Those born on February 22 tend to dissolve their ego away in the service of a meaningful cause. Their personal world may be an intricate and complex one, their emotions profoundly sensitive, yet they do not allow this to be their principal concern, and rather turn their spotlight out on the world, illuminating worthy ideals and goals.
February 22 people generally believe in the greatest good for the greatest number. In this sense, their democratic, perhaps patriotic feelings run high. Not infrequently, they find themselves supporting or leading the cause of their clan, organization, community, even country. However, the most highly evolved people born on this day have ideals that reach far beyond municipal or national borders. Lovers of universal freedom, high idealists, they wish that all enjoy the blessings of a good life, without threat of tyranny or oppression.
February 22 people have a strict sense of duty and can be rather stern and unforgiving. When they make mistakes, they come down very hard on themselves. They also suffer greatly when they have gone against their own personal code, whether for reasons of expediency or survival. They must learn to be less hard on themselves, and more accepting of circumstances as they are. February 22 standards are often too high for anyone (including themselves) to ever live up to.
Though, as mentioned, February 22 people often dissolve away their ego in the service of their work, this does not mean that they are necessarily easygoing in personal relationships. Despite the fact that they can appear open to a variety of experience, their likes and dislikes are pronounced, even fixed. In addition, they will pull no punches when making their displeasure known to their partner.
Those born on this day are frequently critical of their society, adopting a revolutionary or avant-garde stance. Not particularly optimistic, they realistically assess the shortcomings of everyone and everything. Less highly evolved individuals born on this day can’t help but see all the imperfections around them, but choose to do nothing most of the time, vacillating between grumbling and aimlessly striking out in rebellion. Those February 22 people who come to accept social inequities against their idealistic nature can sink into a deep pessimism.
Because of their capacity to put personal desire aside, February 22 people are capable of making magnetic leaders who instill great loyalty in their followers. Certainly not everyone born on this day will have the opportunity to exercise authority as an employer, manager or political leader. However, should the need arise to call for assistance or support, they will be able to demand great sacrifice from colleagues, family and friends since the purity of their motives is rarely in doubt.
Those born during the Week of Sensitivity are often success-oriented individuals who give top priority to their career. They are usually fighters, an attitude sometimes based on underlying insecurity and the need to prove themselves. A chip-on-the-shoulder attitude many have makes them aggressive toward others and belligerent when attacked. A great personal challenge, then, is to rediscover and acknowledge their inner makeup and to break down some of the barriers they have built up. The tough, even aggressive exterior they present belies the sensitive personality inside. Extremely vulnerable as children, such individuals react to criticism or abuse from others by building a wall around themselves. Carried with them into adulthood, this armor may give the impression of an inner self far different from the reality.
It should not be surprising that many orient themselves to one of two extremes: either the most far-out, idealistic pursuits or the most inner, deep, profound ones. Combining such essentially opposite attitudes may be extremely difficult, and many will swing from one to the other. In their work, for example, they may deal with abstract concerns, or with attempts to surpass objective limitations, while in their private lives they delve into the world of feelings, people and human affairs.
Important as it is for such individuals to reconcile these two extremes in their nature, they should also work to explore the middle ground between them—the social side of life. Being strung between the poles of the physical and the metaphysical often means neglecting interaction with other people.
They may be closely bound to their families. Although parental disapproval and criticism will hurt them in childhood, strong emotional bonds tie them to mother, father, or both. (Usually the stronger and most influential relationship is with the parent of the opposite sex.) Breaking free of such attachments is essential if they are to emerge into adulthood as unique individuals—a truth, perhaps, for many of us, but adolescence may be particularly rebellious and stormy for them. Those who do not succeed in breaking away during this time may continue their struggle for the rest of their lives, even after the death of parents or other powerful family elders.
