" Bill's trademark line - "first you draw the circle, then you shoot the dart"."

*grin*...got it backwards!

about this paragraph:

"All those 12 house placements -- including your sun -- indicate, to me, a person whose inner life is largely subconscious. This placement often tells of very strong psychic abilities, and an attraction toward the occult - those "hidden" areas of knowledge and exploration. I'd say these abilities and attractions constitute your "shadow side" -- the less developed, less acceptable (to you), and largely unrecognized aspects of your own personality which fights for a valued place in your life at the same time as it disrupts your professional, logical, philosophical self-image most uncomfortably."

This is a very good example of what I see over & over in these chart analyses...it 'indicates' something that I see as pretty far off-the-mark...and then to cover all the bases, suggests that if I do NOT manifest those tendencies openly, I am probably hiding or sublimating them. wow...I really can't win.

This reminds me of an example my college Psychology prof once offered...."Those Freudians," he said, "they have you no matter what you do." He took out a pen and tapped it on the desk, flipping and reversing it..."If I do this, they say I am doing something dirty..." ..He put it back in his pocket.."But if I put it away, I am repressing something dirty!"

and THIS:" you often seem to be irresistably drawn into discussions re the occult and like subjects. You are driven subconsciously to understand and explore and develope these areas, for the sake of balance and personal growth -- but you consciously fear, resent and resist this. And so your contributions to such discussions are rooted more in emotion than in reason - hence your use of slant and propoganda."
.....wow....if I don't like those areas, it's subconcious, and if I use my concious 'prejudices', it is just emotional propoganda. Pinned to the wall like a fly, I am! You got me! I really have a deep desire to appreciate the occult and Astrology, but I just repress & resist and hide it with slanted, prejudiced arguments! I now SEE how muddled and confused I am, contradicting my basic nature that way.

I'd better go off and meditate on my chakras and repent....now where DID I put those chakras?