Consciousness and The Ideal of Self:

Jimmy Butler is a serious, steadfast individual who tries to stay grounded. His ambitions are strong, and he will always be seeking a higher social position. He sometimes adopts a strategy of solitude and introversion.

Jimmy Butler’s personality and behavior are liable to be disrupted by a contradiction between the masculine and feminine archetypes ruling his psyche. Because his sensitivity is in conflict with his determination, his attitude and performance may sometimes be moody, fluctuating, and uncertain. Usually, he 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 he builds up and projects on the other are contradictory. As a result, any bond, even if it is pleasant and positive, might also annoy him. He could find it dissatisfying and irritating at the same time.

Jimmy Butler 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 Jimmy’s “highs,” his 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 Jimmy’s immense need to assert himself as an individual. How can Jimmy find a way out of this vicious cycle which uses up so much of his energy? Jimmy would have to understand that the source of his attitudes and behavior is an unconscious desire for power. We suggest that Jimmy meditate upon power, skills, mastery, challenge, desire, and need, his brothers (or brother substitutes, such as friends, cousins, or classmates) – who are key figures – and his adversaries. This should enlighten Jimmy. Of course, once Jimmy has a clear awareness of his career ambitions and profound desires, he is sure to have plenty of energy to accomplish them.

Adaptation and Sensitivity:

Hypersensitive, Jimmy Butler is extremely receptive to the mood in his surroundings. He is unconsciously able to perceive the parapsychic signals or aura people give off, in addition to their words. As a result, he is extremely compassionate and ready to devote himself to their well-being. His imagination has formulated the dream of an ideal life, and he sometimes feel ill-equipped for the realities of this existence. He tends to dodge difficult situations. With his partner, he seeks fusion.

Optimistic and happy to be alive, Jimmy Butler is a cheerful, expansive, pleasant associate to have. He is extremely generous (sometimes to a fault!) and gives of himself and his belongings unstintingly. This positive psychological outlook is the result of a happy childhood and especially an extremely beneficial maternal influence in infancy. He is quite likely to be a professional success; his vision of the world is perfectly adapted to prevailing opinion, and his urges and desires for personal expansion usually elicit a positive reaction from society. By old age, his good reputation and prominence may have earned him fame.

Jimmy Butler does not always readily reveal himself, and he tends to protect his sensitivity. He has a penchant for intense emotions. Sexuality is a prominent element in his life, and his relationships, which are usually passionate, are motivated by his desires. He likes to understand the hidden side of people, their secret or unconfessed motivations. He would thus find a career which placed him in contact with troubled people especially rewarding.

Love and Sensuality:

Jimmy Butler’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.

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

Sensitive but plagued by self-doubt, Jimmy Butler has a contradictory personality torn between dreams and reality, between his nearly mystical need for love and the practical aspect of things. He is timid and rather inhibited, so he is generally careful to confine himself to the sidelines. As a result, many chances could pass him by. If a virile mate took him under their wing, he would thrive. Otherwise, he might find happiness with someone as sensitive and timid as himself, who knows how to understand him in all his complexity.

Despite Jimmy Butler’s reserved and withdrawn demeanor, he tends to attract somewhat excessive partners who may make his emotional life a bit wild and difficult. This is why he may fall in love with a jealous, possessive person who will probably have a great influence on him.

Jimmy Butler 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.

Jimmy Butler has an ardent and amorous character, and his relationships with the other sex are enlivened by intensity and passion. A charmer perpetually engaged in a quest for the ideal love, Butler is often more in love with the idea of love than with his partners. As a result, his love life may be subject to some instability. Butler is generally attracted to original people who defy norms, standards, and classifications, and expects them to amaze and fascinate him. Love is often a matter of luck with Butler. Even when a relationship falls apart, he does not see the experience as a failure or a tragedy; instead, he seems to learn valuable lessons from his mistakes. Psychologically, his emotion contributes positively and efficiently to his evolution. From another standpoint, his acute sensitivity predisposes him to original and subtle tastes; he is so receptive to beauty and attached to the concepts of truth and balance that they may all combine to yield remarkable creative potential.

Mental and Intellect:

Jimmy Butler’s mental aptitudes make him especially good at comparing, evaluating, and weighing information. This intellectual modus operandi has enabled him to develop an innate sense of values, both artistic and ethical, as well as a remarkable ability to relate to other people. Jimmy Butler’s appreciative, conciliatory attitude makes him a skillful diplomat able to untangle conflict situations deftly and with ease. In other situations, Jimmy Butler’s artistic spirit is sensitive to a wide variety of harmonies.

Jimmy Butler 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.

Jimmy Butler’s intellectual faculties and wit are sometimes slowed down because they are turned inward. Because Butler tends to be oriented toward himself, he rarely tries to communicate with others for the simple pleasure of doing so. Indeed, Butler sometimes feels misunderstood. Moreover, it seems difficult to Butler to express the complexity of his inner perceptions.

Jimmy Butler sometimes makes mistakes in judgment, and his understanding of things is not always in tune with social realities or prevailing opinion. His judgments tend to be hasty; his decisions are reckless. Moreover, he tends to overestimate his abilities and usually aims higher than might be realistic. Once an enterprise or project is underway, he may try to avoid obstacles by dodging certain duties.

Because his vision of the world differs somewhat from social realities, he should be extremely careful and scrupulous in regard to legal matters, in order to avoid any complications of that type. He is sometimes slightly dishonest in his relations; he may break promises or attempt to duck responsibility.

However, he should realize that such conduct toward other people is also a form of unconscious self-loathing. If he continues to behave in such a way, he is exposing himself to the same lack of sincerity from his partners.

In the formative years of childhood and adolescence, Jimmy Butler may have undergone a conflicting situation which prevented him from developing his intellectual and imaginative faculties in a harmonious way. It may be somewhat difficult for Jimmy Butler to integrate new ideas and concepts or to give his thought structure and coherence.

Jimmy Butler has a distaste for study, which might require a great deal of effort for him. He could harbor feelings of insecurity that are so acute that they may undermine his will and therefore his ability to compete. However, if he overcame these emotions, he would see that he has plenty of marketable skills and that many satisfactory solutions to his feelings of ineptitude and inadequacy are within his reach.

Because this psychological complex may be related to childhood or adolescent opposition to parental or academic authority, Jimmy Butler may not readily accept people who represent law enforcement agencies or power as an adult. He may display some hostility or vindictiveness toward them as a matter of principle. He should sometimes be careful of what he says.