Attracting the attention of those around them in a hidden, indirect, oblique way. Avoiding direct, obvious attention. Yet it is impossible not to notice them: they make noise, shuffle, trip, stammer, drop things as if by accident, complain, act up, provoke attention with their creative work and so on. Close, direct, obvious attention makes them uneasy.

Disharmonious and Conflict-Prone Traits

1. Vengefulness, holding grudges.
2. Clinginess (“like a burr”), getting stuck in a loop.
3. Greed, the urge to grab a piece for themselves (“there is barely enough for us as it is”), the shuttle-trader mentality
4. Enviousness
5. Imagined ailments, hypochondria
6. Voicing dissatisfaction with everyone and everything, grumbling
7. “Professional” complainers, filing grievances about others
8. Using people to provide for themselves
9. Pedantry (in outward appearances)
10. Affectation, courting shock
11. The end justifies the means
12. Feeling, especially a negative one, weighs on them, takes hold of them and rules over reason.

Harmonious Traits

1. Cunning
2. Knowing how to live, how to take their share and stand up for what is theirs
3. Persistence, drive, confidence, tenacity, the ability to get what they want and push through any barrier. Dream -> Goal -> Result. They “compose” their own life and then live it.
4. Hospitality, an open table (a sense of plenty).
5. Extravagance, refinement.
6. A carefully thought-out appearance, the ability to look after themselves
7. The ability to lose themselves completely in a role, a state, an experience (it is not me you see, it is a role, a piece of art)
8. The ability, in a surge of feeling, striving and desire, to give up whatever is “superfluous” and gets in the way.

Fears, Sources of Displeasure

1. Obvious, direct attention drawn to them
2. Public speaking
3. That they (their appearance, for instance) will be discussed behind their back
4. There will not be enough for me, I will not get mine in time
5. Logic and evidence turned against them (having the facts of their behaviour picked apart)
6. Looking untidy (pedantry)

Sources of Pleasure

1. I “got” them, I won, I took my revenge, I outwitted them
2. I got hold of something rare, fashionable, hard to come by; I grabbed it, I got it on special order
3. Emotionally charged, looping experiences and states, plunging headlong into the reality of those experiences (from films, songs, music, poems and their own whims and roles)

Careers (Comfortable, Self-Actualizing)

1. Paparazzi (on the other side of the camera)
2. Rumours, gossip, scandals (the tabloid press)
3. Internet forums, chat rooms, LiveJournals
4. Cosmetology, appearance, hairdressing, current fashion, weight loss
5. Film, theatre, music — losing themselves in a role (it is not me being noticed, it is the role); oblique, hidden, extravagant roles.
6. Professional fans of celebrities.
7. Anywhere there are feelings: delight, display, admiration, worship.

Games – Roles – Manipulations

1. I will complain about you, you will get what is coming to you
2. It is not me, it is my role, my deep experience, my state
3. “A soldier won’t harm a child!” (playing the child: “How could you, you villain, treat me like that — me, so delicate — what for?!”)

Appearance

Every detail attended to; either understated or deliberately shocking; slightly puffy

Motor Activity

Provocative, designed to draw attention

Personality Development (Paths)

1. Letting others go, breaking out of the loop, the ability to stop their own hysterics at will
2. Generosity, the feeling of “I have enough”, you cannot get everything anyway
3. The ability — and the permission — to draw attention directly
4. Logic, level-headedness, consistency, seeing cause-and-effect connections