Consciousness and The Ideal of Self:

Jack Harlow is determined to obtain a superlative grip on his emotional urges; he practices holding back his 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, he is aware of the need for a solid and stable foundation as a prerequisite to any effective action.

Adaptation and Sensitivity:

Extremely sociable, Jack is instinctively in tune with others. A need to be accepted and respected makes Jack tactful and diplomatic; in fact, Jack will sometimes swallow his personal pride in the interests of the smooth running of the group. Jack is also fond of harmony and order in artistic terms; Jack is sensitive and discerning, and will avoid anything crude and vulgar. As a result, Jack is sometimes offended by the harsh demands of existence. Relationships (the couple, or a partnership) take a central role in Jack’s life.

Jack Harlow’s intellect is lively, agile, and sensitive. However, he does not always avail himself of it and may be confused or irrational in some situations. Although he enjoys playing with words, ideas, and concepts, his thought sometimes lacks discipline and structure. He is fairly preoccupied with details and may tend to waste his nervous and mental energy in futile verbal outpourings. Moreover, his feelings sometimes blur his objective vision of phenomena and people, which may cause him to make errors in judgment.

Jack has a sensitive and affectionate nature. He seeks tenderness and gentleness more than passion. His relationships with others are smooth and pleasant, and he has a natural sense of tact and social grace.

Jack Harlow 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.

Because Jack Harlow is extremely sensitive and has an irrepressible imagination, he sometimes has trouble distinguishing dreams from reality. Although his imagination can be an abundant source of inspiration for creative or spiritual evolution, it tends to be less helpful and positive in matters that concern earning a decent living out in the real world. In a relationship, Jack is extremely romantic and doesn’t always see others the way they really are. He has elegant tastes and art and beauty are one of his chief pleasures in life.

Love and Sensuality:

Jack Harlow is looking for the ideal love and tends to idealize his friends and lovers. A bizarre character, he may prefer to dream of his soulmate instead of making love to one; he is more in love with the idea of love than anything else. His idealism may hide a fear of truly committing himself to a relationship; he tries to intellectualize everything. In time, two options will seem clear to him: an amorous friendship based on shared ideas and intellectual exchange, or an open relationship, free of all constraints except mutual respect.

Jack Harlow’s birth chart indicates an emotional function which is expressed in a direct and fairly impulsive way. He enjoys reaching out to other people and making discoveries. An eternal teenager with his gaze riveted on the future, he is imbued with an eminently subjective and personal idealism.

Full of sweetness and innocence, Jack Harlow would like to please everyone. Jack is an attentive companion and a marvelous host who devotes himself to making everyone around him feel happy and satisfied. Jack is quite popular. However, Jack may easily allow himself to be exploited or confuse love and pity. Jack tends to believe whatever he is told. It will be up to Jack to display a little more common sense before committing himself!

Jack Harlow is hesitant and sometimes unstable romantically and may have a somewhat tumultuous love life. As a partner, Jack Harlow reaches out and then pulls back, gives and then refuses. Actually, Jack Harlow is far more in love with Jack Harlow’s liberty and Jack Harlow’s dreams of love than with reality. Jack Harlow sometimes yields to strange attractions which appear incomprehensible to Jack Harlow once Jack Harlow has recovered Jack Harlow’s senses. Only a friendly lover, who can be a loyal and understanding companion, can provide Jack Harlow with complete emotional stability.

Jack Harlow has the fiery, importunate nature of a fervent lover. Indeed, affairs of the heart are one of Jack’s main purposes in life. Jack’s personal charm and magnetism give Jack nearly irresistible powers of seduction, and nearly every one of Jack’s well-aimed attempts at conquest leads to the fulfillment and satisfaction of Jack’s desires. Due to Jack’s impulsiveness and impatience to initiate new encounters, Jack’s approach to potential partners may sometimes lack delicacy.

Jack Harlow has an ardent and amorous character, and their relationships are enlivened by intensity and passion. A charmer perpetually engaged in a quest for the ideal love, Jack is often more in love with the idea of love than with a partner. As a result, their love life may be subject to some instability. Jack is generally attracted to original people who defy norms, standards, and classifications, and expect them to amaze and fascinate them. Their greatest contradictions surface when an intimate relationship is established. Although Jack merges their ego entirely into the couple, they are likely to demand a total autonomy and liberty which are inimical to intimacy. If their partner charms and captivates them long enough, there is some possibility that they will form a more solid bond with Jack; otherwise, Jack is likely to yield to their need for novelty and fall under the spell of an entirely different person who exerts a new kind of charm for them. Midlife may be a turning point for Jack from this point of view. Their contradictory attitude may in some ways hide a compulsion to reject and deny the bonds of dependency inherent to a love relationship. Jack’s behavior enables them to remain aloof, to commit themselves only halfway without consciously admitting it to themselves, and to avoid feeling guilty if and when they lose interest. An insatiable appetite for novelty and exaltation sometimes keeps Jack from forming stable relationships.

