Your first name of Mary [actually now my middle name] has made you a friendly, good-natured person. As you are naturally talkative, you find it easy to meet and make friends with many people. This name inclines you to be very sympathetic and generous toward others when they are in difficult or unfortunate circumstances. You can be very firm, positive, and independent in your own ideas and in reaching your own decisions, yet when it comes to taking action or following things through to completion, you often need encouragement. You respond quickly to kind words or any appreciation shown you. There are artistic, creative abilities in this name that you could express through music or singing, or, in a more practical way, through sewing or interior decorating. You enjoy freedom from monotony and are stimulated by unexpected opportunities for meeting people, entertaining, or pursuing activities of a carefree nature. In your work, you find it difficult to be neat and orderly. You rarely plan things ahead of time, or follow a routine. Emotion and feeling, the desire to be carefree, friendly, and happy, are the driving forces in your being, rather than shrewdness, ambition, and material success. You must guard against uncontrolled speech; when provoked you can be very sarcastic and outspoken. This name can also cause nervous tension to centre in the head, in either headaches, earaches, or a difficulty in sight or hearing.

Eerie, ain't it? Except for the bit about finding it difficult to be neat and orderly; I'm fiendishly tidy at work and at home. Othewise, it's a very sound assessment of my nature, and I'm never sick except for, gosh, frequent tension headaches. Ooky! As far as I'm concerned, this is exactly like astrology or Tarot: fun, interesting, unscientific, and great party talk.