FREE PERSONALITY REPORT - BIRTHDAY SPECIAL

in a corner at parties. You like to be noticed and to be seen as a friendly, sociable and fun person, which of course you are!

You will tend to over-optimism and unreasonable expectations. You can also be overly dramatic. You're generous to a fault, but you may also occasionally expect too much in return, leading to either conflict or disappointment when others don't live up to your high expectations.

You enjoy challenges that increase your knowledge, but there's a danger of over extending yourself and feeling a sense of failure when you don't achieve the usually unreasonable goals you've set yourself. However, if you limit your goals to what is possible and realistic then there's no reason why you shouldn't succeed.

You may find that occasionally life will challenge your attempts to express your true nature. Obstacles and delays may occasionally block your path to success. You may blame your difficulties on Fate or Karma, and this may be true to some extent, but the lesson to be learned is how to meet this test and turn it into something positive. You are being taught the need for patience and restraint; that anything worthwhile has to be won through constant effort and discipline before you can reap the rewards.

You may occasionally experience some confusion concerning your sense of who you are and where you're going in life. Past experiences and events may occasionally raise issues that force you to examine yourself honestly and understand how you drew these experiences to you and what you must learn from them. However, at times, you'll often evade reality by escaping into a world of dreams and fantasy.

There will also be times when you tend to underestimate your abilities with the fear of failure preventing you from doing things that you would be fully capable of. In time, and probably after a great deal of self analysis, you will become more confident about your own creative potential and set higher goals for yourself.

You have a need for harmony and honesty in your emotional life. You also need intellectual nourishment in order to feel happy and secure. You're naturally diplomatic and fair in your dealings with others, with an easygoing nature and an innate ability to see the many sides to any issue.

On the negative side, however, this same fairness and balance of viewpoint can become indecisiveness and a tendency to avoid direct action when it's necessary. You would probably do well to work in a partnership where decision-making can be shared, as decisiveness may not be your strong point.

Your mind is both practical and analytical. You're able to evaluate any issue or idea, reducing it to its component parts and seeing how all the parts fit together. This gives you an excellent managerial ability and an incisive intellect which, given time, can find the solution to any problem. This ability applies more to practical and material matters rather than emotional ones.

You have a strong critical ability, able to see the flaws and errors of logic in an opponent's arguments. You can, however, be over-critical and impatient with anyone whose thinking and ideas are more intuitively or emotionally oriented. Your nerves are highly strung and you'll therefore probably need to carry out some form of relaxation to prevent this taking its toll on your body.

You'll generally be fair and balanced in your thinking. When you express your opinions or have to make a decision on some issue, you'll more often than not take care to examine all sides and reach an impartial conclusion. You don't really like to offend anyone, not even people you disagree with.

Possessing a natural charm, you would make a good public speaker and should also get much pleasure from writing and the arts. You have a natural ability to turn your ideas into money and, as others generally respect your opinion, you usually have no trouble getting financial backing.

Your mind is always on the go and eager to learn as much as you can. You'll probably achieve this through study and training. However, at times, extreme optimism may prevent you from seeing or accepting obstacles to your plans. At these times therefore, you'll need to be completely honest with yourself as to what is, and isn't, possible.

There may be a conflict between your intellectual and religious beliefs. Because of this, you'll probably end up searching for a philosophical outlook that is both intellectually and religiously satisfying, but the influence of past conditioning may cause much conflict before you finally resolve the issue.

You have a tendency to look on the gloomy side of things, to think more about obstacles and potential difficulties than about opportunities and exploration.

You may also occasionally have difficulty in communication when it comes to general conversation or discussion, possibly due to an inner doubt about whether you'll be properly understood, or even listened to.

Nevertheless, your caution and thoroughness in intellectual matters will benefit you well. Indeed, your tendency to look for problems before they arise means that you usually have the solution already to hand when it is needed.

Your imagination can at times overshadow your logical thinking. Occasionally you may find it difficult to deal with the harsher realities of life, preferring to retreat to a world of fantasy and daydreams where problems don't exist.

This tendency is probably the result of early experiences where you found that this was the only way you could deal with life.

However, if you can control this negativity and be more realistic in your dealings with the real world, you'd do well in occupations such as art or writing, or any activity where you could give your powerful imagination its full sway.

You may occasionally have a tendency to over-examine your feelings in your relationships, rather than simply experience the person and your feelings for them. You need to understand the why and wherefore behind the relationship. You could therefore become very critical of the other person when your analysis reveals that they're not the perfect, pure being that you want them to be.

You may at times give in to self-indulgence, especially when difficulties give you the excuse to neglect duties and responsibilities. In any case, you don't like to be hemmed in by responsibilities. You'll expect a partner to allow you personal freedom, but you may not be too generous in extending the same rights to them.

There may be some difficulty in handling your personal relationships. You may have difficulty in finding a partner who lives up to your rather exacting expectations. Judging the other's faults harshly, you'll not allow anyone to get too close until you feel that they're safe and can be trusted. You don't express affection easily, withholding your feelings out of fear that they will be rejected.

This feeling may result from experiences as a child as one of your parents, possibly your father, may have been indifferent or difficult to get close to. The rejection you felt then has carried through to the present and you'll therefore approach present relationships warily. On the other hand, the father may not have been around at all.

The way around this conflict is to establish this missing sense of security by achieving something through your own efforts. When you accept that you don't need the support of anyone to make something of your life, you'll feel happier and more secure about yourself.

You can be overly idealistic in your approach to relationships. There may also be times when you'll expect your partner to accept you with all your faults, without a word of complaint on their part or any effort to change on yours.

Very few people, except perhaps a saint, can measure up to the high expectations you set for a relationship. When things start to fall apart, you'll probably not even notice that anything's wrong until the whole thing dissolves away before your eyes.

There may also be times when you may find yourself led into actions that you later regret. This is particularly true in financial matters, so you must make sure that all your dealings are open and above board. Although some people seem to be able to get away with murder, anything shady or underhand will almost inevitably work out badly for you.

You possess a tremendous amount of determination to achieve your goals. There's a great need for personal freedom, which can occasionally lead to unpredictable conduct.

You're prepared to defend your thoughts and opinions with great force and regard criticism of your opinions as a personal attack. This will probably lead to conflict until you either stop taking yourself so seriously or learn to respect the opinions of others.

Your attitude toward sex is probably unconventional and detached with a need for a great deal of freedom in your relationships.

You're generally able to channel your aggressive energies creatively and productively. When necessary, you're able to work persistently toward your goals, enduring harsh conditions and setbacks on the way to eventually reaching your destination, even if it takes you a lifetime.

You accept your responsibilities, carry them out to the best of your ability and you expect others to do the same. Your temper is generally well controlled, and you accept people for what they are, with all their faults, so you don't generally fly off the handle when somebody does something to annoy you.