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EARTH/AIR Mind v. body; quick-slow, quick-slow; clear, practical intelligence; dogmatic yet flippant; good business sense; charming; witty; persuasive; opportunist.

Are you a quick, streetwise, light-hearted city slicker or a slow country soul tuned into the rhythms of nature and the serious business of survival? Are you a flippant, easy-come-easy-go flirt or an ardent, possessive lover, loyal to the last? Often torn between mind and body, half the time you can be a stanger to yourself. At one moment you are taking ultra-conservative decisions that restrain your light-hearted love of free-flowing freedom; and at another you are acting on spontaneous, flip, fun-loving impulses which challenge your hard-won security and desire for certainty and stability.

When you can contain these two aspects of yourself and get them talking to one another, you can realize your gift for understanding the natural world and for conveying an inner understanding of things. Yours is a combination of the earthy sensual and the breezy intellectual approaches to life. This can give you an enormous practical intelligence and a great gift for vivid, direct communication – the kind that is invaluable not only to teachers and scientists but also to writers, artists and businesspeople. Your creative genius flowers when these two sides – solid realism and light brightness – are kept in balance. Then you can become both prolific and practical in your projects, always willing to entertain a new idea and put it to work.

If you give precedence to your body and your desire for control and certainty in your life, you can end up denying the playful child in you who breathes life into your feet of clay and puts a spring in your otherwise ponderous gait. If you emphasize the mind at the expense of the body, you can end up attempting to rationalize the sensual life out of existence. Taken too far, this can divorce you from your own sensuality and appetites and cut you off from the direct experience of life as a living reality. When you work with both sides of yourself it can produce the delightful free-flowing movements of a Fred Astaire dance or the delightful zest and irreverant fun of the music of Sullivan’s operettas with Gilbert.

Your gift for practical communication makes you a natural teacher, but you will flourish equally in any kind of work or business connected with the media, publishing, negotiations and sales. You have an enviable gift for both understanding the real value of things and for being able to express it. This makes you a natural fund-manager or fundraiser, with a gift for promoting your own or your company’s best long-term interests.

Although you would like to be the strong, silent type and want to be able to brood on things, you are an impulsive talker, needing to communicate your experiences. In consequence, you can be an extremely witty yet penetrating conversationalist, though perhaps rather given to laying down the law and wanting the last word. You have a strong will but an ability to hide your natural determination behind a flexible exterior and your natural gift of the gab. Since your approach to life is strongly practical and you want to see results from your activities, you quickly learn that you can get your own way best through a light touch and a willingness to be flexible rather than from confronting others.