If you’re serious about changing yourself, the first step is to become aware of the weaknesses which may be holding you back and preventing your evolution. These might include your superficiality, your lack of sincerity, your indifference, your frivolity, and your fear of commitment.

You sometimes sense a conflict between your desire for social and professional success and your need for a stable, secure domestic life. You are deeply committed to both ideas and do not always succeed in reconciling their schedules and demands on you. Sometimes it feels as though you will never be able to find a balance. However, no job promotion will really satisfy you if you have neglected your most intimate needs and desires. Although it sometimes seems easier to you to climb the rungs of the career ladder out there in the real world, if you merely sacrifice your domestic life, you are only trying to fool yourself. You should accept the fact that your domestic life is the true basis and foundation of your development. All your career endeavors and success will be even more rewarding if they are supported by a safe, warm personal life.

Brian Welch is restless and impatient. His dissatisfaction sometimes compels him to launch himself into an energetic effort to transform society. Because he has the ability to conceive of fairly radical models for social change, he sometimes demonstrates a desire to spearhead a progressive movement. However, his determination to impose his own ideas forcefully could turn off people he is so eager to help. He will do well to realize that only a transpersonal vision of the world (that is, a vision which transcends his own personal ego problems) is appropriate nourishment for the archetypes which could bring about a real transformation and improvement of social structures.

Brian Welch has significant intellectual potential which may merely need to be managed better and oriented toward his environment. In the first part of his life, this mental energy may have some negative effects and drive him into self-destructive behavior. He will have to make an effort to understand certain obsessions, which are unconscious and therefore all the more powerful and irresistible, if he wants to overcome the feelings of failure they cause. A complete psychological metamorphosis may occur when he makes up his mind to accept and understand the matters he has rejected and repressed.