Indeed, Jack is tormented by the struggle between their undeniable need for affection and an equally imperious desire for personal progress and emancipation. As a result of this inner turmoil, Jack’s romantic aspirations are usually sabotaged sooner or later by their conviction that their partner has become an obstacle to their individual progress. Because Jack thinks of love as a restraint, they may even eventually consciously refuse any emotional approach to love interests. As an ascetic, Jack will try to deflect the love function from its natural target and use the energy and bliss it generates for other purposes, the process psychologists call sublimation. However, Jack is also likely to meet “the one” who inspires them to initiate a change in their behavior.

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

From the outside, Jack Harlow seems to be detached and aloof, but on the inside he is an extremely complex individual, full of contradictions. Because Jack sometimes feels vulnerable emotionally, he tries to control not only his own feelings and urges, but may also strive to manipulate those of his partners. Jack aspires to a profound and enduring spiritual unity, but at the same time, the idea of abandoning himself and yielding to the other terrifies him. This anguish may be a source of rather extreme behavior patterns and a somewhat self-focused attitude which could damage the relationship. Because Jack is guarded and somewhat secretive, he tends to be suspicious and is especially uneasy about spontaneous intimacy, although he is fascinated by sexuality. Within the privacy of the couple, Jack will not express his feelings unless he is subject to some tension. Life may be peppered with frequent crises and feuds, arguments and spats which usually act as erotic provocation. This derivation of eroticism from anxiety tends to be one of the fundamental characteristics of Jack’s emotional and sexual functioning. As a result, Jack is likely to be attracted by stormy and complicated relationships.

Mental and Intellect:

Jack Harlow is an intuitive thinker. He does not reason things out through a long, articulate, logical discourse; instead, he seizes the visions or insights that spontaneously flash into his consciousness. He thus has a form of immediate knowledge of various phenomena which is based neither on reasoning nor on any elaborate thought process or method. As a result, if Jack Harlow is an extrovert, he will possess an inventive, innovative spirit gifted for improvisation. If Jack Harlow is an introvert, his mind will be an abundant source of personal inner truths.

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

In relations with other people, Jack’s behavior is usually kind and benevolent. Jack exerts a certain charm, knows how to speak persuasively and convincingly, and is adept at smoothing the asperities of what Jack has to say when it is necessary. This aspect of Jack’s personality is a great advantage to Jack socially; however, in situations where Jack must either compete or deal with direct conflict and hostility, Jack may be somewhat at a loss for how to behave.

Jack 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 Jack would excel.

Jack Harlow has a lively and agile spirit. He is curious and open-minded, approaching various life experiences without either dogmatism or prejudice. As a result of the liveliness of his mind, he tends to have an opinion on every subject, but he does not always have the patience or perspective necessary to examine a subject and gain in-depth knowledge of it.

He enjoys manipulating expressions and concepts and amuses himself with witty remarks, satire, and controversy. If he learned to control his flow of words better and elaborate his thoughts more, he might make a talented communicator.

Because he is often too hasty to formulate and construct the arguments which would back up and inform his ideas, he is sometimes misunderstood. He 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 he were to succeed in disciplining his mind somewhat, he would have innumerable opportunities to apply his communications skills to a great career. However, he would do well to be careful of his nerves.

Jack Harlow has a definite taste for expression and communication. Jack cannot survive without giving voice to Jack’s thoughts and speaking to other people. Jack delights in Jack’s own power to persuade, captivate, and sway an audience with Jack’s words.

Especially attracted to anything new and original, Jack immediately grasps the utility and value of the latest technology or philosophy, no matter how complicated it may be, and has a knack for explaining it to the uninitiated and popularizing it. Because Jack is fairly high strung, Jack may have trouble concentrating on a single subject for very long, unless it is a source of intellectual fascination or discovery. Jack may have to make some effort to overcome this inconsistency.

Jack’s open-mindedness offers Jack creativity, which is a valuable commodity in many occupations: teaching, communications, advertising, etc. Regardless of the career Jack chooses, Jack’s personal development will involve intellectual activity and progress.