Joel Smallbone senses that he has instincts which may be dangerous, and he tries to restrain and control them. As a result, he may adopt a fairly ascetic lifestyle. His attitude, which denies the vital importance of the most archaic and darkest forces within him, is not entirely innocuous. If he hopes for a more harmonious development, he will do well to realize that instincts can be tamed; they do not react positively to being trampled.

You have a paternal complex, which can make it difficult for you to find your identity. Maybe your father wasn’t around physically or emotionally during your childhood, which deprived you of the patterns or models which are usually helpful in structuring a personality. Because you might have lacked a particular sense of security which could be provided by a paternal presence, as well as the examples of behavior to follow in confronting the difficulties inherent in every life, you were forced to protect yourself against negative influences and find your own system in order to grow and feel secure. Although this system was quite useful to you as a child, it has now settled in to such a degree that it interferes with your evolution. Psychological defense mechanisms and crutches which were once useful now encumber your mind or inhibit your developmental efforts. As a result, in certain situations, it is difficult for you to assert yourself, and you tend to remain an awkward or passive observer. Because your authoritarian urges are mainly directed at yourself rather than others, you sometimes feel guilty about your behavior. You judge yourself severely, and sometimes punishes yourself by setting difficult tasks for yourself. Gradually, you should build up a strong inner discipline and acquire the strength to face the problems of existence in a detached and mature way.

Joel Smallbone 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 be admired. Aware of the personal magnetism he possesses 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.

Joel Smallbone is an energetic person who has a great need to assert their individuality. Their attitudes and actions are actually motivated by an unconscious desire for power, which incites them to rush into action despite the frequent threat of risk and danger. Because they have very little control over their energy and impulses, Joel sometimes injure themselves bodily or start arguments without really having meant to do so. They have a short temper and would do well to learn to control their recklessness, which exposes them to a great deal of unnecessary conflict and adversity. They are also likely to start projects which are not really appropriate to them, only to be forced to quit soon after. Before they make any important decision, they must learn to stop and ask themselves if what they are about to do is really positive for them.

You are an individualist who believes in freedom and independence. You have thrown off the conventional values of your social class and adopted an innovative lifestyle. Your passionate convictions can sometimes be a problem in your relationships, as you are uncompromising in your beliefs. You need to learn to recognize your own limitations and accept the responsibilities you have to other people. If you don’t learn to do this, you are likely to have a lot of difficulty in your relationships. The roots of your extreme behavior may be due to 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 as you are rejecting traditional values now. In every important life decision you make, you have to rely on yourself to come up with the appropriate behavior. And, like with most things, you have to impose limits on your desires in relation to reality and the law.

Joel Smallbone is an eloquent speaker and compulsive charmer with a powerful personal magnetism. He cares a great deal about his reputation and will try hard to be admired and appreciated by the people around him. Fond of social events and parties, Joel likes to be the host, to entertain and charm a captive audience of guests. Indeed, he has special dramatic and artistic talents of the caliber necessary for success in film, theater, fashion, or art in general. He enjoys displaying his generosity, but he also displays a short temper at times; he is easily offended. His partner will have to be a brilliant person, strong and sure of themselves, devoted to him and capable of enhancing his reputation.

Joel Smallbone has a lively, agile, and sensitive intellect. However, he doesn’t 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. Additionally, his feelings sometimes blur his objective vision of phenomena and people, which may cause him to make errors in judgment.

Joel Smallbone felt out of place as he walked into his new job. The building was huge and the office was opulent. He found himself staring at the expensive Persian carpet and the paintings on the walls. He had always been a practical person, preferring to focus on the task at hand. His new boss, a woman named Karen, walked into the office and greeted him. She was a striking woman with striking blue eyes. Joel felt a stirring in his loins and couldn’t help but feel a little intimidated by her.

Joel Smallbone 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.

Joel Smallbone’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.

Joel Smallbone is always riding on a wave of enthusiasm. In love, he is dashing and uninhibited. His frankness is sometimes devastating, and his aggressiveness sometimes creates problems. A strong-minded person, Joel is not ready to give up either his freedom or his taste for adventure. He tends to place loved ones on a pedestal and then find himself feeling disappointed. However, he is ready to devote himself entirely to cheering for and supporting the mate he eventually chooses.

Joel Smallbone, when it comes to romance, often inspires instant and intense love. But this could cause him to succumb to a jealous partner who aims to dominate him completely. In the end, he may find that love brings little satisfaction. His second relationship could have a far better chance of being a happier one.

