Mary-Louise Parker
challenges and difficulties

Mary-Louise Parker often has a sense of longing or homesickness for something she cannot name or specify, and she may have both: great attraction toward, and fear of, mysticism and parapsychology.

Overcoming feelings of fear, guilt, anxiety, loneliness, or oversensitivity is an important task for Parker.

Her childhood or her relationships with her parents was restrictive, unloving, or unhappy in ways that may prevent Mary-Louise from allowing other people to get close to her in later life. Mary-Louise Parker 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 Parker 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, Mary-Louise Parker needs to build her own solid foundation, and investing time and energy into her home, domestic relationships, and inner life can help Mary-Louise accomplish this.

Now we will discuss patterns of behavior which Mary-Louise Parker 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 Mary-Louise Parker needs to follow in order to develop balance, greater awareness, and wholeness is also described.

When under stress, Mary-Louise Parker is apt to shut off the flow of her emotions and ignore her needs and feelings in order to do what she perceives as her duty or simply what the practical realities of the situation dictate. This can lead to a certain rigidity and inflexibility. If overdone, self-control, self-discipline, or an exaggerated concern over what society, family or others expect of her, makes life more of a burden than an adventure.

Fostering her tender, caring, feminine, and nurturing aspects is an important step in Mary-Louise Parker's growth. Mary-Louise Parker needs to learn how to nourish and lovingly tend to both herself and others. Letting herself be taken care of sometimes is okay!

It is in fostering a personal vision or philosophy of life, whether through religious or philosophical studies, education or the wisdom of distant lands or cultures that Mary-Louise Parker is most likely to wrestle with these issues. Mary-Louise Parker needs to cultivate the qualities described above in this endeavor. Long distance communication and involvement with foreigners is likely to be significant to Parker.

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

She needs to give and receive affection, love and pleasure (primarily with the qualities described previously). Mary-Louise Parker has to learn to respond to, appreciate and create beauty, art, harmonious surroundings and relationships. She needs to be aware of aesthetics and to do things in a gracious, pleasing manner. Mary-Louise Parker has to start enjoying life, nurturing friendships and cultivating her ability to love and to receive love.

Mary-Louise Parker should become a warrior and cultivate a positive, victorious, active approach to life and to any problems she faces. It is in Parker's best interest to act on her own behalf instead of stalling, waiting or hoping someone else will do it for her. Mary-Louise Parker needs to assert herself openly and courageously and not to be afraid to make mistakes or stumble; there are bound to be a few trial runs to any new initiative. Mary-Louise needs to foster a healthy fighting spirit, pick herself up, and go! She also should learn to appreciate conflict and confrontation as a means to grow.

She is very social minded and it is easy for Mary-Louise Parker to show her affection. Her family or community probably provided good possibilities for her development. Parker may love to show off a little and she thrives on being involved with others in joyful group activities.

Mary-Louise Parker has a sympathetic understanding of other people and the ability to easily adapt herself to them. Her emotional fulfillment is likely to come through her relationships with others and Parker will probably feel a soul-affinity with many of them.

Mary-Louise has an extremely magnetic personality along with strong sexual attraction. Mary-Louise Parker tends to put her heart and soul into her work and may prefer to work with partners of the opposite sex.

Because of rigid and somewhat unpleasant family relationships, Mary-Louise Parker is inclined to seclude herself from others. She may prefer to live in archaic surroundings and could be interested in antiques.

Astrological factors in this Astro Profile section:

Saturn in Pisces

Saturn in 4th house

N. Node in Cancer

N. Node in 9th house

N. Node Conjunct Venus

N. Node Conjunct Mars

N. Node Conjunct Sun/Jupiter

N. Node Conjunct Moon/MC

N. Node Conjunct Venus/Mars

N. Node Opposition Saturn/Asc.