The
first thing I notice as I glance down my list of Sagittarians is that
they all have an amazing ability to care for others. I've been to
about a hundred doctors in my frail little life and about fifty of them
have been Sagittarians! These people just love being helpful.
Many
Sagittarians are inveterate bachelors. I know quite a number of
Sagittarian subjects who never got married or else got married once
and after three days, ran off and never tried it again. The Sagittarian
is an independent human being who seeks adventure even in the banal.
Seeing the same face every day in the same surroundings doing and saying
the same things is not the Sagittarian's idea of paradise. Rather,
Sag could be content with a roof, a dog, plenty to eat (but nothing
too exorbitantly expensive), a good position in the world and lots of
dear friends around him to accept all his moral and material handouts.
Sagittarians
are often planning or returning from a trip. They are drawn to travel
and motion for the sake of itself and will sometimes go to a boring
place: "I drove to Pittsburgh the day before yesterday."
"What did you do that for?" "I'd never been
to Pittsburgh." Just to keep moving. Sagittarius is
a bit motion-crazy.
As
a result, Sagittarians prosper in jobs that permit mobility and allow
them to meet new people. They function best in relationships that
leave them lots of leeway to come and go as they please. They
are happiest when learning about old civilizations or boning up on some
new social order into which they feel they might fit.
Sagittarian
women are particularly success-oriented. They like to run things, their
way, and are not usually squeamish about how many dead bodies they
have to walk over in the process.
Need
some advice on a dicey subject or a special color of typewriter ribbon
made only in the Philippines? Ask a Sagittarian. They will
bounce right out and find you exactly what you want. Then, proudly
and with almost childlike enthusiasm, old Sag will ring you up to ask,
"How many of those ochre typewriter ribbons did you want?"
You ask for it. He's got it. Sagittarius notices everything,
pays close attention to details and remembers everybody's birthday,
if not by heart, then jotted down in a little date book specially kept
for this purpose.
My
Sagittarius sister-in-law, Nicole, not only remembers everybody's birthday,
but she knows how many times you have bought this certain kind of perfume
since last June and whether or not you are the kind of person who likes
Breton oysters. It's not that Nicole's memory is so fantastic,
although she's very clever. It's that she really, really cares.
"Oh..." she'll say after I haven't seen her for ten
months and she visits me in Paris. "You cut your hair and
had it pushed back over the ears. You lost a pound and you moved
the couch. I think you look terrific. How did you ever get
that makeup to be so smooth?" When Sagittarius women love somebody,
they are not afraid to show it.
Sometimes,
because they are very direct, Sagittarians tend to blurt out remarks
that might have been better left unsaid. "You had your eyes
done!" cried a Sagittarian friend when I met him at Orly Airport.
I nearly fainted.
Worse, I hadn't had my eyes done at all. He was so embarrassed,
poor thing. He meant well. He meant to say, "You look
terrific," the way my discreet sister-in-law has learned to do.
But instead, he mentioned my eyes, which I always think have giant
bags under them and are better not discussed.
Even
so, Sagittarian people have an outstanding ability to cheer one up.
If I am ever sad or feeling sorry for myself, I call up my Sagittarian
friends. They love to chat and will always have a funny story
to tell, a nice cup of hot tea prepared for you or a bottle of your
favorite rose' on ice. You can tell your Sagittarian friend anything
you are feeling and he won't be shocked or upset by it. The Sagittarian
is the soul of comprehension and exudes good will. Find yourself
one for a friend. You won't regret it.
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