Aaron Elkins seems to be resigned to his fate, including his insecurity. Actually, he is fairly introverted and withdrawn, trying to make sense out of his inner confusion and fathom his inner depths.

You have a difficult time forming attachments to people or things, which can lead to a feeling of isolation. Because you didn’t have a father figure to provide you with guidance and support, you had to develop your own system to survive. This system worked well for you as a child, but it has now become entrenched and prevents you from growing. Because you rely on psychological defense mechanisms to protect yourself, you have a difficult time asserting yourself in social situations. This can lead to feeling shy and uncomfortable, and you often find yourself as an observer rather than a participant. Because you are mainly motivated by your authoritarian impulses, you have a difficult time feeling guilty about your behavior. You judge yourself harshly, and sometimes punish yourself by setting difficult tasks for yourself. Gradually, you will need to build up a strong inner discipline and acquire the strength to face the problems of life in a detached and mature way.

Aaron Elkins is vigorous and energetic. He has an immense need to assert his individuality and his attitudes and actions are actually motivated by an unconscious desire for power. His lively, alert, and determined personality puzzles the people close to him, who cannot understand whether his behavior is the result of pure selfishness or merely of an excess of energy. He has a short temper and must learn to control his impulsiveness, which might expose him to a great deal of unnecessary conflict.

You are a free thinker and individualist who believes that your most important values are freedom and independence. You have thrown off the conventions and customs of your social class and adopted an innovative lifestyle. Your passionate convictions sometimes trouble your relationships, as you may be uncompromising in your dealings with others. You would do well to learn to recognize your own limitations and accept the responsibilities you have to others, or you are liable to find yourself continually embroiled in conflicting relationships. The roots of your somewhat extreme behavior probably lie in your relationship with your father or teachers in childhood and adolescence. For one reason or another, you may have rejected the paternal image or refused to identify with your father, in the same way as you now refuse to adopt any values related to convention, tradition, or widespread usage. In every important life decision you make as an adult, you rely on yourself to elaborate the appropriate behavior, and the limits you must impose on your desires in relation to reality and the law.

Aaron Elkins delightedly immerse himself in the depths of human experience, stretching his intellectual, emotional, and spiritual resources to their maximum.

Aaron Elkins is pragmatic and realistic. He evaluates people and things according to practical, common-sense criteria instead of abstract concepts. A sensualist and lover of luxury, he has a penchant for material comfort and takes great joy in physical pleasures. In relation to others, socially and privately, he likes to build stable relationships and is not especially fond of change. His warmth gives him a great deal of ease when meeting people, as clients (for business purposes), but his close relations also benefit from this affection and his ability to express his feelings naturally and openly.

Aaron Elkins has a sensitive personality. He may jump to conclusions, which could disrupt relationships, as well as career plans. He is subject to cyclical energy flows and goes from periods of feverish activity to periods of withdrawal and introspection. The aggressive element in his behavior may be explained by emotional problems he may have experienced in infancy: his mother, or a mother figure, may have had an energetic and volatile personality.

Aaron Elkins, although pragmatic and relatively realistic, is sometimes tormented by an insidious feeling of insecurity which interferes with his ability to grasp reality. Change unnerves him, and at certain times, he tends to cling to old-fashioned customs or lifestyles. Insecurities might cause him to repress his emotional needs.

Aaron Elkins tends not to readily reveal himself, preferring to keep his thoughts and feelings to himself. He has a penchant for intense emotions, and sexuality is a prominent element in his life. He enjoys relationships that are passionate and motivated by his desires. He would find a career that placed him in contact with troubled people rewarding.

Aaron Elkins is fairly shy, reserved, and discreet when it comes to matters of the heart. Even in intimate moments, he remains modest and doesn’t always readily express his feelings. He’s sensitive and giving, wishing to be of service to those he loves. He would do well to trust that he deserves to be made as happy as he makes his partners.

Aaron Elkins’ birth chart indicates an emotional function which is usually expressed carefully and reasonably. Distrustful of his emotional urges and somewhat wary of his feelings, Aaron tries to rid himself of all partiality and try to get some perspective and distance before making an emotional commitment.

Aaron Elkins has a great deal of charm which he is likely to use to accomplish his ambitions. He is pragmatic and idealistic, self-focused and disinterested; an unconscious contradiction distorts his vision of his partner and their behavior toward him. This could be summarized as a tendency to demand everything and its opposite from them. If he does not become aware of this inner wrinkle, his marriage is likely to be stormy. At that point, his demands could become boundless, and his vision one-sided and intractable.

Aaron Elkins doesn’t know which partner to choose or when to settle down. Particularly drawn to people who are (too) attractive or (too) sophisticated and who are not really suited to him, Aaron is likely to be disappointed. But if he does marry one of these people, he will be completely devoted to them and will stand by them come what may.

Aaron Elkins may be characterized by strong sensual and affectionate urges which drive him to seek pleasure. His need for romantic fulfillment may compel him to marry, because he also seeks the legal and social legitimacy the institution of marriage confers on an emotional bond. Indeed, the household is liable to be prosperous and even opulent, as if this offered further evidence that he had indeed achieved success. However, privately, he might be less committed to certain obligations and duties.

