The Zodiac and Its Fears

Disclaimer: with astrology, it is possible to decipher our behaviour or to get a glimpse of the future. This is a theory which cannot be systematically tested. On the other hand, one may wish to follow an easier path, which puts into practice the principles listed in astrology textbooks. In a way, this is precisely the type of practical exercises that we suggest in this Lifestyle column.

We recommend that you follow our advice with both a light and observing mind. Beyond entertainment, the aim is to understand how each of us behaves in various fields; thus, we can better define and fathom, by deduction, how we have developed our natal predispositions. In addition, why wouldn't we be able to guess the talent(s) which we could harness in the future, according to our astrological profile.

The following information is given for signs in their purest form. Depending on the case, it is advisable that you check your planetary dominant or the sign of your Ascendant, the position, quality and aspects of the significators of the area involved, and if applicable, the position of the planets associated with it. For instance, for family affairs, examine the 4th House and its ruler, as well the Moon; for romance, examine the 5th House and its ruler, as well as Venus, etc.

The large number of books we have read, and more particularly, the experience we have drawn from the study of thousands of charts, urge us to be cautious. However, we thought that it may be interesting to provide a few concrete indications, which will turn out to be accurate, quite often.

You can also read dozens additional lifestyle articles on different topics.

Fears for Aries

Your biggest fear is related to inaction. You, who are the incarnation of entrepreneurial spirit, you cannot not stand the idea of being at a standstill, both literally and figuratively, and even less of regressing.

Therefore, whenever you are deprived of your means of action, anxiety grows.

The prospect of staying locked up, like in the special coronavirus context, gives you ants in your pants and may translate into aggressiveness. To make up for this, you must find and outlet.

Advice for Aries

If you have no access to sport facilities, put on your sneakers and find yourself a bodybuilding or fitness program at home, using videos. You will notice that the endorphin production will help you see the situation from a better standpoint.

Some Aries Examples

You will find on Astrotheme thousands of natal charts of celebrities who have the Sun in Aries, Aries rising, or Mars dominant. The former are sorted in popularity order, whereas the latter are sorted according to the strongest dominant. Since each planet also rules a House – sometimes two houses – you may want to also look at charts having a strong 1st House.

These texts about the sign of Aries and Mars might interest you.

Fears for Taurus

As far as you are concerned, your main fear is that of wanting. The lack of clarity but above all, of emotional and material security. And sometimes that of food. This only idea gives you cold sweats.

It is not for nothing that you are the most down-to-earth and at the same time the greediest sign. You are willing to make huge efforts, but if you run out of fuel, you simply become paralyzed.

Presently, while the coronavirus is rampant, avoid eating in one go full packs of potato chips or of cookies, just to feel comforted.

Advice for Taurus

Grow a few aromatic herbs at home, including on the windowsill. You enjoy gardening, and therefore, without freaking out, you will have the ingredients required to enhance your dishes readily available.

Some Taurus Examples

You will find on Astrotheme thousands of natal charts of celebrities who have the Sun in Taurus, Taurus rising, or Venus dominant. The former are sorted in popularity order, whereas the latter are sorted according to the strongest dominant. Since each planet also rules a House – sometimes two houses – you may want to also look at charts having a strong 2nd House.

These texts about the sign of Taurus and Venus might interest you.

Fears for Gemini

What you fear is not so much to be lacking goods or anything material, as far as you are concerned, but to be unable to communicate.

Your need for exchanges is so vital that your worst-case scenario would be to be cut off from the world. Audio media, videos, and newspapers are indispensable for you to understand how people experience sociological evolutions.

Very intellectual, you must be careful not to let your brain go on a wild-goose chase if it keeps turning in an endless loop.

Advice for Gemini

People rely on your imagination coupled with good sense to communicate with your closest neighbors, from one balcony to the other, using music or signs. Simple but efficient.

Some Gemini Examples

You will find on Astrotheme thousands of natal charts of celebrities who have the Sun in Gemini, Gemini rising, or Mercury dominant. The former are sorted in popularity order, whereas the latter are sorted according to the strongest dominant. Since each planet also rules a House – sometimes two houses – you may want to also look at charts having a strong 3rd House.

