Barbara Muschietti is searching for stability; she wants to find a firm, unchanging structure for her life. But her efforts to achieve this ideal are often vain, because unconsciously, she is also inhabited by the opposite desire. Every time she reaches what she believes to be a good balance, she realizes she wants something entirely different. She would do well to become aware that the concepts of stability and balance are difficult to apply to life. By definition, life is movement, change, and perpetual instability.

You often have a paternal complex, which makes it difficult for you to find your identity. Maybe your father was never around physically or emotionally, so you didn’t have the patterns of behavior that are usually helpful in structuring a personality. Because you might have lacked a sense of security from a paternal figure, as well as the examples of behavior to follow in confronting the difficulties inherent in every life, you had to protect yourself against negative influences and find your own system to grow. Although this system was helpful to you as a child, it’s settled in to a degree now that it interferes with your development. Psychological defense mechanisms and crutches that were once useful now encumber your mind or inhibit your developmental efforts. As a result, in some situations, it’s 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 punish yourself by setting difficult tasks for yourself. Gradually, you will build up a strong inner discipline and acquire the strength to face the problems of existence in a detached and mature way.

At the moment of your birth, the two celestial “lights” (the sun and the moon) were symmetrically aligned. This is a portent of harmony between the masculine and feminine archetypes which is extremely beneficial. It is the source of balance and understanding between the two main psychological realms which may be said to compose the personality. You thus enjoy a positive complementarity and understanding between the conscious and unconscious aspects of your psyche, between your determination and your routines, between your drive for self-assertion and your receptivity, your ideal and your sensitivity. Your parents almost certainly reflected a positive image of the marriage relationship to you, and it is likely that they encouraged you to develop your own individuality. As a result, you were and are able to be comfortable with yourself as you are instead of striving to attain your parents’ ideal. This has definitely contributed to the maintenance of a good relationship with them and the rest of the family. In your emotional relationships with your peers, one of the effects of the masculine/feminine harmony is that the images your ego projects on the other are especially constructive. The bonds of the relationship are not felt to be constraints, the energy which flows between the two people is a source of mutual happiness, not regret. No major personal conflicts are projected onto the “other” – that is, the significant other.

Barbara Muschietti is energetic and vigorous. She has an immense need to assert her individuality and her attitudes and actions are actually motivated by an unconscious desire for power. Her behavior puzzles the people close to her, who cannot understand whether her behavior is the result of pure selfishness or merely of an excess of energy. Barbara 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.

You were raised in an austere environment and this may have led to a spirit of self-sufficiency. You tend to be uncompromising and have a touchy sense of your personal dignity and worth. You are skilled and meticulous, but also timid and hesitant. You often feel that you are only pretending to be a respectable, sober adult. You are critical of yourself and rarely feel satisfied that you are living up to your ideal. These unnecessary guilt feelings may lead you to turn down the prominent career positions for which you are fully qualified. You are aware that early success is often short-lived and fragile, and that those who are patient and persistent often reap the rewards.

Barbara Muschietti tries to get approval from others by showing that she is worthy of their affection. However, her pessimism remains, and the severe taboos she unconsciously places on herself sometimes keep her from developing quickly.

You have a keen awareness of the void and the vanity of existence. You are sometimes disoriented and deconstructed by an unknowable, unconscious force, and you tend to ignore or disparage the superficial pleasures and pains of daily life. You prefer to dive into the depths of human experience as deeply as your intellectual, emotional, and spiritual capacities permit. Grappling with your “fundamental nature,” with the deepest and most primitive part of yourself, you are sometimes aghast at the discovery of the sheer power of the life instinct and feel an imperious need to cope with it. This special consciousness you have been endowed with is somewhat beyond the bounds of conventional schools of human understanding and thought and may be a source of identity problems for you at the outset. It is not easy for you to recognize yourself in any social or narcissistic models or identify with any existing roles or attitudes, so you sometimes find yourself forced to construct and assert your own identity on a basis which may impress others with its intensity, if not its eccentricity.

Barbara Muschietti values freedom and independence above all else. She puts a great deal of effort into ensuring that her private life expresses this, by avoiding any deep involvement with anyone. This is because she is scared of being trapped, and so she tends to think emotionally rather than rationally when it comes to her emotions and feelings. She is very socially-minded, but idealistic, and she has a strong affinity with the ideals of some social reform movement. Her imagination looks to the future.

