Alexander James McLean

Planet      Longitude      Rx   Declination Sun 19 Capricorn 05   22S05 Moon 26 Capricorn 46   16S25 Mercury 25 Sagittarius 46   21S51 Venus 16 Capricorn 05   22S50 Mars 6 Leo 23 Rx 14S42 Jupiter 28 Gemini 45 Rx 23S34 Saturn 29 Leo 49 Rx 10S21 Uranus 15 Scorpio 38   16S18 Neptune 17 Sagittarius 03   21S34 Pluto 16 Libra 43   9N12 Chiron 1 Taurus 06 Rx 12S12 Node 10 Libra 06     Ascendant 19 Aries 05     Midheaven 12 Capricorn 43

House System koch House      Longitude      1 19 Aries 05 2 21 Taurus 41 3 18 Gemini 58 4 12 Cancer 43 5 10 Leo 19 6 13 Virgo 16 7 19 Libra 05 8 21 Scorpio 41 9 18 Sagittarius 58 10 12 Capricorn 43 11 10 Aquarius 19 12 13 Pisces 16

Chapter 1. Your Most Important Cosmic Factors

Fewer than two planets in Water signs

ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS

Have people said that you are out of touch with feelings? Do some folks have difficulty conveying their emotions to you? Do you tend to ignore, discount or deny sentiments?

You strive to be emotionally self-sufficient or above it all. Yet, your emotional needs are stronger because they are unconsciously and habitually repressed. Work on compassion, empathy and emotional rapport.

It is even possible that you don't have much past life experience as a human being on planet earth. In that case, as you age and mature you can become more sensitive to the feelings of this world.

TIP: Water is a chief symbol for feelings. Bring the water element more into your life. Get a hot tub, water bed, fish tank, fountain, and pool. Live closer to a great body of water.

Lend an ear to someone who worked with feelings. Listen to Beethoven's 9th symphony.

Four or more planets in Fire signs

THE FLAMES OF YOUR PASSION

You tend to be active, dynamic, mobile and assertive. You know that you're special and enjoy a charmed life. Intuition is your thing and you live by your own code, which is usually positive and life affirming. Competitive and flamboyant, you give people a strong and immediate impression of who you are. Timid and slow folk may find you overwhelming, rash and willful. You are more or less self-motivated.

TIP: When dealing with regular people and mere mortals, be patient and polite.

You may or may not carry a vision of the future. If you do, it is your passion and inspiration that can make you the hub of the wheel and an inspiration to others. Once you are sufficiently inspired, you can accomplish virtually anything. On the contrary, when you are without a vision, an aspiration or a goal, you become a candidate for spontaneous combustion.

TIP: If you are a hot head or have dry skin, drink several glasses of pure water every day.

You need to build up your energy and avoid burn out. Make the most of cat naps.

Four or more planets in Earth signs

YOU COULD MANAGE A BUSINESS

You tend to be the practical sort: down to earth and concerned with material comfort and security. You favor "the real world." Inspirations, feelings and ideas don't mean so much to you as do practical applications, immediate ramifications and tangible results. Concrete facts are your thing. If you can't see it, smell it, hear it, feel it, taste it or touch it, you figure it isn't significant. Dreams and theoretical considerations might not mean much to you.

Being pragmatic, you don't usually take chances with your time, money, energy or your feelings. You tend to be dependable, although folks in the fast lane may find you a bit conservative and dull.

If you find that you're becoming bored or depressed, you should realize that your values are misplaced, and that your sense of security is false. If you're not happy, change your status quo and embrace the unknown. When paralyzed by fears and inhibitions, breathe deeply and move slowly and deliberately towards what you want.

If you put your mind to it, you could cultivate your green thumb. Outward beauty is important to you. Working with your hands can pay off. You can shape the materials of the earth into sellable products. You're well suited to have your own business, provided that you've chosen it.

