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FIRE/FIRE Bold; quick-thinking; innovative mind; extrovert; passionate; blunt; impatient; self-centred; courageous; intuitive; adventurous; nervous energy; touchy ego; optimistic; progressive; integrity; maverick and crusading temperament.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread – this expresses a core truth about you, and one of your greatest strengths, which is this: you embody the ‘beginner’s mind’ with all its hope, vitality and yearning for life. This makes you an exciting companion because you live in the present, in the moment, although that moment is inevitably geared up to take you into a fabulous future. Always ready to take up a challenge and express what is on your mind, you have a forceful, eager, adventurous personality and a basic assumption of total independence. Your ‘beginner’s mind’ is not strong on forethought or patience, but your fiery spirit and unabashed self-interest is very impressive, often inspiring, and always a force to be reckoned with.

You are quick-thinking and action-oriented, every fibre of your being instinctively attuned to your thought and purpose. Like the flowers in early spring, you need to burst into action, and you can easily get irritable if your energy meets an obstacle along the way. When you’re young, these obstacles make you kick and fight, but in time you’ll engage with them differently, realizing that life and people are a lot more complex than you thought. Your tendency to plunge into life with impulsive zeal is what gives you the reputation for being bossy and competitive, a bit of a warrior. But your energy is all about the desire for development, trying out your strength, meeting life with gusto but with no destructive intent. In fact, your competitiveness is mainly with yourself – you want to find out what your ‘best’ is, because that is finding out who you are, which is the top of the list on your unspoken agenda.

You are a non-conformist and are naturally good at challenging people if they get too set in their ways. This characteristic can mean that you tend to stir up controversy and ruffle feathers, but it often spurs others on to realize more of their own potential. Whether or not they thank you for it depends on your ability to develop diplomacy. This will come as you learn about yourself through the challenges of living, for your seemingly unquestioned belief in yourself belies a vulnerability and proneness to feeling lost and alone. This is befuddling to you. Your courage and dynamism mask your insecurity; what you know about is action, and situations in which you are powerless make you feel despair. But even that won’t last long because you come to life in a crisis. You can be a fierce rescuer, battling for the rights of the weak and unprotected, but you may need to be careful that in your zeal you don’t deprive others of developing their own voice.

Although you are sociable and you like people, you do not want them to take too long in explaining themselves. Impatient with ditherers, you want people to plunge into life with you – at your speed. Your weak point, then, is insensitivity to the speed and interests of others. If you can slow down, take more interest in other people’s opinions and problems and put yourself in their shoes more often, you will be amazed at the response and the increased level of co-operation you get. Others are already inspired by your courage, your keen, incisive mind, and your vitality and ability to cut through non-essentials; all you need is to develop more tolerance for other points of view, and for the fact that there may not always be an immediate solution to every problem you encounter.