Consciousness and The Ideal of Self:

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

Salish Matter’s personality and behavior are liable to be disrupted by a contradiction between the masculine and feminine archetypes ruling their psyche. Because their sensitivity is in conflict with their determination, their attitude and performance may sometimes be moody, fluctuating, and uncertain. Usually, they have the feeling they have to make superhuman efforts to succeed in assuaging their yearnings and fulfilling their ambitions. Their unconscious, sensitive side often disapproves of their conscious endeavors and stealthily works to defeat them, causing crucial omissions, mistakes, and gaps which effectively sabotage their plans. In their relationships, the images they build up and projects on the other are contradictory. As a result, any bond, even if it is pleasant and positive, might also annoy them. They could find it dissatisfying and irritating at the same time.

Adaptation and Sensitivity:

Salish Matter is a pragmatic and realistic person. They evaluate people and things according to practical, common-sense criteria instead of abstract concepts. A sensualist and lover of luxury, they have a penchant for material comfort and take great joy in physical pleasures. In relation to others, socially and privately, they like to build stable relationships and are not especially fond of change. Their warmth gives them a great deal of ease when meeting people, as clients (for business purposes), but their close relations also benefit from this affection and their ability to express their feelings naturally and openly.

Although Salish Matter is pragmatic and relatively realistic, they are sometimes tormented by an insidious feeling of insecurity which interferes with their ability to grasp reality. Change unnerves them, and at certain times, they tend to cling to old-fashioned customs or lifestyles. Insecurities might cause them to repress their emotional needs.

Salish Matter does not always readily reveal themselves, and they tend to protect their sensitivity. They have a penchant for intense emotions. Sexuality is a prominent element in their life, and their relationships, which are usually passionate, are motivated by their desires. They like to understand the hidden side of people, their secret or unconfessed motivations. They would thus find a career which placed them in contact with troubled people especially rewarding.

Love and Sensuality:

Salish’s attractions are usually immediate and intense. They rise quickly to fever pitch. The story of these passions is often dramatic to excess, combining all the plot elements of a classic love tragedy: jealousy, possessiveness, agony as an erotic stimulant, etc.

Salish Matter’s birth chart indicates an emotional function which is expressed in a direct and fairly impulsive way. They enjoy reaching out to other people and making discoveries. An eternal teenager with their gaze riveted on the future, they are imbued with an eminently subjective and personal idealism.

Salish Matter glows with a youthful simplicity and dewy freshness that make them very endearing. Quite sensitive to physical attraction, they love blithely and lustily. Because they need to feel free and independent, a possessive partner would be a bad match for them. Even when committed, they will cling to their taste for freedom, refusing monotony.

Salish Matter will have a strong sexual aura and considerable sway over other people, but this does not always imply love. Salish’s feelings tend to be mysterious; for example, Salish may derive erotic fulfillment from anguish. Salish is attracted to sensual and complicated partners who draw Salish into tormented love affairs. A power struggle, or perhaps even a confrontation, may prove to be necessary in relationships where storms and recriminations will probably be inevitable.

Salish Matter has an ardent and amorous character, and their relationships with the other sex are enlivened by intensity and passion. A charmer perpetually engaged in a quest for the ideal love, they are often more in love with the idea of love than with their partners. As a result, their love life may be subject to some instability. They are generally attracted to original people who defy norms, standards, and classifications, and expect them to amaze and fascinate them. Love is often a matter of luck with them. Even when a relationship falls apart, they do not see the experience as a failure or a tragedy; instead, they seem to learn valuable lessons from their mistakes. Psychologically, their emotion contributes positively and efficiently to their evolution. From another standpoint, their acute sensitivity predisposes them to original and subtle tastes; they are so receptive to beauty and attached to the concepts of truth and balance that they may all combine to yield remarkable creative potential.

