Al B. Sure! practices restraining his emotional impulses and controlling them. Although it is not an easy apprenticeship, he wants to be able to bear strain with patience, endurance, and stamina. More than anyone else, Al B. Sure! is aware of the need for a solid and stable foundation as a prerequisite to any effective action.

Your personality is prone to disruption by a contradiction between the masculine and feminine archetypes ruling your psyche. Because your sensitivity is in conflict with your determination, your attitude and performance may be moody, fluctuating, and uncertain. Usually, you have the feeling you have to make superhuman efforts to succeed in assuaging your yearnings and fulfilling your ambitions. Your unconscious, sensitive side often disapproves of your conscious endeavors and stealthily works to defeat them, causing crucial omissions, mistakes, and gaps which effectively sabotage your plans. In your relationships, the images you build up and projects on the other are contradictory. As a result, any bond, even if it is pleasant and positive, also grates on your nerves. You find it dissatisfying and irritating at the same time.

Al B. Sure! is affectionate by nature and loves playing a decisive and central role in his life. He is a charmer who needs to be loved and is aware of his personal magnetism and the power it gives him. He will make subtle changes in himself in order to attract positive attention. He is sophisticated and pleased to savor a lifestyle he sees as a consummate art.

Al B. Sure! You may be subject to mood swings, going from phases of frenzy combined with a feeling of omnipotence and exaltation to phases of apathy and inertia. During your “highs,” your behavior is vigorous and dynamic, but it is also likely to be somewhat excessive. These periods tend to be interspersed with “lows,” phases of sluggishness and inhibition, which compensate for your immense need to assert yourself as an individual. How can you find a way out of this vicious cycle which uses up so much of your energy? You would have to understand that the source of your attitudes and behavior is an unconscious desire for power. We suggest that you meditate upon power, skills, mastery, challenge, desire, and need, your brothers (or brother substitutes, such as friends, cousins, or classmates) – who are key figures – and your adversaries. This should enlighten you. Of course, once you have a clear awareness of your career ambitions and profound desires, you are sure to have plenty of energy to accomplish them.

Al B. Sure! is endowed with a special consciousness that is beyond the bounds of conventional schools of human understanding. This consciousness is something which impresses others with its intensity, if not its eccentricity. However, it is not easy for Al B. Sure! to recognize himself in any social or narcissistic models or identify with any existing roles or attitudes. This is why Al B. Sure! sometimes finds himself forced to construct and assert his own identity on a basis which may impress others.

Al B. Sure! is fond of method and order, preferring to do things according to a pre-established plan. Behavior reflects this tendency; Al B. Sure! will adopt relatively strict models elaborated on the basis of logical or moral reasons. Expression of personal feelings and emotions is not natural for Al B. Sure!, and may sometimes strike others as rigid. However, conscientiousness and application make Al B. Sure! thrive in a work environment, and he tends to treat social engagements and activities as a form of duty. Tastes for clarity, detail, and technique would make Al B. Sure! successful as a scientific researcher or high-tech designer.

Al B. Sure! 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.

Although Al B. Sure’s demeanor is cool and distant, he is extremely sensitive. In some cases, his rather austere and rigid behavior and his refusal to yield too readily to sentimentality discourage others from being too demonstrative of their tenderness and affection. He has spells of melancholy in which he does not feel worthy of being loved and tends to forbid himself any emotional fulfillment whatsoever. An austere or somewhat traumatic childhood experience may be the source of this behavior. It is difficult for his inner self to be detached from this past life, and he sometimes has trouble reconciling the image he has of himself as an adult with the one he acquired back then. The idea he has of himself as an individual is related to the image his parents projected onto him as a child. Nevertheless, the past is history, and he is now an adult. Through self-work, he can rid himself of these phantoms. He has the ability to overcome his mistakes, as well as great endurance and will power to achieve his goals. Nevertheless, he must not repress his sensitivity in order to succeed.

Al B. Sure! is a gifted worrywart who struggles to make friends easily and is sometimes wary of relations with those he is most attracted to.

Al B. Sure! is emotional and tends to react suddenly and excessively as soon as its sensitivity is touched. Although it feels that its independence, freedom, and self-sufficiency are fundamental values, it is sometimes frustrated by its need to rely on its family or friends. Moreover, it does not always grant the freedom of other people the same respect as its own. Likewise, it is sometimes angered by expressions of maternal tenderness, as if it feared that it would doom it to eternal dependency. Its ambivalent behavior, full of jagged edges, may be traced back to the relationship it had with its mother or a mother figure. Although it was dependent on them, they may have rejected it. Now this attitude is extended to any situation in which its sensitivity comes into play and emotional bonds are liable to form. To ward off its feelings of dependency, it tends to become destructive. Based on denial, its reactions are sometimes fierce, impulsive, and excessive, erratic, or contradictory.

Al B. Sure! believes that sexuality is an important part of life and that your relationships are most often determined by your instincts. If you have a relationship that is exclusively satisfying sexually, however, Al B. Sure! might feel frustration, because Al B. Sure! is driven by a kind of unconscious guilt to seek fulfillment for Al B. Sure!’s heart and soul as well. Al B. Sure! tends to be a rather excessive and tormented partner, who often re-evaluates the bonds that connect Al B. Sure! to Al B. Sure!’s partners.

Al B. Sure! enjoys captivating people with the elegance and ease of his expression. He is a witty and engaging flirt, an avid player of the game of love. As a result, the history of his affections is liable to be episodic, a long series of chapters about conquests or fleeting love affairs. He may carry on some love relationships by writing letters.

Al B. Sure! is an eternal teenager with his gaze riveted on the future, and he is imbued with an eminently subjective and personal idealism.

Al B. Sure! is constantly subject to nervous tension, which wears him out and exhausts him. His mind and body are always feverishly active. He always tends to do too much, to become obsessed with insignificant details, or to panic when faced with the unexpected. He is likely to marry a partner younger than he is, either chronologically or in terms of their sense of duty. But perhaps his second marriage will be more reasonable and satisfying.

Al B. Sure! prefers verbal and social exchanges over actual lovemaking. He enjoys flirting and has fun with love, rather than becoming passionately engaged. Because he avoids intense passion, he tends to flutter from one good-looking face to the next, enjoying his ability to charm. He believes that playing this way, the game of love can have few serious consequences.

Al B. Sure! is a gifted people-oriented activity. His intellect, which is simultaneously subjective and sensitive, acute and intuitive, always practical and deeply rooted in human experience, predisposes him to a people-oriented activity. With his memory and imagination combined with his shrewdness, he would be a gifted project manager, businesswoman, or scholar of history or literature.

Al B. Sure! does not express his thoughts and ideas smoothly or easily. He tends to be subjective, seeking to know himself better through a process of introversion.

Al B. Sure! is oriented outward, preferring to communicate with others for the simple pleasure of doing so. He sometimes feels misunderstood and finds it difficult to express the complexity of his inner perceptions.