Particularly in matters of love, they will have to struggle to be open, honest and accepting with their partner, and to allow themselves to be vulnerable, even at the risk of pain. Thus personal relationships may have the effect of putting them back in touch with their essential self. Even those who are forceful and hard-driving in their careers may be quite passive in their personal relationships. In addition, a tendency to display both masculine and feminine qualities in their love relationships can mark these males as atypically sensitive and these females as atypically aggressive. Such role reversals often favor their choosing a mate they perceive as their opposite.
In relationships, fear of rejection figures prominently, for they want to be liked but are often afraid of getting hurt, or don’t know how to go about getting approval without compromising themselves. For some, a show of pessimism or dissatisfaction guards them against having to interact; others appear more pleasant or agreeable, but this, too, is a facade designed to preclude any deep involvement. Gaining the courage to struggle in their personal relationships as forcefully as in their careers, to risk rejection, stand up for themselves and express their emotions powerfully, are challenges that they must eventually meet.
Friendship may be an important vehicle for bringing them out into the world, enticing them to participate in club, community, philanthropic and school endeavors. The essential role that friends play goes beyond normal fellowship, companionship and personal sharing. Beyond having a small number of friends, they gain by building bridges with colleagues, co-workers, acquaintances and with more remote family members. By developing their people skills, they will widen their humanity and ease feelings of being isolated and misunderstood. Viewing the suffering of others first-hand can help them realize that the unhappiness they have gone through themselves is in no way unique, allowing the human points of identification they desperately need.
Building their own family, including children, or living in a family situation is often a positive experience for those born during the Week of Sensitivity, although their need to be alone and their difficulty in regular or intense interactions may make such relationships hard for them to maintain. Still, their nurturing qualities need to be expressed in some area of their lives—if not through family, perhaps through pets or career projects. Expressing their care, concern and sympathy is as necessary to them as are love and passion.
PATH
The single–mindedness of focus required by the Way of Amplification is likely to cause Cusp of Sensitivity people no little trouble as they travel this path. Torn between the desire to take aggressive and dynamic action in the world of ideals and the need to cultivate a profound inner experience, they may try to go in several directions at once in their search for fulfillment. Career choice will be especially important for these people and will allow them to define, redefine, and enlarge their identities through cultivating their talents, abilities, and accomplishments. Their fine pragmatic side will, in any event, allow them to apply their talents in the kind of profession that speaks to their ideals and keeps them connected to the world of the larger good. Ultimately, they will find themselves released from pessimism and insecurity and are likely to find great happiness.
WAY
Those born during the Way of Amplification must choose a path and live it large—to live out loud. To do this, they must learn to think for the long term and see the big picture, rather than wasting their energy flitting from one project, interest, or person to another. These individuals are challenged to create a life that is greater than who they think themselves to be or even the sum of their parts.
They naturally exhibit a desire to learn about larger or more universal concepts and issues and will eventually learn to live according to such higher, broader, more expansive views. Born with a pragmatic orientation, they must take care not to be bound down or tethered by the mundane details of life but rather to dare to dream and to reach for the stars. Of course, the hardheaded, commonsensical attitude that is their blessing is a fine gift and should never be abandoned, particularly in financial matters. But unless they are ready to go for greatness when the opportunity arises, they will sell themselves short and fail to achieve what they are capable of.
Interestingly, amplification is not mere expansion. They can easily expand their lives in many directions all at once in a rather willy-nilly fashion. Amplification requires the selection of some particular aspect of self or some cause—preferably a higher cause—that is worthy of cultivation and growth. After making such a choice, these men and women must apply the focus necessary to guarantee productivity and to create growth. It is this single-mindedness of focus and care that results in greatness. And it is this focus that is their core challenge.
As much as they may be distracted by amusements or other passions, by keeping their minds fixed on one true thing in their lives these men and women will, in a mysterious way, actually amplify and propel themselves into a mythic realm.
