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Birth chart of Barney Frank

Barney Frank birth chart is shown with zodiac signs and aspects. Because the birth time is unknown, Arcadia does not use houses, Rising sign, or angular dominants as the main basis of interpretation.

Barney Frank's chart rests first on the stable factors: Sun in Aries and Moon in Capricorn. Without a reliable time, signs and aspects are stronger than the Rising sign or houses.

Chart detail:

Saturn square Pluto (orb 0.7°) gives a central dynamic in this reading. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.

In plain terms, this aspect creates friction between Saturn (discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery) and Pluto's crisis instinct: pressure can become domination, fear, or destructive escalation unless it receives a clear outlet.

The birth time is not known with certainty, so the Rising sign and houses are less reliable. Signs and exact aspects give the safer reading base.

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Displayed: 31/03/1940, 12:00 (unknown hour) at
(0°00' E, 0°00' N, GMT 0).

Source: Wikipedia
22°4'0°39'23°42'19°41'1°19'19°5'29°9'25°28'17°6'20°7'10°37'
Displayed: 31/03/1940, 12:00 (unknown hour) at
(0°00' E, 0°00' N, GMT 0).

Source: Wikipedia

Sun Aries
Aries

Sun in Aries

Moon Capricorn
Capricorn

Moon in Capricorn





The Rising sign cannot be determined if the time is not known.

Element Sign Degrees Speed
Sun Aries 10° 37' 21" 0.986 / day
Moon Capricorn 20° 07' 12" 12.445 / day
Mercury Pisces 17° 05' 50" 0.215 / day
Venus Taurus 25° 28' 22" 1.073 / day
Mars Taurus 29° 09' 08" 0.663 / day
Jupiter Aries 19° 05' 22" 0.24 / day
Saturn Taurus 01° 19' 28" 0.122 / day
Uranus Taurus 19° 40' 31" 0.047 / day
Neptune Virgo 23° 41' 35" R -0.026 / day
Pluto Leo 00° 38' 55" R -0.005 / day
Lilith Pisces 22° 04' 01" 0.111 / day
RS Cancer 07° 59' 58"
MH Aries 09° 28' 43"

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Analysis

Astrological birth chart geometry with aspect lines
This visual introduces the aspect section; houses stay out of the main reading when the birth time is unknown.

How to read this chart

This section gives a concrete reading thread. It highlights the most visible signatures, then the tabs keep each placement separate instead of mixing everything together.

Important: Unknown birth time: the Rising sign, houses, and angular dominants are too time-sensitive to anchor the interpretation. The Moon remains useful, but its exact aspects can shift during the day: tight non-Moon aspects are more reliable when they exist.

Reading map

Start here: a short reading that shows what hooks, what helps, what pushes back, and where it becomes concrete.

1. Big Three, Personal Essence

Sun in Aries · Moon in Capricorn

First hook: this is where the chart often becomes recognizable in real life. Sun in Aries: identity and direction move through initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action; Moon in Capricorn: emotional safety looks for structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction. Because the birth time is missing, reliable aspects should carry the next step before houses or angles.

2. Dominants (visible planets)

Dominants unavailable without reliable birth time

Angular dominants depend on birth time. Without a reliable hour, do not use them as primary evidence.

3. Important harmonious aspects

Harmonious triangle: Uranus, Moon, and Mercury

This is the easiest door into the chart: it shows what tends to cooperate naturally.

This pattern describes what comes more easily. Houses are not used here: unknown time. It connects Uranus (change, freedom, rupture, and originality), Moon (emotional needs, instinct, and inner safety), and Mercury (thinking, speech, and decisions).

This is the clearest cooperation pattern in the chart: Moon trine Uranus (orb 0.4°), Mercury sextile Uranus (orb 2.6°), and Moon sextile Mercury (orb 3°). It shows where functions support each other, recover, or come naturally when used together. Because several planets are connected, the full pattern matters more than one isolated aspect.

  • Harmony Moon trine Uranus (orb 0.4°) Trine: Moon in Capricorn can support Uranus in Taurus naturally and positively. For this pair, the aspect gives ease keeping the personal dream alive through change. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child are supported by Uranus.
  • Harmony Mercury sextile Uranus (orb 2.6°) Sextile: Mercury in Pisces can cooperate with Uranus in Taurus in the same concrete choice or situation. For this pair, the aspect lets intellect and Uranus cooperate in invention, quick replies, technology, or a changed perspective.
  • Harmony Moon sextile Mercury (orb 3°) Sextile: Moon in Capricorn can cooperate with Mercury in Pisces in the same concrete choice or situation. For this pair, the aspect lets personal dream and intellect cooperate when words give a living form to the inner image. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child can cooperate with Mercury.
4. Important tensions

Tension link: Saturn and Pluto

This is the pressure line to read first: it shows where tension repeats in concrete situations.