These texts about the sign of Gemini and Mercury might interest you.

Fears for Cancer

What are you afraid of? Well, of everything! Granted, it is a bit caricatured, but you are a deeply anxious person. Like Marcel Proust, you dread abandon even more.

A little, sweet and fragile heart, you fantasize. You imagine that your loved one is forgetting you, or that your family does not protect itself enough.

Now, this gnawing feeling disturbs your sleep and paralyzes you. Its effect is not really stimulating.

Advice for Cancer

In the first place, take care of yourself. There is no reason why you should not pay attention to yourself as much as to your entourage. Choose a mild activity conducive to relaxation in order to find back some serenity.

Some Cancer Examples

You will find on Astrotheme thousands of natal charts of celebrities who have the Sun in Cancer, Cancer rising, or the Moon dominant. The former are sorted in popularity order, whereas the latter are sorted according to the strongest dominant. Since each planet also rules a House – sometimes two houses – you may want to also look at charts having a strong 4th House.

These texts about the sign of Cancer and the Moon might interest you.

Fears for Leo

You would prefer to have your tongue cut rather than to acknowledge it, but you are frightened that you are not up to the task. This anguish is as huge as your ambitions.

A matter of self-pride and of responsibility. Thinking that people may lose their high regard and their devotion toward you is just unbearable.

Therefore, to hide this, you behave exaggeratedly, even if it means bragging, your major weakness.

Advice for Leo

Keep the same energy, but try to take up challenges by nature noble and non-measurable. Write a masterpiece, or attempt to improve yourself on the spiritual level.

Some Leo Examples

You will find on Astrotheme thousands of natal charts of celebrities who have the Sun in Leo, Leo rising, or the Sun dominant. The former are sorted in popularity order, whereas the latter are sorted according to the strongest dominant. Since each planet also rules a House – sometimes two houses – you may want to also look at charts having a strong 5th House.

These texts about the sign of Leo and the Sun might interest you.

Fears for Virgo

You have a terror of germs and carelessness. This is why, on holiday as well as during the week, you are always spruce, prim, and with tidy hair, so that no one dares to criticize you.

You do not want to be accused of being scrubby. How awful! The same cleanliness applies to your entire sphere of action, dwelling or office. You are the number one in terms of floor cloth and disinfectant, and you have your protective gloves.

In this time of pandemic, you have rationalized your products, and you respect all instructions and safety measures to the letter.

Advice for Virgo

Nevertheless, try to relax at home, and to be more flexible or tolerant.

Some Virgo Examples

You will find on Astrotheme thousands of natal charts of celebrities who have the Sun in Virgo, Virgo rising, or Mercury dominant. The former are sorted in popularity order, whereas the latter are sorted according to the strongest dominant. Since each planet also rules a House – sometimes two houses – you may want to also look at charts having a strong 6th House.

These texts about the sign of Virgo and Mercury might interest you.

Fears for Libra

Your biggest fear is also your dearest desire, that to love and to be loved.

When you fall in love, you fulfill the dream of your life, but at the same time, you undergo the throes of your demanding feeling: will he/she always love me?

There you are, at the mercy of the qualms of someone dear to you. Moreover, you even tend to put aside your needs and surges to the extent of losing some of your personality.

Advice for Libra

Learn to define your limits, and above all, to say "no" when you disagree. You will find out that you risk nothing.

Some Libra Examples

You will find on Astrotheme thousands of natal charts of celebrities who have the Sun in Libra, Libra rising, or Venus dominant. The former are sorted in popularity order, whereas the latter are sorted according to the strongest dominant. Since each planet also rules a House – sometimes two houses – you may want to also look at charts having a strong 7th House.

These texts about the sign of Libra and Venus might interest you.

Fears for Scorpio

You are a walking paradox, because you are ambivalent by nature.

On the one hand, you stand better than anyone to be confronted with extreme dangers. On the other hand, your fears are strange and concealed; you are afraid to miss out on intense moments or to accept a life which is tepid or full of compromises for example.

Such diffuse feelings may cause severe damages, because you do not know how to pace yourself.

