Planetary Influences：Ruling planets:Mercury and Sun;First decan:Personal planet is;Mercury;First cusp:Virgo with Leo tendencies. Virtues：Perceptive, energetic, strategic. Vices：Impulsive, insecure, hypersensitive. Careers：Media producer, doctor, nonprofit organizer. Skills & Aptitudes：Emotional intelligence, leadership skills, determination. Compatible with：May 19–20, December 22–25
Original thinker
The special influences of your birthday indicate that you possess a quick and creative mind that is constantly searching for new and exiting ideas to keep you intellectually stimulated. Strong-willed and pragmatic, yet imaginative and sensitive, you have the potential to make your ideals a reality.
With the influence of your decanate ruler, Virgo, you are likely to possess good general knowledge, to think progressively, and to love thoroughness and detail. Discriminating and methodical, you like to refine and improve on existing systems.
Mercury’s effect is evident in the way you communicate your ideas: precisely and decisively. A love of words or language may endow you with a talent for writing or help you to become a specialist in your field. You may need, however, to avoid being overcritical or worrying about small or unimportant issues.
Although you possess nervous energy, when you do have a strong belief regarding a project, you will go all out until it is complete. This same natural enthusiasm often stimulates you to become a teacher, passing on your knowledge and experience. As you are ambitious, with strong desires, beware of being bossy by projecting your will onto others.
Possessing the ability to be charming and naturally diplomatic when it is needed, you are likely to be persuasive, with an interesting voice. Women of this birthday are often independent and enjoy initiating new projects. Both men and women of this birthdate like to keep themselves busy.
From childhood you are inclined to analyze situations practically in order to understand and improve them. Your progressed Sun moves into Libra when you reach the age of twenty- eight, and over the next thirty years you gradually become more aware of the importance of your social relationships and partnerships. Creative abilities are enhanced, and you may develop any latent musical, artistic, or literary interests. At the age of fifty-eight you reach another life turning point as your progressed Sun enters Scorpio. This brings an emphasis on change, a need for greater self-awareness, and personal power.
Sun: Virgo
Decanate: Virgo/mercury
Degree: 2°30’-3°30’ Virgo
Mode: Mutable
Element: Earth
Regulus, also called the Lion’s Heart; Phecda, also called Phachd
Star’s name:Regulus, also called the Lion’s Heart
Degree position:28°51’-29°48’ Leo between the years 1930 and 2000
Magnitude:1
Strength:**********
Orb:2°30’
Constellation:Alpha Leonis (Leo)
Applicable days:August 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
Star qualities:Mars/Jupiter
Description:a brilliant white and blue triple star located on the body of the Lion
Regulus is a royal star that takes a leading role among a nearly infinite cast of stars. Regulus imparts nobility, high honors, great charisma, and the power to project a dignified personality. This star bestows a natural ability to make quick decisions and cope with demanding situations. It also imparts a desire for power and an ability to lead and command others. You have strong willpower and a love of enterprise, which often lead to a desire for freedom and independence. Regulus warns that these great benefits are not necessarily long-lasting.
Linked to your Sun’s degree, this star imparts ambition, power, authority, and opportunities to rise to a high position in government or large corporations. If you do not have a position of prominence, you probably have influential friends. This star suggests that you should be kind to others on your way up, as you are likely to meet them on your way down.
• Positive:high-spirited, frankness, courage, honor and riches, rise to prominent positions, authority
• Negative:stubborn, unruly, domineering, greatness but also great failures (especially through dishonesty), fleeting success and fame
Although you are clever and intellectual, on an inner level you possess high ideals and intense emotional sensitivity. This can make you very vulnerable, particularly in the area of your relationships, so it is vital that you keep a balance between your need for independence and the needs of others. You make an excellent friend, warm and giving to those you love, though you feel incomplete without a mutually loving partner. Although young at heart, you may experience disappointment when others fail to live up to your high ideals. When despondent, you must guard against dealing with difficulties by becoming moody or an escapist. Your longing for love may find a creative outlet in service to others, art, music, literature, or spiritual experience. Particularly sensitive to discord, you need to surround yourself with a harmonious environment.
With your never-ending thirst for knowledge, you may be drawn to the academic world or a career as a trainer or teacher. Sharing all your expertise can extend to being a lawyer or counselor, and you may often find yourself working for a cause. Naturally thorough, you are likely to excel as a researcher, scientist, technician, or chemist. You may also fare well in mathematics or engineering or may be skilled with your hands. Being hardworking and interested in money issues, you may be drawn to business, where you prefer the freedom to work in your own way. At the other end of the scale, many of this birthday are often musical or artistic, and a love of language may attract you to writing. Possessing natural diplomatic skills, you may be attracted to a career as a promoter or agent.
