Abby Donnelly searches for stability; she wants to find a firm, unchanging structure for her life. But her efforts to achieve this ideal are often vain, because unconsciously, she is also inhabited by the opposite desire. Every time she reaches what she believes to be a good balance, she realizes she wants something entirely different. She would do well to become aware that the concepts of stability and balance are difficult to apply to life. By definition, life is movement, change, and perpetual instability.

Abby Donnelly’s personality and behavior are liable to be disrupted by a contradiction between the masculine and feminine archetypes ruling her psyche. Because her sensitivity is in conflict with her determination, her attitude and performance may sometimes be moody, fluctuating, and uncertain. Usually, she has the feeling she has to make superhuman efforts to succeed in assuaging her yearnings and fulfilling her ambitions. Her unconscious, sensitive side often disapproves of her conscious endeavors and stealthily works to defeat them, causing crucial omissions, mistakes, and gaps which effectively sabotage her plans. In her relationships, the images she builds up and projects on the other are contradictory. As a result, any bond, even if it is pleasant and positive, might also annoy her. She could find it dissatisfying and irritating at the same time.

You may experience mood swings, going from phases of frenzy combined with a feeling of omnipotence and exaltation to phases of apathy and inertia. During your “highs,” your behavior is vigorous and dynamic, but it is also likely to be somewhat excessive. These periods tend to be interspersed with “lows,” phases of sluggishness and inhibition, which compensate for your immense need to assert yourself as an individual. How can you find a way out of this vicious cycle which uses up so much of your energy? You would have to understand that the source of your attitudes and behavior is an unconscious desire for power. We suggest that you meditate upon power, skills, mastery, challenge, desire, and need, your brothers (or brother substitutes, such as friends, cousins, or classmates) – who are key figures – and your adversaries. This should enlighten you. Of course, once you have a clear awareness of your career ambitions and profound desires, you are sure to have plenty of energy to accomplish them.

Abby Donnelly has a taste for luxury and magnificence, for a dazzling social life and a distinguished career. When things are going well for her, she tends to think of herself as the center of the universe, an attitude which those close to her do not always appreciate. Although she is quite likely to succeed in her ambition to become wealthy and popular and lead a remarkable life in the outer world, her lack of moderation and overweening self-confidence expose her to some danger. Her exaggerated optimism could create difficulties by causing her to make errors in judgment.

You are an independent thinker who believes in freedom and autonomy. You have rejected the conventions of your social class and adopted an innovative lifestyle. Your passionate convictions can sometimes lead to conflicts with your partners, as you are uncompromising in your beliefs. You need to learn to recognize your own limitations and accept the responsibilities you have to other people, or you are likely to have continual conflicts in your relationships. The roots of your behavior may be found in your relationship with your father or teachers when you were growing up. For some reason, you may have rejected the paternal image or refused to identify with your father, in the same way you are rejecting conventional values now. In every important decision you make as an adult, you have to rely on yourself to figure out the right behavior. And, as with all important life choices, you have to set limits on your desires in relation to reality and the law.

Abby Donnelly usually maintains a cool and distant demeanor, suppressing her feelings and sensitivity in order to avoid situations where she might have to express them. This inhibition is related to a lack of having been loved enough. In many cases, this can have a negative impact on her love life, as she invests all her energy into her career. She seeks social recognition through her career achievements.

You are an expansive person who is communicative and affable. Indeed, some people find you generous almost to a fault! You give of yourself and your resources unstintingly. Paradoxically, you can be self-focused at times, reacting instinctively without taking the trouble to analyze a given situation. As a result, your everyday life can be fraught with a variety of practical problems. Indeed, you sense a conflict between your social life and your family, and will sometimes find it hard to fulfill yourself in both spheres at the same time. Your attitude toward your private life may inhibit your ambitions for social or career expansion; at worst, society (the law) may impinge on your private life. You should be careful not to project your personal problems onto your partner. If, instead, the two of you analyzed the problem, you might be able to find opportunities to resolve it together.

