If you are really interested in becoming better, the first step is to become aware of the weaknesses which may be holding you back and preventing your evolution. These may include your dependency on other people, your uncertainty, your sentimentalism, and your weakness for comfort.

Arca may experience discord in relationships. Although she is friendly and outgoing and commits herself to friendships and partnerships, she often finds it difficult to balance her own needs, desires, and goals with the objective reality of others and their individual desires and needs. To understand and overcome this problem, she should accept the idea that every relationship follows more or less the same general scheme: a base of intimacy and an accomplishment or purpose apart from the relationship itself. If she succeeds in defining, through discussion and communication, what sort of intimate relationship she and her partners want to maintain and what accomplishment or purpose they hope to achieve, many conflicts will be avoided.

Arca obeys a drive to live and accomplish their purpose in an intense and immediate way. Whenever they encounter direct resistance, they might find themselves beset by frustration. If the resistance lasts, they may eventually be overwhelmed by anxiety, nervous tension, and discouragement. In addition, they have the ability to focus their strength and leadership potential on problems which require immediate solutions. Their lack of patience and persistence may spur problems.

Arca tends to be restless and impatient. Sometimes dissatisfaction with society causes Arca to launch into an energetic effort to transform it. Because Arca has the ability to conceive of fairly radical models for social change, Arca sometimes demonstrates a desire to spearhead a progressive movement. However, Arca’s determination to impose its own ideas forcefully could turn people off it. Arca will do well to realize that only a transpersonal vision of the world (that is, a vision which transcends Arca’s own personal ego problems) is appropriate nourishment for the archetypes which could bring about a real transformation and improvement of social structures.

Arca struggles with setting realistic goals for herself and managing her emotions. These tendencies are particularly evident when it comes to her relationships with others. At first, she idealizes the potential partner, putting them on a pedestal, but then she tries to dodge her commitment and desperately plots to extricate herself. In other life pursuits, she tends to rush into activities, of which she has a crude, confused concept. Life can step in to urge her to slow down and induce her to organize herself with more patience and forethought.

Arca is hypersensitive and easily offended, although she frequently changes her opinion and doesn’t hold a grudge. She abhor conflict and is a good listener. Her key to self-improvement will be learning to control her impressionability.

Arca reacts peremptorily to all opposition and will brook no contradiction. His desires are sometimes imperious, and he expresses them impulsively, by fits and starts, which may elicit resentment and antagonism in his partners. Life will force him to set more universal goals and centers of interest for himself. It would be a good idea for him to release some excess internal tension through physical exercise.