Benedetta Porcaroli experiences her inner life as a process of growth and maturation, nurtured by her involvement with others and the positive and negative encounters this generates.

Since you are a social being oriented toward others, your personal interests often overlap with those of your associates or those of the group to which you belong. You are motivated by a need to work together with others and to share life’s pleasures and pains. Your commitments to others are very important to your personal development. This dependence may present difficulties with individual self-assertion and make it hard for you to make decisions on your own. If you want to achieve inner equilibrium, you must behave in a way that your actions benefit both yourself and others.

Since Benedetta Porcaroli is highly attracted to interpersonal activities, she seeks tight bonds with others. She unconsciously needs their psychological support in her quest for herself. Were she to evaluate her psychological development, she would place more value upon human warmth, intimacy, and the need to share than on intellectual understanding or personal freedom of expression.

Benedetta Porcaroli is ambitious and has a natural tendency to better herself socially and intellectually. Her ideas and aspirations are grandiose, and she will be eager to share them with others. Although she is kind-hearted, she enjoys being in control of situations. She derives great fulfillment from the role of the protector and will surround herself with people who need her. She is eager to obtain recognition and honor, but extremely fearful of disgrace. Her visions derive from her ambitions, often aglow with idealism. However, they may be somewhat unrealistic and impractical. Social recognition and esteem are essential to her, and she will demonstrate an amazing ability to achieve the high goals she sets for herself.

A struggle between two fundamentally opposite psychological tendencies is the salient feature of your psyche. However, mental skills and an ability to adapt to the reality principle predominate, though they are subject to impulses from dynamic and emotional principles. Intuition and practicality make a harmonious combination, yielding unusually clear insights into reality and its limitations. The resulting behavior patterns are efficient and practical. However, you may be a bit cautious and skeptical; your unwillingness to take risks may hold you back from gainful experiences, and you are only rarely eager to accept a challenge. Moreover, since your deepest emotions and feelings remain a mystery to you, your vision of the world is sometimes too rigid.

Benedetta Porcaroli is aware of a lack of confidence in herself and in life. Prone to apathy, she may often be discouraged by the strains of living. This reluctance to accept the challenges of existence, which she may perceive as a major problem, may be the result of a self-image which is elusive or flawed. Perhaps, as a child, she was not given the means to develop an ideal image due to the lack of an appropriate role model or caregiver. As a result, she is unable to move herself toward an improved, more positive disposition. She may reject any challenge that would enable her to surpass her current self, or accept it only after long meditation. Steeped in the awareness of her problem, she may be tormented and wish to change. Vigorous physical exercise and an effort to visualize an admirable figure would be beneficial to her, as well as a diet that includes vitality-bolstering vitamins and protein.

You work harder than others to understand other people’s feelings. But this seeming lack of empathy and compassion for others simply mirrors your own difficulty in understanding your own feelings and emotional needs. You are not insensitive, but you are baffled by your own emotions. You see the emotional world as a foreign terrain, perhaps fraught with hidden dangers. Becoming familiar with it would present more drawbacks than advantages. As a result, you may appear to be hard or aloof. You might struggle to establish a rewarding relationship, as you seek special individuals to bond with. If you were able to accept and understand your own emotions, you would have an easier time grappling with other people’s feelings. You have a strong desire for emotional independence, and might have trouble seeing other people’s emotional needs. You might even be the first to deny that such needs are real. As a result, your dependency on others is unconscious. Because it is seen as such a threat, it is repressed. Actually, although you offer conscious resistance to anyone who tries to lure you out of your emotional bubble, you are always making timid, half-conscious forays into the world of feelings, because your loneliness and fear are so unbearable.