October 8 has a magnetic personality and while this may be an advantage in work, it's pretty damn awful for the nearest and dearest at home. Intellectually and emotionally high powered, smooth of conversation, usually dripping with typically devastating Libran charm, this individual can't understand why the spouse, relatives and children don't jump to it just like the secretary and underlings do.
Quite often of course our would be and already established magnate works so late they aren't in the house very much, which is sadly a relief to everybody at home. Children sigh when they hear the key turn in the lock. They jump out of October 8's very own most comfortable armchair, pretend to be studying their homework, put away plates of chocolate biscuits and turn off the television. The harassed spouse is probably reloading the washing machine, having cleaned up the kitchen for the umpteenth time and observed how the spaghetti Bolognese sauce has cooled into congealed lumps of fat.
If the family doesn't do this, October 8 bursts in and says Turn the television down. What's this rubbish you're watching? This place is a mess. Why are you eating chocolate biscuits? You'll get fat/spotty.' First words to spouse usually are, ‘You're not still doing the washing/ironing are you?' and Tm completely exhausted.'
Both sexes' idea of conversation at dinner parties is to wait for a pause and then talk about themselves. Neither usually bothers with anybody who won't contribute to their career. Magnateic personalities think people who don't work are odd and most of their own employees must be pretty stupid or they wouldn't be doing their jobs. Newspaper editors are all like this. And some television producers, men and women who work in the city or run shopping chains. Explorers. Agents. Chefs. Politicians, both national and local. Tease them unmercifully and don't give in or this person's heart will freeze over with complacency.
How often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
(William Johnson Cory)
BODY
This person has a vulnerable back, which may pull or hurt at any moment. Partly it's the physical tension, with maybe some weakness thrown in. It's vital to understand the back problem and learn to balance it, because October 8 often finds that medical people aren't much cop. Firstly, it's essential to have a flat, hard bed. Many choose a futon to sleep on, excellent for their back. If partners object to sleeping on the floor, tell them it's an earthier experience this way. Then it's important to have proper high-backed comfortable chairs, both at home and at work.
MIND
It's an easy stride from bossing friends and family to strangers. Best stop now, because this makes you seem foolish in the eyes of a world which doesn't care to be ordered about on its days off.
DATESHARE
Damon Runyan, writer. Sigourney Weaver, film star. Chevy Chase, comic, TV, film actor. Klaus Kinski, Polish film star of enormous talent. Paul Hogan, leathery weather-beaten film star, Crocodile Dundee. Juan Peron, Eva's husband, Argentinian dictator. Ray Reardon, Welsh world snooker champion.