Ashley Hesseltine needs others in order to structure herself. She intuitively senses this need and seeks a balance between her individual ambitions and need to give to others and be loved and recognized in return, although it sometimes eludes her. Marriage and friendship could be realms to which she is especially devoted, but they may also prove to be a source of conflict and disillusion.

A gentle and sensitive person, you are deeply human. You are sociable and sincerely devoted to others. Your mother or a mother-figure had a strong influence on your psyche, and your childhood was an important time in your life. You still identify with vivid childhood memories; they are the basis for your reveries, for your extreme sensitivity, and for habits which you may be slow to break. However, you will thrive in the shelter of a family setting, soothed by the presence of a spouse and children. You are fond of security and routine; being somewhat impressionable and anxious, you may have trouble adjusting to situations which are unfamiliar.

Ashley Hesseltine has a sensitive personality. She may jump to conclusions, which could disrupt relationships, as well as career plans. She is subject to cyclical energy flows and goes from periods of feverish activity to periods of withdrawal and introspection. The aggressive element in her behavior may be explained by emotional problems she may have experienced in infancy: her mother, or a mother figure, may have had an energetic and volatile personality.

Ashley Hesseltine hides her sensitivity behind a cool, aloof exterior. She is conservative and respectful of tradition and convention. Ashley likes to follow the rules and has great faith in contracts which seal relationships. Her ties to her past are strong- her parents likely gave her a lot.

You are intense and react quickly when your feelings are touched. Although you believe that independence, freedom, and self-sufficiency are important values, you sometimes feel frustrated by your need to rely on your family or friends. Additionally, you may not always grant the freedom of others the same respect that you would give to yourself. Likewise, you are sometimes angered by expressions of maternal tenderness, as if you feared that it would doom you to dependency. Your ambivalent behavior, with its jagged edges, may be traced back to the relationship you had 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 feeling dependent, you sometimes become destructive. Based on denial, your reactions may be fierce, impulsive, excessive, erratic, or contradictory.

Ashley Hesseltine has fairly lofty amorous aspirations. The soulmate she imagines for herself is brilliant and dazzling with an array of talents and beauty. However, the gap between her splendid ideal and reality is sometimes wide. She should be careful not to confuse her romantic ideal with reality and become aware that her tendency to project may be a way of fleeing from herself.

Ashley Hesseltine’s birth chart indicates an emotional function which is usually expressed carefully and reasonably. Distrustful of her emotional urges and somewhat wary of her feelings, she tries to rid herself of all partiality and try to get some perspective and distance before making an emotional commitment.

Ashley Hesseltine became somewhat eccentric, sensitive, and imaginative after she had her first child. She found family life and possibly parenthood fulfilling, and it brought her maturity. As she became more peaceful, realistic, and consistent, her family life came to the forefront. She adored her loved ones or children and protected them as symbols of her own fulfillment.

Ashley Hesseltine is attracted to social prominence and brilliant people. Although she may engage in quite a few adventures, she is liable to feel that her deepest desires remain unfulfilled. There is some chance that the person she cares for most will refuse to commit to her, or she may commit herself to an ambitious person who demands more than she can give.

You are 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 cautious and reserved, sometimes unwilling to open yourself to others if you are not sure of being accepted. You will always hang back somewhat from your emotional urges, parceling out your expressions of affection, because you have learned – sometimes at your expense – that even the most harmonious relationships require some compromise. For you, “good fences make good neighbors,” and well-marked boundaries can prevent future suffering. Thus, even when you are in love, you remain fairly circumspect. When you find yourself attracted to a partner, you privately engage in a careful analysis of their personality and life story, endeavoring to know them profoundly, to see whether you are likely to be able to share your life and future with them. As a result of your sensitivity, you have a profound affinity for all of the arts. Music, literature, painting, and graphic arts are likely to enrich your existence and make it pleasant. You could progress in any career in which balance, order, and practicality predominate.

You are an ardent and amorous person, and your relationships are enlivened by intensity and passion. A charmer perpetually engaged in a quest for the ideal love, you are often more in love with the idea of love than with a partner. As a result, your love life may be subject to some instability. You are generally attracted to original people who defy norms, standards, and classifications, and expect them to amaze and fascinate you. Your greatest contradictions surface when an intimate relationship is established. Although you merge your ego entirely into the couple, you are likely to demand a total autonomy and liberty which are inimical to intimacy. If your partner charms and captivates you long enough, there is some possibility that they will form a more solid bond with you; otherwise, you are likely to yield to your need for novelty and fall under the spell of an entirely different person who exerts a new kind of charm for you.

Midlife may be a turning point for you from this point of view. Your contradictory attitude may in some ways hide a compulsion to reject and deny the bonds of dependency inherent to a love relationship. Your behavior enables you to remain aloof, to commit yourself only halfway without consciously admitting it to yourself, and to avoid feeling guilty if and when you lose interest. An insatiable appetite for novelty and exaltation sometimes keeps you from forming stable relationships. Indeed, you are tormented by the struggle between your undeniable need for affection and an equally imperious desire for personal progress and emancipation. As a result of this inner turmoil, your romantic aspirations are usually sabotaged sooner or later by your conviction that your partner has become an obstacle to your individual progress. Because you think of love as a restraint, you may even eventually consciously refuse any emotional approach to love interests. As an ascetic, you will try to deflect the love function from its natural target and use the energy and bliss it generates for other purposes, the process psychologists call sublimation. However, you are also likely to meet “the one” who inspires you to initiate a change in your behavior.

Ashley Hesseltine has a great emotional ideal, full of subtlety and tenderness. However, she tends to be overwhelmed by her imagination and may not be selective enough when choosing a partner. Her romantic and trusting nature may make her vulnerable. Although she strives to establish peaceful, uncomplicated relations, she sometimes experiences painful disappointments. Her artistic delicacy and refinement provide her with a sincere love of the arts, music, and literature. She is likely to be a gifted poet.

From the outside, Ashley Hesseltine seems to be detached and aloof. However, on the inside she is an extremely complex individual, full of contradictions. Ashley sometimes feels vulnerable emotionally, which is why she tries to control not only her own feelings and urges, but also strives to manipulate those of her partners. She aspires to a profound and enduring spiritual unity, but at the same time, the idea of abandoning herself and yielding to the other terrifies her. This anguish may be a source of rather extreme behavior patterns and a somewhat self-focused attitude which could damage the relationship. Ashley is guarded and somewhat secretive, which makes her suspicious and uneasy about spontaneous intimacy. However, within the privacy of the couple, she will not express her feelings unless she is subject to some tension. Life may be peppered with frequent crises and feuds, arguments and spats, which usually act as erotic provocation. This derivation of eroticism from anxiety tends to be one of the fundamental characteristics of Ashley’s emotional and sexual functioning. As a result, she is likely to be attracted by stormy and complicated relationships.

Ashley Hesseltine’s intellect is simultaneously subjective and sensitive, acute and intuitive, always practical and deeply rooted in human experience. With her memory and imagination combined with her shrewdness, she would be a gifted project manager, businesswoman, or scholar of history or literature.