For Love or Money: Know Your Cards, Play to Win

Below is some sample text from a number of the chapters from John Townley's Relating Potential Report, created from Oprah Winfrey's birth data. The printed reports are nicely formatted and output on 8 1/2" x 11" paper on a laser printer, and are sent in an attractive, heavy-stock "Profile" cover.

Chapter I. Your General Nature

Approach, Attitude
Your appearance of inner breadth and scope is exciting, though some may feel insecure that they can't match your energies or enthusiasm. Make special effort to include others and give them room to contribute the special things they have to add to you. Key Quality
Your inner inclination to give everyone their due and the benefit of the doubt may make your affections appear too spread out or uncommitted to some, when in fact the opposite is the case. You are intensely loyal, just not blindly exclusive. Key Activity
You place a high value on the substance of things and your efforts in dealing with others will be on the most moral of levels, not necessarily traditional morals, but strong inner standards which you and others must live up to in order to be close.

Chapter Highlights

Lack of confidence in personal relationships is your greatest stumbling block, fueled by a shortage of inner self-esteem. Both who you are and what you do are better than you think, so try listening to others' critiques instead of your own jeremiads. You project a very warm, heartfelt quality because you are usually consistent in your inner direction and your personality style compliments your aims and desires. An open hand goes with an open heart, but keep a guard in reserve for insurance. You have a good innate sense of judgment and timing in how and with whom you express your feelings. By being in touch with yourself you can also help stabilize others and be a welcome shoulder to lean on, an advisor by example as well as word. You have a nice easy, broad sense of personal pacing that allows you to cover a lot of ground without appearing to, with large, relaxed sweeps. You will be able to gently open up more introverted types and broaden their world, open their hearts.

Chapter II. Inner Responsiveness

Key Quality
Your first response to a situation is a good word and a laugh, even when things are dire, so you will be a source of cheer and stress relief to others. You treasure the ability to change your feelings as the situation dictates and avoid emotional stasis. Key Activity
You have a flair for making friends in the right places, as your response to situations always shows class (in the truest sense of the word). Don't let this get you in over your head in situations where you would rather back off & quietly be yourself.

Chapter Highlights

You have an easy style of reception and desire, knowing just how much you want in a relationship and just how much you can get, the two usually being rather closely matched. The ease of friendship is more familiar than the pain of unrequited desire. You have a good innate sense of judgment and timing in how and with whom you express your feelings. By being in touch with yourself you can also help stabilize others and be a welcome shoulder to lean on, an advisor by example as well as word. Chapter III. Mentality Key Quality
Your mind is likely to grasp all sides of a relationship, including some that aren't there, at least not yet. You may thus seem to your partner to be treating him/her in a slightly unreal manner. Concentrate on what's going on now, with an eye ahead. Key Activity
You can do a lot for a partner by using your intellect to ground his or her ideas so they bear greater fruition. You have the talent to make ideas tangible, though flightier types might think you a stick-in-the-mud for it. Go ahead and reap the rewards!

Chapter Highlights

To the extent that you speak well of yourself, others will, too. You have a gift for self-promotion that is fairly effortless so you probably do best when you don't think about it too hard. A few words in the right places work for you doubletime. A native understanding of how to structure your major life direction and those of others gives you a directorial slot in a relationship but won't necessarily make you boss, but rather the navigator instead. You know what lies ahead and can shape it. It may often be hard to put your thoughts into action, particularly when impatience gets in the way and tangles things up. Good advice from another may grease the wheels if you are willing to take it, but mind your temper and watch your words. The urge to express yourself strongly may be hard to overcome at times, but put a cork on it in the absence of a close, understanding partner. What you just know to be right could be dead wrong, so don't expose your flank to your enemies or rivals. You have a far-ranging imagination, but one that does not leave reality behind, so you can be a wealth of practical fantasy for your partner. Spiritual feelings can be well-expressed as well as felt within, making them doubly rewarding and sharable.

"This report was like holding up a new mirror that let me see how I relate to other people. No - it did more than that - This may have been the very first time I clearly saw myself as others see me. Though somewhat startling, this revelation has helped me transform nearly every relationship I have. I wish I had discovered this years ago."

John Novik, UK