Grace Metalious
in Relationships

Serious and responsible, she tries to carry the world on her shoulders and rarely lets others know that she needs help and support. Grace Metalious denies or ignores her own emotional needs and feels that others will not accept her if she appears "weak". She is especially uncomfortable with emotional dependency, and tells herself and others (even children) not to be a "baby". Grace Metalious needs to accept that no one is self-sufficient all the time, and to be gentler with her "childish" emotional needs and wants. To others, she may appear to be rather hard-nosed and tough, with a businesslike attitude toward their personal concerns and feelings. Actually, no one is a truer friend. Her feelings and loyalties run deep, but she often does not let people know how much she cares. Grace Metalious also sometimes needs to learn to relax, enjoy herself, and play.

Grace Metalious often makes decisions solely for emotional or personal reasons, because something "feels right" or because she has always done it a certain way and is uncomfortable acting otherwise. Even when Metalious thinks she is being rational, her prejudices, intuitions and feelings influence her thoughts a great deal. Grace is comfortable talking about feelings and personal subjects, and sharing confidences, which enables others to express their own inner feelings with her as well. Grace Metalious has good psychological insight into others.

Her intimate and close personal relationships are often intense, highly-charged and difficult, as they trigger deep emotional responses in Grace Metalious that have more to do with unsatisfied hungers and unmet childhood needs than with the present situation. She may feel like a voracious, bottomless pit when it comes to nurturing and emotional reassurance, and Metalious' neediness often drives others away. When Grace Metalious does let herself feel close to another human being, painful, long-buried feelings bubble to the surface as do - perhaps - grief at the losses she suffered or anger at the neglect or hurt she endured. She may also reenact these situations in her present day relationships, in an unconscious effort to resolve and heal old issues. Metalious will do a lot of cleansing if she can listen to what her feelings are telling her. If not, Grace Metalious will simply have a tumultuous, passionate and stormy emotional life.

Sensitive and sentimental, Grace Metalious is deeply attached to her family, old friends, familiar places and the past. She is romantic and tender in love relationships, and it is of utmost importance to Metalious to remember birthdays, anniversaries, family rituals and other personally significant days. Grace Metalious seeks caring, emotional support, and security in her love relationships. Grace likes to be needed, as well as to cherish and protect her loved ones, of whom she is somewhat possessive.

Grace is attracted to foreigners, exotic places, traveling and people who can expand her horizons, teach her something, or show her places and worlds she has never experienced before. Sharing a philosophy or ideal with her love partner is important to her.

Moreover, Grace Metalious feels love and kinship for people everywhere, not only for her own family, nationality, or group. Finding similarities and making links between people from differing backgrounds or with different perspectives is a gift of hers.

She is serious and finds it difficult to enjoy herself in a lighthearted, open and playful way with others. Grace Metalious rarely does something purely for pleasure, and can be very close-fisted and parsimonious. Perhaps due to painful separations in her early life, Grace is very cautious about becoming involved in close relationships and sharing her feelings. Though Metalious craves love and affection, intimacy is difficult for her. She may become romantically involved with people who do not value her or treat her well. Grace Metalious needs to learn to love and value herself before she finds happiness in love.

Her attraction to someone may come very suddenly and Grace Metalious loves the excitement of new love relationships. But her attachments may be less than conventional, Metalious changes them quickly, and she is likely to have many affairs. She may not be very selective in her contacts.

Astrological factors in this Astro Profile section:

Moon in Capricorn

Moon in 3rd house

Moon Opposition Pluto

Venus in Cancer

Venus in 9th house

Venus Square Saturn

Venus Opposition Jupiter/Uranus