Although your demeanor is cool and distant, you are extremely sensitive. In some cases, your rather austere and rigid behavior and refusal to yield too readily to sentimentality discourage others from being too demonstrative of their tenderness and affection. You have spells of melancholy in which you do not feel worthy of being loved and tend to forbid yourself emotional fulfillment. An austere or somewhat traumatic childhood experience may be the source of this behavior. It is difficult for your inner self to be detached from this past life, and you sometimes have trouble reconciling the image you have of yourself as an adult with the one you acquired back then. The idea you have of yourself as an individual is related to the image your parents projected onto you as a child. Nevertheless, the past is history, and you are now an adult. It should be easy for you to rid yourself of these phantoms through self-work. You have the ability to overcome your mistakes and great endurance and will power to achieve your goals. However, you must not repress your sensitivity in order to succeed.

Barbara Muschietti looks at herself in the mirror, admiring her features but feeling a sense of unease. She wonders why she is so afraid of getting close to people, when it seems like the key to happiness and fulfillment is right in front of her.

Barbara Muschietti was troubled by her sensitivity and irrepressible imagination. Although her bubbling imagination provided an abundant source of inspiration for creative or spiritual evolution, it tended to be less helpful and positive in matters that concerned her self-assertion as responsible and self-sufficient. In a relationship, Barbara Muschietti was extremely romantic and did not always see others the way they really were.

Barbara Muschietti

Barbara Muschietti is afraid to love. The world of her feelings is characterized by a certain chill and restraint. But she is not unfeeling; on the contrary, her sensitivity is so delicate that she is careful to protect it. Her determination to maintain control of her feelings and force her emotions to obey the laws of reason may stand in the way of intimacy and joy.

Barbara Muschietti’s birth chart indicates an emotional function which is usually expressed carefully and reasonably. Distrustful of her emotional urges and somewhat wary of her feelings, she tries to rid herself of all partiality and try to get some perspective and distance before making an emotional commitment.

Barbara Muschietti is fairly independent, and finds emotional fulfillment by being critical or ironic. Because she fears being overwhelmed by her feelings, and does not readily yield to love, she prefers friendship. Her ideal partner would be original, tender, and reassuring, apt to instill cheerfulness in their relationship, and bright enough to stimulate her intellectually. Were she to marry too young or too soon, she might find herself trapped in a stultifying situation.

Barbara Muschietti is sensible and level-headed on the outside, but she dreams of a devoted admirer who will carry her off, far from home and who, most of all, will cure her latent emotional depression. But real life is more mundane, and she may end up with a lethargic or indifferent person who can give her neither security nor make her dream. Her golden dreams will fade as she takes control and manages her joint affairs.

Barbara Muschietti has the fiery, importunate nature of a fervent lover. Indeed, affairs of the heart are one of her main purposes in life. Her personal charm and magnetism give her nearly irresistible powers of seduction, and nearly every one of her well-aimed attempts at conquest leads to the fulfillment and satisfaction of her desires. Due to her impulsiveness and impatience to initiate new encounters, her approach to potential partners may sometimes lack delicacy.

Cautious and reserved, you are often unwilling to open yourself to others if you are not sure of being accepted. You will always hang back somewhat from your emotional urges, parceling out your expressions of affection, because you have learned – sometimes at your expense – that even the most harmonious relationships require some compromise. For you, “good fences make good neighbors,” and well-marked boundaries can prevent future suffering. Thus, even when you are in love, you remain fairly circumspect. When you find yourself attracted to a partner, you privately engage in a careful analysis of their personality and life story, endeavoring to know them profoundly, to see whether you are likely to be able to share your life and future with them. As a result of your sensitivity, you have a profound affinity for all of the arts. Music, literature, painting, and graphic arts are likely to enrich your existence and make it pleasant. You could progress in any career in which balance, order, and practicality predominate.

You are a complex individual, full of contradictions. You sometimes feel vulnerable emotionally, so you try to control not only your own feelings and urges, but may also strive to manipulate those of your partners. You aspire to a profound and enduring spiritual unity, but at the same time, the idea of abandoning yourself and yielding to the other terrifies you. This anguish may be a source of rather extreme behavior patterns and a somewhat self-focused attitude which could damage the relationship. Because you are guarded and somewhat secretive, you tend to be suspicious and are especially uneasy about spontaneous intimacy, although you are fascinated by sexuality. Within the privacy of the couple, you will not express your feelings unless you are 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 your emotional and sexual functioning. As a result, you are likely to be attracted by stormy and complicated relationships.

Barbara Muschietti 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.