Planetary Influences：Ruling planet:Mercury;Second decan:Personal planet is Saturn. Virtues：Quick-witted, energetic, perceptive. Vices：Unbalanced, isolated, obsessive. Careers：Academic, writer, investigator. Skills & Aptitudes：Inspirational personality, goal- orientation, innovative instincts. Compatible with：January 11–14, December 4
Independent idealist
An interesting mixture of shrewd practicality and idealistic sensitivity, you are a hardworking and persuasive individual. A realist who is interested in people, you can be a loyal and faithful friend or companion. With the subinfluence of your decanate ruler, Capricorn, you possess the ability to work with meticulous precision. Your fine mind can analyze and research the details, but can also incline you to worry or become overcritical with yourself or others. Reliable and thorough, you can be most productive in your work but may have a conflict between duty and love.
Since you possess a desire for harmony, your appreciation of beauty and luxury, if developed, can lead to artistic or creative talent. You are likely to be a long-term planner, and although money is important, you are willing to work hard to acquire it. Protective of your family, you desire stability and need to be appreciated.
Although you can be charming and responsible, with a heightened awareness of relationships, you can also possess tightly controlled emotions. These extreme sides of your personality show, on one hand, a caring and humanitarian nature and, on the other, that you can sometimes be overly serious or rigid in your views.
After the age of eighteen, when your progressed Sun moves into Libra for a thirty-year period, there is an increased need for partnership and relating. Your sense of harmony and beauty are likely to be enhanced, with the possibility of exploring literary, artistic, or creative outlets in some form. This continues until the age of forty-eight, when your progressed Sun enters Scorpio. This is a turning point for you that will highlight a growing emphasis on emotional and spiritual regeneration as well as joint finances or corporate business activity. When you turn seventy-eight your progressed Sun moves into Sagittarius, accenting your personal philosophy and desire for truth.
Sun: Virgo
Decanate: Capricorn/saturn
Degree: 12°-13°25’ Virgo
Mode: Mutable
Element: Earth
Star’s name:Zosma
Degree position:10° 19’-11°14’ Virgo between the years 1930 and 2000
Magnitude:2.5
Strength:*******
Orb:2° 10’
Constellation:Delta Leo
Applicable days:September 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Star qualities:Saturn/Venus
Description:a white, pale yellow, and blue-violet triple star located on the Lion’s back
Zosma bestows a serious and responsible nature and an alert mind, but also warns against becoming overserious or selfish. You may experience changeable circumstances but should guard against unwarranted fears and anxieties. Positively, Zosma can impart a liberal attitude, charm, and a positive approach as well as unexpected success and advancement.
Linked to your Sun’s degree, this star can help you gain power and convince others with your opinions. You can become influential and rise socially, as Zosma bestows friendliness and popularity. Although you can appear extroverted and gregarious, usually your nature is somewhat reserved. This star warns that only in time of need will you find out who are your true friends.
• Positive:loyal, dutiful, thoroughness
• Negative:shamelessness, egotistical, false friends, overseriousness
It may be important for you to learn to be emotionally detached without appearing cold or withdrawn. This allows you to be spontaneous without trying to be in control. Because you are so sensitive on an inner level, the demonstration of affection can be very important to you. Earlier in your life you may have experienced instances of controlled love, where you had to live up to other people’s expectations, but as you learn to value yourself and your feelings you become more confident and less willing to compromise yourself for the approval of others. When negative, your powerful emotions can be expressed as disappointment, frustration, and an inability to let go of the past. When positive, you are generous and deeply loving. At these times your openness can expose you to a universal compassion or spiritual sensitivity that can heighten your desire to be of service to others.
Good at combining business and pleasure, you can be an excellent diplomat. An innate caring side to your nature may draw you to careers that involve service, such as counseling or teaching. Equally, the worlds of sales, commerce, and communications can be excellent outlets for your keen intellect and ability to deal with people. You possess a good business sense and are usually able to turn talents into financial assets. With possible technical as well as practical skills, you may be drawn to manufacturing, engineering, research, or even property speculation. Generally, you are likely to fare better in occupations that contain variety and change, as you do not like routine and may become bored. If in the healing world, you tend to take a very practical, down-to-earth approach.
Famous people who share your birthday include manufacturer Henry Ford 11, writer Richard Wright, astrologer/writer Liz Greene, outlaw Jesse James, and architect Daniel Burnham.
