Planetary Influences：Ruling planet:Mercury;Second decan:Personal planet is Saturn. Virtues：Empathetic, generous, imaginative. Vices：Weak, neglectful, unrealistic. Careers：Social campaigner, motivational speaker, copywriter. Skills & Aptitudes：Practical skills, ambition, vision. Compatible with：January 11–14, December 4–6
Unconventional visionary
Judicious, prudent, yet charming, you are a frank and open individual who possesses a kind heart and sound common sense. Although courteous and modest, you can still make big plans and are a good organizer. Friendly and agreeable in your approach, you have a need to be constantly learning and improving yourself. Be careful that dissatisfaction does not dampen your usual optimism.
With the subinfluence of your decanate ruler, Capricorn, you are realistic and hardworking, with keen perceptions. Independent and capable, you have an analytical approach and take pleasure in being productive. In your desire for perfection, guard against worrying over small issues and being too critical. This can induce a quick irritability that can spoil the harmony you seek.
This birthdate usually promises well-being, physical comfort, and economic security. You may be drawn toward freedom, change, or travel, but you equally need the stability of a strong home base. A restlessness can either spur you to achieve your grand plans or weaken your sense of purpose. If drifting, you may become too enmeshed in the problems of others. Your interest in a wide range of subjects can be a positive influence as long as you do not scatter your forces. You are usually able to succeed through perseverance and the tenacious pursuit of your plans.
From an early age you are likely to have been practical and analyzed situations in order to improve them. After the age of seventeen, when your progressed Sun moves into Libra, you grow more socially oriented, with a strong need to be popular and appreciated. Professional or personal partnerships start to play a more important part in your life. From the age of forty- seven, your power is enhanced when your progressed Sun moves into Scorpio, making you more self-reliant and in control. At the age of seventy-seven, you experience another turning point as your progressed Sun enters Sagittarius. This brings a new, more positive and expansive energy into your life.
Sun: Virgo
Decanate: Capricorn/saturn
Degree: 13°-14° 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 is important to build up your confidence, which may be strengthened by your ability to express yourself in all areas in your life. Although creative and intuitive, you may suffer from frustration and difficulty in making decisions about which way to go. This may not be helped by the fact that, being a good advisor, you attract people who want you to help them but are not always available for you. It may be necessary to let them learn through their own mistakes, rather than your always being there as a support.
When in a positive frame of mind, you have a broad-minded and universal approach to life, are sociable, and possess a very warm interest in people. At these times, you are able to make decisions that help you stay focused but detached. Education may be particularly helpful in your quest for self-awareness.
With a natural business sense, you are able to commercialize your talents. You need variety to prevent yourself from becoming bored, and so it is important that you not be stuck in a routine. The potential to be technical may draw you to science, engineering, or computers. A talent for communication can help you in law or writing and make you an excellent critic. Similarly, success in dealing with people could draw you to promotion and sales. You are also likely to be successful in working with the earth, for instance in landscape gardening and building or in property speculation. A natural philosophical turn of mind may make professions in the clergy or education appealing to you. Alternatively, this birthdate can be an excellent influence for performers, composers, or songwriters.
Famous people who share your birthday include writer Arthur Koestler, composer John Cage, actress Raquel Welch, comedian Bob Newhart, singer Freddie Mercury, French king Louis XIV, director Werner Herzog, and cartoonist Cathy Guisewite.
Impulsive and restless by nature, spontaneous and likes to discover the world through the senses. Strong instincts, an adventurous nature, and a desire for freedom are all indicated by the number 5 birthday. Travel and many opportunities for change, some unexpected, may lead you to undergo a real transformation of views and beliefs. Often the number 5 birthdate means that you have an active life and need to learn about patience and attention to detail; you can achieve success by avoiding premature or speculative actions. The natural talent of a number 5 individual is knowing how to go with the flow and staying detached. The subinfluence of the number 9 month indicates that you are rational, yet sensitive. As a humanitarian, you seek fairness and justice. With your foresight and progressive outlook, you can be spiritual, yet practical. Although you possess good business sense, you may need to work hard and put the effort in before you can gain success. Avoid being hasty or power-hungry.
• Positive:versatile, adaptable, progressive, magnetic, daring, freedom-loving, quick and witty, curious, mystical, sociable
• Negative:unreliable, changeable, procrastinator, inconsistent, undependable, overconfident, headstrong
Since you have a natural flair for dealing with people, you have the ability to make friends anywhere. With this capacity often comes the need to employ a certain amount of discretion. Generous and caring, you are likely to be popular with others. When positive, you can project a strong and powerful love that can bring you success romantically as well as socially. You can be very protective of your family, and you can be a loyal friend.
You may find a longer-lasting relationship and stability with someone born on one of the following dates.
Love & friendship:Jan. 3, 5, 9, 10, 18, 19, Feb. 3, 7, 16, 17, Mar. 1, 5, 6, 14, 15, 31, Apr. 3, 12, 13, 29, May 1, 10, 11, 27, 29, June 8, 9, 25, 27, July 6, 7, 23, 25, 31, Aug. 4, 5, 21, 23, 29, Sept. 2, 3, 19, 21, 27, 30, Oct. 1, 17, 19, 25, 28, Dec. 13, 15, 21, 24
Beneficial:Jan. 11, 6, 17, Feb. 4, 15, Mar. 2, 13, Apr. 11, May 9, June 7, July 5, Aug. 3, Sept. 1, Oct. 31, Nov. 29, Dec. 27
Fatal attractions:Mar. 3, 4, 5, 6
Challenging:Jan. 2, 16, Feb. 14, Mar. 12, Apr. 10, May 8, June 6, July 4, Aug. 2, Dec. 30
Soul mates:Jan. 11, 31, Feb. 9, 29, Mar. 7, 27, Apr. 5, 25, May 3, 23, June 1, 21, July 19, Aug. 17, Sept. 15, Oct. 13, Nov. 11, Dec. 9
These magnetic people are fueled by a desire to realize their own idiosyncratic visions of Utopia, yet while their dreams are highly individual, they rarely encompass selfish ambitions alone, instead being concerned with building a happier and more enlightened world for others. In common with the majority of those born under the planet of Mercury, these are inquisitive and perceptive types, who have little difficulty in quickly and astutely identifying areas that are ripe for improvement, and who are furthermore fired with the burning determination to be the agents of change. Despite the practical skills that they bring to their missions, in their righteous enthusiasm to set the world to rights they may fail to assess realistically their chance of success and thereby inadvertently sabotage their best efforts. The form that their ambitions take will vary according to the September 5 individual, but most will espouse professions that enable them to exert their influence over others in some positive way: possibly as social campaigners, for example, but more likely as artistic performers who can impart their messages in inspirational fashion.
Their pronounced concern about the welfare of others permeates every aspect of their lives, and, in turn, others are drawn to them because of their easy charm, infectious optimism and enormous generos- ity. These are individuals who like to encourage those around them, and—particularly if they were also born in the Chinese year of the dog—they usually expend tremendous energy in bolstering the confidence of those of whom they are fond. Occasionally, however, their magnanimity may cause them to neglect their own emotional needs.
