Ali MacGraw practices restraining her emotions; although it is not an easy apprenticeship, she wants to be able to bear strain with patience, endurance, and stamina. More than anyone else, Ali is aware of the need for a solid and stable foundation as a prerequisite to any effective action.

Ali MacGraw’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.

Ali MacGraw is vigorous and energetic and has an immense need to assert her individuality. Her attitudes and actions are actually motivated by an unconscious desire for power. They puzzle the people close to her, who cannot understand whether her behavior is the result of pure selfishness or merely of an excess of energy. She is lively, alert, and determined, but she is too easily distracted from goals by futile competition or opportunities to exhibit her power. She has a short temper and must learn to control her impulsiveness, which might expose her to a great deal of unnecessary conflict.

Ali MacGraw prefers to organize her life around a plan that is based on logical or moral reasons. She is a very conscientious person and does not express her personal feelings easily. However, she is a successful scientist or high-tech designer because she excels at using clarity, detail, and technique in her work.

Ali MacGraw maintains strong ties with her past, and it often seems difficult for her to open her heart to new people. Her love affairs might exist on the surface level, because her lust and sensual desire rarely turn into a need to understand, protect, and care for the other. Moreover, it is difficult for her to meet partners who combine the ideals of the tender parent and the great lover.

Ali MacGraw has a sensitive nature. Although she may sometimes have trouble controlling her emotional reactions, they are nevertheless a source of vital energy for a constructive passion and may make an extremely positive contribution to her career. In relations with other people, Ali MacGraw is quite friendly; she willingly reaches out to people and knows how to listen to their desires and their problems.

Ali MacGraw desires order in her life and prefers to do things according to a predetermined plan. Unfortunately, because her logic and vision tend to be somewhat short-sighted, it requires a great effort for her to adapt to a situation. She is rigid, might struggle to make friends easily, and is sometimes wary of relations with those she is most attracted to. She is a gifted worrywart.

Ali MacGraw’s sensitivity can sometimes overwhelm her partners, and her compassion for the other is profound. She readily sacrifices her own interest to others, to provide help and assistance. A romantic as well as an idealist, she sometimes lacks discernment in the choice of her partners. She is fairly confused and evasive and has trouble expressing her feelings clearly. Nevertheless, she is capable of devoting herself entirely to the person she loves. She has a tendency to daydream and become lost in herself.

Ali MacGraw’s birth chart indicates an emotional function which is expressed in a direct and fairly impulsive way. She enjoys reaching out to other people and making discoveries. An eternal teenager with her gaze riveted on the future, Ali MacGraw is imbued with an eminently subjective and personal idealism.

Ali MacGraw is somewhat frustrated by nature, with an innate tendency to be dissatisfied with everything (to put it mildly). Determined to subject her sentimental and sexual urges to the control of her mind, she is happy with the companion she has chosen-if she is happy, she will turn out to be an excellent partner, devoted to her flock.

Ali MacGraw takes pleasure in a kind of self-denial or self-sacrifice that occasionally borders on masochism. But she knows that before she can be loved by someone else, she’s got to learn to love herself. Only a relationship based on mutual respect and esteem can bring her the emotional fulfillment she seeks. A second marriage or relationship with an older partner should help her to restore the balance that was largely lost in her early relationships.

Ali MacGraw is a complex individual, full of contradictions. Because she sometimes feels vulnerable emotionally, Ali tries to control not only her own feelings and urges, but also strives to manipulate those of her partners. She aspires to a profound spiritual unity, but at the same time, the idea of abandoning herself and yielding to the other terrifies her. This anguish may be a source of rather extreme behavior patterns and a somewhat self-focused attitude which could damage the relationship. Because she is guarded and somewhat secretive, Ali tends to be suspicious and is especially uneasy about spontaneous intimacy, although she is fascinated by sexuality. Within the privacy of the couple, Ali will not express her feelings unless she is 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 Ali’s emotional and sexual functioning. As a result, Ali is likely to be attracted by stormy and complicated relationships.

Ali MacGraw is an intuitive thinker. She does not reason things out through a long, articulate, logical discourse; instead, she seizes the visions or insights that spontaneously flash into her consciousness. She thus has a form of immediate knowledge of various phenomena which is based neither on reasoning nor on any elaborate thought process or method. As a result, if she is an extrovert, she will possess an inventive, innovative spirit gifted for improvisation. If she is an introvert, her mind will be an abundant source of personal inner truths.

Ali MacGraw 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.

Ali MacGraw seldom communicates with others for the simple pleasure of doing so. Indeed, she often feels misunderstood. Moreover, it seems difficult for her to express the complexity of her inner perceptions.