Richard Douglas Husband
mental interests and abilities

He is highly interested in inner, subjective and personal issues, and his thinking is based more on feelings, intuition, personal experiences and prejudices, than on reason or logic. Intellectual abilities and accomplishments without heart or soul mean little to Rick. He is empathic and would be an excellent counselor, for he is a sensitive listener and deeply interested in people's feelings and inner life. In addition to psychology, Richard Douglas Husband is drawn to education, art, poetry, music or mythology. He is not particularly confident about speaking in public, but will open up and share his thoughts in small, intimate groups. Husband enjoys keeping a personal journal and reading the chronicles of others' lives and personal development.

Richard Douglas Husband thinks a great deal about his career, his reputation and public image, and the way he makes a contribution or impact on the world at large. Public speaking or some other form of communication is likely to be an important aspect of Richard Douglas Husband's work.

Richard Douglas Husband has very little interest in or knack for the technical or mechanical. Husband's forte lies in the human, personal side of life, people, psychology and life's inner workings. Richard Douglas Husband understands children and enjoys conversing with, counseling, listening to and learning about them. Husband also needs a variety of social and intellectual experiences on a regular basis, and becomes restless, nervous, and irritable if he cannot get out and about. Husband often needs to be mobile, to go for a walk or a drive, to regroup and to reestablish his emotional equilibrium. Richard Douglas Husband tends to dwell on the past, to ponder its significance, and at times, to long for it. Nostalgia and sentimentality substantially color Rick's thinking.

He is mentally restless, intellectually thirsty and immensely curious. Richard Douglas Husband may study and travel widely in order to satisfy these urges and he is even happier if he shares his journeys with companions. Rick's gifts lie in his capacity for learning about the beliefs of a broad spectrum of people, making long-distance connections, opening up channels of communication and understanding, bringing people together from foreign lands, and promoting social and cultural exchange.

An independent and original thinker, Rick is excited by new ideas, discoveries, and innovations. His mind functions in an intuitive, nonlinear fashion and sudden insights and ideas often come to him "out of the blue". Richard Douglas Husband grasps ideas very quickly and often becomes impatient with those who are slower or more cautious than he. More conservative minds deem him rather eccentric and unusual in his interests. Richard Douglas Husband does well in an open, unpredictable atmosphere where flexibility and quick responses are needed. Richard Douglas Husband has an aptitude for science, mathematics, electronics or astrology.

His mind is highly imaginative and creative and he possesses dramatic, artistic or musical abilities. As a child, Richard Douglas Husband enjoyed daydreaming, fantasizing and pretending, and probably lived in "his own little world" a good deal. He perceives things that are not obvious to other people and Richard Douglas Husband has an uncanny ability to "read" people and situations without being told anything about them. However, Richard Douglas Husband must learn to discriminate between true psychic perception and his imagination. Learning to discipline and focus his mind is necessary if Husband wishes to use all of his creative potential. Otherwise, Richard Douglas Husband could be simply a dreamer.

Communication with others is difficult for Richard Douglas Husband because he often finds words frustrating and inadequate to express his experiences and perceptions. Also, Rick may purposefully mystify or deceive others.

Astrological factors in this Astro Profile section:

Mercury in Cancer

Mercury in 10th house

Moon Opposition Mercury

Mercury Sextile Jupiter

Mercury Conjunct Uranus

Mercury Square Neptune