August « 2007 « ashleystar.

Ascendant in Leo. With this Ascendant, you have an affable, affectionate nature, emphasizing physical expression. The physical love you seek is rather playful and childlike, and others see you as outgoing and friendly. You seem to have an open, straightforward nature without too much complexity: self- confident and charming, with an honest natural social grace. This may reflect your inner nature, but as often as not, your cheerful, outgoing appearance hides a much more complex and inward-turned personality. However, the disadvantage of this duality is that you may feel pressured to sustain an image that you don’t truly feel within. However, for true and lasting communication, you must establish inner rapport with your partners; that will determine the success of the relationship.

Sun in Cancer You tend to be self-protective in your relationships or, if you are highly motivated, you may look for just the opposite – selfless, sometimes too self-denying, emotional entanglements. Probably you will keep your really meaningful relationships quite private, so that the outside world is unlikely to know what is really going on in your emotional life. The physical care and well-being of your lover are very important to you, and you may be generous to the point of lavishness. With the Sun in Cancer you want to surround and envelop a lover, so you should find someone who is not too independent, someone who won’t be annoyed by your constant small tokens of affection. It is very important for you to balance your emotional life carefully, so that you are neither too closed off from others nor too open.

Sun in the Eleventh House. You have a natural desire and ability to turn yourself into an eminently desirable partner for almost anyone you meet. Socially, you tend to be quite upwardly mobile and quite successful in finding others who live up to your high social standards. This ability can bring you great success and even wealth, but you must be careful not to leave old and faithful friends by the wayside. Since your social life is quite important to you, try to avoid the lone wolf type of lover. The more involved you are externally, the more fertile and happy your personal involvements will be.

Moon in Aquarius. Although your temperament is fairly even, there is potential for unlimited variety in your responses to a lover. In every situation you are truly creative and responsive, an equal partner in the emotional and sexual inventiveness of the relationship. You prefer a partner who provides a challenge rather than one who presents a ready- made framework for an affair. A lover who is verbally clever would be ideal for you. You will be happiest in a relationship that has plenty of time to develop. In affairs of the heart, time is on your side.

Moon in the Sixth House. You are good at creating fantasy structures of love, which an affair must fulfill if it is to come out right for you or be really satisfying. Once you have gained experience in love, you can be a very considerate and thoughtful lover, who as both teacher and lover can gently initiate a younger person in the ways of love. In that case, it may be difficult for your lover to make the transition from student to equal, but that must happen if you intend to have a long-term relationship.

Venus in Gemini . You enjoy delicacy and finesse in love, and you treasure the touch of an experienced and thoughtful lover. The softer and more ethereal the physical quality of love, the more you respond to it. However, you also appreciate being told how much you are loved. Not everyone can express loving feelings so fluently, however, so do not feel rejected if your lover is not verbally affectionate. Love at its best is a happy, sometimes complicated game of constantly changing stimuli, but underlying it is a much simpler emotional base of mutual friendship and companionship.

Venus in the Tenth House. You may be particularly drawn to individuals who are well-known or who are outstanding in their professional field. However, you must be careful to make a distinction between your partner’s personal needs and emotions and his or her achievements or reputation. You are anxious to be well thought of also, and you may be quite successful in building a professional reputation. But you could run into the same problem in reverse – your partner will expect you to live up to your external image rather than just being yourself. If your lover is also involved in your professional life, the affair can become a real tangle of crossed wires and ulterior motives. Therefore it is best to insulate your private life from your own and your partner’s public endeavors.

Mars in Libra. You are likely to be the one who instigates change within a relationship, and your affairs are seldom static. Although you may be consciously trying to bring about change in a spirit of honest adjustment and possibly conciliation, you may slip into a pattern of shifting and change for its own sake. Be very sure that something needs to be changed before rearranging. You are so interested in fairness within a relationship that you will take a back seat if you feel it will serve the interests of equality. In physical affection, you are very considerate and anxious to please, making a point of knowing what your partner enjoys. Your style is quite active and volatile, and you are at your best with someone who is similarly responsive.

Mars in the Second House You express your love in very physical ways – not bodily, but by surrounding your loved one with a variety of physical comforts, gifts and tangible tokens of love. This is an excellent position in that you can achieve an endless variety of sexual stimulation simply by altering your physical surroundings to make them more sensual and pleasing. On the negative side, you tend to be physically possessive of your lover, with all the problems that incipient jealousy brings.