My boys' birthday meanings...
Cos I'm bored and like this sort of thing :D
From the book "What Your Birthday Reveals About You" by Phyllis Vega.
MORITZ March 14 People born on this day are creative visionaries and are frequently out of step with the status quo. A dreamer and paradigm buster, you're a font of innovative ideas and imaginative plans for the future. Your particular brand of logic stems from the combination of your scientific mentality and artistic temperament. Although your mind is open to all possibilities, you never make assumptions without verification. Before you arrive at a judgment, you question everything. Then you carefully scrutinize your own conclusions.
Those with March 14th birthdays have an other-worldly quality that makes them appear removed from the people around them. With your quirky sense of humor and somewhat skewed image of the world, you accept the odd, bizarre, and outrageous as normal. At heart you're a humanitarian and deeply concerned about society and its problems. You have knack for getting along with all types of people and quickly make friends out of strangers. You believe in truth and beauty, and your ingrained idealism and sincerity are obvious to everyone you meet. Despite your tolerance for dissenting ideas, you come across as rather preachy when expressing your personal views.
In a close relationship, you're devoted and understanding. It's easy for you to tune in to your mate and find out what he or she is thinking and feeling. However, when you're seized by the creative impulse, you can just as easily tune your partner out.
ERNST May 9 The person whose birthday falls on this day has the temperament of an artistic dreamer and the practicality and determination of the Taurian bull. You are sensitive and imaginative, with a genuine love of art and beauty. Yet you posses the wherewithal to employ your artistry in a very down-to-earth manner. You derive great satisfaction from using your talents to create things that are useful as well as beautiful. Many born on this date become the artists, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers architects and inventors who turn their visionary ideas into commercial success stories.
Being born on May 9 makes you very receptive to the needs of others. People naturally trust and depend on you. You have a deep spirituality that makes you selfless and courageous. Others realize that you understand their pain and are willing to go the extra mile to help them solve their problems. Mixed in with your empathy, compassion, and material assistance, there is likely some very sound, sensible advice. Sometimes, however, problems arise with those you are trying to help, particularly if they equate your advice and assistance with possessiveness.
You want a stable, tranquil home life, and you enjoy the closeness of an intimate union. However, you have a definite tendency toward moodiness and over-sensitivity. Living with you can become a complex roller-coaster ride of frequent ups and downs.
OTTO June 21 The individual born on the Gemini/Cancer cusp is chatty, quick-witted, self-expressive, imaginative and approachable. This combination typically produces people who are inspired to use their energies and talents in the service of a higher purpose, such as political or social causes, philosophy, education, the arts, family or religion. While you are sensitive to everything going on around, you, your rationality keeps you from over-dramatizing situations. You may be ambitious for material success, but you are also extremely idealistic and determined to accomplish things that will make a difference in the lives of others.
Since you have the easygoing twins' facility with words, you're not as vulnerable to emotional overload as most other crabs. You're willing to discuss your own feelings and ideas, and you encourage other people to share their thoughts and emotions with you. As a result, you are able to respond to their problems with insightful feedback and helpful solutions. The Cancer/Gemini mix of curiosity and prodigious memory make you a natural student and a wonderful teacher. This combination of intellect, imagination, and creativity produces many successful writers, artists, musicians, educators and politicians.
In a love union, you're romantic without being sentimental. Although you make a caring, affectionate partner, you're unwilling to forgo friendship and companionship in favor of moonlight and roses. Without mental affinity and common interests, you may become bored and lose interest in the relationship.
GEORG August 23 Quick thinking and fast talking, the August 23rd individual is known for physical dexterity and a freewheeling, mercurial temperament. Highly intellectual, rational, and analytical, you are extremely fluent in the spoken and written word. Your emphasis on mind and body can come at the expense of your feelings and emotions. You're not unsympathetic or unfeeling, but intense emotion makes you uncomfortable. Since you give the impression of being aloof and detached from much of what is going on around you, you may strike others as selfish. You're not selfish per se, but you can be rather self-involved and narrowly focus on your work.
People born on this day are among the most intriguing and enigmatic members of the Virgo group. You're a one-of-a-kind visionary, yet quite capable of materializing your dreams and ideas in the real world. Social concerns loom large in your mind, and with your desire to help people, you'd make an excellent psychologist, teacher, social worker, doctor, nurse or politician. Well spoken, artistic, creative and physically adroit, you may discover that your niche is in athletics, the media or the arts.
In relationships, you're nurturing and caring one moment and nit picking and fault finding the next. You can be loyal and devoted, but you need your space. If your partner tries to cramp your style, you're liable to shut down emotionally and walk out.
HANSCHEN November 19 Scorpions born on this day are determined to be great and leave an indelible mark on the world. Driven by fiery courage, steely determination, and raw ambition, you relish any opportunity to confront difficult and challenging situations. Once you get going on something, there's no stopping you. Since patience is not your strong suit, you often plunge ahead without considering all the consequences. As a leader who can usually be found in the forefront of an enterprise, you have little or no sympathy for shirkers or stragglers.
The confident people celebrating birthdays today know exactly where they stand and what the want. Once you decide on something, you waste neither time nor energy on doubt or hesitation. You apply your hard-driving application and energy from others. You are also highly emotional and sensitive. Despite your strength of character, you need the approbation and good opinion of other people. If you don't receive the praise and appreciation you consider your due, you hide your disappointment behind a smile. However, you never forget or forgive a slight.
In love, you're ardent, but demanding. You pursue the object of your affection with unremitting zeal. You may refuse to commit until you're convinced that the other person is trustworthy. But once you enter into a romantic union, you're completely devoted and dependable.
MELCHIOR December 22 People born on the Sagittarius/Capricorn cusp are ambitious, determined, and dedicated to reaching their goals. More of a scholar than other Capricorns, you use your knowledge to help you understand the world. Although you seek the true meaning of life, you're also practical, realistic, and careful not to get carried away by your ideals. As a doer, thinker, and worker, you lead an active lifestyle driven by huge amounts of nervous energy. If you cannot learn to relax, you may risk burning yourself out. You have a wonderful, acerbic wit, and when you take the time out to play, you can be the life of the party.
Those celebrating birthdays on this date have a multiplicity of interests that can help them gain success and acclaim in materialistic and humanitarian endeavors. While the path is not always smooth, your intense desire to triumph fuels your perseverance. You are enormously persuasive and are pragmatic enough to make your mark as an entrepreneur in the business world, particularly in those areas related to management, advertising, promotion, publishing, sales or travel. Creatively, you may have the requisite talent for writing, broadcasting, art, acting, or music.
in your personal relationships you're passionate and loving, but rather more freewheeling and adventurous than the average Capricorn. Your best bet for remaining committed and devoted is in a union with a partner who is understanding and provides genuine intellectual rapport.