Oprah Winfrey
drive and ambition

Oprah Winfrey is extremely strong-willed and she pursues her goals and desires with passionate dedication and determination. She is capable of total concentration and tremendous discipline, and she is very difficult to influence or sway once her mind is made up. When Oprah Winfrey wants something, Winfrey can be very one-sided and almost obsessed with it. She is very instinctive and does not always consciously know why she feels as strongly and deeply as she does.

She also tends to be secretive and unwilling to reveal her aims and intentions, and the intensity of her will and desire may not initially be apparent to others. However, Winfrey is very forceful in a quiet and subtle way. Oprah Winfrey often manipulates or forces her will upon other people, without being overtly aggressive. She is not interested in confrontation but she is a formidable foe if she encounters opposition or aggression. Oprah is courageous and has a rather primitive, raw side as well.

She is a team player and works well in collaboration with others who share her goals, ideals, and intentions. Oprah Winfrey can coordinate group efforts and inspire people to work toward a shared goal.

Team sports are also a lot of fun for Oprah, and she could be a leader, coach, or director of any group endeavor.

She is dynamic, decisive and somewhat impulsive. Oprah Winfrey responds quickly and spontaneously to challenges, and enjoys vigorous physical activities that require fast reflexes and a good sense of rhythm and timing. Oprah has an abundance of energy and vitality, and a restless desire to see progress and change - she hates stagnation. She is individualistic and makes a good leader, spearheading new projects and inspiring others to act.

Oprah Winfrey has a powerful will and when she wants something, she pursues it passionately and relentlessly until she achieves it. She may be so driven by her desire that she loses all objectivity. Oprah Winfrey often becomes compulsive, even obsessed, with doing or achieving something, no matter what the costs or how hard she must work for it. Her forcefulness may be veiled or subtle, for often Winfrey does not reveal her real aims and intentions to others until they cross her. Intense power struggles and relationships with a strong dominance/submissiveness theme are likely to erupt. Oprah Winfrey has enormous energy reserves, and is capable of extraordinary effort and great achievement if she uses her energies for constructive purposes.

Oprah Winfrey strives to be in the public eye and may live by the motto "work brings distinction". Oprah Winfrey has a positive attitude towards her family and her career and is able to work independently as well as with her colleagues in successful team-work.

Her drives and ambitions in life may seem crazy or eccentric to the more conservative people Oprah knows. There may well be no security or safety net (no retirement pension, no insurance benefits) in the work Oprah Winfrey does. She is suited for freelancing, or professions that involve lots of change, innovation, variety, irregular schedules, and the like. Oprah Winfrey should expect the unexpected and numerous ups and downs in the course of her life. She may change course often, and try many different things.

Fluidity of speech and thought, and using intellectual gifts or communicative skills to achieve her ambitions in life are featured. Convincing, selling, persuading, reasoning, bringing ideas into public awareness are also part of Winfrey's professional life.

Winfrey may seem to have a magically easy road to success and public recognition. Doors open for Oprah Winfrey and opportunities abound. She may have more offers than she can follow up on. Mostly this is due to a positive and generous attitude on her part. Oprah's ambitions in life may have a spiritual component - based on a concern for social betterment or humanitarian ideals.

She is optimistic, has a lot of ideas, and is very fond of talking. Always ready to expand her mind, Oprah Winfrey has a zeal for learning new subjects. She may be interested in scientific fields and is likely to be very successful in her vocation.

Astrological factors in this Astro Profile section:

Mars in Scorpio

Mars in 11th house

Mars Trine Uranus

Mars Square Pluto

Mars Conjunct Asc./MC

Uranus Square MC

Mercury Trine MC

Jupiter Trine MC

MC Opposition Mercury/Jupiter