Advice for Scorpio

Knowing that you are not afraid to fail and that you are able to bounce back, get out of your own little world sometimes, and do not forget to reassure the least courageous or the least enduring people.

Some Scorpio Examples

You will find on Astrotheme thousands of natal charts of celebrities who have the Sun in Scorpio, Scorpio rising, or Pluto dominant. The former are sorted in popularity order, whereas the latter are sorted according to the strongest dominant. Since each planet also rules a House – sometimes two houses – you may want to also look at charts having a strong 8th House.

These texts about the sign of Scorpio and Pluto might interest you.

Fears for Sagittarius

In any case, if there is one thing that you do no fear, it is the unknown. You are very familiar with the uplifting feeling which makes your heart beat faster at the prospect of discovering uncharted countries and exotic habits.

Conversely, your biggest dread is to be locked up, requested to contain your sacrosanct wanderlust.

A Sagittarius kept confined behind walls would lose his/her joie de vivre very rapidly.

Advice for Sagittarius

At any cost, find ways to get some fresh air; exercise regularly at home, and count on an intimist and festive environment to escape mentally.

Some Sagittarius Examples

You will find on Astrotheme thousands of natal charts of celebrities who have the Sun in Sagittarius, Sagittarius rising, or Jupiter dominant. The former are sorted in popularity order, whereas the latter are sorted according to the strongest dominant. Since each planet also rules a House – sometimes two houses – you may want to also look at charts having a strong 9th House.

These texts about the sign of Sagittarius and Jupiter might interest you.

Fears for Capricorn

Braced for hurdles, as well as for the fact that you will inevitably grow old some day, you are not affected by common fears.

You are hardy, strong, cold, and specific. You are not there to play jokes but to accomplish a mission. On the other hand, you are really afraid to lose control.

One might as well say that you are sometimes destabilized when emotions are overwhelming. You do not know how to cope with them, because this is done in an imperceptible and subtle way, not through efforts.

Advice for Capricorn

Learn to let go. Eastern philosophies may work wonders with you.

Some Capricorn Examples

You will find on Astrotheme thousands of natal charts of celebrities who have the Sun in Capricorn, Capricorn rising, or Saturn dominant. The former are sorted in popularity order, whereas the latter are sorted according to the strongest dominant. Since each planet also rules a House – sometimes two houses – you may want to also look at charts having a strong 10th House.

These texts about the sign of Capricorn and Saturn might interest you.

Fears for Aquarius

Out of step with petty concerns, sometimes a utopian, you fear neither to lack money nor to sleep out in the open. In brief, you are free from material contingencies.

For this reason, you are scared to death to be trapped by the system, to be enlisted like a slave in the era of galleys.

Your beloved freedom is your most valuable possession, and you do not want to lose it, not for nothing in the world.

Advice for Aquarius

You cannot be a tepid humanist. You need to commit yourself, even though at the risk of becoming tied up or burdened with responsibilities.

Some Aquarius Examples

You will find on Astrotheme thousands of natal charts of celebrities who have the Sun in Aquarius, Aquarius rising, or Uranus dominant. The former are sorted in popularity order, whereas the latter are sorted according to the strongest dominant. Since each planet also rules a House – sometimes two houses – you may want to also look at charts having a strong 11th House.

These texts about the sign of Aquarius and Uranus might interest you.

Fears for Pisces

You do not always know what you are apprehensive of exactly, but in any case, when this happens to you, you know what the symptoms are. Pounding heart, sweaty palms, shaking knees.

You are petrified; this word seems coined for you. A great deal of patience or of feeling is required, if people are to decipher your behavior.

It may be either a negative emotion, or a threatening event, bearing in mind that you are not too physically courageous.

Advice for Pisces

Learn to breathe and to identify these disorders yourself. Do not hesitate to deal with reality head-on.

Some Pisces Examples

You will find on Astrotheme thousands of natal charts of celebrities who have the Sun in Pisces, Pisces rising, or Neptune dominant. The former are sorted in popularity order, whereas the latter are sorted according to the strongest dominant. Since each planet also rules a House – sometimes two houses – you may want to also look at charts having a strong 12th House.

These texts about the sign of Pisces and Neptune might interest you.