Michael Douglas

Planet      Longitude      Rx   Declination Sun 2 Libra 27   0S58 Moon 4 Capricorn 24   21S54 Mercury 15 Virgo 03   7N01 Venus 26 Libra 49   10S06 Mars 18 Libra 03   6S51 Jupiter 13 Virgo 11   7N09 Saturn 10 Cancer 00   22N35 Uranus 13 Gemini 07 Rx 22S25 Neptune 4 Libra 03   0S29 Pluto 9 Leo 43   22N60 Chiron 23 Virgo 34   0S34 Node 23 Cancer 58     Ascendant 3 Sagittarius 03     Midheaven 19 Virgo 01

House System koch House      Longitude      1 3 Sagittarius 03 2 29 Sagittarius 28 3 2 Aquarius 23 4 19 Pisces 01 5 13 Aries 50 6 8 Taurus 27 7 3 Gemini 03 8 29 Gemini 28 9 2 Leo 23 10 19 Virgo 01 11 13 Libra 50 12 8 Scorpio 27

Chapter 1. Your Most Important Cosmic Factors

Fewer than two planets in Fire signs

ABOUT LIGHTING YOUR FIRE

You might come across as being cool, aloof and dispassionate. You may even have cold hands or feet, become easily chilled and have a slow metabolism. Without a lot of work, life's fast lane is probably not for you.

TIP: Add more red coloring to your wardrobe and your environment. Add ginseng to your diet. Eat more spicy foods, especially cayenne pepper. Enjoy more moderate physical exercise early in your day. Get a home that faces south. Live in a warm, sunny environment. Use a fireplace or a wood stove. Burn candles.

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.

Four or more planets in Air signs

YOUR MIND IS YOUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET

Your mind is your most valuable asset; you could be an intellectual. The world of ideas is important to you. Intellectual companionship, seminars, books, magazines, films, and educational cassettes interest you. Feeding your mind is just as important as feeding your body. School can be the place for you.

TIP: In the words of Robert Anton Wilson, "You need to learn more about everything, including how to learn more."

People fascinate you and you tend to regard them in a detached manner. Consequently you enjoy teamwork and social interactions more than most folk. Sentimentality does not figure highly in most of your relationships.

You can excel in any field that requires negotiation skills. Sales and writing may be avenues of pursuit. You have an affinity for abstract reasoning, codes of law and ethics - you're very good at perceiving, comparing and communicating. You are much more objective than most people, and probably more liberal in your thinking.

Your weakness is not foolishness so much as it is indecisiveness. Too much thinking can result in lost opportunities. There is a time to get out of your head and make a decision. If you find that you can't sleep because your mind is racing, get up and work with your ideas. Get ideas down on paper, onto index cards, into a word processing machine or up and out into the airwaves.

Consider getting a brain machine and taking "smart drugs." Learn speed reading and typing. To avoid overstimulation, cut back on the use of artificial sweeteners and sugar. To the same end, you might take a mineral supplement and kelp tablets.

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.

Fewer than two planets in Fixed signs

PERSISTENCE IS OMNIPOTENT

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

Learn to finish what you have begun.

Concentration of planets in Libra

STRONG DIPLOMATIC STYLE

If someone works with you they better do their job or else watch out. You are an instigator, which is a paradox because you're tactful, romantic, diplomatic, cultured, gracious, fickle, social, talkative and responsive. You have bonding skills, are obliging and you can equivocate and manipulate. You need beauty and partnership.

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.

Sun Parallel Chiron

SELF-EXPRESSION UNITES WITH MENTORING

Either metaphorically or literally, it's possible that you have a wound. Either way, you're something of a maverick, who needs privacy. Paradoxically, you can heal your wound by healing similar wounds in others. You can become a star by meeting a mentor and mastering special skills. You can develop healing powers. Among other things, you can learn to give excellent back rubs.

Pan-galactic forces are urging you to become a wise one. Once you have acquired the true key to your destiny, you can light the way for others, one at a time.

TIP: Michael Douglas you can cure your alienation by being of service to those who are in quest of their destiny.

Sun Contraparallel Node

POWER HOUSE

You're very competitive and not much of a follower. You can create extreme success for yourself. Your willpower, tenacity and resourcefulness are extraordinary. You'd be good at politics and big business.

Moon Contraparallel Saturn

INSTINCTS BRING OUT TALENT FOR DECISIONS

You can positively relate to people by searching your feelings, being objective and then doing your duty to resolve some of the alienation that you are experiencing.

You may do some of your best relating with an older person. You need emotional support as well as practical and immediate answers. Learn patience and perseverance.

Learn to draw upon your own inner strength and security and problem solving abilities. Learn to control your emotions without repressing them. Get beyond your parents emotional limitations. Get beyond the suspicions and traumas of childhood.

TIP: Your self esteem fluctuates up and down. It is not static. Take control.

Discipline with your diet can lead to the achievement of other ambitions. In time, people will appreciate the work you do on yourself.

You have a natural ability to manage all types of affairs. You will successfully relate to people once you learn tactful ways to remind them of their duties and responsibilities.

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 Contraparallel Mars

CONCEPTS BRING OUT TALENT FOR MOTIVATIONS

Your powerful mind and enterprising spirit will help you to realize your plans. You're restless, curious, impatient and need to slow down from time to time to improve the quality of your communication. Fast talking may or may not be appropriate, depending upon circumstances.

