Cigarette-Smoking Man
July 20, 1940
Baton Rouge, Louisiana





Section 1: General Personality Characteristics

Sun in Cancer:
You have powerful emotional attachments to the past, your
family, your childhood, those places you associate with safety
and security and your beginnings. Maintaining a connection with
your roots and heritage and keeping family bonds strong are very
important to you. Loyal, devoted, and sentimental, you tend to
cling to whatever is dear to you, be it person, familiar place,
or cherished possession.

You are sympathetic, nurturing, supportive, and very
sensitive to the emotional needs of other people. You like to be
needed, to care for others, and you often worry about the people
you love. You have a very strong need for a sense of belonging
and acceptance, and you center much of your life around your
home. You are more concerned about people and their feelings
than with power, achievement, or position in society. Kindness,
consideration, and tenderness impress you more than any sort of
honor the world can bestow.

You are primarily emotional and your views are often
dominated by your feelings and by your own personal, subjective
experiences, rather than reason, logic, or abstract principles.
It is difficult for you to judge situations in a fair, objective
manner for your personal sympathies and loyalties usually enter
in. You take things very personally, and sometimes build a wall
around yourself to protect yourself from pain and rejection. You
feel rather shy and vulnerable at heart. You also tend to be
moody, experiencing frequent emotional ups and downs. You need
to have a place and time in your life to withdraw, introspect,
dream, and replenish yourself; otherwise you become cranky and
unhappy with those around you.

You function in an instinctive, nonrational manner and like
to immerse yourself in creative activities where you can express
your feelings, imagination, and instincts. You often love to
cook, since it can be both creative and a way to nurture and
nourish others. You also have a great affinity for music,
because it evokes and communicates feelings that may be
difficult or impossible to put into words.

Your compassion, sensitivity, and imagination are your
strong points. Your faults include an inability to release the
past and go forward, clannishness and prejudice, and a tendency
to be self-pitying when you meet hardships in life.

Sun Conjunct Mercury:

You tend to see things from your perspective only and to be
rather subjective. You also enjoy talking and expressing your
views but you don't always listen as well. You have a clear
mind, a love of learning and new experiences, and need constant
mental stimulation and activity.

Sun Conjunct Pluto:

Inwardly you are zealous and fanatical, though you may hide
your personal desires and intentions, and the intensity of your
feelings. You are driven by a deep inner sense of destiny and
mission and an almost compulsive desire for personal
recognition. You have an infatuation with power and are
incredibly willful and stubbornly fixated on achieving greatness
or being Somebody Special. You tend to worship heroes who have
powerful personal magnetism and charisma, and often seek to
emulate them. You have potential for tremendous good or
tremendous evil.

Sun Sextile Uranus:

The unusual and unorthodox appeal to you, and you do not
allow tradition, convention, or other people's expectations
dictate how you are going to live your life. You crave freedom,
adventure, excitement, and discovery, and are not afraid of
change. You possess inventive and creative genius.

Section 2: Mental Interests and Abilities

Mercury in Leo:
You are a person of strong opinions and you express your
views energetically and often dramatically. You are an
entertaining speaker and will embellish or exaggerate in order
to get your point across. You have an aptitude for story-telling
and performing. Even if your arena is only the classroom or
dining room table, you put on a good show. You have an abundance
of creative ideas and do not enjoy a job in which you have no
creative input or voice in decision-making. You could be a good
politician, spokesperson, group leader, director, or coach.

Mercury Conjunct Pluto:

Suspicious that appearances are superficial and masking the
"real nitty-gritty", you are always probing beneath the surface
to uncover the deeper, hidden aspects of a matter. You are
interested in anything secret or mysterious. You have great
powers of concentration and a penetrating mind, with an aptitude
for research, investigative reporting, or detective work. You
are also keenly observant and seem to have "x-ray vision"
regarding the inner motivations and intentions of other people.
You could make an excellent psychotherapist, uncovering the
deeper causes and roots of a person's emotional problems. You
may also be drawn to esoteric or occult studies and the
development of unusual mental powers. Stories of mystery,
intrigue, espionage, etc. fascinate you.

Section 3: Emotions: Moods, Feelings, Romance
Venus in Gemini:

In love, you are more interested in a person's sense of
humor and intelligence than in their physique. You like a
partner who is mentally alive and who keeps you guessing a
little bit, and you become restless and bored with someone who
never asks questions, never changes or surprises you. Talking,
sharing ideas, going places together, and learning new things
together is very important to your happiness. You need lots of
social stimulation, are something of a flirt, and like to have
many friends of both sexes. A possessive, jealous partner is
very stifling for you.

Venus Square Neptune:

You have a very romantic, idealistic vision of love and may
be disillusioned to discover that no real, flesh-and-blood human
being ever quite lives up to your dream image of the Perfect
Love. Though you frequently fantasize about love and romance,
you may avoid becoming intimately involved with anyone or making
definite commitments. You can be evasive and dishonest with
yourself and others, when it comes to love. Some of your love
yearnings may be expressed through art, music, or an involvement
with mysticism.

Section 4: Drive and Ambition: How You Achieve Your Goals

Mars in Leo:
You are proud and ambitious, and you strive to excel, to
stand out and be recognized for who and what you are. You have a
very strong ego drive and like to be Number One. You find it
difficult to take orders from others or to stay in the
background, and you hate being wrong; you always insist that you
are right!

You are forceful, strong, energetic, determined, and highly
competitive. You play hard, you play to win, and you do not give
up easily. In fact, you see life as a competitive sport or
performance. You love admiration and applause, and you have a
strong sense of personal honor and integrity. You tend to be
very self-confident, even arrogant. Because of your belief in
yourself, you are able to accomplish much, but if your
confidence is ever undermined, you become self-conscious,
defensive, and rather belligerent.

Mars Square Jupiter:

You are enterprising, ambitious, and have a strong desire to
succeed in a big way. Ever on the look out for new opportunities
and promising new ventures, you are willing to take risks if you
sense that something is going to be a winner. No matter how much
you accomplish, you never seem to be completely satisfied. You
always feel you can do more, and set your sights on another
goal. You feel frustrated in limited circumstances, and you will
leave secure and reasonably successful situations if they do not
offer challenges and potential for growth and expansion in the
future. You like to keep stretching your limits, to see how far
you can go. Sometimes you over-extend yourself or promise more
than you can actually achieve, due to an overly optimistic or
overly confident assessment of your own capacities. You relish
healthy competition and feel that it spurs you on to even
greater achievements.

Mars Square Saturn:

You work hard and patiently to achieve your objectives,
persevering and continuing on in spite of difficulties and
discouragement. Concentrating on a single, clearly defined goal,
you are able to accomplish much, but you often feel that the way
is long and arduous, and that you must struggle on alone, that
it's all on your shoulders.

You are capable of great self-control and self-denial and
can be a hard task master, expecting far too much of yourself.
You also tend to hold yourself back, to doubt your own power and
ability. You feel that you meet with great resistance whenever
you try to assert yourself or take initiative. Anger and
frustration can be big problems for you, especially when you try
to work with other people or depend too much on others for
support. You work best in solitude.