Brandon Carter searches for stability in his life. He wants to find a firm, unchanging structure for his life, but his efforts are often vain because he unconsciously desires movement, change, and perpetual instability.

Brandon Carter’s personality and behavior are prone to being disrupted by a contradiction between the masculine and feminine archetypes governing his psyche. Because his sensitivity is in conflict with his determination, his attitude and performance may be moody, fluctuating, and uncertain. Usually, Brandon has the feeling he has to make superhuman efforts to succeed in assuaging his yearnings and fulfilling his ambitions. His unconscious, sensitive side often disapproves of his conscious endeavors and stealthily works to defeat them, causing crucial omissions, mistakes, and gaps which effectively sabotage his plans. In his relationships, the images Brandon builds up and projects on the other are contradictory. As a result, any bond, even if it is pleasant and positive, also grates on his nerves. Brandon finds it dissatisfying and irritating at the same time.

Brandon Carter has great strength of character. His courage and endurance enable him to accomplish even extremely arduous tasks. Although he sometimes behaves impulsively, he generally knows how to plan out an effective strategy, and, as a result, he reaches his goals without meeting any major obstacles. His forcefulness gives him certain leadership skills, which he may implement to creative and constructive ends.

Brandon Carter sometimes finds it difficult to fit in with society’s rules and conventions. The mask of sociability most well-adapted people wear is difficult for him to assume, and it is hard for him to act out the roles expected of him as a normal member of the community. The usual social values and rewards, like money, respect, and prestige, barely interest him. His refusal or inability to play the social game may make it hard for him to find a job, which may have negative consequences on his financial and legal status. Reluctant and unwilling to adapt to the demands of social life, Brandon sometimes unwittingly makes mistakes when a new project is in the planning stages. For example, he may leave gaps in a job application, botch up an interview with a prospective employer, or make a big mistake when bidding for a contract. But his financial difficulties may clear up when his emotional ones do.

You are an individualist who believes in freedom and independence. You have discarded the conventional values of your social class and adopted an innovative lifestyle. Your passionate convictions can sometimes cause difficulties in your relationships, because you are uncompromising in your beliefs. You need to learn to recognize your own limitations and to accept the responsibilities you have to other people. If you do not do this, you are likely to be embroiled in conflicting relationships. The roots of your extreme behavior may lie in your relationship with your father or teachers when you were younger. For some reason, you may have rejected the paternal image or refused to identify with your father, in the same way that you are now refusing to adopt any values related to convention, tradition, or widespread usage. In every important life decision you make as an adult, you must rely on yourself to develop the appropriate behavior. And you must impose limits on your desires in relation to reality and the law.

Brandon Carter is physically and mentally free. His youth and home may have been of the rootless, wandering type, which could have given him a taste for movement and independence. He needs to be aware that his life has a purpose and hunt for it in various belief systems, both traditional and new age. In fact, he has an unmistakable gift for philosophy. The faraway appeals to him, and travel is likely to be an important aspect of his life.

Although your demeanor is cool and distant, you are extremely sensitive. In some cases, your rather austere and rigid behavior and your refusal to yield too readily to sentimentality discourage others from being too demonstrative of their tenderness and affection. You have spells of melancholy in which you do not feel worthy of being loved and tend to forbid yourself emotional fulfillment. An austere or somewhat traumatic childhood experience may be the source of this behavior. You may have suffered rejection in your infancy, and, as a result, lacked the parental love which is essential to the cohesion of a personality and identity. In order to feel secure, and to protect yourself from ever suffering rejection or abandonment again, you withdrew into yourself and developed your aloofness as a defense mechanism. When you finally let down your defenses and allow yourself to express your feelings, you tend to become impassioned and exalted. You are fairly introverted and egocentric and have a powerful sense of your own identity.

Brandon Carter resents having to impose limitations on himself, and he may sometimes try to dodge obligations and commitments. The obstacles and hindrances reality places on his path to personal and social development tend to depress him. He sometimes broods bitterly about the frustrations to his self-fulfillment and might have a fairly pessimistic vision of society and its possibilities.

Brandon Carter’s attractions are usually immediate and intense. They rise quickly to fever pitch. The story of these passions is often dramatic to excess, combining all the plot elements of a classic love tragedy: jealousy, possessiveness, agony as an erotic stimulant, etc.

Brandon Carter’s birth chart indicates that he has an emotional function which is usually expressed carefully and reasonably. Brandon distrusts his emotional urges and somewhat wary of his feelings, so he tries to rid himself of all partiality and get some perspective and distance before making an emotional commitment.

Brandon Carter, while relatively unstable in your love life, displays chronic indecision. Your bonds could easily shatter, or present you with problems of adaptation and understanding. You must honor your taste for liberty. If you feel stifled, you may break off a relationship or run away from it.

Brandon Carter has an unsettling attraction which cannot completely hide a certain aloofness. If his loving feelings are frustrated, he may sink into a state of deep despair. This may lead him to marry on the rebound. The jealousy he arouse, or that drives him at times, might have devastating effects.

Brandon Carter has a great emotional ideal, full of subtlety and tenderness. However, he tends to be overwhelmed by his imagination and may not be selective enough when choosing a partner. His romantic and trusting nature may make him vulnerable. Although he strives to establish peaceful, uncomplicated relations, he sometimes experiences painful disappointments. His artistic delicacy and refinement provide him with a sincere love of the arts, music, and literature. He is likely to be a gifted poet.

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.

Brandon Carter has a fairly skeptical temperament which relies on remarkable analytical and critical faculties. He is sensitive and curious, a keen observer of facts who collects detailed information he will later pore over and analyze. This type of logical, rational mind is extremely efficient for elaborating methods or sorting and classifying information. However, it sometimes lacks flexibility or broad-mindedness.

Brandon Carter tries to shun subjectivity and be as objective as possible. His thoughts are usually structured, and his reasoning, based on objective facts or experience, usually relates to practical goals.

Brandon Carter has a lively and agile spirit. He is curious and open-minded, approaching various life experiences with an attitude free of dogmatism and prejudice. As a result of his great mental vitality, Brandon often has an opinion on every subject. However, Brandon does not always have the patience necessary to examine a subject in-depth. Brandon enjoys manipulating expressions and concepts and amuse himself with witty remarks, satire, and controversy. If Brandon learned to control his flow of words and elaborate his thoughts more, he could make a talented communicator. Because Brandon is often too hasty to formulate and construct the arguments which would back up and inform his ideas, he is sometimes misunderstood. Brandon is often blind to the rashness of his judgments and convinced they are well-founded and objective, which sometimes irritates the people around him. If Brandon were to succeed in disciplining his mind somewhat, he would have numerous opportunities to apply his communications skills to a great career. However, Brandon would do well to be careful of his nerves.

Brandon Carter:

I sometimes make mistakes in judgment, and my understanding of things is not always in tune with social realities or prevailing opinion. My judgments tend to be hasty; my decisions are reckless. Moreover, I tend to overestimate my abilities and usually aim higher than might be realistic. Once an enterprise or project is underway, I may try to avoid obstacles by dodging certain duties. Because my vision of the world differs somewhat from social realities, I should be extremely careful and scrupulous in regard to legal matters, in order to avoid any complications of that type. I am sometimes slightly dishonest in my relations; I may break promises or attempt to duck responsibility. However, I should realize that such conduct toward other people is also a form of unconscious self-loathing. If I continue to behave in such a way, I am exposing myself to the same lack of sincerity from my partners.