Joel Smallbone has a passionate, demanding nature when it comes to matters of the heart. As a result, affairs of the heart are one of the primary things that drive him in life. His personal charm and magnetic personality are incredibly alluring, and unfortunately, his attempts to seduce others often don’t result in the fulfillment and satisfaction of his desires. This is because of his impulsiveness and impatience, which can sometimes lead to lack of tact and delicacy when approaching those he is attracted to. As a result, it can be somewhat difficult for Joel to maintain stable and harmonious relationships. His emotional behavior is also subject to a conflict between his quest for love and his need to satisfy his lust. His outpourings of affection and need to be loved in return can sometimes create complicated situations in which lust can be confused with love, or love can exist without lust, and he can feel unfulfilled or unrequited. This inner contradiction is a sign of Joel’s tendency to derive pleasure from suffering – either his own or that of his partner. The relationship thus becomes the setting for a kind of power struggle, weakening it as a source of psychological equilibrium. Nevertheless, Joel could sublimate this difficulty through artistic expression.

You may be characterized by strong urges for sensual and affectionate pleasure, which drive you to seek out a mate. Your need for romantic fulfillment may compel you to marry, because you also seek the legal and social legitimacy marriage confers on an emotional bond. Indeed, the household may be prosperous and even opulent, as if this offered further evidence that you had indeed achieved success. However, privately, you might be less committed to certain obligations and duties. At worst, you might deny the commitments that your optimism and expansiveness made you rush into too soon. If this were to be the case, the outward image of the couple’s success (wealth and comfort, etc.) would only be a façade which compensated for its emotional impoverishment and failure. Sooner or later, this hypocrisy might provoke a full-blown conflict. A second possibility is that a psychic incompatibility may gradually take root, pitting your romantic nature against the prerogatives of your career.

You are hypersensitive and tend to relive the anxieties, apprehensions, and romantic absolutes of your first love relationships, which occurred around the ages of 13-14 years or 20-21 years. You are exquisitely sensitive, but almost completely barricaded behind a layer of aloofness. You will not settle for anything less than eternal commitment, total harmony, and absolute loyalty. You are sometimes presumed to be cold, even by those close to her. You usually hide your emotional reactions or do not even allow them to reach the level of your consciousness, in order to protect your sensitivity, which you see as your weak point. You are fairly vulnerable, even in the intimacy of a stable and established relationship. Usually, you will disguise your strong feelings as a kind of possessiveness or even jealousy. Certain misfortunes may arouse a negative emotional state inside you, and you feel unworthy of the love which is lavished on you. This psychological prohibition which rules over all of your desires and affects should loosen with the passage of time; likewise, your fear of approaching the other will diminish. As a result, the second part of your romantic life will be more rewarding. In any case, if you want to experience a harmonious love relationship and gratify yourself emotionally, the defense mechanisms you have elaborated to make yourself inaccessible to others will have to be dismantled. Any profound relationship will also require that you learn how to forget yourself occasionally in the other.

You are a passionate and ardent individual, and your relationships are energized by intensity and passion. A charmer perpetually engaged in a quest for the ideal love, you are often more in love with the idea of love than with a partner. As a result, your love life may be subject to some instability. You are generally attracted to original people who defy norms, standards, and classifications, and expect them to amaze and fascinate you. Your greatest contradictions surface when an intimate relationship is established. Although you merge your ego entirely into the couple, you are likely to demand a total autonomy and liberty which are inimical to intimacy. If your partner charms and captivates you long enough, there is some possibility that they will form a more solid bond with you; otherwise, you are likely to yield to your need for novelty and fall under the spell of an entirely different person who exerts a new kind of charm for you. Midlife may be a turning point for you from this point of view. Your contradictory attitude may in some ways hide a compulsion to reject and deny the bonds of dependency inherent to a love relationship. Your behavior enables you to remain aloof, to commit yourself only halfway without consciously admitting it to yourself, and to avoid feeling guilty if and when you lose interest. An insatiable appetite for novelty and exaltation sometimes keeps you from forming stable relationships. Indeed, you are tormented by the struggle between your undeniable need for affection and an equally imperious desire for personal progress and emancipation. As a result of this inner turmoil, your romantic aspirations are usually sabotaged sooner or later by your conviction that your partner has become an obstacle to your individual progress. Because you think of love as a restraint, you may even eventually consciously refuse any emotional approach to love interests. As an ascetic, you 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, you are also likely to meet “the one” who inspires you to initiate a change in your behavior.

Joel Smallbone is plodding but realistic and pragmatic. Because he is chiefly preoccupied with the practical aspects of things, he is especially apt to develop more efficient production concepts. Although his good judgment and common sense provide him with an excellent ability to handle the tangible world (he is certainly clever, and can quickly assess the tangible value of things), his thought processes might be relatively impervious to abstract concepts and spiritual awakenings.