Katharine Graham
drive and ambition

She is a "busy bee" - energetic, restless, and forever on the go. Her active mind is always buzzing with ideas and Katherine sometimes finds it difficult to relax, slow down or take the time to reflect and regroup. Katharine Graham tends to live on nervous energy. She can accomplish a great deal in short bursts, but projects that require long-term commitment, stamina and steady, persistent effort are not easy for Graham. Katharine Graham often scatters her energies into so many directions and activities at once that she cannot finish or follow through on all of them. She needs variety, change and intellectual challenges.

Katharine Graham has a sharp and eager mind, and she enjoys games and competitions with an intellectual challenge. Katherine likes to match wits with others.

Graham often achieves her desires through her verbal skill and her ability to speak out clearly and convincingly for what she wants. Her drive and energy are more intellectual than physical. Katharine Graham uses her wit, intelligence, communication skills, social sophistication and awareness to achieve her goals.

She has passionate convictions and will fight for them when challenged. Katharine Graham is willing to dedicate a great deal of her energy and force to an important cause, and she will act decisively on her beliefs, rather than simply espousing them.

Sometimes Graham gets so involved and identified with her ideas that she cannot really be receptive to anyone who opposes her philosophically.

Katharine Graham has a positive, "can-do" attitude and she tackles life's challenges with relish. She is self-confident and has a strong will to succeed, to see how much she can do and how far she can go. No matter what Graham accomplishes, she does not rest on her laurels. Katherine wants to keep on going, to do even bigger things. She is proactive, enterprising and enthusiastic about new projects. She is not happy in situations that do not offer her challenges and the potential for future growth - no matter how secure or satisfactory they may seem in other respects. She enjoys competition, but Katharine Graham competes mostly with herself, to see how much of her vision and potential she can really achieve. She makes a good leader, inspiring courage and confidence in others. Katharine Graham usually enjoys good health and a high level of vitality.

Although enterprising and proactive, Katharine Graham is also capable of ample much self-discipline, patience and effort. She may swing from confidence and trust in the future to pessimism and doubt, when it comes to achieving her aims in life.

Conscientious, responsible, and serious about her work, Katharine Graham accomplishes a great deal through her dedication. She is the person in the office or company who follows through, quietly sustains the effort, and keeps on going in spite of tedium, setbacks, or dry spells. This is often the key to Katherine's success. However, Katharine Graham is humble about her accomplishments and contributions, and may thus not receive the recognition or recompense that she deserves.

Her competitive drive and lofty ambitions (commented upon earlier) feed on either intense spiritual idealism or a rather inflated, grandiose idea of what Katharine Graham can actually accomplish. Her energy level is apt to fluctuate from being very high, as noted earlier, to rather low, as mentioned in the following paragraphs.

Unlike some who have hopes and fantasies, Graham is a person who tries to live out these dreams, no matter how impractical or fantastic they seem. Katharine Graham has a quixotic, idealistic streak. She may be more inspired to work for some higher cause than simply for her own personal achievement.

Katherine has the patience and the stamina to realize her visions and bring them down to earth, a fine balance between hard work and realism, and a positive, hopeful spirit. Katharine Graham grows through following systems and plans, and taking one step at a time. Overnight success or instant enlightenment is not what Graham aims for. Her patient, well-balanced approach gives Katharine Graham credibility with many different types of people, and she is apt to gain an excellent reputation for being able to do big things without overreaching or becoming pretentious.

Positions of honor, affluence, influence, and stature in her community can be hers. Katharine Graham feels she has a destiny which involves leadership or distinguishing herself in some line of endeavor. Katherine possesses an innate sense of greatness or importance, and a strong drive to achieve recognition for her talent. Katharine Graham should avoid excessive egotism and arrogant pride, for these could limit her opportunities.

Innovation, discovery, originality, experimentation, and opening up new channels of understanding are important aspects of her life's work. Graham's ambitions in life, as well as the way she achieves those goals, are unique or "alternative". Concerned with future trends and the new, Katharine Graham is apt to be ahead of her time in many respects.

Her self-control is well developed and Katharine Graham is patient, cautious and responsible. Graham knows that success comes with hard work and is willing to do her share. Katherine likes to be by herself and to do her own thing, but at times she may also feel lonely and deserted.

She is refined and sensitive and likely to have subconscious insights or hunches. Very intuitive, the feelings Graham gets about things probably will be accurate. She is also creative and inspirational and could do well in some artistic field.

Astrological factors in this Astro Profile section:

Mars in Gemini

Mars in 9th house

Mars Conjunct Jupiter

Mars aspects Jupiter and Saturn

Mars Sextile Saturn

Mars aspects Jupiter and Neptune

Mars Sextile Neptune

Jupiter Sextile Saturn

MC Conjunct Sun

Uranus Trine MC

MC Conjunct Moon/Saturn

MC Conjunct Moon/Neptune