Berkeley Smith experiences his inner life as a process of growth and maturation, nurtured by his involvement with others and the positive and negative encounters this generates.

Berkeley Smith leads a life which is open to the outside world. His personal consciousness is forged by the heat of outer events. He is inclined to adopt the most objective viewpoint possible to be pragmatic and perhaps even materialistic.

Berkeley Smith continues to contribute to important social causes or collective ideals, but he resists any project he will be unable to lead himself, according to his own individual direction. He identifies himself with an activity with social implications and attempts to know himself through this activity.

Berkeley Smith, thought, intuition, and inner perceptions predominate in your psyche. Open and curious, optimistic and enthusiastic, you are eager to participate in everything happening around you. Your affections are lively and spontaneous, but may be more intellectual than sensual. In a partner, you would seek a source of mutual spiritual or artistic inspiration. Light-hearted and perhaps even fickle, you never allow yourself to be overcome by outer realities or emotions. In its most exaggerated form, your buoyancy borders on indifference.

Berkeley Smith struggles to get into natural harmony with the physical world and the limitations and restraints it places upon him. Idealistic, he tends to be somewhat disconnected from practical considerations, and barely pays any attention to material things like food, money, his surroundings, and so on. He tends to be footloose and fancy-free, oblivious to the necessities of survival in the physical world, until his lack of material resources – an issue to which he usually grants no importance – becomes an emergency. This feeling of being out of touch with material things and the physical dimension of reality may sometimes lead him to see himself as unfit for this world. He may think he cannot attach himself to anything that would sustain his efforts at self-expression. However, his impractical nature offers many positive aspects. He sees life’s possibilities as limitless. He is apt to develop his imagination or pursue a spiritual quest in order to transcend the material world.

You work hard to understand the feelings of others. But your difficulty in understanding your own feelings and emotional needs mirrors the difficulty others have in understanding theirs. 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.