Meḥiy'el

Meḥiy'el accompanies the period from 4 to 9 February and belongs to the Archangels. Its motto is «I understand the rules and point them out». In this symbolic portrait, a decisive gesture can separate or bring closer, and applause expresses an intense need for recognition.

You know how to reason, distinguish and find your way within precise systems. Dmitri Mendeleev represents this ability through the Periodic Table of the elements: recognising an order that helps make a complex reality more understandable. You can find satisfaction in work requiring originality and respect for a structure.

The difficulty arises in the relationship between mind and instinct. What comes from emotions and the body may seem unpredictable. You then try to control it through reasoning until you convince yourself you have put it entirely in order. But desires, fears and impulses do not disappear because you do not listen to them. They can appear in sudden decisions, drastic judgements and bonds quickly formed or broken.

The main fault is rationalising what you do not want to acknowledge. You may defend as perfectly logical a behaviour driven mainly by fear or desire. If you silence every doubt, noticing this becomes difficult. The need for approval grows too: you seek confirmation of the image you present while the more authentic part of you remains little known.

This is why applause may never be enough. It reassures you about the role you are playing but does not resolve the insecurity supporting it. Charles Dickens, Jack Lemmon and François Truffaut evoke the ability to observe this tension with humour. In the Pickwick characters, Lemmon's performances and Antoine Doinel's experiences, the distance between intentions, reasons and desires becomes visible and human.

If control takes up too much space, you may lose your enjoyment of experience. Laughing, playing, hoping, feeling fear and moving through it also require a willingness that cannot be commanded through planning. Personal and professional crises can become harder when you cannot find words for what you feel. James Dean brings the theme of vulnerability behind a strong image into the portrait.

Charles Lindbergh represents the control and concentration needed for a solo Atlantic crossing. The image of flight reminds you that a great achievement does not encompass your whole emotional life. While one part of you rises and conquers, another needs to remain connected, play and feel protected. Cultivating these needs makes success more complete.

Dickens and Truffaut return in the theme of childhood. Their works about children evoke attention to vulnerability, imagination and the need for love. In your life, this can mean free time not planned in every detail, affection that does not require performance and activities in which you can feel wonder.

Intellectual abilities can find room in publishing, engineering, cooking, law and other occupations where creativity and rules meet. Ronald Reagan appears as an example of political success and managing a public image. Even in a visible role, good organisation needs honesty towards yourself and others.

Imagination offers another path. You can use your talent for constructing convincing versions of events to invent stories that are openly imaginary. Jules Verne represents movement in both directions: towards the sky in From the Earth to the Moon and towards the depths in Journey to the Centre of the Earth. It is an image of balance between ambition and listening to what moves within.

Your direction is to give logic the space it needs alongside emotions, body and play. When you recognise a desire before justifying it, you can choose more freely and receive recognition without depending on it entirely.