You are a complex person. You are stirred with contradictory impulses and desires, some of them imperious. Although your rational mind is highly developed and seems to be the source of motivation for your behavior, the most significant realm of your psychology is your subconscious. Therein, a conflict between understanding and feeling is raging, between the psychological functions of thought and sensation (C.G. Jung’s terms). Until this conflict subsides, you might feel a sensation of emptiness. You are troubled by and unable to explain this feeling, which leads you to adopt an attitude of doubt and skepticism. This conflict, and its various ramifications, are the main obstacle to your individuation. Your task consists of becoming the master of the energies of your subconscious, and developing your consciousness in terms of the hidden and invisible. Your evolution will occur through a series of metamorphoses and rebirths. However, at certain points in your life, despite your caution and clear thinking, you find yourself in situations you neither desired nor planned, as a result of explosions and eruptions of the elements fermenting in your psyche. You always survive the worst physical, emotional, or intellectual tests, however, fairly unscathed, because of your ability to be reborn and start afresh. As a partner, you might struggle to make compromises. You may appear frosty and distant at times, and you have a taste for challenging, provocative remarks. With yourself, as well as with others, you are sometimes excessive and complicated. In a discussion, you will express strong, honest opinions. In crisis situations, you wish for your efforts to be noticed. You are obsessed with the problem of death. You tend to believe it holds the secret of life – that death can be overcome. Sometimes your anxiety about death is expressed as a search for answers – how can one learn to live with death, how can one detach oneself from the past and its flesh-curdlingly morbid realities… Decay, immobility, ultimate delivery – these images, which are all symbolically associated with death, sometimes haunt you.

Intellectually, you have powerfully developed intellectual faculties which yield the maximum effectiveness for your behavior. Deductive, analytical, prospective, you are at once a researcher, a detective, and a scientist. You are fairly introverted, and your discrimination tends to direct you toward the spheres of inner life. You are astute at drawing rational parallels between phenomena of different origins. Your love life will be subject to desire and passion. But since you are more aroused by ideas

Benni McCarthy is highly aware of psychological, metaphysical, or mystical questions. The future may hold a complete psychological metamorphosis in store for Benni McCarthy.

Benni McCarthy lives in an imaginary world; the distant and abstract sometimes interests her more than what is right at hand and realistic.

At the time of your birth, Benni McCarthy’s rising sign was located in Aquarius (the Water Bearer), while the sun was passing through the sign of Scorpio (the Scorpion). A summary of the various clues mentioned above provide Benni McCarthy’s personality profile. The following key words capture the essence of Benni McCarthy’s character and indicate certain contradictions which may be sources of tension: Independence – Pugnacity – Rebelliousness – Charisma – Originality – Dignity – Fluctuation – Shrewdness – Irritability – Concentration – Inventive spirit – Optimism – Sense of paradox – Common sense. Benni McCarthy has a straightforward, independent, and domineering personality. She swims against the current, battling preconceived notions, unruffled and nonchalant when her behavior shocks or offends. She is a seeker of originality in all things, a traveler of the road less traveled. Free and confident with her intellectual independence, she will devote herself entirely to her professional life, investing it with all her imagination and power. Her qualities of insight, inventiveness, and her curiosity drive her to investigate behind the scenes, to look beyond appearances and presentations. She could apply these intellectual skills in such different fields as medicine, detective work, or history.

Born on the day after the new moon, Benni McCarthy is said to have a “new moon” personality. This configuration gives him a subjective character, somewhat impulsive and sometimes emotive. Generally, Benni does not see the world in objective terms; instead, he bases his attitude on the feelings various situations arouse inside him. Likewise, in human relationships, Benni projects his imaginary reality onto others instead of seeing them for what they are. As a result, his judgements and reasoning are sometimes deprived of perspective. He may want to make an effort to refrain from overinterpreting other people’s actions, because, being the product of his imagination in most cases, his interpretations are mistaken. If he applies himself to listening more openly, people may reveal their deeper motivations. Benni will be happier and more effective as a result.