Abby Howard is determined to obtain a superlative grip on her emotional urges; she practices holding back her impulses and controlling them. Although it is not an easy apprenticeship, she wants to be able to bear strain with patience, endurance, and stamina. More than anyone else, she is aware of the need for a solid and stable foundation as a prerequisite to any effective action.

You have a paternal complex, which means you have trouble finding your identity. You might have lacked a father figure who was present physically or emotionally during your childhood, which deprived you of the patterns or models which are usually helpful in structuring a personality. Because you lacked a sense of security which could be provided by a paternal presence, as well as the examples of behavior to follow in confronting the difficulties inherent in every life, you were forced to protect yourself against negative influences and find your own system in order to grow and feel secure. Although this system was quite useful to you as a child, it has now settled in to such a degree that it interferes with your evolution. Psychological defense mechanisms and crutches which were once useful now encumber your mind or inhibit your developmental efforts. As a result, in certain situations, it is difficult for you to assert yourself, and you tend to remain an awkward or passive observer. Because your authoritarian urges are mainly directed at yourself rather than others, you sometimes feel guilty about your behavior. You judge yourself severely, and sometimes punishes yourself by setting difficult tasks for yourself. Gradually, you should build up a strong inner discipline and acquire the strength to face the problems of existence in a detached and mature way.

Abby Howard’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.

Abby Howard enjoys sharing and having contact with other people. She is free and uninhibited in her relations with other people, rarely allowing herself to be influenced by convention or prevailing opinion. She associates with whomever she pleases, which makes her life refreshing and exciting. In career terms, she is quite gifted for any field related to communication, where her intellectual singularity and lively wit would make her an amazing hit. She would also be likely to succeed in any activity where the work required a multidisciplinary approach: teaching, advertising, politics, etc.

Abby Howard’s personality is complex and often extremist. This instinctual drive is rooted in an overwhelming drive to explore and understand the dark side of life. Abby is drawn to mystery and the occult, and delights in immersing herself in the depths of human experience. She stretches her intellectual, emotional, and spiritual resources to their maximum.

Abby Howard is pragmatic and realistic. She evaluates people and things according to practical, common-sense criteria instead of abstract concepts. A sensualist and lover of luxury, she has a penchant for material comfort and takes great joy in physical pleasures. In relation to others, socially and privately, she likes to build stable relationships and is not especially fond of change. Her warmth gives her a great deal of ease when meeting people, as clients (for business purposes), but her close relations also benefit from this affection and her ability to express her feelings naturally and openly.

Abby Howard’s intellect is lively, agile, and sensitive. However, she does not always avail herself of it and may be confused or irrational in some situations. Although she enjoys playing with words, ideas, and concepts, her thought sometimes lacks discipline and structure. She is fairly preoccupied with details and may tend to waste her nervous and mental energy in futile verbal outpourings. Moreover, her feelings sometimes blur her objective vision of phenomena and people, which may cause her to make errors in judgment.

You are emotional and tend to react suddenly and excessively as soon as your sensitivity is touched. Although you feel that your independence, freedom, and self-sufficiency are fundamental values, you are sometimes frustrated by your need to rely on your family or friends. Moreover, you do not always grant the freedom of other people the same respect as your own. Likewise, you are sometimes angered by expressions of maternal tenderness, as if you feared that it would doom you to eternal dependency. Your ambivalent behavior, full of jagged edges, may be traced back to the relationship you had with your mother or a mother figure. Although you were dependent on them, they may have rejected you. Now this attitude is extended to any situation in which your sensitivity comes into play and emotional bonds are liable to form. To ward off your feelings of dependency, you sometimes tend to become destructive. Based on denial, your reactions might be fierce, impulsive, excessive, erratic, or contradictory.

Abby Howard knew that she was supposed to experience love in a certain way. Her family, social class, and religion all taught her that the way to find happiness was to go out and experience new things. Her idealistic aspirations may have been a form of escapism, but they encouraged her to break free from traditional romantic practices and customs. This led to her embarking on new adventures, which she found to be more satisfying than anything she had experienced before.

Abby Howard’s birth chart indicates that she has an emotional function which is usually expressed carefully and reasonably. Abby tries to rid herself of all partiality and try to get some perspective and distance before making an emotional commitment.

Abby Howard glows with a youthful simplicity and dewy freshness that make her very endearing. Quite sensitive to physical attraction, she loves blithely and lustily. Because she needs to feel free and independent, a possessive partner would be a bad match for her. Even when committed, she will cling to her taste for freedom, refusing monotony.

When it comes to romance, Abby Howard exudes a cheerfulness and warmth which wins her many a heart. A light-hearted and dynamic companion with an ability to take initiative in and direct the relationship would bring her the emotional balance she sometimes lacks. Mutual tolerance will ensure the survival of the commitment.

You are characterized by strong tendencies towards sensual pleasure and affectionate attachments. This drives you to seek a romantic partner, as you also desire the legal and social legitimacy marriage offers. Indeed, the household may be prosperous and even luxurious, as if this offered further evidence that you had indeed achieved success. However, privately, you might be less committed to certain obligations and duties. At worst, you might deny the commitments that your optimism and expansiveness made you rush into too soon. If this were to be the case, the outward image of the couple’s success (wealth and comfort, etc.) would only be a façade which compensated for its emotional impoverishment and failure. Sooner or later, this hypocrisy might provoke a full-blown conflict. Alternatively, a psychic incompatibility may gradually take root, pitting your romantic nature against the prerogatives of your career.

Abby Howard is attracted to wide open spaces and distant horizons; as a scholar, she feels an affinity for higher studies such as philosophy or law. However, foreign languages or contacts abroad might also interest her.

Abby Howard does not express her thoughts and ideas smoothly or easily. She tends to be subjective, seeking to know herself better through a process of introversion.

Someone else’s intellectual faculties and wit are sometimes slowed down because they are turned outward. Because they tend to be oriented toward others, they rarely try to communicate with others for the simple pleasure of doing so. Indeed, they sometimes feel misunderstood. Moreover, it seems difficult to them to express the complexity of their inner perceptions.

You are attracted to anything that is new and different. You immediately understand the value of the latest technology or philosophy, no matter how complicated it may be, and are able to explain it to the uninitiated and popularize it. Because you are fairly high strung, you may have trouble concentrating on a single subject for very long, unless it is a source of intellectual fascination or discovery. You are also open-minded, which allows you to be creative and have a lot of personal development. Regardless of the career you choose, you will involve yourself in intellectual activity.