This pattern shows where pressure builds fastest. Houses are not used here: unknown time. It connects Saturn (responsibility, limits, effort, and patience) and Pluto (power, crisis, intensity, and deep transformation).

This is the clearest friction pattern in the chart: Saturn square Pluto (orb 0.7°). It shows where pressure, contradiction, or repeated effort concentrates. No wider group outranks this link, so read it as a strong but isolated signal.

  • Tension Saturn square Pluto (orb 0.7°) Square in real life: the friction is between Saturn in Taurus and Pluto in Leo. This can show as blockage, inhibition, overreaction, or repeated conflict between the two planets.
5. Important houses

Houses unavailable without reliable birth time

Houses describe domains of existence, but they depend on birth time. Without a reliable hour, signs and aspects should carry the reading.



Sun
Sun in Aries Identity, ego, father figure
Moon
Moon in Capricorn Dream, inner child, mother figure
The three foundations

Without a reliable birth time, the Sun, Moon, and exact aspects become the reliable base. The Rising sign, houses, and angular dominants need a reliable birth time.

The Moon can change signs during a day. Near a lunar sign change, the Moon sign remains a hypothesis.

Without a reliable hour, exact aspects and reliable repetitions can strongly nuance the starting reading.

Barney Frank has Sun in Aries

How to read this placement

Sun in Aries remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. The Sun describes identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction, with Aries style: initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses identity, ego, father figure, recognition, and personal direction through the Aries style (initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

With the Sun in Aries, identity forms through initiative, decision, and direct action. The person usually needs to feel that they can start things, take a position, and test themselves against resistance. This placement is less about being constantly aggressive than about needing movement and a clear target. At its best, it gives courage, speed, and the capacity to open a path before everyone has agreed. When it is unbalanced, the same fire can become impatience, unnecessary confrontation, or difficulty staying with a project after the first push.


Barney Frank has Moon in Capricorn

How to read this placement

Moon in Capricorn remains a useful base without a birth time. The Moon sign is often usable, but near a Moon sign change it remains a hypothesis; the Moon describes personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm, with Capricorn style: structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses personal dream, play instinct, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm through the Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

Aspect connected to this placement: Moon trine Uranus (orb 0.4°). Aspect effect: gives ease keeping the personal dream alive through change. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child are supported by Uranus.

With the Moon in Capricorn, the inner child learns confidence through structure, competence, duty, and the ability to hold steady under pressure. The personal dream often has to become real: work, mastery, status, responsibility, and long construction matter more than vague wishing. This Moon can give endurance, loyalty, patience, and a strong instinct to build something safe over time. The mother image or childhood imprint may be linked to seriousness, distance, responsibility, or growing up early. When burdened, it can become guarded, overly hard on itself, or afraid to depend on others.

    Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon trine Uranus (orb 0.4°). Because the birth time is unknown, the Moon's exact degree can shift during the day. This interpretation stays provisional and gains weight only if the aspect remains tight across the possible birth window or repeats another clear signature.

    Here, Moon in Capricorn brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction); Uranus in Taurus brings disruption, independence, and change with Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance).

    Concrete support: this aspect gives ease keeping the personal dream alive through change. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child are supported by Uranus.

    Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon square Jupiter (orb 1°). Because the birth time is unknown, the Moon's exact degree can shift during the day. This interpretation stays provisional and gains weight only if the aspect remains tight across the possible birth window or repeats another clear signature.

    Here, Moon in Capricorn brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction); Jupiter in Aries brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons with Aries style (initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action).

    Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between personal dream, safety, excess, promise, and confidence: expansion can outrun the inner rhythm.

    Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon sextile Lilith (orb 1.9°). Because the birth time is unknown, the Moon's exact degree can shift during the day. This interpretation stays provisional and gains weight only if the aspect remains tight across the possible birth window or repeats another clear signature.

    Here, Moon in Capricorn brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction); Lilith in Pisces brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise with Pisces style (imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability).

    Concrete cooperation: the personal dream and mother-image field can cooperate with Lilith's ideal without turning everything dramatic. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child can cooperate with Lilith.

    Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon sextile Mercury (orb 3°). Because the birth time is unknown, the Moon's exact degree can shift during the day. This interpretation stays provisional and gains weight only if the aspect remains tight across the possible birth window or repeats another clear signature.

    Here, Moon in Capricorn brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction); Mercury in Pisces brings intellect, language, thought, and technique with Pisces style (imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability).

    Concrete cooperation: personal dream and intellect can cooperate when words give a living form to the inner image. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child can cooperate with Mercury.



The Rising sign cannot be determined if the time is not known.


