There are 7 personality types, or roles, to choose from, when we begin a new cycle. We keep to the role we choose, throughout all our 100-plus incarnations.

The most common role chosen is called "server" or (believe it or not) "slave". I think a great illustration of this would be the stereotype grandmother doting on her grandchildren. Someone rushing around "doing" for others, just to keep them safe and happy.

To me, the poster child for this role would be found in the old TV show All In The Family. I'm not suggesting that the actress herself is a server or slave, but the role most definitely is. It is Archie Bunker's wife Edith. She is always fussing around, doing everything for everyone else, nothing for herself. She doesn't miss a beat if Archie says something cross to her. She ignores that. She doesn't bristle with pride. She loves her Archie, and if you look right under the surface, he loves his Edith too. Archie Bunker seems like a "king" to me, so it's a convenient relationship of king and his slave.

The best known celebrity who has been called this role is Doris Day. Others include Sally Field (Norma Rae and Gidget and The Flying Nun), Susan Sarandon, Ray Liotta and William Macy. Keep in mind that if two channels both tell what role a person is, you are going to get two different answers. So I'll stick with Edith Bunker.

The next most common role is artisan. The artisan is described as someone who loves tools, loves to make things and work on things, a craftsman, a very creative person, often a musician or actor. The list of artisan celebrities is longer than any other role's list of celebrities.

I think of Joni Mitchell as an artisan. She's a craftsman with words and songs. She's a nonconformist. She sums up the way I see this type. But nobody ever mentions her so there is nobody else calling her an artisan. Another artisan is the neighbor who is always working on his car or building a deck on his house.

There are so many actors who are referred to as artisans. Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Robert DeNiro, Kevin Costner, Marilyn Monroe, Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta, Denzel Washington, Robin Williams, Renee Zellweger, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Paul Newman, Julia Roberts. Why don't we just say that every single actor in the world is an artisan and leave it at that. Except for the sages, that is.

Then there's Woody Allen, who would be an artisan as actor, writer and director.

In the music world, there's Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Cher, and Burt Bacharach. Why stop there? I think we should be able to add Prince to that list. And Alanis Morissette.

The third most common type chosen is warrior. And guess which actor is described as a warrior. I'll give you a hint. Rambo. Another hint. Rocky. Okay, time for you to guess. No, not Sir Lawrence Olivier. Not a bad guess but no. Actually, it's Sylvester Stallone. Never woulda guessed, huh?

George Washington and Harry Truman are listed as warriors. I don't know about George, he may have been a king. I'd disagree with the magic men on this one and guess that George Washington is a king, even though he led people into war. That's what kings do anyway. As for Truman, I'll go along with that. Truman was a very direct man with a warrior's head on his shoulders, so I'll buy that.

Another happy face that is associated with the warrior type is everyone's favorite mustachio'd villain, Hitler. What a mustache that man had! Perhaps not as flamboyant as that of Oakland A's relief pitcher Rollie Fingers, but distinctive nonetheless, as I'm sure you'll agree. Speaking of Hitler and his mustache, I just learned from Wikipedia that Rollie Fingers grew his expansive mustache at the request of Oakland A's team owner Charles Finley, who was always looking to make his players stand out. It was Finley who gave Jim Hunter the nickname Catfish Hunter. But enough about Hitler.

Women too can be warriors, and the two women I noticed on the list are Jamie Lee Curtis and Barbra Streisand. You can see them as high-spirited, no? Take on a challenge, no? I see warriors as people who are very direct in thought and expression, as opposed to sneaky-cagy, and who take on and enjoy challenges. I bet there are a lot of tough butch lesbian women who are warriors. Stands to reason. I knew a lesbian who I am pretty sure is a warrior, and who found herself in bar fights now and then, but she was a lipstick lesbian, didn't look butch at all, really extremely pretty. But she had that straight-ahead, direct, warrior mentality. I loved her a whole lot. Opposites attract, and I sure ain't a warrior, despite my interest in and talent at martial arts.

The next most common role chosen is scholar. I'm not one, but I'm an honorary one, because other things in my "chart" point to scholar, lots and lots of them. Sort of like in astrology if you are an Aries with all your other planets in Taurus. I'm something else, but most of my other characteristics are connected to scholar.

A scholar is interested in everything under and over the sun. Name a subject, the scholar will eat it up. Doesn't matter what it is. Scholars are a little like librarians. They'll read every book and digest them all. They'll keep note of damn near everything. A Chinese co-worker of mine always called me "a gentleman and a scholar".

Shakespeare is mentioned as a scholar. He seems pretty scholarly to me. Einstein is mentioned as a scholar. So is Leonardo Da Vinci. And J.S. Bach. And Beethoven. And Jane Austen. And Edgar Allen Poe.

