Annie Dillard thinks that in order to overcome insecurity, one needs a home. A home can be a dwelling, a territory, or a safe space or setting where one can rest and let down their defenses against the outer world. Dillard believes that true inner security, based on real knowledge of oneself, one’s abilities, and one’s shortcomings, would be most effective. Inner security based on real knowledge of oneself would allow one to remain open to the varieties of experience offered by the world.

Annie Dillard has a great potential for creative, constructive accomplishments; however, it is sometimes difficult for her to gain access to this part of herself. She is confident in herself and life but may tend to be nonchalant. She sometimes needs a little stimulation to get herself rolling and take some initiative. Her optimism and inner certainty do not always drive her to give her utmost efforts to achieve a goal. The communications skills she possesses are an advantage as well as a handicap. She makes use of her theatrical gifts, convincing eloquence, and ability to listen. The best careers for her would be teaching, communications, philosophy, the legal profession, theater, and public relations.

Annie Dillard is a very unique person. She has an inalienable awareness of the void and the vanity of existence. She is sometimes disoriented and deconstructed by an unknowable, unconscious force and tends to ignore or disparage the superficial pleasures and pains of daily life, preferring to dive into the depths of human experience as deeply as her intellectual, emotional, and spiritual capacities permit. Grappling with her “fundamental nature,” with the deepest and most primitive part of herself, Annie Dillard sometimes aghast at the discovery of the sheer power of the life instinct and feels an imperious need to cope with it.

Annie Dillard is physically and mentally free. She has a taste for movement and independence, and is attracted to the faraway. She is likely to travel in her life.

Annie Dillard has a lively and curious intelligence, the very opposite of empty rhetoric and studiousness. She is agile and adaptable and can not only analyze difficult situations objectively but also demonstrate a profound comprehension when faced with a psychological problem.

Annie Dillard has a sensitive and affectionate nature. She seeks tenderness and gentleness more than passion. Her relationships with others are smooth and pleasant, and she has a natural sense of tact and social grace.

Annie Dillard is an expansive, affable, and communicative associate. Indeed, some people find her generous almost to a fault! She gives of herself and her resources unstintingly. Paradoxically, there are times when she is self-focused. She reacts instinctively, without taking the trouble to analyze a given situation, and is prone to misjudge. As a result, her everyday life may be riddled with a whole variety of practical problems. Indeed, she senses a conflict between her social life and her family and will sometimes find it hard to fulfill herself in both spheres at the same time. Her attitude toward her private life may inhibit her ambitions for social or career expansion; at worst, society (the law) may impinge on her private life. She should be careful not to project her personal problems onto her partner. If, instead, she analyzes the problem together, she could find opportunities to resolve it together.

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

Annie Dillard tends to be guarded with her emotions. She enjoys intense relationships and sexuality is a big part of her life. She would find a career that put her in contact with troubled people very rewarding.

Annie Dillard’s personality is dominated by love and affectivity. She is subject to love at first sight, and her gallant heart sometimes leaps forth impulsively; her sensitivity is lively and powerful. Amorous rivalries and conquests may be a recurring theme throughout her life.

Annie Dillard’s birth chart indicates a somewhat introverted emotional function which is influenced by the cultural values traditional to her family and social class. Because she does not always trust her emotional urges and reactions, she generally prefers to hang back and acquire some perspective before committing herself emotionally.

Annie Dillard’s emotional involvement might not be the best for her. The way the romantic life and the values in this area are conducted are not what she is interested in. This is why she seeks few intimate emotional relationships or contacts. She tends to stay in the background and fulfill her emotional needs by sublimating. She might not attain full romantic satisfaction until she reaches middle age.

Annie Dillard 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 and will refuse all obligations and monotony.

Annie Dillard often makes errors when it comes to love, which can be attributed to her passivity and her tendency to idealize the other. She often dreams and procrastinates, preferring to take action and find herself with a bold, aggressive, and sometimes authoritarian partner.

You are characterized by strong sensual and affectionate urges which drive you to seek pleasure. Your need for romantic fulfillment may compel you to marry, because you also seek the legal and social legitimacy the institution of marriage confers on an emotional bond. Indeed, the household is liable to be prosperous and even opulent, 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. A second possibility is that a psychic incompatibility may gradually take root, pitting your romantic nature against the prerogatives of your career.

Annie Dillard was an intuitive thinker. She did not reason things out through a long, articulate, logical discourse; instead, she seized the visions or insights that spontaneously flashed into her consciousness. As a result, her mind was an abundant source of personal inner truths. If she was an extrovert, she possessed an inventive, innovative spirit gifted for improvisation. If she was an introvert, her mind was an abundant source of personal inner truths.

Annie Dillard expresses her thoughts and ideas carefully, but with a relative lack of spontaneity. She is rather introverted and looks inside herself for the solutions to the problems she encounters in life. Because she tends to mistrust customary thought patterns, her opinion is usually highly personal.

Annie Dillard often finds her intellect slowed down because she is too focused on herself. She doesn’t enjoy communicating with others because it is often simple and inconvenient. Moreover, she finds it difficult to express the depths of her thoughts and feelings.

Annie Dillard was a gracious person, adept at speaking persuasively and convincingly, and able to smooth the asperities of what she had to say when it was necessary. In situations where she had to compete or deal with direct conflict and hostility, she was somewhat at a loss for how to behave. Her undeniable gift for oratory could be applied to a communications-related occupation or to artistic expression (as a stage or screen actor). Writing and dance, two other arts which associate expression and movement, might also be fields in which she would excel.