Nemamiyah

Nemamiyah accompanies the period from 1 to 5 January and belongs to the Archangels. The motto is «My actions bear fruit where they face great obstacles». In this symbolic portrait, difficulty sets strength, curiosity and organisational ability in motion.

You have a taste for undertakings that seem too large. Where others mainly see a reason to stop, you can recognise a problem to study and a strategy to build. The two mems of the name evoke both the fortress to confront and the gaze able to embrace the whole field. You want more than to overcome a challenge: you want to understand how it works and find a path that opens new possibilities.

A challenge may also teach you something about yourself. While working on a concrete obstacle, you discover fears, hesitations and abilities that lay idle. This does not mean you produce every external difficulty: it means the way you face it can change as you understand your reactions better. Useful courage combines initiative with checking reality. In relationships especially, persistence must respect the other person's freedom and consent.

Your curiosity is broad and active. A newly explored field opens another, and you may want an audience that understands the meaning of your undertakings. Your physical and intellectual energy supports much work, but the main fault is continual dissatisfaction. Perfectionism, tension and abrupt mood changes can become the usual price of every aim. If you consider constant pressure normal, you risk failing to notice what it costs you and those close to you.

Lorenzo de' Medici evokes an interest in capable people and different fields to bring into relation. Isaac Newton represents building a broad, coherent system. Jakob Grimm and Umberto Eco bring a taste for extensive knowledge; James Frazer for the organised exploration of a discipline. J.R.R. Tolkien and Isaac Asimov show the ability to build complex worlds. J. Edgar Hoover appears as an example of lasting determination in action, without making every aspect of his behaviour exemplary.

Any profession may interest you if it contains room to expand the work. A limited activity can become a set of services; a lesson can open into a workshop joining several subjects. You can organise and present what you do with clarity and practicality. Stanislavski, Béjart, Carlos Saura, Miyazaki, Sergio Leone and Mel Gibson evoke, in their respective languages of performance and directing, the desire to open new paths and hold a complex work together.

Expansion, however, requires direction. Adding commitments simply to avoid meeting a limit can make even great ability unproductive. Choosing a priority, delegating and allowing recovery time make it possible to approach an ambitious challenge more steadily. Giving up a project, too, can be a clear-sighted decision when its costs outweigh its meaning for you.

The portrait finally includes attraction to unfamiliar forms of knowledge. Louis Braille represents opening a different access to reading beyond the usual way of seeing. Spiritually, you may be interested in intuition, symbols and inner inquiry. You can explore them while holding imagination and reasoning together, without turning an impression into certainty about the future. Embarrassment before a new territory can become an incentive to understand it rather than a reason to exclude it.