The idealistic general

Gen. Oscar Albayalde, Philippine National Police Chief

With the Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Leo, Gen. Albayalde has a strong, positive personality; fixed opinions and emotions; great stability of purpose; and if he does not let himself live on the strictly emotional side of his nature — which is very strong — he is capable of becoming a person of considerable influence and importance.

The danger of his nature comes from emotional involvement; he is strongly impressed by romantic considerations, and he can take up all his energy dreaming and thinking about the far away and long ago, or about love in some manifestation or other. He is, with respect to love, somewhat idealistic, but with a realistic approach to matters of sex; he is no prude, though he gives, and expects in return, loyalty and fidelity.

He has a very complete ideology of life, not all of it too realistic; for emotional disappointments and frustrations have driven him to ideals, concepts and abstractions of philosophy, which seem visionary to more practical people. Nonetheless, he finds a lot of satisfaction in his dreams, his only danger being that they will absorb him too completely.

Few people can live up to the high standards he sets for them; and even when he is swept off his feet by anger, romance, hatred, jealousy, or revenge, he maintains the idea that he is really an idealist, and that his temporary lapse isn’t really him at all. This is all right if the lapses don’t become habitual, but he has to hold himself very strongly in a leash so that the Old Adam — in Christian theology, human nature lacking in grace — in him doesn’t beat down the Regenerate Man (completely morally reformed). He can be earthy, and sensationalism can gain a tremendous hold on him if he is not careful. It is to combat this tendency, in which he is conscious (or subconscious), that he has built up his complex system of ideals.

He may have the most powerful of wills and need it to come to his rescue at times. While nerves are a problem, his great magnetism, when working without the disadvantage of personal bias, can make him a leader, for he can make people do as he wants, and gain tremendous control over them when he has learned objectivity and detachment from his emotions.

A fashion, travel and lifestyle photojournalist, Rene Bisquera has been into astrological research and tarot card reading since the 1970s. He is currently editor of a top monthly magazine for and about women.

[Editor’s Note: The readings in this column were unsolicited by, and must in no way be construed as a statement about, the persons concerned.]

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