A comprehensive astrological guide to life, relationships and lovers. Astrology for Lovers is a seminal guide to learning how to interpret the subtle and not so subtle attributes of both your own and your partner's astrological sign in order to create a better understanding of one another. Each person has a unique footprint in the map of the cosmos, and Astrology for Lovers guides the reader through each of the Sun signs in an enlightening and comprehensive manner. Each sign is given a lengthy description of its characteristics, as well its creation myth. Greene then expands upon the sign's shadowy side, and finally explicates the fine points of the individual sign as a lover. Astrology for Lovers will teach readers not only critical aspects of their own motivations, but also provide invaluable insight into the inner workings of their lovers. Liz Greene is the cofounder of the Centre for Psychological Astrology in London and a contributor to the most respected astrology site on the web: www.astro.com, as well as a regular contributor to Astrodientst.com. She is the author of Astrology for Lovers and Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet . Greene currently resides in Zurich, Switzerland Astrology for Lovers By LIZ GREENE Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC Copyright © 1986 Liz Greene All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-57863-426-2 Contents Sun Signs1. Sun signs2. What a horoscope can and can't tell you3. About mirrors4. Suns and rising signs and other thingsTable of Ascendants The Elements of Fire and Earth5. The element of fire6. The element of earth7. Some last wordsThe Elements of Air and Water8. The element of air9. The element of water10. Some further last words11. Conclusion CHAPTER 1 Sun signs Why, queries Woody Allen in the film Annie Hall , do we bother with suchproblematic, complicated, tortuous things as relationships? Why make the effortto learn something about, care for, give to, take from, cherish, fight, loveother human beings? Woody Allen answers his own question with a joke: My brother has gone crazy. He thinks he's a chicken.Then why don't you commit him?Because I need the eggs, says Woody.Relationships are something like that. It's certainly fashionable at the moment, in some parts of society, to abandonthe often outmoded values of our parents and grandparents. For one thing, it'sobvious to a lot of people that they haven't worked; the marriages of the pastwere no better than the marriages of the present. There were fewer divorces, ofcourse; but then you had two people living side by side until death did thempart who filled the house with silent enmity and poison that caused not a fewpsychological conflicts in their children. Even if you don't 'believe' inpsychology, it's sadly apparent that the modern family unit needs a littlerefurbishing if it's to continue to exist at all. Have a look at a few divorcestatistics. Now, along with the state of the economy, the dangers of nuclear destruction,the energy crisis, the overpopulated and undervalued earth, the endangering ofanimals (and humans) and the other favourite nightmares of this, the dawn ofwhat astrology calls the Aquarian Age, we also have a big problem with humanrelationships. This is attributable to various things, depending on yourviewpoint. Morals are collapsing, not enough good old-fashioned discipline, notenough faith in God and the Catholic Church, not enough faith in God and theAnglican Church, sexual repression, capitalism, communism, and any otherscapegoat you care to think of that will exonerate you, or me, from takingresponsibility for our own messes. In an age of superlative technology where,for the first time, millions can purchase a little leisure, millions of peoplealso, desperate to understand why everything is so damned meaningless and whythey're so lonely, turn to disciplines and beliefs so ardent that we can't evenfathom their origins. What are now known as esoteric studies are slowly butsteadily encroaching on the domain once held tightly in the grip of orthodoxreligion. The word 'esoteric' simply means 'inner'. 'Esoteric' can refer to a lot ofdifferent things, from the Maharishi and Transcendental Meditation, to theChildren of the Temple of God in Guyana. Esoteric studies can range from theridiculous to the sublime. They can plumb ancient and learned treatises onalchemy, magic, Hermetic philosophy and the kaballah. They can explore mysterieslike the Bermuda Triangle. Inner is about parapsychological phenomena, dreams,visions, altered states of consciousness. It's about synchronistic phenomena,precognitive dreams, telepathy, clairvoyance. It's also about depth psychology,the study of the human soul. And it can also be about astrology. Can astrology – familiar to us all through that silly but irresistible column inthe daily newspaper wherein Madame Somebody-or-other tells one that Wednesdaywill be a rotten day – possibly contribute anything at all to ou