Mercury
Mercury Intellect, language, technique
Venus
Venus Desire, taste, attraction
Mars
Mars Action, courage, competition
Jupiter
Jupiter Fulfillment, confidence, horizons

Barney Frank has Mercury in Pisces

How to read this placement

Mercury in Pisces remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mercury describes intellect, language, thought, and technique, with Pisces style: imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses thinking, speech, learning, technique, and mental strategy through the Pisces style (imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

With Mercury in Pisces, the intellect is imaginal, associative, symbolic, and sensitive to atmosphere. The person may understand through images, music, dreams, intuition, empathy, or impressions before logic catches up. This placement can give poetic language, spiritual imagination, compassion in speech, and the ability to sense subtle meaning. It is not stupid or weak; it thinks through permeability. Under stress, it can blur facts, avoid precision, absorb other people's ideas, or say something beautiful without making it clear.

    Mercury sextile Uranus (orb 2.6°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.

    Here, Mercury in Pisces brings intellect, language, thought, and technique with Pisces style (imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability); Uranus in Taurus brings disruption, independence, and change with Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance).

    Concrete cooperation: intellect and Uranus can cooperate in invention, quick replies, technology, or a changed perspective.

    Mercury conjunct Lilith (orb 5°) brings the two planets out together. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.

    Here, both planets use the same Pisces style (imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability). Mercury in Pisces brings intellect, language, thought, and technique; Lilith in Pisces brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise.

    Concrete effect: this aspect joins thought and speech to Lilith's absolute ideal, with a tendency to name what feels false or insufficient.

    Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Mercury.

    Open the full aspect reading under Moon



Barney Frank has Venus in Taurus

How to read this placement

Venus in Taurus remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Venus describes desire, taste, relationship, and attraction, with Taurus style: nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses desire, taste, attraction, pleasure, and love style through the Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

Aspect connected to this placement: Venus trine Neptune (orb 1.8°). Aspect effect: gives positive ease between charm, beauty, imagination, and collective receptivity: attraction can carry a very popular or inspiring image.

With Venus in Taurus, affection becomes steady, sensual, and attached to what can be touched, tasted, built, or trusted. The person often values loyalty, physical comfort, beauty, music, food, nature, and relationships that grow slowly enough to feel real. This is one of Venus's strongest signs, so pleasure and taste can be very concrete. It can give a calm charm and a strong need for stability. Under stress, it can become possessive, stubborn, too attached to comfort, or unwilling to move when the relationship needs change.

    Venus trine Neptune (orb 1.8°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is very tight; this describes a stable character pattern more than a passing reaction.

    Here, Venus in Taurus brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance); Neptune in Virgo brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail).

    Concrete support: this aspect gives positive ease between charm, beauty, imagination, and collective receptivity: attraction can carry a very popular or inspiring image.

    Venus conjunct Mars (orb 3.7°) brings the two planets out together. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.

    Here, both planets use the same Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance). Venus in Taurus brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction; Mars in Taurus brings action, courage, competition, and effort.

    Concrete effect: this aspect makes desire, attraction, physical style, and action come out together.

    Venus sextile Lilith (orb 3.4°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.

    Here, Venus in Taurus brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance); Lilith in Pisces brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise with Pisces style (imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability).

    Concrete cooperation: Venus can use Lilith's ideal actively, giving attraction or art a precise uncompromising charge.

    Venus conjunct Uranus (orb 5.8°) brings the two planets out together. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.

    Here, both planets use the same Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance). Venus in Taurus brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction; Uranus in Taurus brings disruption, independence, and change.

    Concrete effect: this aspect ties Venus to Uranus: desire, taste, attraction, freedom, surprise, and refusal of predictable bonds come out together.

    Venus sextile Pluto (orb 5.2°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.

    Concrete cooperation: Venus and Pluto can cooperate when desire becomes a force of transformation instead of a simple need to possess.



Barney Frank has Mars in Taurus

How to read this placement

Mars in Taurus remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mars describes action, courage, competition, and effort, with Taurus style: nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses action, anger, courage, competition, and effort through the Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

Aspect connected to this placement: Mars sextile Pluto (orb 1.5°). Aspect effect: shows active cooperation between Mars (action, courage, competition, and effort) and Pluto: the person can use pressure or difficult situations as a resource.

With Mars in Taurus, action becomes slow, physical, and persistent. The person may not move quickly at first, but once desire or anger is engaged, the energy is hard to stop. This Mars is good for endurance, material effort, craft, sensual pursuit, and steady pressure over time. Under stress, it can become stubborn, possessive, slow to adapt, or unwilling to change course even when the situation has already shifted.

    Mars sextile Pluto (orb 1.5°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is very tight; this describes a stable character pattern more than a passing reaction.

    Here, Mars in Taurus brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance); Pluto in Leo brings crisis, power, survival, and regeneration with Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen).