Invested in the physical world, centred earth energy that is practical in application. The solid structure and orderly power suggested by the number 4 birthday indicate that often you need stability and like to establish order. With a number 4 birthday, you are sensitive to form and composition. Security-conscious, you like to build a strong foundation for yourself and your family. Your pragmatic approach to life confers a good business sense and an ability to achieve material success in life. Faithful though undemonstrative, you are usually honest, frank, and fair. Nevertheless, you may have to learn how to express your feelings. The challenges for a number 4 individual may include overcoming periods of instability. The subinfluence of the number 9 month indicates that you are receptive, yet rational. Since you are also sensitive to your environment, you need time away from it all once in a while. Often reserved, yet broad-minded and humanitarian, you seek fairness and justice.
• Positive:well organized, self-disciplined, steady, hardworking, good with your hands, pragmatic, trusting, exact
• Negative:uncommunicative, repressed, rigid, lazy, unfeeling, procrastination, too economical, bossy, resentful, strict
Usually idealistic, sensitive, and charming, with the ability to captivate others, you can be romantic and loving. You take your personal relationships seriously and can be very committed. Avoid going too far on occasions and giving too much of yourself when it is not fully appreciated. Relationships can often be a mixed blessing for you if you lose your balance of power and independence, causing you to alternate between being warm and spontaneous, and tough and inflexible. You possess a strong need to express yourself, however, which, creatively used, can prove a source of delight and contentment. You can be very generous to the people you care for, and you take their needs seriously.
You might find a partner who will understand your sensitivity and need for love among those born on the following dates.
Love & friendship:Jan. 4, 8, 9, 13, 18, 19, 23, Feb. 2, 6, 16, 17, 21, Man 4, 9, 14, 15, 19, 28, 30, Apr. 2, 12, 13, 17, 26, 28, 30, May 1, 5, 10, 11, 15, 24, 26, 28, June 8, 9, 13, 22, 24, 26, July 6, 7, 11, 20, 22, 24, 30, Aug. 4, 5, 9, 18, 20, 22, 28, Sept. 2, 3, 7, 16, 18, 20, 26, Oct. 1, 5, 14, 16, 18, 24, Nov. 3, 12, 14, 16, 22, Dec. 1, 10, 12, 14, 20
Beneficial:Jan. 5, 16, 27, Feb. 3, 14, 25, Mar. 1, 12, 23, Apr. 10, 21, May 8, 19, June 6, 17, July 4, 15, Aug. 2, 13, Sept. 11, Oct. 9, 30, Nov. 7, 28, Dec. 5, 26, 30
Fatal attractions:Jan. 17, Feb. 15, Mar. 1, 2, 3, 4, 13, Apr. 11, May 9, June 7, July 5, Aug. 3, Sept. 1
Challenging:Jan. 1, 10, 15, Feb. 8, 13, Mar. 6, 11, Apr. 4, 9, May 2, 7, June 5, July 3, 29, Aug. 1, 27, Sept. 25, Oct. 23, Nov. 21, Dec. 19, 29
Soul mates:Aug. 30, Sept. 28, Oct. 26, Nov. 24, Dec. 22
Those born on this day may present something of an enigma to those who don’t know them well.
On the one hand they are gifted problem-solvers who are stimulated by challenge—be it physical or intellec- tual—yet on the other are impatient when forced to deal with the petty details that form part of the rou- tine of business practices. The answer to this apparent conundrum of character lies in their mercurial minds, which give them a relish for new experiences. Indeed, when frustrated by circumstances outside their con- trol, these usually pragmatic and self-disciplined types are prone to explode in startling displays of temper. Generally, however, September 4 individuals are good-natured people, who make cooperative—some- times inspirational—team members, with the provi- sion that they are able to retain autonomy of thought and action. They are, moreover, rarely ambitious for personal glory, being instead motivated by the desire to realize more impersonal progressive aims.
Because their skills usually assume more of an intel- lectual than a technical aspect, and in view of their innate urge to achieve tangible results through their own vigorous and focused efforts, these individuals are frequently best suited for acting as independent agents of change. Their talents and inclinations equip them for potential success in a wide variety of professions, but the freedom inherent in artistic and academic pur- suits may prove especially attractive to September 4 individuals. They retain a similarly independent stance within their personal relationships, and, although they have a deep affection for those closest to them, they are not interested in embroiling themselves in the minutiae of domestic life.