Many of them will put their energy in the service of a higher cause. By abandoning a series of immediately gratifying but ultimately unproductive actions and instead making a significant contribution to large scale projects, they will increase their growth exponentially. The first step in accomplishing this is redefining their self image, specifically seeing themselves not so much as struggling individuals but as part of a larger whole, be it a cause, group, or team. This reorientation of their viewpoint may actually have rewards in the form of a rise in rank within a group over time. Typically, they will experience a great sense of relief if they proceed along such lines, since moving upward also means moving away from an operation’s day-today concerns. By doing so, they may at last be able to occupy themselves with higher thoughts and expansive plans and leave the worry about petty details to others.
Finding the right moment for action is essential. Blessed with excellent intuition, they would do well to cultivate it and listen to it. Although the core energy here is exploratory and risktaking, this does not by any means guarantee a good sense of timing. Both impatience and fussiness must be guarded against, since the former will lead to striking too soon, the latter too late. Overshooting the mark is, of course, a danger for folks as expansive as these. Part of the problem is that they may not even be aware they have made a miscalculation because they have difficulty acknowledging failure. After all, picking yourself up, dusting yourself off, and proceeding ahead demand the recognition that you have fallen down in the first place. In this respect, having an objective friend, mate, or relative who can be totally honest is often lifesaving.
For these people, the arena in which this process manifests itself most clearly is their career. Often they are destined for an outoftheordinary level of career success and are likely to become leaders. Moving up through the ranks and growing in confidence and stature as part of an organization are often typical of them. While they always have a bit of insecurity inside, this tends to give them the push they need to get to the top. Once they arrive at an executive level, they often face two choices. One is to take over the leadership of their company with enthusiasm, vigor, and vision. The other is to leave corporate life and go off on their own, ultimately establishing themselves as consultants, entrepreneurs, writers, performers, or other authorities in their field. No matter what their choice may be, if successful they always leave a mark. It should also be noted that such careers do not develop along traditional paths but tend to grow out of some passion or leisuretime activity.
Although others may be awed by their drive and vision, this is not necessarily positive. Once the process of growth has been undertaken, the life path chosen, and the core lesson of focus learned, those involved with them may feel slighted when they apply themselves to their own great cause. Understandably, they do not always have the time, energy, or inclination to invest in building friendships, marriages, or abiding love affairs. It is really not necessary or advantageous for them to seek out other high-minded and bighearted individuals, who may in fact contribute to the risk of overexpansion of thought, word, and deed that characterizes some of them. A steady, solid mate, one who has patience and understanding in abundance and a large dose of practicality besides, will prove to be the most beneficial. Ultimately, however, this may prove to be a tall order, since potential partners may find it difficult to live in the shadows of their largerthanlife companions.
Their most successful relationships are in the family and professional spheres. This is mainly because family members and colleagues are those who are likely to see them the most and also are usually the only ones they feel comfortable turning to in time of need. Proud to the extreme, they find it difficult to acknowledge neediness. They will usually prefer to suffer rather than ask outright for assistance. An understanding family member or colleague may be able to give help in a subtle manner without either party acknowledging it as such. Family life is generally good for them, since it is often a training ground in leadership. A word of warning: their children may feel neglected or extraneous, so they may want to think carefully about having children at all.
What is best for them, and perhaps even essential, is having the elbow room to move and grow. Being involved with a family, partner, school, or other organization that blocks this process can have disastrous consequences. Since little can contain them, they will usually overcome any obstacle. However, understanding parents, teachers, and bosses will make the process less painful and more productive for all concerned. As adolescents and young adults, these individuals will have a special need for professional tools that must be satisfied, whether special cameras, computers, design materials, or other tools they need to express their visions. Usually money spent on such items is well invested for the future.
The image that best describes those born during the Way of Amplification is from the fairy tale “The Seven League Boots.” So large and deep was this pair of boots that when worn they allowed their wearer to take gigantic strides. In a sense, they must find a symbolic set of such shoes. It is the discovery of their vehicle that enables them to really take off. Secretly, they want nothing more than to become a titan, but often, lacking focus, they become disillusioned by their daily life. Finding the right pair of “boots” will set them on their path and enable them to become the giants they always imagined themselves to be.
