You are a very emotional person. Because of the high amount of emotion, sensation, and feeling in your psychological make-up, you have acquired a deep sense of your individuality and uniqueness. Sometimes you feel “different” – set apart from others. In order to justify this idea of yourself, you often try to behave differently, to impress the crowd. This produces a self-perpetuating cycle: your impressive deeds often earn you recognition, and this reinforces your self-confidence and sense that you are different from the rest. Sometimes you make an attempt to bluff and show off with an emotional display. You like to take risks and give people advice. However, at the core of your conduct there is a feeling of social anxiety. This unconscious anxiety drives you to create, to counteract the deeply felt effects of time and the masses on your ego. By creating something, you can make your own individual mark on the world; you can organize it to reflect your own image, instead of allowing yourself to be submerged by it. The preceding comments about creating the world in your own image are strong indications that you seek to identify with your superego. The difference between your ideal of yourself and the individual you know yourself to be in truth, measured in terms of your social recognition or the recognition of your creations (children, works of art, etc.), will determine your state of mind. It is therefore important for you to make these images match to a certain extent, to reduce the gap as much as possible. The psychological dynamic described earlier explains many of the pluses and minuses in your personality. Your dignity and self-assurance may border on vanity; your strong instinct and ambition combined with your somewhat exaggerated individualism incline you to be self-focused. You may be proud, but you are also courageous, determined, and generous. You have the skills of an educator or an artist; moreover, you are mysteriously lucky.

Due to the influence of Libra rising, you treasure harmony and will passionately endeavor to achieve it, both in your social life (in your relationships with others) and in your private life (in terms of art, grace, and physical beauty). As a result, your intimate ties (to a partner, for example) will be very important to you, and you would feel incomplete if this aspect of your life were not successful. You are happiest when you have an outlet for your sense of grace and beauty. Social and sociable, you commit yourself to your relationships with total devotion and will expend a great deal of energy to keep the vessel on an even keel and mend wounded feelings. An inspired diplomat with a passion for truth, justice, and liberality, you have a genuine talent for reconciliation and negotiation! Because you are sentimental, you like to make people happy and need to be loved and cared for in return.

April Bowlby needs movement. She is a talented communicator.

April Bowlby tends to live in an imaginary world; the distant and abstract sometimes interests her more than what is right at hand and realistic.

At the time of your birth, your rising sign was located in Libra (the Scales), while the sun was passing through the sign of Leo (the Lion). A summary of the various clues mentioned above provides your personality profile. The following key words capture the essence of your character and indicate certain contradictions which may be sources of tension:

Sociability – Adaptability – Determination – Emotion – Pride and self-assurance – Tolerance – Superiority – Peaceful disposition – Brilliance – Sense of harmony – Generosity – Worldliness – Optimism.

Because you have been endowed with great esthetic sensitivity, you need and love beauty, order, and harmony. Your extreme sociability and difficulty bearing discord are likely to cost you some of your independence, if you are not careful. However, you have remarkable organizational and management skills. Your optimism and enthusiasm, tactfulness, and sincere concern for others make you a natural leader.

Born on the third day after the full moon rose, you are said to be a “lunar type.” This “soli-lunar” configuration gives you an objective, rational, and lucid character. However, since the moon is opposite the sun at the time of the full moon, your objective tendencies are balanced by a more idealistic penchant. Because the forces pull you in two different ways – one toward dreams, the other toward reality – you may be aware of some inner contradictions which are causing practical and social difficulties for you. At times, you are too demanding of yourself or others, comparing them to an ideal, whereas at others, you are too nonchalant and indulgent about life. You vacillate between two poles. One is elitist; the other is more earthy and perhaps vulgar at times. The result is a multifaceted self. Generally speaking, your monthly energy flow is strongest at the time of the full moon. You would be wise to schedule intensive work phases at that time, as well as ambitious and demanding projects.