Celebrity Horoscope for Lionel Hampton

You might come across as being cool, aloof and dispassionate. You may even have cold hands or feet, become easily chilled and have a slow metabolism. Without a lot of work, life's fast lane is probably not for you.

TIP: Add more red coloring to your wardrobe and your environment. Add ginseng to your diet. Eat more spicy foods, especially cayenne pepper. Enjoy more moderate physical exercise early in your day. Get a home that faces south. Live in a warm, sunny environment. Use a fireplace or a wood stove. Burn candles.

Four or more planets in Air signs
YOUR MIND IS YOUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET

Your mind is your most valuable asset; you could be an intellectual. The world of ideas is important to you. Intellectual companionship, seminars, books, magazines, films, and educational cassettes interest you. Feeding your mind is just as important as feeding your body. School can be the place for you.

TIP: In the words of Robert Anton Wilson, "You need to learn more about everything, including how to learn more."

People fascinate you and you tend to regard them in a detached manner. Consequently you enjoy teamwork and social interactions more than most folk. Sentimentality does not figure highly in most of your relationships.

You can excel in any field that requires negotiation skills. Sales and writing may be avenues of pursuit. You have an affinity for abstract reasoning, codes of law and ethics - you're very good at perceiving, comparing and communicating. You are much more objective than most people, and probably more liberal in your thinking.

Your weakness is not foolishness so much as it is indecisiveness. Too much thinking can result in lost opportunities. There is a time to get out of your head and make a decision. If you find that you can't sleep because your mind is racing, get up and work with your ideas. Get ideas down on paper, onto index cards, into a word processing machine or up and out into the airwaves.

Consider getting a brain machine and taking "smart drugs." Learn speed reading and typing. To avoid overstimulation, cut back on the use of artificial sweeteners and sugar. To the same end, you might take a mineral supplement and kelp tablets.

Five or more planets in Mutable signs
YOU HAVE PLENTY OF INTERESTS

You're more versatile than most people. You enjoy variety and become bored easily. You're pretty good at adapting to change and going with the flow. In fact, you'd rather go with the tide than against it. Put another way, you're accommodating and obliging. You can adjust.

You're good at getting the word out- by phone, by pen or whatever.

It's possible that you do six or seventeen dozen things at a time. You're certainly not suited for the Zen approach of one thing at a time; nevertheless, try and focus yourself more. Establish your top two priorities in each of several arenas of your life.

TIP: You'll be happier as soon as you determine exactly what it is that you want.

Essentially, if you want to be happy, you need to be first and best. Somehow, some way, you need to find a competitive outlet. Ultimately, you only compete with yourself. You begin with the question posed to every solar superhero, "How will you use your super powers?"

You are here to start something new, to go where no one else has gone and to do what no one else has done. The stars dare you to be a pioneer, a champion and a doer.

Sexually, you've got some naturally hot stuff. One of your chief symbols is the flame of the torch. Consider it to be the sacred fire of the inner temple, and the force will always be with you and your enterprises.

Your emotional life is not as sticky as some people. You're self conscious, and prefer to be rational rather than cloying. You're verbal and like to talk things out. You have good mental reflexes. You can be easily bored.

Under stress you can get chatty and restless and jump from subject to subject, sometimes incoherently to others. To cut back on stress and find emotional satisfaction you need a variety of intellectual pursuits.

You are flirtatious, love word play and can be turned on with whispers. You like to talk about sex.

Travel can be encouraging and a short trip is usually welcome. A traditional domestic life may not be for you. The bottom line is that you're restless and need change and communication. Find the right balance between your emotions and your logic.

It would seem that you absorb ideas and tend to learn through osmosis rather than study. You're somewhat psychic, intuitive, telepathic and receptive to the thoughts of others. This may even be unconscious.

Loyalty, consistency and faithfulness matter to you. You appreciate people, places and things that are solid and dependable. You have a taste for luxury and posh surroundings.

The water can both energize and relax you. Make your bathroom a more lavish place. Install a water fountain and an aquarium in your home. You're naturally pliant. To increase your agility and love for life: swim, sail, dance, surf and do in-pool exercises.

A sense of duty, some ambitions and natural business abilities are yours. To increase your success, increase your people skills. You know how to be expedient, now learn to loosen up. An extra measure of success comes through the implementation of 12-year plans.

It is your task to acquire some educational discipline. You can turn abstract ideas into practical reality. TIP: To advance and earn, study and learn. Follow the three-beat pattern: Take it in, assimilate it and disseminate it.

It is important that you free yourself from restrictive people. Great knowledge and power can be yours. Some of your friends are unsettling. You can be a rebel leader and trouble-maker extraordinaire. You get a 7-year itch to pursue the highest human ideals. Find an outlet for your leadership.

When it comes to home, family and country you're part of a generation that tends to be idealistic. Your religious beliefs are sentimental. If your very foundation seems uncertain, take another look at what makes you feel secure.

Knowledge is your greatest power. Part of your job is to speak the unspeakable. Reorganization is the permanent condition of a vigorous mind. It is extremely important that you exert more conscious willpower over your own thoughts and speech.