Barbara Parkins is a person who is primarily oriented towards the interior world of thought and intellect. She loves to explore new ideas and facets of human nature, through language and symbolic expression. She is also a naturally gregarious and sociable person, who makes friends quickly and easily. Her contacts and networks are important to her, because they enable her to evolve. She has a talent for improvisation and adaptation, but can also be prone to making questionable compromises with herself. Her weaknesses include instability, wishy-washiness, and a lack of determination and coherence in her thought.

Due to the influence of Leo rising, Barbara Parkins seems to have a high ideal of herself, a vibrant self-image. She has a taste for luxury and enjoys showing off in society; indeed, people feel drawn to her by the strong personal attraction she seems to exude. Endowed with ambition and generosity, she is a natural born leader. She enjoys taking charge as an opportunity to display her righteousness and the nobility of her ideals. The truth is, due to deep-rooted insecurities, she might be driven to seek the approval and confirmation of her personal worth in the eyes of those around her. But only her true creations and accomplishments will guarantee self-esteem. Time and maturity should bring her true confidence in herself and enable her to see past her own reflection and open herself to others and the world.

Barbara Parkins needs movement. She is a talented communicator.

Barbara Parkins needs others to fulfill herself and accomplish her ambitions.

At the time of your birth, your rising sign was located in Leo (the Lion), while the sun was passing through the sign of Gemini (the Twins). 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:

Need for contact – Determination – Mental agitation – Pride and self-assurance – Frivolity – Superiority – Dilettantism – Brilliance – Generosity – Communication – Positivism – Inner duality.

You are brimming with ideas! There is nothing you are totally disinterested in, and you are always busy meeting new people and learning things. Despite a difficulty in settling down and making a career choice, you can be trusted to make wise decisions and take initiative, and could even assume great social or political responsibilities. You tend to prefer receiving affection to giving it, and your emotional life usually remains in the background. Fascinated by visual effects and liable to be dazzled by appearances, you must be careful to distinguish form from content, and learn to see through the exterior to the more inner, real qualities.

Barbara Parkins was born three and a half to seven days after the rising of the new moon, and is said to be a “crescent moon” lunar type. This “soli-lunar” configuration indicates that she may need to make an effort to free herself from the past. Something related to her childhood, parents, or ancestors is holding her back, impairing her effectiveness and could stand to be overcome. Due to her past, Barbara refuses tried-and-true models, is always fighting to justify her innovative viewpoints, and tends to break away from tradition. She is hardly ever aware that she is making career and lifestyle choices which are based on an urge to modify her relationship to society, and the rigid standards and models from the past.