Five or more planets in Cardinal signs

YOU DO YOUR OWN THING

You like to start things and take the initiative. You have to act, but do not like to be told what to do. You are restless, energetic, driving, outgoing, opportunistic and ambitious. You're full of primal energy and do not cope well with direct and constant supervision. You're suited for self-employment, or the kind of work where you are in charge. Probably, you're more busy than bored.

TIP: Learn to delegate in order to become a better leader.

You've a strong outward orientation to career, love, home and family. Deal directly with surroundings and others.

Sun Parallel Mercury

SELF-EXPRESSION UNITES WITH CONCEPTS

You have at least one indication of a high IQ. Put more power into your creative projects. Allow yourself time for self- reflection and introspection. You can become a star by making the most of your own intelligence. Get organized. Use common sense. Romantically speaking: clarify your desires, speak from the heart, send out clear signals, and enjoy more well-placed kisses.

Sun Parallel Venus

SELF-EXPRESSION UNITES WITH AFFINITY GOOD LUCK AND THE GOOD LIFE

You know how to please people and you want to be liked. You can become a star by swaying others with your natural charm and style. You may be warm-hearted, affectionate, social and erotic.

Comfort, pleasure and luxury are necessary for you to be you.

Sun Parallel Neptune

SELF-EXPRESSION UNITES WITH FANTASY ARTISTRY, TALENT AND YOUTH

You have refined aesthetic tastes and are better off with original art and live music in your life. You are like a Jaguar automobile. To run smoothly, everything must be tuned. You are keenly aware, sensitive and psychically attuned. Be selective as to who and what you allow around you. To become a star, learn to trust your first impressions and go with them.

You age very well and have the potential to extend your career far beyond the norm.

Moon Parallel Uranus

INSTINCTS UNITE WITH LIBERATION

Your mother was a character. Part of you is impulsive and ready for anything new and unusual. You can relate to others in a somewhat cool, detached and friendly way.

Somehow, you need to be a nonconformist in a way that is comfortable and exciting. Once you make contact with progressive social elements, your life improves considerably. Be a free spirit. Contact some wild friends. You can go for some mutually creative sexy experiments. Otherwise, you can expect unconscious forces to rebel.

You can learn to successfully relate to others by way of computer bulletin boards. You could find romance through personal classified advertisements that feature voice mail boxes.

You're a bit frisky and desirous of excitement and stimulation. You can relate to people successfully once you learn appropriate ways to arouse their fancy. You were born to do something different. You were born to combine the love of romance with the love of freedom.

Mercury Parallel Venus

CONCEPTS UNITE WITH AFFINITY

Good ideas can spring from any conflict you experience between your thinking and your values. You have a somewhat different approach to love. Educate yourself to the power of charm.

TIP: Upgrade vanity and conceit to beauty and art.

Become more aware of love by analyzing your values. Make an extra effort to communicate with wit, charm and affection. Your most beautiful thoughts need a pleasurable outlet. Alexander James McLean, you need to appreciate what is good for you and what soothes your nerves.

You have some tender, lovely thoughts and a clearly defined sense of beauty. You can do very well at creative, expressive and designing activities. You have some great female friends and a can develop a penchant for saying the right thing at the right time.

Mercury Parallel Neptune

CONCEPTS UNITE WITH FANTASY

Your imagination can work overtime. You can paint pictures with words. You can think on your feet. You can become a super salesperson. Some of your most creative work is done unwittingly, as if you are attuned to a faraway source. You could be an actor, a dreamer, a mystic, a faith healer, a psychic and probably are some combination thereof.

There is something artistic about your voice. Develop your musical and dramatic talents. Learn to deliver your lines with something extra.

Instead of letting your imagination play tricks on you, work to communicate meaningful and significant information. Since you can unconsciously attune yourself to other people's thoughts and motivations, you need to stay centered, balanced and grounded. You are naturally psychic and prophetic. Organization is a key to your success.

TIP: Evaluate plausibility and credibility.

