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=== The topics I am mostly interested in are linguistics, mythology, religion and astrology. Since I wanted to have an interesting project and make it personal both for me and the reader, I wanted to choose a text on Astrology to translate. Since the text is a little bit longer than two 4A pages, I decided to exclude some parts of it. ===

TO EXIST- This is Aries' aim.
==== Aries comes to this World being armored, with the incentives including belligerence, vividness and the aim to survive. Despite all discouragements, roughnesses and doubts, it represents the ability of willingness and the over-coming power. Honesty, bickering, being ethusiastic, freedom and bravery are the sources of Aries. He is an idealist who does not waste his time bothering himself with thinking of unnecessary theories, emotions, but rather he is an open minded person.==== ====Developmental aims: Creating, putting new things forward, going forward, developing the change to possess leadership. His strategy is to put things into practice right away. What the person, who experiences being an Aries, feels is "Now". He does not even bother about the past.====



TO REACH PEACE AND PROTECT IT - This is Taurus' aim.
==== Serenity. Being simple even in a limitless chaos, mess and confusion. Taurus has deep references which are incomprehensible by others, however, she would not care to talk about them. Having doubts about confusion is Taurus' source. She is in a search for a space where he can have her own silence and simple-ness in an incentive manner. A stable job. Relationships he can count on. She spins his cocoon with an infinite practicality. Naturally, she is into anything that presents him balance, safety and peace.==== ====Her strategy is to be simple and pure. There is no melodrama about his existence. Coming to an end, to her there is only the life with its core and simpleness- including healthyness, reality, love and silence- and there is life with which she wants to remain in private, and towards which she keeps going with a combination of love and respect.====

TO REACH THE FEELING OF AMAZEMENT -- This is Gemini's aim.
====Gemini is born to percieve and observe himself to its fullest. They always need to be acting around. An aware mind is Gemini's basic trait. Curiosity, not being able to sit still are the sources of Gemini. His physical livelyness also passes to his mind, which provides him a different source: learning and the ability to understand. These fast mental activities are not intended for being judgemental or having mental powers, however, for perception. Not thinking but seeing is important. He only wants to witness to the existence of the Earth.==== ====His main strategy is to experience. Living more than one life at the same time gets him away from being lazy. He listens to others' experiences to learn from them. He is very eager to be open minded and be amazed.====



FLAWLESS SENSIBILITY - This is cancer's aim.
====Feeling every details, seeing the imcompatibleness of life, loving anything life presents despite everything, accepting and trusting. These are all Cancer's topics to think of. Transmitting the language of emotions fluently, and the richness of her inner World are her sources. Her being subjective and the intensiveness of her emotions cannot reach a finite point.==== ====Her strategy is to be protected. She needs to retire into her shell to gather power in order to protect herself. Being compassionate and having interest in something are far more powerful traits of Cancer compared to its self-protecting motive.====

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LEO

TO EXPRESS HIMSELF- This is Leo's aim. Creating the outer symbols of his innerself. Warm, self-confident and feeling the belongingness to the World by expressing his own self are Leo's topics to think of. Being creative, theather, ethusiasm about life, performances which gain attention are all the basic sources of Leo. All traditional fields of creativeness are the canals which bring Leo's inner World out to the outer one. Being an actor, dancing, story telling, sharing advices are all in Leo's path. When Leo chooses an direct creative lane he shines brighter. Leo has a high desire to be on stage and grab attention. His strategy is to be sincere and take risks. Depending on these strategies, Leo puts himsef forward, and if he gets applauses, he will feel safe, and positive about his space in this life.

FLAWLESSNESS--- This is Virgo's aim.
====Reaching her highest and purest level of her potentials. No matter where she reaches, her aim is actually at a higher level. Pureness, satisfaction, meaningfullness, hard works and points that are hard to reach are Virgo's topics to think of. Virgo's main sourcs are her need in perfection and her hunger for a personal change. Related to her reality, there is her honesty which comes from her heart. The tension between perfection and reality speeds up her growth and leads her into a change. She is never satisfied with her position or reckless. In her repertoire there is no laziness. In contrast to her exaggeration about her personal importance, that she feels safe makes her be modest.====

Her strategy is to serve others. She looks into herself interiorly, and she finds her traits to shine and presents them to the World by finding a pragmatic reality.