Two of the Beatles are listed as scholars. George Harrison and Paul McCartney. I find it easier to see George as a scholar. Paul I'm not so sure of. I might be inclined to add Paul to the list of artisans. What do you think? These celebrity readings can be toyed with, as I've said before, because the next channel who tries to tell you what a celebrity is will Always contradict the last one.

Woodrow Wilson is listed as a scholar. He has that image, doesn't he. And yet, I think of him more as a racist prick than a scholar. He made anti-black and anti-foreigner speeches from the White House and single-handedly started the resurgence of the KKK and its subsequent lynchings of black people in America. Wilson was a royal prick. His idea of "foreigner" included you, by the way. Are you Irish? Are you Italian? Are you German? Are you any kind of "hyphenated American"? He hated them all and said that hyphenated Americans hold a knife to the back of America. I don't know what the hell he was. Anglo Saxon. Those are the only good people in the world, didn't you know? WASP-world. Everyone else is garbage according to Woody Wilson the prick.

My idea of a scholar is William F. Buckley. There's my poster boy for scholar. His calm demeanor, his scholarly manner, his intellectual way. Nobody mentions him, but he's my scholar pinup.

The next most common type chosen is sage. When I hear "sage" I think Howard Stern, because sages are known for being good talkers. I haven't seen anyone else mention him though. A sage can be a wise-ass, and loves attention. An excellent example of a sage is Jim Carey. Quick mouth, quick humor.

Eddie Murphy has been called a sage. See the connection? I can also see it in Jack Nicholson.

There is a very long list of famous celebrity sages. They love the spotlight. The list includes Ellen Degeneres, Mel Gibson, Jay Leno, Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, Ryan Seacrest, Elvis Presley, Will Smith, Ringo Starr, Orson Welles, Oprah, Madonna, Pavarotti, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Eminem, Tom Cruise, Michael Caine, Leonard Bernstein, David Duchovny. I don't know about most of them, but I can sure see Ryan Seacrest and Will Smith as sages. President Bill Clinton is listed among the smooth talking sages.

The most uncommon choices are the priests and kings. Those are the last two roles. The world can do with only so many priests and kings.

Priests are very big into right vs. wrong. They are also very big into opening up to the Great Beyond. Further, they seek to inspire others, to lift others, to point others in the direction of God, or Right, or Goodness, or whatever you want to call it. They condemn evil in whatever form they see it.

The two celebrities on the top of the priest list are Bob Dylan and John Lennon. Those who are familiar with Bob Dylan and John Lennon really don't need any further explanation. They stood for the right, they condemned the wrong, and they inspired others to do the same.

Another priest who really isn't too shabby, though not the same type of celebrity, is Martin Luther King. Back of the bus, my ass! I consider Martin Luther King to be one of the two greatest Americans who ever lived, second only to Abraham Lincoln. I haven't seen anyone put Lincoln into one of these roles, so I don't know which one he fits. Maybe this one as well. I'd think Lincoln was a priest too. Slavery, my ass!

Joan Baez has been listed as a priest. That's also pretty obvious. She has often taken political stands in favor of right, against wrong. Some others who are seen as priests are Robert Duvall, Jerry Garcia, Marvin Gaye, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, and those "life of the party" types, Tolstoy and Plato.

Anyone who has read any of my stuff won't find it hard to classify me at this point. This one here is me. The priest. One of my pet peeves in politics is that our politicians don't see themselves as the shepherds of God's or Mother Nature's flock. I rant and rave about their corruption and self centeredness. I want to beat every last one of them and send them packing, then kill them a few times for their treason against the American people, then burn their dead bodies and feed them to vultures with horrid breath.

The last, and rarest, of the roles is king. Here's a person who seeks to be in charge. Here's a person you stand up tall for, when you meet. Here's a person you don't treat cavalierly.

Perhaps surprisingly, my poster child for the king is Katharine Hepburn. Think about it. She had so much dignity. She was a queen. Think about Katharine Hepburn and you get the feel of what these kings are like. They are rare and special people. You don't monkey with them.

Harrison Ford is also called a king. I can see that. I can relate to the fact that he walks around with a certain dignity.

Another person described as a king is the actor Patrick Stewart. Star Trek Next Generation's Captain Luc Picard. Another powerful personality with innate dignity. Tell me he couldn't play a Shakespearean king.

Another king is "THE" 007, the only 007, Sean Connery.

Another popular king is a fella you may have heard of. His name was Yeshie, or Yehoshua, but we nowadays call him by a name he never heard in his lifetime, Jesus Christ.

They also list Tommy Lee Jones as a king. And the best of all our politicians, Dennis Kucinich.

But I don't want to give the false impression that all kings are so fantastic. There are plenty of them who are just bossy windbags who stand on their dignity. So don't get carried away when you find out that somebody is a king. A lot of times it is "yeah, big deal".