Alaina Reed Hall
challenges and difficulties

She is very self-conscious and has a great need for ego-affirmation and praise. Expressing herself freely and openly is not easy for Alaina Reed. Alaina Reed Hall tends to work hard at playing and "having fun", rather than being light-hearted and spontaneous. Developing self-love and self-acceptance regardless of her "performance" is an important task for Alaina.

Her childhood or her relationships with her parents was restrictive, unloving, or unhappy in ways that may prevent Alaina from allowing other people to get close to her in later life. Alaina Reed Hall felt deprived in some manner, whether or not she actually was deprived in some way. Emotional separations or repression of her needs and feelings may typify her early life, at least as Alaina Reed remembers it. Forgiving her parents and/or letting go of any resentments she has about the limitations that she experienced early in her life is crucial. Also, Alaina Reed Hall needs to build her own solid foundation, and investing time and energy into her home, domestic relationships, and inner life can help Alaina accomplish this.

Alaina has an inner conflict between idealism, hope, and faith in the future versus doubt and oppression by limitations and practical realities. Alaina Reed Hall needs to develop discipline and patience in order to achieve her aspirations. Alaina Reed will grow by learning to accept frustration and to persevere in spite of obstacles.

She is suspicious of groups, crowds, and social organizations. Alaina Reed is quick to pick up on social charades and insincerity and avoids the limelight and glamour. Alaina Reed Hall is direct and to the point in speech and manner, stubborn and inflexible, and often unwilling to communicate her innermost feelings and thoughts.

Now we will discuss patterns of behavior which Alaina Reed Hall instinctively and habitually reverts to when under stress - a mostly subconscious process that she is apt to over indulge in because it is so familiar and hence easy for her. The direction Alaina Reed Hall needs to follow in order to develop balance, greater awareness, and wholeness is also described.

Alaina Reed Hall needs to take what she has learned (either through formal education or her own questing and life experience) and share it with others, communicate it or express it in a way that can benefit others. Knowledge and understanding, which does not enhance either Alaina's quality of life or that of persons in her world, is of little real value. Putting Alaina Reed's understanding, philosophy, and convictions into practice in her daily relationships, and in the multiple choices she makes every day, will enable Alaina Reed Hall to really test her belief system and discover more about life.

When under stress, Alaina Reed Hall is apt to seek refuge in imagining that the grass is greener elsewhere, rather than working with what is at hand. Alaina Reed Hall needs to cultivate her ability to live in the present!

It is in her relationships with others that she is most likely to wrestle with these issues. There is a dynamic balance (or conflict) within Alaina Reed Hall between acting spontaneously and being true to herself versus modifying herself or her behavior to suit others. Alaina Reed Hall seesaws between being inordinately concerned with her self to being overly conciliatory and concerned with others' needs, rights, or opinions about her. Learning to act authentically and forthrightly regardless of possible consequences is Alaina Reed's task.

The specific habits which are likely to hold Alaina Reed Hall back, or which she is prone to overdo, especially during stressful periods, include:

Excessive thinking, rationalizing or talking, the overuse or misuse of Alaina Reed's intellectual abilities and the tendency to allow her energy to be dissipated in trivial activities.

The following are specific activities that will support Alaina Reed Hall in her growth. These may or may not feel natural to Alaina Reed, and she may initially resist or feel awkward about them, but they are crucial to her path to wholeness.

Alaina Reed Hall should care for and nourish children, plants, pets or other people. She needs to make a home, create and sustain strong relationships with her family or a community that can support her and give her a sense of safety and belonging.

Alaina Reed Hall should develop her listening skills and deepen her understanding and appreciation of women and their perspective. Alaina Reed Hall has to learn to trust her own feelings, intuitions and emotional needs. She needs to care for herself in an accepting, non-judgmental way.

It is in Alaina Reed Hall's best interest to take all that is good and helpful from her past and use it in a new way. (If she is so inclined, Alaina may want to explore the potential of past-life regression to tap into gifts she has already developed).

Alaina Reed is inclined to seek out relationships with people who have the same interests and she has a desire to work with them toward obtaining mutually shared objectives. Some of Alaina's contacts or introductions could come about suddenly.

Astrological factors in this Astro Profile section:

Saturn in Leo

Saturn in 4th house

Jupiter Square Saturn

Saturn Conjunct Pluto

N. Node in Gemini

N. Node in 1st house

N. Node Opposition Mercury

N. Node Conjunct Moon

N. Node Conjunct Uranus/Asc.