Get more excited about the real power of words and the application of your ideas. Direct your actions with positive, creative thoughts. Make some waves. You need attention. Send out some strong, self-assertive signals. First energize yourself. Then take a more creative approach to getting your point across. Quick, clever communications will drive home the point that you want to make. Dare to flaunt your stuff before an audience.

TIP: You could write a fun, fact filled book about sex and make a million dollars.

Mercury Parallel Jupiter

CONCEPTS UNITE WITH ENCOURAGEMENT

Both common sense and business sense are yours. You can be constructive and can develop literary skills. You've a mind for politics and for propaganda. You might want to start your own Zine. A Zine is a sort of magazine that came about as a result of desk top publishing and the photocopy and offset printing processes. One way or another, you can make money from your ideas. You can do anything you put your mind to.

You can become a very persuasive communicator. You can learn to see both sides of a dispute. You would be very good at law, negotiation and arbitration. You can develop a gift for prophecy.

TIP: Allow yourself the luxury of brainstorming sessions; on regular occasion, think about "possibilities" without being critical or doubting. Education will play a pivotal role in your life.

Mars Contraparallel Jupiter

EXTRA ENERGY AND POWER

You are an active, competitive person. You're blessed with an abundance of explosive energy and courage. You are motivated by your ideals. You just keep going and going and going. Sometimes, you're a rash hothead. You're known for your stamina and your persistent luck.

Saturn Contraparallel Uranus

DECISIONS BRING OUT TALENT FOR LIBERATION

You have a strong independent streak and the ability to persuade the masses. A good tactic for you is lawful progress. One way or another, new ideas and technologies will play a decisive pivotal role in your destiny. As you have unique terms for success, yours is a somewhat curious fate. To get more power you need to make the most of advanced technologies and of the wisdom of the past.

You are somewhat willful, determined and reform minded. You can implement original ideas in a practical way. Self discipline brings you opportunity for freedom. To get more power you need to cultivate your interest in astrology, politics, big business and science.

Saturn Parallel Pluto

DECISIONS UNITE WITH CLEANSING

You may not be happy until you've enforced monumental changes. People may think of you as something of a control freak. How you can get more power is an idea that may obsess you along with status and ambition. Respect, for you, is probably not an option, it is a mandate. You can even learn to access secret or occult powers. You can become a great force for far reaching and long lasting change.

TIP: To increase stability accept uncertainty.

Uranus Contraparallel Pluto

IMPROVED ENFORCED EMBRACED

You command attention and control. You can move public opinion and policy. You have some very pronounced interests and great willpower. You are very good at whatever you pursue one hundred percent. You can be known for making radical reforms and revolutionary changes.

Neptune Parallel Chiron

FANTASY UNITES WITH MENTORING INSPIRES INTENSE COACHING

When seeking a learning or healing experience, allow your intuition to guide you. You can develop uncommon extrasensory skills. Like many things in life, your psychic powers will not

likely sprout much past seed stage unless you pay attention and take care.

TIP: Start or join a metaphysical study group.

Neptune Contraparallel Node

FANTASY BRINGS OUT TALENT FOR INTERCHANGING INSPIRES POTENT ALLIANCES

Cavort with kindred spirits. Every few years or so, rent a place on the water and invite lots of friends to share your hospitality. Study the idea of "Water Brother" as developed by Robert A. Heinlein in "Stranger in a Strange Land".

To fulfill your destiny, you need to develop your psychic and intuitive skills. Just as importantly, you need to learn to see yourself and other people and situations as they are, not as you really wish they were.

Chiron Contraparallel Node

MENTORING BRINGS OUT TALENT FOR INTERCHANGING

DESTINY REQUIRES MAVERICK ASSOCIATIONS

Erratic, eccentric behavior causing problems? Find out who you really are, explore uncharted territory. Get together with different types of people. Fill a unique social niche.

TIP: Find a public forum to share your inner teachings and self knowledge.

Pluto beyond the Tropic of Cancer

SPECIAL ANALYTICAL POWERS

You are a "Pluto Person." You could be a major power behind the scenes. You can be: the producer, head shrinker, "tax" collector or investigator. Whatever it is, you probably have an intense, all consuming approach to your work. You feel about sex the same way that you feel about many other things, it's either is all or nothing at all. Love you or hate you, tell you to your face or say it behind your back, people have some drastic opinions about you and your efforts.

You have some natural detective instincts and an ability to see through facades and appearances. You probe deeply and want to know what motivates people. Folks feel compelled to confide in you and tell their secrets. You could make your mark with a syndicate, network or the like. Learn a therapy modality and charge people by the hour for your sessions.

Your life has not been easy and some or much of what you have lived through would have simply killed weaker folks. Part of your life must have been a living hell. However, your will power and sense of control is extraordinary. You get second chances. You could be in the public eye a long time. If you choose to you can become extremely wealthy.

Uranus Retrograde

LIBERATING FORCE IS TURNED WITHIN (APPARENT BACKWARD MOTION)

When you are feeling especially anxious and socially alienated, it may be a sign that you are rebelling against yourself. Allow yourself the freedom to be unique and, possibly, unconventional. Unusual friends are pluses too. You can be a genius.