AVA is searching for stability. She wants to find a firm, unchanging structure for her life. But her efforts to achieve this ideal are often vain, because unconsciously, she is also inhabited by the opposite desire. Every time she reaches what she believes to be a good balance, she realizes she wants something entirely different. She should become aware that the concepts of stability and balance are difficult to apply to life. By definition, life is movement, change, and perpetual instability.

You have a paternal complex and, as a result, some trouble finding your identity. Perhaps your father or a father figure was absent physically or emotionally during your childhood, which deprived you of the patterns or models which are usually helpful in structuring a personality. Because you might have lacked a particular sense of security which could be provided by a paternal presence, as well as the examples of behavior to follow in confronting the difficulties inherent in every life, you were forced to protect yourself against negative influences and find your own system in order to grow and feel secure. Although this system was quite useful to you as a child, it has now settled in to such a degree that it interferes with your evolution. Psychological defense mechanisms and crutches which were once useful now encumber your mind or inhibit your developmental efforts. As a result, in certain situations, it is difficult for you to assert yourself, and you tend to remain an awkward or passive observer. Because your authoritarian urges are mainly directed at yourself rather than others, you sometimes feel guilty about your behavior. You judge yourself severely, and sometimes punishes yourself by setting difficult tasks for yourself. Gradually, you should build up a strong inner discipline and acquire the strength to face the problems of existence in a detached and mature way.

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

An eloquent speaker and compulsive charmer, AVA has a powerful personal magnetism which may sometimes make her seem arrogant or smug. She cares a great deal about her reputation and will try hard to be admired and appreciated by the people around her. Fond of social events and parties, AVA likes to be the host, to entertain and charm a captive audience of guests. Indeed, she has special dramatic and artistic talents of the caliber necessary for success in film, theater, fashion, or art in general. She enjoys displaying her generosity, but she also displays a short temper at times; she is easily offended. Her partner will have to be a brilliant person, strong and sure of themselves, devoted to her and capable of enhancing her reputation.

AVA has a lively, agile, and sensitive intellect. However, they do not always avail themselves of it and may be confused or irrational in some situations. Although they enjoy playing with words, ideas, and concepts, their thought sometimes lacks discipline and structure. They are fairly preoccupied with details and may tend to waste their nervous and mental energy in futile verbal outpourings. Moreover, their feelings sometimes blur their objective vision of phenomena and people, which may cause them to make errors in judgment.

AVA hides her sensitivity behind a cool exterior. She is conservative and respectful of tradition and convention. She likes to follow the rules and has great faith in contracts which seal relationships. AVA’s ties to her past are fairly strong. They are a source of reassurance and safety, because her parents likely gave a lot to her.

AVA has a sensitive and imaginative nature which can sometimes lead to trouble distinguishing dreams from reality. Although her bubbling imagination provides an abundance of inspiration for creative and spiritual evolution, it is less helpful and positive in matters that concern her self-assertion as responsible and self-sufficient in a relationship. In AVA’s eyes, everyone is beautiful and perfect just the way they are.

My sensitivity and emotions are sometimes in conflict with my instincts. This inner discord makes me a fairly complicated relationship partner, and my behavior sometimes strikes others as mysterious or baffling. I am liable to switch from one attitude to the opposite. Sexuality is an important part of my life, and my relationships are most often motivated by my desires. Nevertheless, due to my unconscious inner battle, I do not often succeed in reconciling and fulfilling my emotional and sexual needs. Due to the strength of my instincts, passion may overwhelm me and drag me into situations I cannot always control, which intermingle erotic ecstasy and anguish, guilt, and aggressiveness.

AVA enjoys captivating people with the elegance and ease of her expression. She is a witty and engaging flirt, an avid player of the game of love. As a result, the history of her affections is liable to be episodic, a long series of chapters about conquests or fleeting love affairs. She may carry on some love relationships by writing letters.

AVA’s birth chart indicates that she has an emotional function that 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.

AVA has a contradictory and somewhat enigmatic nature. She is both realistic and idealistic and does not always succeed in accomplishing her aspirations, though she certainly tries hard. In her relationships, she tends to fabricate illusions but may suddenly sober up next to someone she will find dull and feel trapped in a routine. Unresolved, this contradiction may make her feel uncomfortable with herself.

AVA feels wary of their feelings because they know how powerful they can be. When faced with an opportunity for a committed relationship they may withdraw or flee. A person younger than AVA may be able to draw AVA out of their shell, but they should not expect AVA to offer what AVA cannot 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 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.

AVA is somewhat plodding but realistic and pragmatic. Because AVA is chiefly preoccupied with the practical aspects of things, AVA is especially apt to develop more efficient production concepts. Although AVA’s good judgment and common sense provide AVA with an excellent ability to handle the tangible world (AVA is certainly clever, and can quickly assess the tangible value of things), AVA’s thought processes might be relatively impervious to abstract concepts and spiritual awakenings.

AVA listens attentively and respectfully to what you have to say. She is introspective and often reflects on her own thoughts and experiences. She is cautious and analytical, preferring to understand the world around her before making any decisions.

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