Learn from the mistakes of others

While on the surface you sometimes appear all beauty with no substance, in the right situations you can surprise everyone with your electric personality.

Admired the world over for your physical attributes you are soft, malleable and ductile - and with your capacity to be hammered into a leaf thinner than human hair you really know how to take a beating. This is not necessarily a process you enjoy. Like many beauties you can be a bit fragile - but alloying yourself with another metal gives you the toughs to make it through life as a ring, necklace or occasional dental filling. And your usefulness doesn't stop there: your talents for conducting heat and electricity and your ability to withstand the advances of dirty-old-[wo]man oxygen make you a prized (and pretty) component in circuit boards and electrical connectors.

Famous Golds
Ian Thorpe
Audrey Hepburn
Princess Diana

Ideal Partner
While you are the ideal candidate for a bit of good old fashioned S&M, your true talents shine through when you mix it with a tiny bit of someone stronger - just a tad though: you're way too easily swamped by others. If that sounds too tough perhaps a spiritual life would suit you. With your detachment and smugness borne of the fact that you can always fall back on your good looks you're an ideal candidate for any number of modern day self-pandering pursuits. But with your underlying fragility it might be advisable to try a 10 day retreat before signing up for one of the contemplative orders. And try to get out of doing the dirty work - that's what the lesser metals are there for.

[Blame reverancepavane for this one!]