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EARTH/EARTH Sensuality v. self-control; love of nature; practical; supportive; seeks certainties; slow and steady; deep calm v. explosive anger; good business sense; natural counsellor; dry, mischievous humour; dictatorial; possessive; unflappable.

Is life for you a delight and pleasure to be enjoyed, or a practical affair to be managed and organized? You can be torn between a lazy, sensual self-indulgence and a deliberate, even stoic, self-control; between an almost mystical love of nature and a matter-of-fact cost accountant’s approach to life.

You are naturally a sensualist, with a keen, raw enjoyment of the tastes and scents of foods, the sounds of music and the countryside, the textures of things, the visual delights of life and art. Yet you seek to be in command of the changing material world, and that includes your own body, a tendency that can lead you to deny your own feelings and desires. For above all you seek certainty and security for yourself and your loved ones.

In all you do, you want to get down to basics, to the practical certainties and self-evident realities. You want to define things, lay foundations and simplify. You can become impatient with abstract theories and yet be as rigid and dogmatic in the way you believe things should be done as any theorist. Your criterion is: does it work? You are a hands-on teacher who believes in the power of experience and in what you can directly see for yourself.

You have a deep understanding of some of the basics that make the world go round, such as pleasure, sex, security and money. This makes you excellent at business matters and equally gives you a gift for therapeutic work and counselling. You are at your happiest and most creative when you are doing work that both expresses your loving care of others and brings pleasure, and yet also produces tangible results. Careers or pursuits that will bring out the best in you include cooking, music, painting, creating a home, nursing, counselling, teaching or indeed building up a business around your own interests.

Whilst you very much live in the here-and-now, you also like to feel that the foundations you are laying will be of permanent value. You have the rare gift of real common sense, and whether in the area of psychology, business, art or science, you can always be depended on to offer sound, well-grounded, straight-from-the-shoulder insights. You have a rather slow, steady, dependable approach to things, and a quiet, even shy, manner. This can make your dry, tell-it-as-it is, often bawdy sense of humour all the more surprising.

You are a deeply grounded individual with great reserves of practical kindness, and your sheer sanity and stability can be enormously reassuring to those who know you. In consequence you can become the proverbial rock to your friends, on whom all depend. Your tea is served in mugs not in cups, in the kitchen not the sitting room. You enjoy what is in front of you and you deal with the problems, often those of other people, with a quiet stability and directness of spirit. All this makes your occasional outbursts of seemingly uncontrollable rage all the more mystifying. Such rages, when they occur, are the consequence of your habitual calm and desire for order which demands that you keep the dark side of life at bay. Hence when your accumulated angers and irritations do break through, you have little experience of coping with them.

Because you can be so understanding and supportive of others, the great risk for you is that you will be treated as Atlas, the support of the world, so that your own needs are constantly neglected. When this happens you may find yourself retreating into illness to attract the attention and support that you too need to receive.