Hariy'el

Hariy'el accompanies the period from 1 to 6 June and belongs to the Cherubim. Its motto is «I give concrete form to an immense vital energy». In this symbolic portrait, the gift is a broad perspective capable of holding together aspects of life often considered separate. The mountain evoked by the name represents growth supported by all its slopes.

Work, family, ideals and free time can pull you in different directions. If you invest everything in one, the others make themselves felt again through desires, guilt or longing. While working you think of what you are neglecting at home; when seeking freedom, a commitment left behind weighs on you. It may seem that precisely what you care about most meets the most obstacles.

The risk is giving up desire, letting circumstances carry you or continually shifting life's centre without finding relief. The useful step is recognising that you need not erase three directions to follow one. Growth needs a reasonably harmonious whole in which the parts can support each other.

This balance does not require doing everything at once or giving everything equal time each day. It requires avoiding making one area the sole measure of your worth. A professional responsibility, a bond, space for pleasure and an idealistic interest can find different places over time without one justifying the disappearance of the others.

At work, organisation, strategy and leadership allow you to use the overall view. Carl von Clausewitz represents attention to relationships between the parts of a conflict. In study you may be drawn to broad disciplines such as the philosophy of history or theoretical physics. In listening to people, the same openness leads you to keep learning without reducing every experience to a familiar scheme.

Federico García Lorca shows versatility in forms of expression: poetry, popular tradition, music and theatre become different paths of a living search. Travel, too, can make room for the need for new landscapes and perspectives, provided it does not become merely a way to leave unresolved the life you continue to carry with you.

In values, breadth of vision allows you to see even the limits of a cause you have approached. Pancho Villa evokes the force of action and the difficulty of remaining within a fixed political direction in this portrait. What needs cultivating is freedom of judgement without using it to avoid every commitment or responsibility.

The opposite risk is considering your vision so broad that it puts you above everything. Work, affection, ideals and pleasures lose interest; you begin seeking only something more intense. Personal freedom can then become an unlimited demand that takes no account of relationships or consequences.

Cagliostro and the Marquis de Sade represent, at the extreme side of the portrait, a search for power or freedom that loses proportion. Marilyn Monroe brings the painful image of a life in which fame and possibilities are not enough to provide a sense of space and satisfaction. These evoke the difference between having many directions available and being able to inhabit the ones that matter.

Another limitation may emerge when you ask others to follow the same breadth. A partner, child or student does not have to become equally versatile to deserve your respect. You can change perspective quickly, while the person listening needs time, a clear step and a contribution they can genuinely receive.

Hariy'el's direction is to give form to a life with a wide view without losing the present moment. You can cultivate different interests and remain wholly in what you are doing. The mountain grows when its parts support it, rather than every slope trying to become the summit on its own.