and satisfaction of his desires. Due to his impulsiveness and impatience to initiate new encounters, his approach to potential partners may sometimes lack delicacy.

You may be characterized by strong sensual and affectionate urges which drive you to seek pleasure. Your need for romantic fulfillment may compel you to marry, because you also seek the legal and social legitimacy the institution of marriage confers on an emotional bond. Indeed, the household is liable to be prosperous and even opulent, as if this offered further evidence that you had indeed achieved success. However, privately, you might be less committed to certain obligations and duties. At worst, you might deny the commitments that your optimism and expansiveness made you rush into too soon. If this were to be the case, the outward image of the couple’s success (wealth and comfort, etc.) would only be a façade which compensated for its emotional impoverishment and failure. Sooner or later, this hypocrisy might provoke a full-blown conflict. A second possibility is that a psychic incompatibility may gradually take root, pitting your romantic nature against the prerogatives of your career.

You are hypersensitive and tend to relive the anxieties, apprehensions, and romantic absolutes of your first love relationships, which occurred around the ages of 13-14 years or 20-21 years. You are exquisitely sensitive, but almost completely barricaded behind a layer of aloofness. You will not settle for anything less than eternal commitment, total harmony, and absolute loyalty. You are sometimes presumed to be cold, even by those close to her. You usually hide your emotional reactions or do not even allow them to reach the level of your consciousness, in an effort to protect your sensitivity, which you see as your weak point. You are fairly vulnerable, even in the intimacy of a stable and established relationship. Usually, you will disguise your strong feelings as a kind of possessiveness or even jealousy. Certain misfortunes may arouse a negative emotional state inside you, and you feel unworthy of the love which is lavished on you. This psychological prohibition which rules over all of your desires and affects should loosen with the passage of time; likewise, your fear of approaching the other will diminish. As a result, the second part of your romantic life will be more rewarding. In any case, if you want to experience a harmonious love relationship and gratify yourself emotionally, the defense mechanisms you have elaborated to make yourself inaccessible to others will have to be dismantled. Any profound relationship will also require that you learn how to forget yourself occasionally in the other.

Andre Gurode has a mind that is often subject to the rule of his prolific imagination. Although he may have flashes of intuition which may prove to be correct, his thought processes are often messy and confused. His mind is oriented in many different directions at the same time, and is ruled by his emotions and feelings. In tune with psychic and parapsychic phenomena, his thinking requires only the adjunct of structure to rise from the level of a blurry, uncertain, undifferentiated mass to that of a really significant vision with a grip on the real world.

Andre Gurode tries to shun subjectivity and be as objective as possible. His thoughts are usually structured, and his reasoning, based on objective facts or experience, usually relates to practical goals.

In relations with other people, Andre Gurode usually behaves with benevolence and charm. He is able to speak persuasively and convincingly, which makes him a great social asset. However, in situations where he must compete or deal with direct conflict and hostility, Andre Gurode may be somewhat at a loss for how to behave. He has an undeniable gift for oratory which could be applied to a communications-related occupation or to artistic expression (as a stage or screen actor). Writing and dance, two other arts which associate expression and movement, might also be fields in which he would excel.

Andre Gurode has a lively and agile spirit. He is curious and open-minded, approaching various life experiences with an attitude free of dogmatism and prejudice. As a result of his great mental vitality, Andre tends to have an opinion on every subject, but he does not always have the patience necessary to examine a subject in-depth. Andre enjoys manipulating expressions and concepts and amuses himself with witty remarks, satire, and controversy. If Andre learned to control his flow of words and elaborate his thoughts more, he could make a talented communicator. Because Andre is often too hasty to formulate and construct the arguments which would back up and inform his ideas, he is sometimes misunderstood. Andre is often blind to the rashness of his judgments and convinced they are well-founded and objective, which sometimes irritates the people around him. If Andre were to succeed in disciplining his mind somewhat, he would have innumerable opportunities to apply his communications skills to a great career. However, he would do well to be careful of his nerves.

Andre Gurode is prone to making mistakes in judgment. His understanding of things is often not in tune with social realities or prevailing opinion, and his decisions are often hasty. Furthermore, he often overestimates his abilities and usually aims higher than is realistic. Once an enterprise or project is underway, Andre may try to avoid obstacles by dodging certain duties. Because his vision of the world differs somewhat from social realities, he should be extremely careful and scrupulous in regard to legal matters, in order to avoid any complications of that type. Andre is also prone to being slightly dishonest in his relations. He may break promises or attempt to duck responsibility. However, Andre should realize that such conduct toward other people is also a form of unconscious self-loathing. If Andre continues to behave in such a way, he is exposing himself to the same lack of sincerity from his partners.