Famous people who share your birthday include composer Leonard Bernstein, actors Sean Connery and Mel Ferrer, writers Martin Amis and Frederick Forsyth, and singer/ songwriter Elvis Costello.
Very analytical and detail-oriented, likes to observe and investigate things, and has a keen, inventive eye. Intuitive and thoughtful, yet quick and energetic, you need to express yourself through different experiences. With your number 25 birthday, a desire for perfection often urges you to work hard and be productive. Usually you are instinctive and alert, and you can gain more knowledge through practical application than mere theory. Good judgment and an eye for detail ensure successful accomplishment. You may have to develop a less skeptical attitude by overcoming a tendency to make erratic or impulsive decisions. As a number 25 individual, you possess strong mental energies that when concentrated aid you to look at all the facts and arrive at a conclusion faster than anyone else. The subinfluence of the number 8 month indicates that you are daring and innovative. Usually practical, you have natural business sense and will benefit greatly from developing your organizational and executive skills. A strong need to feel secure or established urges you to make long-term plans and investments.
• Positive:highly intuitive, perfectionist, perceptive, creative, good at dealing with people
•Negative:impulsive, impatient, irresponsible, overly emotional, jealous, secretive, critical, moody, nervous
Confident and realistic, you are charming and attractive. Often your easygoing nature and your ability to keep the peace ensure harmony in your relations with others. Since you are ambitious, you admire those who work hard. You prefer partnerships and can be loyal to the person you settle with. Although you are often devoted and giving, guard against becoming critical. Your natural charisma, however, can always magnetize people toward you.
You might find a partner who will understand your sensitivity and need for love among those born on the following dates.
Love & friendship:Jan. 1, 4, 27, 28, 29, Feb. 2, 25, 27, Mar. 23, 25, Apr. 21, 23, May 19, 20, 21, 29, June 17, 19, 27, July 15, 17, 25, Aug. 13, 15, 23, Sept. 11, 13, 21, Oct. 9, 11, 19, Nov. 7, 9, 17, Dec. 5, 7, 15
Beneficial:Jan. 3, 10, 15, 18, Feb. 1, 8, 13, 16, Mar. 6, 11, 14, 29, 31, Apr. 4, 9, 12, 27, 29, May 2, 7, 10, 25, 27, June 5, 8, 23, 25, July 3, 6, 21, 23, Aug. 1, 4, 19, 21, Sept. 2, 17, 19, Oct. 15, 17, Nov. 13, 15, Dec. 11, 13
Fatai attractions:Feb. 20, 21, 22, 23, Apr. 30, May 28, June 26, July 24, Aug. 22, Sept. 20, Oct. 18, Nov. 16, Dec. 14
Challenging:Jan. 9, 14, 16, 25, Feb. 7, 12, 14, 23, Mar. 5, 10, 12, 21, 28, 30, Apr. 3, 8, 10, 19, 26, 28, May 1, 6, 8, 17, 24, 26, June 4, 6, 15, 22, 24, July 2, 4, 13, 20, 22, Aug. 2, 11, 18, 20, Sept. 9, 16, 18, Oct. 7, 14, 16, Nov. 5, 12, 14, Dec. 3, 10, 12
Soul mates:Dec. 29
Whether they are introverted or—as is often the case—extroverted types, August 25 people are strongly oriented toward other people. Their sensitivity to the feelings expressed by others compels them to respond actively and positively. This propensity may even cause August 25 individuals to make a career working for the benefit of people in distress—within the legal or political spheres, for example, or the social, medical or caring services. Impelled to offer their assistance, these people relish the challenge of pitting their intellects and talents against thorny problems, and are aided in their task by their imaginative yet logical thought processes, as well as their vigor and determination. When their individual preferences lean less toward altruistic professional pursuits, those born on this day nevertheless have the potential to exert a powerful influence over others as managers, team leaders, through the media or in any other role where they can summarize and express the conclusions of their observations in their own, inimitable “voice.”
Despite the powerfully inspirational effect that their originality and humanitarian concern frequently has on others, and the acclaim that they may thereby generate, August 25 people are in many respects beset by insecurity. In this regard their enormous sensitiv- ity may be as much a handicap as a blessing, firstly because the mass of data they pick up may have a con- fusing effect; and secondly because they may tend to measure their feelings of self-worth by means of the reactions they provoke in others. Rooting themselves in the grounding bonds of secure friendships and lov- ing family relationships will help them gain a greater sense of confidence, perspective and priority.