Although you are stoic and distant, you are extremely sensitive. In some cases, your rather austere and rigid behavior and your refusal to yield too readily to sentimentality discourage others from being too demonstrative of their tenderness and affection. You have spells of melancholy in which you do not feel worthy of being loved, and tend to forbid yourself any emotional fulfillment whatsoever. An austere or somewhat traumatic childhood experience may be the source of this behavior. It is difficult for your inner self to be detached from this past life, and you sometimes have trouble reconciling the image you have of yourself as an adult with the one you acquired back then. The idea you have of yourself as an individual is related to the image your parents projected onto you as a child. Nevertheless, the past is history, and you are now an adult. Through self-work, you can rid yourself of these phantoms. You have the ability to overcome your mistakes, as well as great endurance and will power to achieve your goals. Nevertheless, you must not repress your sensitivity in order to succeed.

Abby Donnelly felt insecure about herself. She sometimes tried to convince herself that she was worthy of love and approval, but deep down she knew that she was pessimistic and had severe taboos against herself.

Abby Donnelly is fairly shy, reserved, and discreet when it comes to matters of the heart. Even in intimate moments, she remains modest and reluctant to express her feelings. She is sensitive and giving, wishing to be of service to those she loves. She deserves to be made as happy as she makes her partners.

Abby Donnelly’s birth chart indicates that she has an emotional function which is usually expressed carefully and reasonably. Distrustful of her emotional urges and somewhat wary of her feelings, Abby tries to rid herself of all partiality and try to get some perspective and distance before making an emotional commitment.

Although Abby Donnelly has a remarkable sense of organization and taste for work, as well as undeniable human qualities, she doubts her capacity for emotional happiness. A deeper glimpse of her soul reveals that she hides a great sensitivity behind her ambition and tends to repress her feelings. To her, they seem to be a treacherous terrain which is best avoided. Abby will have to understand that one cannot neglect an entire aspect of one’s personality with impunity; there is always a heavy psychological toll to pay. No matter how hard she tries to compensate for her emotional frustrations with a brilliant career, she must know that nothing can make up for a lack of self-love and acceptance.

Abby Donnelly falls in love with someone who is not in tune with her sensual and romantic wavelength. She is intellectually refined, practical, and realistic, more absorbed by the problems of daily life than be great sentimental adventures.

You are a complex individual, full of contradictions. Because you can sometimes feel vulnerable emotionally, you try to control not only your own feelings and urges, but also to manipulate those of your partners. You aspire to a profound and enduring spiritual unity, but at the same time, the idea of abandoning yourself and yielding to the other terrifies you. This anguish may be a source of rather extreme behavior patterns and a somewhat self-focused attitude which could damage the relationship. Because you are guarded and somewhat secretive, you tend to be suspicious and are especially uneasy about spontaneous intimacy, although you are fascinated by sexuality. Within the privacy of the couple, you will not express your feelings unless you are subject to some tension. Life may be peppered with frequent crises and feuds, arguments and spats which usually act as erotic provocation. This derivation of eroticism from anxiety tends to be one of the fundamental characteristics of your emotional and sexual functioning. As a result, you are likely to be attracted by stormy and complicated relationships.

Abby Donnelly is powerfully ruled by her determination and vital needs. Her intellectual abilities come to the forefront when her purpose is to communicate her ideal and plot her action or strategy. She can be both logical and astute, and have gifts for theorizing but may sometimes lack perspective.

Abby Donnelly tries to shun subjectivity and be as objective as possible. Her thoughts are usually structured, and her reasoning, based on objective facts or experience, usually relates to practical goals.

Abby Donnelly has a lively and agile spirit. She is curious and open-minded, approaching various life experiences without either dogmatism or prejudice. As a result of the liveliness of her mind, she tends to have an opinion on every subject, but she does not always have the patience or perspective necessary to examine a subject and gain in-depth knowledge of it. She enjoys manipulating expressions and concepts and amuses herself with witty remarks, satire, and controversy. If she learned to control her flow of words better and elaborate her thoughts more, she might make a talented communicator. Because she is often too hasty to formulate and construct the arguments which would back up and inform her ideas, she is sometimes misunderstood. She is often blind to the rashness of her judgments and convinced they are well-founded and objective, which sometimes irritates the people around her. If she were to succeed in disciplining her mind somewhat, she would have innumerable opportunities to apply her communications skills to a great career. However, she would do well to be careful of her nerves.