This is way cooler than mbti or whatever personality typing you've heard of.
So let us do it with our friend Shakira. You see her chart above. Asc sign is fire sign so hot and dry. Mars the ascendant lord is also hot and dry.
Asc aspects- aspects to BOUND ONLY. so her asc is in mercury Bound of Aries which is from 12° to 20°. See if any planets see the asc and fall within this range? That is sun & Saturn- both 13° and witness the asc, & mercury- 19° and witnesses asc
Mercury takes the qualities of whatever sign it resides in hence cold and dry.
Moon sign is cancer so cold and wet.
Moon lord is Moon itself - cold and wet again.
Moon phase : 1st quarter to full. That is hot and dry.
Moon aspects to BOUND ONLY . Moon falls in Jupiter bound of cancer which is from 19° till 26°. Any planets witness the moon and fall in these degrees ? Mercury (cold and dry, takes qualities of its sign) at 19°
Jupiter (hot and wet) at 21°
And mars (hot and dry) at 24°
That makes our friend Shakira to be choleric with a hint of melancholic! She is assertive and expansive, makes a good leader, likes people and popularity (that's the heat in her which is expansive) but because of the dryness in her temperament she does not want to change herself or compromise in order to fit in. She is not a people pleaser. She is sincere and honest and if you like it fine,if you don't,also fine.
The hint of melancholic sometimes makes her retreat in solitude.
Especially when she is in a bad mood, she becomes an extremely private person (i am analyzing her temperament idk abt her personal life). Melancholic is cold and dry and coldness is restrictive.
She does not accept to be a leader just for power, the hint of melancholic gives her a sense of Integrity like she wants to lead cause of her hard work and cause she earned it, not just as privilege.
People trust her to lead cause they know she won't change herself or bend her will for the sake of others and she is assertive enough to handle this responsibility.
All jobs that involve being a boss and leader, physical activity, sports, etc are suitable for her. She would do well with a sanguine partner tbh, who shows her that sometimes compromise and diplomacy isn't bad, without restricting or controlling her expansive nature.
Sanguine is hot and wet so they have the expansive heat but at the same time the flexible, diplomatic water. A partner who shows her that she can lead with flexibility too and not just stubbornness.
Melancholic: cold and dry
Let's see how it can show you the evolution of the soul: you can calculate it in the solar return too!
So like the natal temperament for her will always be choleric but the soul changes sometimes and in some year of her life she might show tendency towards another temperament temporarily. Bc we are not constant beings we are evolving souls. So let's see her temperament in 2026 SR.
Thats her SR for this year. Pisces asc so cold and wet. Asc lord jupiter so hot and wet. Moon phase full to last quarter so cold and dry.
Asc bound is Venus bound of Pisces from zero to 12 degrees. No planets touches it so I put none. The moon falls in mercury Bound of Leo which is from 18° to 24° so mercury and venus touch it. Mercury is 22° degrees Aquarius and Venus is 20°.
Venus hot and wet and mercury takes the qualities of its sign so also hot and wet. Moon sign is fire sign so hot and dry and its lord is sun so also hot and dry.
That's sanguine with a hint of choleric. So for 2026 she will be more flexible/diplomatic than she usually is. She should not become too submissive tho. I don't think she will bc of the hint of choleric that's still there.
She will be more sociable and will want to mingle with groups and people not necessarily as a leader above them but rather as an equal. She will be more emotional than usual and lead with a mix of head and heart. She will have looser boundaries and will be more open minded.
The water in the sanguine will give her flexibility that she never expected 2 have. She might become little bit sacrificial or let go of some personal ambition for good cause/higher calling. She might have some escapists tendencies but the hint of choleric will keep her grounded.
You can also find out the temperament during a certain period of time from a lovely adorable timing technique called Firdaria!! They are plenary periods similar to Dashas in Indic astrology. So Shakira is currently in a Saturn/Moon period until February 2nd, 2028. You can find out the signification of each Firdaria period from Dr. Olomi's patreon as he translated them from Abu Ma'shar and Mash'allah.
There are long descriptions for what happens in each period and among them it tells what the temperament of the person will be in each period.
So for saturn/moon period it says:
"Their temperament will be dependent on the condition of the moon in the nativity". That moon is from 1st quater to full so that's hot & dry.
And the moon is also in Cancer and that's cold and wet. So the SR said Sanguine with hint of choleric
And the condition of the moon with the Firdaria says Phlegmatic and choleric. So yeah you get an idea that she is going to have like an increase in wetness but she will still maintain her expansive attitude. So you get the point i guess. Use the SR first and the Firdaria 4 nuance