You are hypersensitive and tend to relive the anxieties, apprehensions, and romantic absolutes of your first love relationships, which occurred around the ages of 13-14 years or 20-21 years. You are exquisitely sensitive, but almost completely barricaded behind a layer of aloofness. You will not settle for anything less than eternal commitment, total harmony, and absolute loyalty. You are sometimes presumed to be cold, even by those close to her. You usually hide your emotional reactions or do not even allow them to reach the level of your consciousness, in an effort to protect your sensitivity, which you see as your weak point. You are fairly vulnerable, even in the intimacy of a stable and established relationship. Usually, you will disguise your strong feelings as a kind of possessiveness or even jealousy. Certain misfortunes may arouse a negative emotional state inside you, and you feel unworthy of the love which is lavished on you. This psychological prohibition which rules over all of your desires and affects should loosen with the passage of time; likewise, your fear of approaching the other will diminish. As a result, the second part of your romantic life will be more rewarding. In any case, if you want to experience a harmonious love relationship and gratify yourself emotionally, the defense mechanisms you have elaborated to make yourself inaccessible to others will have to be dismantled.

You have a romantic imagination, soaring with idealism, dreams, and poetry. You are emotive and hypersensitive, making you especially vulnerable emotionally, since you are sometimes overwhelmed by your feelings and affects. Although you seek an ideal soulmate, a partner with whom you could maintain blissful, smooth relations, you are sometimes met with disillusionment. Because your rather excessive sensitivity and your need to merge with the other are deep and powerful enough, they can submerge your judgment and discernment, so you sometimes form extremely intense bonds too quickly with individuals who are not appropriate partners in many ways. When you meet someone, you fall under the enchantment of your dream of ideal love and cannot keep yourself from delighting in a reverie of future romance, placing the other on a pedestal. Early on in the relationship, you yield to another of your characteristic urges and lose yourself in the individual who is so dear to you, melding with them, only to awaken one morning and find yourself as if in the arms of a stranger, greatly astounded and disappointed. Actually, your psyche is constructed in such a way as to make your sensitivity a function of the environment, in many cases; it follows the flow of momentary emotions and impressions. Before you take on any major commitments, you should make a conscious effort to evaluate the relationship realistically, and see whether the person really reciprocates your intense love, for you may merely be in love with the mirage of an ideal partner. Your tendency to believe in your illusions may mark you as an easy prey for people with bad intentions. It would be a good idea for you to find a different object for your affections, or a form of sublimation, because you tend to be so disappointed by your great emotional investments. The delicacy and subtlety of your imagination procure artistic refinement for you, and you love the arts, music, and literature, which could all be good sources of emotional involvement and fulfillment. Because your sensitivity also makes it easy for you to empathize with the psychological or social difficulties your peers are struggling with, you might also find it rewarding to commit yourself to social work.

Aaron Elkins’ intellect is simultaneously subjective and sensitive, acute and intuitive, always practical and deeply rooted in human experience. With his memory and imagination combined with his shrewdness, he would be a gifted project manager, businesswoman, or scholar of history or literature.

Aaron Elkins expresses his thoughts and ideas in direct, spontaneous outbursts. He is fairly introverted and eager to discover and understand the inner world. An idealist, he looks forward to a bright future but is sometimes subjective and reckless.

Aaron Elkins is a person who is usually kind and benevolent. He exerts a certain charm and knows how to speak persuasively and convincingly. He is adept at smoothing the asperities of what he has to say when it is necessary. This aspect of his personality is a great advantage to him socially, but in situations where he must either compete or deal with direct conflict and hostility, he may be somewhat at a loss for how to behave. Aaron has an undeniable gift for oratory which could be applied to a communications-related occupation or to artistic expression (as a stage or screen actor). Writing and dance, two other arts which associate expression and movement, might also be fields in which he would excel.

Aaron Elkins has a mind that is always hungry for knowledge. His exceptional ability to learn means that he can easily accumulate encyclopedic erudition. His intellectual curiosity can be a drawback at times, as he is often distracted by a multitude of other subjects. However, with discipline and a conscious effort at organization, he can be successful in any field of study. He would be especially well-suited for teaching, historical scholarship, advertising, writing (journalistic or literary), and travel.

You have a brilliant mind and are very intelligent, but your thought processes can be slow. This might be because you experienced some failure or humiliation during your formative years. You are fairly inhibited and pessimistic, and you tend to doubt yourself and your intellectual skills even though you have a lot of gifts as a thinker. You should become aware that your thought patterns and habits are a sign that you are on the brink of a really big breakthrough which will give you an understanding of the complexity of things and phenomena. However, it will take time and effort to achieve this. Your mind is very deep and accurate, and it is drawn to the essence of things and their fundamental structure. As a result, you are especially suited to the study of mathematics, architecture, engineering, or perhaps even politics. Your contribution to society will probably be most lasting and effective in the field of knowledge and expertise. Whatever career you choose, you should learn to work alone, because you tend to be uncomfortable in some surroundings. You will also have to learn to conquer your impatience, because you tend to waste time agonizing over deadlines and schedules. Moreover, a lack of self-confidence could cause you to be fairly conventional and respectful of time-honored ways. Instead, you should find the courage to question your convictions.