These are some of the nicest people in the year, balancing all the sensuous virtues of Pisces, with Jupiter's kindness and Neptune's brains. There's only the slightest hint of pompous snapping lobster in February 27, when he is pushed very far and loses his temper. Let's take the temper first, get it out of the way. Our satinette sweetheart's flip side is a steely resolve so tough that if you so much as hint, particularly at work, that you won't be doing what you promised, February 27 will bite your bottom. Both sexes are prepared to work all hours, joined at the fingertips with their computer. And they'll make it fun for companions. Make them laugh. Buy drinks. Compliment everybody. But they can't stand people who wriggle out of commitment. And the same goes for a domestic promise not kept.
Otherwise, it's good. February 27 likes teams and likes people. He's the ticket sales person at the station who tells you the right platform and looks up when you can return. He's the shopkeeper who carries your bags to the car, the builder who wears his trousers attached to the waist so as not to offend. They don't gossip. They rise high in creative jobs. And they give to charity.
This is a water baby who makes money. Although they worry about losing it - a cash crisis upsets them terribly - February 27 people buy generously for friends and family, and spend a lot of money on themselves. Both sexes are exceedingly fancy dressers, the men favouring dark blue, the traditional colour of truth, sincerity and earnestness. And the women, slightly lighter, brighter shades, indicating the qualities of friendship, frankness, innocence, virtue and steadfastness.
If you want a wrong put right, or if you just need a hand, ask February 27. Both sexes will help out, never breathe a word and never remind you later, or make you feel beholden.
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
(Golda Meir)
BODY
Both sexes eat fast-food and have heavy thighs, the women showing a tendency to cellulite. Eliminate all refined and processed foods laden with chemical additives, sugar and white flour products, salty foods such as smoked fish and preserved meat products, coffee, alcohol and to a slightly lesser degree, tea. Try herb teas. The following are particularly good for cellulite sufferers, because they are natural diuretics and are renowned by herbalists as blood purifiers: nettle, golden rod, dandelion and meadowsweet. Try frictioning with a loofah, or brushing with long-handled brush up from ankles and over thighs towards the heart.
MIND
Lucky days in February are 1, 3, 10, 19, 21, 28. These are traditionally thought to be good for business transactions, except speculations. They are also good for field sports achievements and particularly fortunate for all young people.
DATESHARE
Died: Lillian Gish, early Hollywood sex bomb. Born:Elizabeth Taylor, film actress. Ralph Nader, consumer advocate.Lawrence Durrell, novelist, Alexandria Quartet. Joanne Woodward, film star. John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, The Grapes of Wrath.