You have a dual nature, with two tendencies residing within your psyche: one is related to your instincts and endowed you with supreme strength and intense material desires, and the other flows from a higher psychic authority, the superego or human ideal, and inspires you with a precise awareness of your purpose and dignity as a human being among your fellows. The distinctiveness, if not the opposition, between these two tendencies is likely to trouble your quest for inner harmony at times. However, the difficulty you must overcome is not limited to a conflict between these two natures. Instead, you must choose which direction the energy generated by the contradiction will take. In other words, in more practical terms, if you identify with the power residing in society and the complex interactions of human beings, you can find one goal, one direction in which the power can lead. The positive side of this nature is the cohesive and all-encompassing understanding you derive from it. In daily life, you could be a resourceful and valuable organizer, designer, leader, or legislator. In fact, you have the native skills necessary for managing and leading a team of co-workers. The coherence of your thought is apt to enable you to budget and organize human energies for maximum profit and minimum loss. Overlooking from the outset trivial details and a tendency to be unable to see the forest for the trees, you can implement global, methodical systems and structures to solve problems. On another level, you have a nature profoundly attached to morality and ethics. You conceive of ethics as a practical system for human relations, not an idealistic and unattainable dream. Indeed, it should be noted that it is inexact to call you an idealist. If you seek an ideal, it is based on what already exists, by organizing it and putting it into practice, by seeing it operate smoothly and efficiently. Your originality comes from the fact that you always strive to go beyond common sense in search of a new perspective, which would enrich the spirit and transform values. All of these skills and resources predispose you to devote yourself to society. In the process, however, you are likely to overdo it to such a degree that your own personality is overshadowed. That is, you would identify too heavily with your social mask (your persona) and lose awareness of your individuality.

Due to the influence of Capricorn rising, Alan Stokes has a personality which may seem somewhat aloof and introspective. In fact, he is not inclined to submit to anyone’s influence, and leads the independent, solitary life of the individualist. Sometimes skeptical (if not pessimistic) and resigned, he is still shrewd and objective in his insights and judgments. He has a fairly severe, “no-frills” vision of life, and only the pure, bare essence really matters to him. His personal stability tends to be founded on enduring values—philosophical or scientific facts in relation to spiritual value. Sometimes he seems detached and weary, or disillusioned, and he does not readily express his feelings and emotions. However, his inner sensitivity should not be underestimated. Although his demeanor is serious, it is tempered by a desire for company and sociability which is best satisfied by group activities. When his sense of administration and social responsibility take over, he engages himself with enthusiasm. He has an instinct for parceling out energies as a function of long-term strategy, and could easily become an efficient and highly respected manager of some kind.

Alan Stokes is dynamic. He needs to attract admiration and release his excess energy.

Alan Stokes is attentive to work and profit. He will probably be financially comfortable throughout his life.

At the time of your birth, your sun sign was located in Capricorn (the Goat), while the sun was passing through the sign of Sagittarius (the Archer). A summary of the various clues mentioned above provide your character profile. The following key words capture the essence of your character and indicate certain contradictions which may be sources of tension:

Impetuosity – Need for security – Enthusiasm – Inhibition – Group spirit – Application – Impressionability – Methodical mind – Analytical mind – Forethought – Worldliness – Loyalty – Projection.

Motivated by an ideal of fairness and tolerance, and a strong desire for sociability, you are sometimes gripped by a need for solitude and introspection. As a result, you sometimes feel torn. Your behavior is moody, vacillating between excitement and depression, friendliness and distance. Your determination, which is normally steadfast and strong, can be weakened by considerations of vanity and self-image—by the influence of opinion or example. Your social ambitions are distracted by the appeal of freedom, and you alternate between realistic, pragmatic viewpoints and idealistic inspirations.

Alan Stokes was born on the night of a gibbous moon. He is a “soli-lunar” type, which gives him a complex personality and a feeling that he is struggling to do something great. He is also preoccupied by the feeling that he is lacking something, which could lead to a spiritual or humanitarian cause being important to him. Devotion will be important to him as a foundation for his inner and outer development. If he fails to find a great and noble cause to which he can pledge himself, he could always make do with a person with a magnetic aura. Whatever he decides, it is by working to serve others that he will achieve his own self-transformation.