Charming, persuasive October 21 is more interested in a grand chase across the skies, his chariot in sparking pursuit of a fleeing space capsule. But when the thing that was so desired is netted, the chariot wheels around and drives away. Or worse, leaves another, lesser huntsman to net the prey.
WeVe all met and fallen for Mr and Mrs Fancy Tongue. And weVe all watched in horror at work how, when the field is won, some other colleague has to wind up a deal, often starting from scratch in the knowledge stakes. Mr Persuasive watches from sidelines, observes an inevitable cock-up, then maybe saunters back and with a quick and expert flick of the whip, puts things right.
What both sexes should know, is that the rest of the world long for them to stay in charge. People want their charisma, to see the star glitter sparks spin from their chariot wheels. Don't want to be put in the charge of a sergeant at arms.
We're going away from Libra now and soon we'll meet Scorpio, but this shying away at the last moment is a true Libran characteristic, which sometimes even disturbs its owner. The urge to leave when something is not quite finished. In love this is a problem for those with easily given hearts, because October 21 hunts down his target and then shys away, bored. Indeed, boredom in love is one of the emotions that most worries both sexes born on this day. They long for the all embracing love which will drive them on forever, the true romantic, burning fire, and they listen with increasing dread for the first breath of boredom to come creeping in on the wind.
Many do find their one true love and stick with it. Others go off to travel the world restlessly, and there, far away in some exotic corner, is the love of their life, waiting. Then they never come back.
An imaginary epitaph for Hitler: Here lies a man who hated men. We wish his mum had felt the same.
BODY
Recent research shows that a fry-up makes you friendly but slow-witted. Bad news for breakfast sausage eating people born today, so proud of their verbal agility and quick thinking. Indeed a fatty breakfast could make the difference between an A or B grade at A level. New research has shown that a group of people recently fed with 360 calories of fat were unable to concentrate for more than three minutes when shown a computer screen and asked to press the space bar whenever a zero appeared. A control group, not fed with fat were able to concentrate for longer -but weren't as friendly.
MIND
Money doesn't always bring you happiness. All those people who've won around £15, 000, 000 on a Saturday punt with the National Lottery aren't any happier than the less lucky ones who only got £14, 000, 000.
DATESHARE
Died: François Truffaut, French film director. Born: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Romantic poet. Carrie Fisher, film actress, writer. Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian-born British conductor, humanist, famous for his Beethoven's ‘Eroica' symphony. Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, dynamite inventor, founded Nobel Prize.