    Concrete cooperation: this aspect shows active cooperation between Mars (action, courage, competition, and effort) and Pluto: the person can use pressure or difficult situations as a resource.

    Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Mars.

    Open the full aspect reading under Venus

    Mars trine Neptune (orb 5.5°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.

    Concrete support: this aspect gives natural support between action and inspiration: the gesture can carry a strong, popular, or imaginal image.



Barney Frank has Jupiter in Aries

How to read this placement

Jupiter in Aries remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Jupiter describes personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons, with Aries style: initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses personal fulfillment, confidence, and opening of horizons through the Aries style (initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

With Jupiter in Aries, the person finds fulfillment through initiative, courage, competition, and the right to begin. They often become more confident when life offers a challenge, a risk, or a clear first move. This Jupiter encourages boldness, entrepreneurship, physical enthusiasm, and the feeling that opportunity opens when one acts. Under stress, it can become impatient, self-centered, reckless, or unable to distinguish confidence from mere impulse.



Saturn
Saturn Discipline, limits, structure
Uranus
Uranus Freedom, rupture, invention
Neptune
Neptune Image, popularity, inspiration
Pluto
Pluto Crisis, power, regeneration
Lilith
Lilith Ideal, fascination, refusal

Barney Frank has Saturn in Taurus

How to read this placement

Saturn in Taurus remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Saturn describes discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery, with Taurus style: nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses discipline, limits, duty, fear, and long construction through the Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

Aspect connected to this placement: Saturn square Pluto (orb 0.7°). Aspect effect: creates friction between Saturn (discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery) and Pluto's crisis instinct: pressure can become domination, fear, or destructive escalation unless it receives a clear outlet.

With Saturn in Taurus, discipline is applied to security, money, body, comfort, and concrete resources. The person often learns slowly, builds patiently, and wants proof that something will last before trusting it. This placement can give endurance, practical management, loyalty to simple realities, and a strong ability to preserve what matters. Under stress, it can become fear of lack, resistance to change, or difficulty enjoying life until everything feels materially safe.

    Saturn square Pluto (orb 0.7°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.

    Here, Saturn in Taurus brings discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery with Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance); Pluto in Leo brings crisis, power, survival, and regeneration with Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen).

    Concrete friction: this aspect creates friction between Saturn (discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery) and Pluto's crisis instinct: pressure can become domination, fear, or destructive escalation unless it receives a clear outlet.



Barney Frank has Uranus in Taurus

How to read this placement

Uranus in Taurus remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Uranus describes disruption, independence, and change, with Taurus style: nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses freedom, disruption, broken rhythms, and the need for independence through the Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

With Uranus in Taurus, independence expresses itself through money, body, production, stability, and material values. The person may question inherited ideas about ownership, work, comfort, food, land, or what makes life secure. This placement can give practical invention, unusual taste, and the ability to modernize concrete systems. Under stress, it can bring sudden material disruptions, stubborn refusal to move, or a push-pull between craving stability and needing freedom.


Barney Frank has Neptune in Virgo

How to read this placement

Neptune in Virgo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Neptune describes imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration, with Virgo style: precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses imagination, image, popularity, and the ability to read collective currents through the Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

With Neptune in Virgo, the dream function takes the color of work, service, health, method, craft, and practical repair. The person may sense collective moods through everyday suffering, bodily fragility, working conditions, or the need to make life cleaner and more useful. This placement can give compassionate skill, healing imagination, and the ability to make care concrete. Under stress, it can dissolve routines, create impossible standards of purity, or turn worry into a vague spiritual duty.


Barney Frank has Pluto in Leo

How to read this placement

Pluto in Leo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Pluto describes crisis, power, survival, and regeneration, with Leo style: presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses crisis, power, sexuality, survival, and transformation through the Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

With Pluto in Leo, power concentrates around ego, creativity, visibility, love, children, pride, and the need to leave a mark. The person may meet pressure through being seen, admired, rejected, or challenged in creative authority. This placement can give magnetic presence, dramatic willpower, and the ability to turn personal expression into influence. Under stress, it can become control of attention, domination through charisma, fear of humiliation, or obsession with being exceptional.


Barney Frank has Lilith in Pisces

How to read this placement

Lilith in Pisces remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Lilith describes pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise, with Pisces style: imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses the pure ideal, absolute demand, desire, fascination, and what refuses to become ordinary through the Pisces style (imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

With Black Moon Lilith in Pisces, the non-negotiable point concerns dreams, compassion, faith, art, solitude, and the invisible emotional world. The person may refuse a reality that has no mystery, no mercy, or no space for inner life. This placement can give spiritual intensity, poetic truth, and a refusal to betray the deepest dream. Under stress, it can become escapism, martyrdom, confusion, addiction to impossible ideals, or difficulty accepting ordinary limits.