Your first name of Shantera has given you an eagerness for knowledge and an intense desire to do something worthwhile in life. Your intense, driving nature must find outlets in creative accomplishments and progress to avoid moods and periods of depression. During such challenging moments, you tend to be temperamental and reactionary, perhaps showing your disapproval through blunt expression or a chilly silence that can hurt others even worse than words. You find it easier to write your thoughts. Your quiet intensity is difficult for others to understand and thus, you are on guard for fear of being ridiculed or criticized. You cannot tolerate boredom and monotony. You have a clever, imaginative, and analytical mind, constantly questioning the whys and wherefores of life, but your restless intensity often causes your thoughts to be scattered. It is not easy for you to take advice, subsequently; you tend to work alone or independently. Loving the outdoors, you enjoy outside activities and the beauty of nature in its many facets. The nervous intensity experienced with this name can lead to health weaknesses centring in the heart, lungs, or stomach.
