Planetary Influences：Ruling planets:Mercury and Sun;First decan:Personal planet is;Mercury;First cusp:Virgo with Leo tendencies. Virtues：Independent, imaginative, innovative. Vices：Timid, easily embittered, unassertive. Careers：Tutor, counselor, charity worker. Skills & Aptitudes：Open to new experiences, respect for others, team-orientation. Compatible with：December 22–25
True romantic
Natural leadership, a confident front, and generosity of spirit are qualities suggested by your birthday. Being warm, kind, and sociable, you will find that your friends are likely to play an important part in your life. Your sympathy, matched by your strong sense of justice, may cause you to defend the underdog or fight vigorously when principles are at stake. One of the few obstacles to your success may be an inability to discipline yourself when it is really necessary.
With the subinfluence of your decanate ruler, Virgo, you think very practically and are attracted by intelligent people. You like to make up your own mind about issues only after analyzing all the possible ramifications. Be careful to avoid continually going over the same issues and becoming anxious or overcritical. Being a good organizer, with a strong desire for order and cleanliness, you may feel happier when everything in life is running efficiently.
Projecting personal magnetism, you are interested in people and can be understanding and benevolent. Proud yet sensitive, you are likely to have a strong interest in home and family. With your open and amicable approach, you usually make friends easily with people of any age or background. As you possess a love of luxury and beautiful surroundings, it is fortunate that you also have a natural business ability to support your lifestyle.
In your early years you may be strongly influenced by a male figure such as a father or grandfather. When you reach the age of twenty-seven, your progressed Sun moves into Libra, commencing a thirty-year period during which there is an increasing emphasis on diplomacy, partnerships, and relationships. You are likely to gain an enhanced sense of balance and harmony that helps you to develop artistic or creative abilities. Another turning point for you occurs around the age of fifty-seven, when your progressed Sun moves into Scorpio, stimulating your sensitivity and causing you to seek more change and transformation in your life.
Sun: Virgo
Decanate: Virgo/mercury
Degree: 3°30’-4°30’ Virgo
Mode: Mutable
Element: Earth
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
Because you are proud and outwardly confident, people often do not see the more vulnerable and intuitive you. At times you may get overly serious, willful, or selfish, feeling that your hard efforts are not being appreciated. During these periods you may be prone to become frustrated or argumentative. Since you can also be very warm and magnanimous and may be willing to do almost anything for the people you love, you may need to learn emotional balance.
When you express your true humanitarian and compassionate nature, you can be very popular and gain the admiration that you need. You have a wonderful ability to utilize humor when giving others the benefit of your quick insight, and when you are really detached you can come out with sudden flashes of inspired wisdom.
Your organizational abilities and natural business acumen are likely to prove assets in any career, but may particularly draw you to the world of commerce or administration. Similarly, with your communication and social skills, you may excel in education, writing, or law. Your analytical ability and love of detail may draw you to the world of science, engineering, research, or industry. Alternatively, your love of people and way with words may attract you to sales or acting. A natural sympathy and humanitarian streak can find an outlet through counseling or fund-raising for charity. The combination of your intuition and rational mind may be particularly helpful in the healing professions.
Famous people who share your birthday include actor Macaulay Culkin, Queen Victoria’s consort Prince Albert, writers Christopher Isherwood and Guillaume Apollinaire, musician Branford Marsalis, and vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro.
Sees the big picture and aims for it, linked to abundance and material wealth, and uses financial success to give back to others. The strength or power suggested by the number 26 birthday shows that you are a cautious character with strong values and sound judgment. A love of home and parental instincts may also suggest a need to build a solid foundation or find real stability. Often a tower of strength for others, you are willing to support friends, family members, and relatives who may turn to you in time of need. You may nevertheless need to guard against materialistic tendencies and a desire to control people or situations. The subinfluence of the number 8 month indicates that you aspire to great accomplishment and possess an ambitious nature. Although you are willing to work hard and take on responsibilities, try to avoid taking on more than your fair share of the workload. You have natural business sense and practical skills and can advise others about monetary matters. A strong need to feel secure or established urges you to make long- term plans and investments.
• Positive:creative, practical, caring, meticulous, idealistic, honest, responsible, proud of family, enthusiastic, courageous
• Negative:stubborn, rebellious, deceitful, unfriendly, unenthusiastic, lack of persistence, instability
With your giving nature and kindness, people are drawn to you. Although you can be idealistic with a strong need to be loved and appreciated, you may need to avoid a tendency to be domineering or overbearing. Being passionate, you may fall in love easily. However, in order to achieve your desired goals, there must be a balance between your need for independence and the necessity for cooperation in love and work.
You are likely to have success in love and friendship with people born on the following dates.
Love & friendship:Jan. 2, 28, Feb. 26, Mar. 24, Apr. 22, May 20, 29, 30, June 18, 27, 28, July 16, 25, 26, Aug. 14, 23, 24, Sept. 12, 21, 22, Oct. 10, 19, 20, 29, 31, Nov. 8, 17, 18, 27, 29, Dec. 6, 15, 16, 25, 27
Beneficial:Jan. 2, 10, 13, 16, Feb. 8, 11, 14, Mar. 6, 9, 12, Apr. 4, 7, 10, May 2, 5, 8, June 3, 6, July 1, 4, 30, Aug. 2, 28, 30, Sept. 26, 28, Oct. 24, 26, Nov. 22, 24, Dec. 20, 22, 30
Fatal attractions:Feb. 23, 24, 25, 26, Oct. 31, Nov. 29, Dec. 27
Challenging:Jan. 3, 9, 10, Feb. 1, 7, 8, Mar. 5, 6, 31, Apr. 3, 4, 29, May 1, 2, 27, June 25, July 23, Aug. 2, 21, 31, Sept. 19, 29, Oct. 17, 27, Nov. 15, 25, Dec. 13, 23
Soul mates:Jan. 5, Feb. 3, Mar. 1, May 30, June 28, July 26, Aug. 24, Sept. 22, Oct. 20, Nov. 18, Dec. 16
Although the visions that inspire these people’s actions may be soaringly ambitious ones, they are rarely fueled by the selfish desire for personal aggrandizement, but are instead more generally concerned with pushing forward the bounds of their experience and horizons. Endowed with markedly mercurial talents, such as intellectual curiosity and a predilection for testing conventional limits— whatever form these might take, be they academic, societal, technical or artistic—as well as the necessary supportive discipline and tenacity required to pursue their aims with remarkable concentration, August 26 individuals have the potential to devise and then implement original and effective strategies with which to benefit the wider world, within whatever professional sphere they choose to operate. Because they are geared toward making tangible progress rather than winning acclaim and glory, their goal orientation makes them committed team members who welcome the input of others just as their coworkers appreciate their fair and democratic manner.
Those born on this day typically demonstrate their interest and concern for those who surround them in both their professional and private relationships. And although their protective instincts are especially aroused by those who are experiencing difficulties— particularly if they were also born in the Chinese year of the goat—they treat most people with toler- ance and respect for their individuality. Such qualities endear them especially to their nearest and dearest, who appreciate their willingness to offer advice and assistance without seeking to control and dominate their actions.