MONTH
The Month of the Transcender is the last month of the Personology year, and can be viewed as the most highly evolved. Those born this month symbolize the merging of the human soul with the cosmos, a necessary step before the next incarnation may begin anew, and a deep belief in the highest powers of the universe.
These people swim freely in society and represent the highest lessons of fellowship, but also the capacity to see deeply into the life and nature of things. They can submerge themselves in the depths of life and partake of hidden and ultimate mysteries. They teach us not to be afraid to let go of our earthly form, and that death is only the beginning of new life.
People born during the Month of the Transcender transmute airy, detached and eccentric energies into fiery, direct and uncomplicated ones.
Their personality symbolizes a spiritual letting go of earthly attachments and a merging with the cosmos. There is a dreamy, spiritual and deeply emotional quality to them. They are not known for their practicality but can in fact be masterful in their understanding and expression of abstract ideas and systems. Thus, they can be typed as dreamers yet when they make a gift of their visions to humanity it is indeed a fine offering. Generally speaking, they are easy about sharing material possessions and enjoy friendships and close partnerships more than most. Yet they also need to be alone a good deal of the time and run the risk of becoming escapists or loners who isolate themselves from the world.
Extreme sensitivity can make it difficult for these people to lead an easy social life. Though often characterized as the sign of sorrows, suffering is born well by them. However, they can be vulnerable to depression and occasionally beset by self-pity. Escapes involving addiction are particularly dangerous. Their deep and complex emotional life makes them highly attractive to those who long for contact with the profound in life.
Those who are born during the Month the Transcender are often blessed with excellent memories, perhaps due to their impressionability. In addition, they tend to be devotional, and make true believers—this applies not only in the religious sense but also in regard to other belief systems and principles. They can be very generous and are highly empathic and sensitive to the difficulties of others; they tend to respond with compassion in the face of misfortune. However, they must beware that others do not impose unduly on them or take advantage of their acquiescence.
SEASON
The winter solstice usually occurs on December 21st in the northern hemisphere. At this time of stillness, nights are longer and days shorter than at any other time in the year. As winter advances through the bitter days and on to the hint of spring, the nights grow shorter and the days longer. Winter is the fourth and last quarter of the yearly cycle, extending from the winter solstice to the spring equinox.
Winter is traditionally the period at which the water in ponds and rivers freezes, snow falls, the sounds of nature are muted and the land lies sleeping under a white blanket. Trees stretch their bare arms into a gray sky only lit a few hours a day by a low rising sun. Although much of nature seems dead, this is only a surface view. Deep within the earth, powerful forces are engaged in a metamorphosis, the results of which will be evident to the eye in spring. Nothing really dies but is transformed into another state. There is a feeling of waiting, and of expectation. Life has moved inside and underground. Warmth is sought in caves and in houses from bitter, howling winds. Fire keeps humans warm and foods that have been stored for the winter are eaten by both people and animals.
Generally speaking, wintertime people are more concerned with the larger picture. They can be dominant types who rule their space with assurance, but often also display a greater degree of flexibility, sensitivity, acceptance and spirituality than those born at other times of the year. Although those born in the winter are often quiet types, many manifest great excitement through their thoughts, ideals and work. They are particularly distinguished by an active imagination and fantasy life. The most successful of wintertime people can objectify these visions and perhaps make them a source of creativity rather than be victimized by them. The allegiance of wintertime people is not so much to society or to personal considerations as to the world of ideas.
Wintertime people are less concerned with the state of the world as it is now and more with how it could and should be. A real reforming spirit can show itself in this personality, and an interest in matters concerning political and economic justice is very common.
I Master, I Universalize, I Believe
Prophecy, Mystery & Imagination, Sensitivity
In some obscure corners of the world, the Ideal and the Real have consummated a secret marriage
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