KATAKA

Name: Kataka (Pronounced Kah-Tah-Kah)

Dates: (July 17 to August 16)

Symbol: A Crab

Element: Water

• Feelings oriented, intuitive, sympathetic.

• Emotional imbalance, submissive, slow, ponderous, too sensitive.

Quality: Moveable

• Likes to move or take action, innovative, full of change, travels.

• Irresolute, scattered, hasty, impatient, impractical.

Favorable: Love of home and family, focus on family, prefers to take their own advice, instinctively a good parent (to everyone), preference for others' support and a life of ease, enjoys pleasurable diversions, sensitive, economical, good memory, traveler, great imagination, supportive, protective, good listener, intuitive, teacher, preacher, emotionally open, appreciates correction ,encouraged by kindness, laborious, strong affections, loyal to mate.

Unfavorable: Overly dependent, or clinging, too available, tires or loses interest easily, drab, shifts moods quickly,ebb and flow of career and finances, emotional spats with loved ones, lack of emotional self-sufficiency, hoarding, hypersensitive, deluded, moody, martyr, worrier, penny pincher, caught in self-pity, feels abandoned or discounted by others, picks dysfunctional friends and partners.