Salish Matter has a romantic imagination, soaring with idealism, dreams, and poetry. They are emotive and hypersensitive, making them especially vulnerable emotionally, since they are sometimes overwhelmed by their feelings and affects. Although they seek an ideal soulmate, a partner with whom they could maintain blissful, smooth relations, they are sometimes met with disillusionment. Because their rather excessive sensitivity and their need to merge with the other are deep and powerful enough, they can submerge their judgment and discernment, so they sometimes form extremely intense bonds too quickly with individuals who are not appropriate partners in many ways. When they meet someone, they fall under the enchantment of their dream of ideal love and cannot keep themselves from delighting in a reverie of future romance, placing the other on a pedestal. Early on in the relationship, they yield to another of their characteristic urges and lose themselves in the individual who is so dear to them, melding with them, only to awaken one morning and find themselves as if in the arms of a stranger, greatly astounded and disappointed. Actually, their psyche is constructed in such a way as to make their sensitivity a function of the environment, in many cases; it follows the flow of momentary emotions and impressions. Before they take on any major commitments, they should make a conscious effort to evaluate the relationship realistically, and see whether the person really reciprocates their intense love, for they may merely be in love with the mirage of an ideal partner. Their tendency to believe in their illusions may mark them as an easy prey for people with bad intentions. It would be a good idea for them to find a different object for their affections, or a form of sublimation, because they tend to be so disappointed by their great emotional investments. The delicacy and subtlety of their imagination procure artistic refinement for them, and they love the arts, music, and literature, which could all be good sources of emotional involvement and fulfillment. Because their sensitivity also makes it easy for them to empathize with the psychological or social difficulties their peers are struggling with, they might also find it rewarding to commit themselves to social work.

Mental and Intellect:

More theoretical than logical and more intuitive than rational, Salish Matter’s thought patterns come to the fore when they are applied to a vast subject. Salish Matter is attracted to wide open spaces and distant horizons; as a scholar, Salish Matter feels an affinity for higher studies such as philosophy or law. However, foreign languages or contacts abroad might also interest Salish Matter.

Salish Matter tries to shun subjectivity and be as objective as possible. Salish Matter’s thoughts are usually structured, and Salish Matter’s reasoning, based on objective facts or experience, usually relates to practical goals.

Salish Matter has a lively and agile spirit. Salish Matter is curious and open-minded, approaching various life experiences with an attitude free of dogmatism and prejudice. As a result of Salish Matter’s great mental vitality, Salish Matter tends to have an opinion on every subject, but Salish Matter does not always have the patience necessary to examine a subject in-depth.

Salish Matter enjoys manipulating expressions and concepts and amusing Salish Matter with witty remarks, satire, and controversy. If Salish Matter learned to control Salish Matter’s flow of words and elaborate Salish Matter’s thoughts more, Salish Matter could make a talented communicator. Because Salish Matter is often too hasty to formulate and construct the arguments which would back up and inform Salish Matter’s ideas, Salish Matter is sometimes misunderstood.

Salish Matter is often blind to the rashness of Salish Matter’s judgments and convinced they are well-founded and objective, which sometimes irritates the people around Salish Matter. If Salish Matter were to succeed in disciplining Salish Matter’s mind somewhat, Salish Matter would have innumerable opportunities to apply Salish Matter’s communications skills to a great career. However, Salish Matter would do well to be careful of Salish Matter’s nerves.

Salish Matter has a mind with an insatiable appetite for knowledge and an exceptional ability to learn. Without trying too hard, Salish Matter could probably accumulate encyclopedic erudition. Salish Matter’s intellectual curiosity is such that it is sometimes a drawback. Salish Matter sometimes has trouble limiting itself to a single subject without being distracted by a multitude of others.

Discipline and a conscious effort at organization will be of great help if Salish Matter wants to deepen its learning and judgment. Once Salish Matter’s intellectual faculties are disciplined, Salish Matter is likely to succeed in any of the following fields: teaching, historical scholarship, advertising, writing (journalistic or literary), travel, etc: – in fact, communication in any form.

Salish Matter has a definite taste for expression and communication. They cannot survive without giving voice to their thoughts and speaking to other people. They delight in their own power to persuade, captivate, and sway an audience with their words.

Especially attracted to anything new and original, Salish Matter immediately grasps the utility and value of the latest technology or philosophy, no matter how complicated it may be and has a knack for explaining it to the uninitiated and popularizing it.

Because Salish Matter is fairly high strung, they may have trouble concentrating on a single subject for very long, unless it is a source of intellectual fascination or discovery. They may have to make some effort to overcome this inconsistency.

Their open-mindedness gives Salish Matter creativity, which is a valuable commodity in many occupations: teaching, communications, advertising, etc. Regardless of the career they choose, their personal development will involve intellectual activity and progress.