Diego Mercado practices restraining his emotional impulses; he practices controlling them. Although it is not an easy apprenticeship, he wants to be able to bear strain with patience, endurance, and stamina. More than anyone else, he is aware of the need for a solid and stable foundation as a prerequisite to any effective action.

Diego Mercado is winning and attractive. He has an appetite for intense emotional experiences, especially in terms of his relationships. Enjoying the power of his personal appeal, he easily controls his emotions and only rarely reveals the true depth of his feelings. Because his instincts take precedence over his sensitivity, he is capable of becoming jealous, possessive, and even rather harsh, without meaning to. More of a flirt than a voluptuary, he is attentive to desire. As a result, his love life will sometimes be casual and complicated.

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

Diego Mercado has a difficult time being emotionally detached from his past. This difficulty is due to the fact that his childhood was not very happy. Although he has worked hard to overcome his mistakes and achieve his goals, he still feels like he does not deserve to be loved.

Although you keep a tight grip on your emotions, you have an appetite for intense emotional thrills, especially in your relationships, and are sometimes upset by them. Feelings of insecurity may keep you from expressing your emotions, and you tend at times to become jealous or possessive of the person you love. The force of your emotional drives is intense and especially evident when you have been wounded in some way in the course of a love affair, or if you feel as though someone, a friend or lover, has betrayed you. You have a tendency to be masochistic and thrive on suffering. You may abandon yourself to your emotional fears and trifle with your inner vulnerability.

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

Diego Mercado was sensitive and imaginative, and he had trouble distinguishing between dreams and reality. Although his bubbling imagination provided him with plenty of inspiration for creative or spiritual evolution, it was less helpful and positive when it came to matters that concerned his self-assertion as responsible and self-sufficient in a relationship. He was extremely romantic and didn’t always see others the way they really were.

Diego Mercado was taught to experience love in a certain way by his family, social class, or religion. But after experimenting with a new style, he is determined to experience love in a way that is true to himself. His idealistic aspirations may be a form of escapism, but they encourage him to cast off conventional romantic practices and customs and embark on new adventures.

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

Diego Mercado is outwardly inhibited, but he is subject to powerful and upsetting inner passions. Usually, his emotional life is rough sailing. He is more comfortable with his career, where his desire to progress and his taste for power give him wings, but he scares away most men with his demands and harshness. He will have to admit that his emotions cannot be repressed indefinitely.

Diego Mercado exudes a light-hearted and dynamic companion with an ability to take initiative in and direct the relationship. A mutual tolerance will ensure the survival of the commitment.

Diego Mercado considers the input from his subjectivity and emotions as static which he tries to tune out to go straight to the essence of knowledge. As a result, regardless of his field of study, he tries to obtain perspective. He will elaborate a thought on the basis of fairly cold, abstract logic, supported by sober, concise, and immaculate reasoning. His choice areas of study could be mathematics, philosophy, legislation, or political science. Ideologies, theories, and any other system of reasoning could serve as “food for thought” for him.

Diego Mercado considers carefully what he is going to say before he opens his mouth. He is very introverted, preferring to think things through before speaking. This usually leads to his having very personal opinions, as he tends to distrust the traditional ways of thinking.