Lekabe'el

Lekabe'el accompanies the period from 24 to 28 August and belongs to the Dominions. Its motto is «From above, I oversee every house». In this symbolic portrait, the gift is a way of seeing that seeks to understand a broad whole, organise what it discovers and find the point from which to act effectively.

You can gather information tirelessly, connect different fields and keep searching where others think they know enough. You enjoy the process of inquiry so much that a final answer may leave you almost disappointed: it closes a possibility you still wanted to explore. Alongside curiosity comes enjoyment of the power knowledge offers.

Ivan IV represents the scope and risk of command; Hegel, the search for thought capable of understanding the whole. Goethe evokes a presence embracing many areas of culture. Montgolfier, with the hot-air balloon, brings the concrete image of a perspective rising to see the landscape better. These are different ways of seeking a position from which to see and connect many things.

Antoine Lavoisier represents inquiry into the laws and transformations of matter. Jorge Luis Borges brings the same desire into stories of libraries, knowledge and secrets that seem to contain a universe. Your way of seeing seeks what connects information and makes it possible to move from a particular piece of knowledge to a broader picture.

You may feel alive when entrusted with complex responsibilities. A many-branched problem involving many people offers room for organisation, study and the ability to anticipate consequences. Yasser Arafat evokes politics; Mother Teresa of Calcutta, managing a commitment directed towards many people. The gift finds a direction when the scale of the task also becomes care for those affected by it.

The need for admiration can grow alongside competence. You may want others to recognise the concentration your work requires, respect every decision you make and notice how much they depend on you. Personal charm makes this presence engaging. Through James Bond, Sean Connery represents a protagonist who uses many abilities to face an undertaking in which his confidence becomes part of the action.

The main obstacle appears when you cannot find a task you consider worthy of your resources. Feeling useless or overlooked can become unbearable. A pause can be used for preparation and deeper study; if impatience and pride prevail, however, you may seek a stage regardless, to demonstrate that you are indispensable.

The ability to solve problems then reverses into an ability to complicate them. You may create a problem so you can manage it, build hidden alliances or manipulate a relationship to recover importance. The more misunderstood you feel, the easier it becomes to present retaliation as a reasonable experiment or an intervention only you could carry out.

Goethe's Faust makes this side of the portrait visible: broad knowledge is no longer enough, disappointment seeks ever-new experiences and the desire to intervene behind the scenes overtakes respect for consequences. Intelligence keeps working, but it serves a hunger for conquest that cannot find restraint.

In daily life too, you may move from feeling persecuted to treating others as opponents to control. Recognising this withdrawal early lets you return to the real problem: finding work, a project or a responsibility that uses your abilities without making people instruments of your need for recognition.

Lekabe'el's direction is to understand and coordinate without wanting to be the group's only mind. Delegating, accepting a limit and using knowledge to make others more capable allow your strength to build something that remains worthwhile even when you are not controlling every step.