Born November 17

The trouble with people born on this date is that they like to think things over for such a long time that opportunity sometimes passes. A truly dazzling job comes along which means they’ll have to take a chance. It’s nice to be asked, they think, but isn’t life more pleasant staying where they are in a nice desk with a view of the river? More friendly frog than dynamic scorpion, November 17 needs friends and lovers to push, push and push again. But this so secretive creature frequently fails to tell even its nearest of any offer, so nobody knows when it’s time to put the pressure on. In their deepest psycheology, a lot of people born on this day would almost prefer to miss opportunities and sigh over them later, than take the chance and take the risk. It’s a ‘I would have been good at that’ not ‘I am good at this’ date. Yet when they do venture into new experiences, this engaging froglet is transformed into a prince or princess. And everybody around says ‘I knew it all along’. Find our amphibious creature breast-stroking through the shallows of any bureaucracy, filing, filling in forms, answering the telephone and being kind to everyone. And when they take that froggy leap, find them almost anywhere in the glittering heights where their tolerance and ability to tread water make them popular and invaluable to any industry where deals are done which need delicacy and intuition rather than fireworks and cut and thrust. November 17 is popular for its shining honesty, although they do have difficulty with white lies. They can’t tell them and so when others say they feel fat or they’re having a bad hair day, November 17 gives them seriously good unwelcome advise. Some become professional advice givers, a solution lengthily explained for everybody else’s curtains, pregnancy and car maintenance. They mean to be helpful. It makes them unpopular.

Body

So in love, so in life. Given the opportunity, this frog would bring the princess her ball back, say never mind about the promised kiss and hop modestly away to a life of frogdom. What November 17 needs is a lover to grasp the initiative and say ‘Have him/her stripped and bathed and brought to my tent.’ Try dropping an aphrodisiac oil into the bath to stir them up. Patchouli oil works wonders as does cedarwood or neroli. These creatures respond with delight and laughter to daringly sexy ideas such as carefully trimmed pubic hair and perfume. Hair retains its fragrance.

Mind

Lipstick red walls are a good idea. A bathroom will do, to start the day invigorated. Red means animation, life, success and love. Tone it down for a maxi-bubble boost in the living-room.