LIBRA

COMPATIBILITY --- This is Libra's aim.
==== Behind every healthy Libra behavior, concious or unconcious, there lies an aim to be calm. Libra takes a step forward gradually to get rid of tension, balance himself, and relieve his nerves. His sources are paradoxes and possessing a high tolarance to dilemmas. He is aware of the fact that he is consisted of the halves that complete each other. Libra measures the two sides of a topic. He accepts all conflicting philosophies and options, and he seeks a balance in between the two there. Relationship is the field of this sign in which he improve himself.====

TO DISTINGUISH THE CONCIOUSNESS FROM THE UNCONCIOUSNESS- This is Scorpio's aim.
==== By destroying the entire "fake"ness, revealing the hidden things behind the walls of fear. Going into the deepest levels of her conciousness in order to look for the main reality of hers or the last realization which will change her life. Scorpio has a lively mind which reveals lies, relieves half-truths, ruins the pink frames and contributes to her self-awareness. These are all Scorpio's sources. She is very doubtfull instinctlively. She has the idea of "No matter what I see, the reality and the truth is beyond this". During this interior trip, even if Scorpio cannot get trapped by her shadow sides, she gets mature and deeper by investigating, percieving and feeling the inner field. ====

TO DISCOVER THE MEANING OF LIFE -- This is Sagittarius' aim.
====His common thought is that there is perfect pattern behind our regular-looking life. He finds the key of this regularity by being eager to experience, search, and break the ideas which are mind-detoriating stereo-types of the daily life. One of the techniques to meet the needs of being open to different styles of thinking, is traveling. Therefore, he can eagerly upgrade his openhearted relationships which derive from different cultures of his own. His main purpose is to improve his scops both in his inner and outer Worlds.==== ==== His strategy is to live his life like an adventure, live without thinking and leave aside every idea or points of view behind which he realizes he is hiding. It is a must to follow these strategies for freedom. Being excited, adventurous, having a joyful spirit are Sagittarius' sources. He can adapt to his environment right away, and he is flexible and he can get rid of his problems quickly. ====

TO COMBINE THE NATURE OF HUMAN AND PUBLIC IDENTITY -- This is Capricorn's aim.
====Capricorn is the symbol of wholeness. Her main developmental purpose is to combine the invisable personal self and the visiable public attitude. On the way to create the space for her existence in the community, Capricorn confronts losses, ambiguities, times when she earns only a little for long periods. In order to bear with the pressures, she possesses two sources: Patience and inner discipline. Unlike the other signs, she can wait for a long period of time. Making her decision, she draws her route without being pressured. She needs to control her natural emotions and lead them so as to reach her target.==== ====Her strategy is to spend time on her own for early self-improvement. Then Capricorn enters the World where the community exists. She has only two aims: to do the thing which sounds natural to her, and to express her own innerself in the community in which she has a role.====

TO IMPROVE HIS INDIVIDUALITY --- This is Aquarius' aim.
====Aquarius wants to seperate expections and plans related to him from his real individuality, to defend his own rights to life by standing in front of the World without being supported in any way. His sources are his intelligence and his stubbornness. To him, intelligence is the ability to think in the ways which have not been taught, yet, and he is given this ability at birth. He thinks differently. Thoughts different from the main trends attract him like a magnet. His most fatal enemy is the tribal instinctive. Aquarius is born with the instinctive inconfidency against the patriarchial hierarchies.====

==== Pisces represents going beyond the dramas of life, inspirations and experiencing silence. Pisces dies for having spiritual experiences, reaching hyperphysical Worlds and going over the limitations of the body which looks like a prison. Empathy, emotion-sharing, compassion are the sources of Pieces. Her personality is flexible, and depending on the conditions she goes with the flow. Understanding others, feeling compassionate towards them is natural to her. She does not care about the values of this World. Pisces is the sign of the spiritual advisors who listen and think before making judgements. Instead of observing the World in details, she observes the minds that observe it.====

=== Eray, this is a really really interesting topic. I love astrology and it was quite interesting. May be it would be better if you put the Turkish texts next to the English ones so that it would be better to understand for me :) It seems to me like this was a hard job for you because of the difficult private names about astrology. You could put some more photos or videos, that could be visually better for the reader. The language was really hard to understand. Whatever :) Nice topic, nice translation :) The lay out of your project is good too. I enjoyed it. ===