Learn a middle path between fantasy and reality. Be creative without being an escapist. Your imaginative powers are second to none, and you could create for a living. With an extra creative effort, you could turn your richest fantasies into reality.

Prayer will play a pivotal role in your life.

Venus Parallel Jupiter

PROSPERITY

You were born to lead and are very fortunate. There is extra probability that you will achieve affluence and a good measure of success. Women will like you. You will be blessed through travel, education, commerce and law. You can make money through publishing, banking, law and information. You're lucky and you maintain a good appearance. You may indulge a sweet tooth or some dietary excess. You're known for courtesy and charm.

Jupiter beyond the Tropic of Capricorn

EXTRAORDINARY SOCIAL SKILLS

Truly you are a "Jovial Character." You can be: a great sport, the wheeler-dealer, liberal, optimist, lawyer, solder of fortune or preacher. In some way you are lucky. You tend to get away clean when others may be stopped by the heavy hand of authority. Something about you is very big. You're at least in part naturally affable. You can learn to reach out and network with people in a big way. Expand your limits. Major success is in your future. Guard against the tendency to overdue it or to excessively take the law into your own hands.

TIP: Make it a point to travel around the world. Your destiny requires international people, places and things for fulfillment.

Mars Retrograde

MOTIVATING FORCE IS TURNED WITHIN (APPARENT BACKWARD MOTION)

There is more to your actions than meets the eye. Often times, you do not do what you are told. You do not necessarily obey all of the laws all of the time. Because of this it is important for you to decide which laws you will follow. You need a code to live by to make your life easier.

Are you a candidate for repressed and potentially explosive anger? Do you exhibit passive aggressive behavior? If so, it's a good idea for you to learn healthy and appropriate ways to deal with your anger. Otherwise, your temper may get the best of you. An appropriate channel for these angry feelings might be rigorous physical exercise. Exercises specific to your needs are in the section that follows.

TIP: Beware of displaced or misplaced aggression.

Energetically you're not necessarily more docile or lazier than other people, you just use your power and strength differently. You can go off on your own tangent. You can have cycles of unconventional action and sexual behavior. Prominent persons with "retrograde Mars" include Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King.

Some places possibly suited to your curious Martian temperament may include Alabama, Albania, Angola, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Japan, and Tennessee.

Jupiter Retrograde

FORCE OF ENCOURAGEMENT IS TURNED WITHIN (APPARENT BACKWARD MOTION)

It hasn't been easy for you to find your place in the community. You're more philosophical and meditative than most people. Somewhat socially reclusive, you often prefer your own company. Paradoxically, you have a great need to belong to a group. This is one of your most basic choices: Will you sustain the effort to create a place for yourself in the community, or will you become progressively more unhappy, isolated and alienated?

TIP: If you're not happy with social conditions, retreat, reconsider and find a creative way to rebel.

Search out groups of people who share your belief systems and with whom you are psychologically attuned. This may take some time to find the proper fit. The people that you are looking for are out of the ordinary, uncommon and atypical. Consider starting a local chapter of a national or global organization.

Saturn Retrograde

DECISIVE FORCE IS TURNED WITHIN (APPARENT BACKWARD MOTION)

Something in you bridles against tradition, conventional wisdom and authority. You don't like to be told what to do. Evaluate when and where it is important to take on the establishment. Get Kerry Johnson's The Science of Self Discipline, available from Nightingale-Conant at 1-800-323-5552. Nightingale-Conant offers an unconditional, 30-day money-back guarantee.

TIP: Besides the hard ways, there are other ways to learn. If you can learn from hard knocks, then you can learn from pats on the back.

You can do some of your best work alone. Ironically, in your later years, you may become a leader.

Chiron Retrograde

MENTORING FORCE IS TURNED WITHIN (APPARENT BACKWARD MOTION)

The teachings that you were exposed to early in your life may not be the ones that work for you. A standard public school curriculum may not provide the education you require. You may need to search out a mentor or spend money on special teachers. It's likely that you will have to keep searching for the knowledge you need whatever that may be.