YOUR PERSONALITYIntroverted, Rachel possesses particular qualities of internal perception that enable her to to feel the authenticity of the people she knows, the situations in which she finds herself, and the things she sees. She has the capacity of knowing things by internal impression, by an intuitive feeling. This feeling implies an openess to others, thus the beginnings of an extroversion and the predominance of the object over the subject (herself) in her consciousness. Because of this, she has great social sense and would rather sacrifice herself than feel that she might be neglecting what she considers to be her social or relational obligations.
Rachel may sometimes be perceived by others as a changeable person, opportunistic, and on whom they cannot count. These are only superficial characteristics. The true reason for these traits is psychological and resides in the fact that she is ready to do anything to respond to what she thinks the community or the group (or simply another person) expects of her. But she is not sure of herself in her social activities, and this makes her changeable and undependable in her superficial decisions.
Moreover, she bases herself on situations, which sometimes gives her the appearance of a "chameleon."
Rachel is thus particularly fulfilled in social relations: acquaintances, collaborations, temporal connections with those around her. Her mind has a remarkable flexibility that enables her to go with affairs, encounters, parallels and other combinations. Her entire affectivity is based on her desire to participate, to collaborate, to exchange.
While consciously, she has an ardent desire to be social, unconsciously, it always seems to her that she misses the goal she has set for herself:
this goal always seems to her to be fleeting. This is why she goes through stages of discouragement, followed by excesses of zeal in her social work or her participation in the group. As she is always seeking the ideal group, the ideal form of cooperation, she sometimes despairs of finding it.
Rachel naturally seeks whatever it is that maintains a good relationship with people, the status quo, and she is sensitive to everything that favors associations and unions. Not having an aggressive temperament, she knows how to develop a skillful diplomacy in order to avoid conflicts.
Because of this social openess, Rachel's life is narrowly dependent on her circle. The society in which she evolves greatly contributes to the formation of her character and her way of being. It is in her social relations and her contacts with others that she develops a personal moral in which the norms of her time and those which her family, her partner, her friends, her relations have made hers coexist. It is fundamental that she be able to give cohesion and coherence to the totality of these composite influences, otherwise she would be but an undifferentiated product, a person without personality.
Rachel needs recognition. She attaches great importance to what people think of her. She likes to be loved and appreciated. She is very sensitive to praise as well as criticism.
She has a vital need for others and detests solitude.
The sentimental function is fundamental in her psychology, and it is vital for her that she succeed in her affective life. Meeting a "kindred spirit" may change her entire destiny. As she knows this and has a seductive charm, she could nevertheless from one love to another without ever becoming attached, for fear of excluding a possibility that would reveal a greater passion.
She loves to seduce and be seduced and to excel in the subtle art of the romantic approach in which feelings must be handled, to be frivolous, all the while deeply flirting, to use all the appeal of politeness and delicate words, all the while alluding to desires which remain unnamed.
Virgo on the ascendant marks Rachel's character with an analytical and critical temperament and an ardent desire to reorient or repolarize the energy of her personal emotional nature. The ascendant in Virgo symbolizes a psychological crisis and can also pertain to poor health or a conviction that something must be done in the name of health.
(Virgo follows Leo just as problems generally follow an overly personal manifestation of our desire for self-expression at all cost.)
Rachel seeks to individualize herself by progressive transformations, spiritual victories or physical rejuvenation. If she is very critical with regard to herself (sometimes to the point of not being able to get away from concern for herself), she is also much too open as a lover or partner. She dreams of losing herself in an ideal collectivity (the couple may be this collectivity) and is capable of total devotion to the one who seems to incarnate this ideal. Unfortunately, this ideal does not always adjust itself to reality, for Rachel's evolution might not have reached the stage where she can maintain it.
An initial synthesis of what has been said above provides a definition of Le_natif's psychology with the following key words in which her major dispositions and contradictions appear:
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