Ellen DeGeneres
drive and ambition

DeGeneres is aspiring, enterprising and forever following a bright and distant star, planning some new venture or investigating new potential. She is definitely "upwardly mobile" in either a material or spiritual sense. Ellen DeGeneres aims high and is not content with a mere quiet, secure existence. Ellen likes to stretch her limits, see how far she can go and take risks. She is a positive thinker, expects success for herself, and is philosophical about failures. DeGeneres is flexible and she bounces back from disappointments rather quickly, usually with another hopeful new idea she wants to try. Her enthusiasm and confidence are contagious and enable Ellen DeGeneres to enlist the aid and support she needs for her projects. However, Ellen DeGeneres sometimes promises more than she can actually achieve, because she is overly optimistic or pays insufficient attention to the practicalities involved.

She also tends to get distracted and to have too many things going on at once. Although it is very difficult for her, there are times when Ellen DeGeneres simply must cultivate commitment, perseverance and persistence in order to make her dreams and goals reality. Too often Ellen DeGeneres falls short of what she could attain because she is unwilling to persist through the difficult or less exciting times.

Ellen DeGeneres also enjoys competition and usually does not take it too seriously. Sports and entrepreneurial endeavors are good ways to channel Ellen's energy.

She is a doer and an achiever. Energetic, courageous, and often impatient, Ellen DeGeneres will forge ahead with her plans regardless of others' reservations. In fact, DeGeneres often feels other people get in her way and she prefers working on her own. Ellen is active, assertive, and rather competitive as well.

She is very serious about attaining her goals and feels that keeping her nose to the grindstone is the only way to do it. It is by working hard, keeping up her efforts and focusing on a single objective that Ellen DeGeneres achieves her aims in life. Ellen exercises great self-control, even self-denial, in order to accomplish what she desires. She meets obstacles stoically and struggles patiently through difficult circumstances. Ellen DeGeneres feels that she must rely on herself alone and that she must shoulder all of the responsibility. She can be a harsh disciplinarian, expecting far too much of herself and others. Ellen often holds herself back, doubting her own power and ability. She may feel that she meets great resistance whenever she tries to assert herself or take initiative, which is very frustrating to DeGeneres. However, Ellen DeGeneres has the power to endure and a dogged determination to overcome all obstacles.

Ellen DeGeneres seems to be in a constant state of deep inner turmoil, is excited easily and subject to changes of mood. Driven by inner compulsion she may do things that invite quarrels or disputes in her relationships and because of her hasty reactions DeGeneres also is prone to injuries.

She is quite passionate, loves children, and is inclined to wish for a large family. In fact, Ellen DeGeneres is likely to become completely bound up in her marriage and family life.

DeGeneres is intensely competitive, and may engage in furious battles of will, numerous conflicts, and possible public controversy, on her way to gaining her objectives. Ellen DeGeneres could be drawn to activities that are dangerous, in the line of fire, so to speak. She puts herself on the line. Anger or recklessness could be her downfall.

Astrological factors in this Astro Profile section:

Mars in Sagittarius

Mars in 1st house

Mars Conjunct Saturn

Mars Opposition Moon/Pluto

Mars Conjunct Venus/N. Node

Mars Square MC