Brandon Boyd is trying to overcome his feelings of insecurity. To do so, he needs a home: a dwelling, a territory, or perhaps a safe space or setting where he can rest, and let down his systems of defense against the outer world, which he finds aggressive and hostile. He is ready to make some sacrifices in order to maintain and consolidate the structure he has chosen. True inner security, based on real knowledge of himself, his abilities, and his shortcomings, his strengths and his weaknesses would no doubt be most effective and would allow him to remain open to the varieties of experience offered by the world.

You are a person with a paternal complex. This means that you have trouble finding your identity, as your father or a father figure may have been absent physically or emotionally during your childhood. Because you lacked a particular sense of security which could be provided by a paternal presence, 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.

Brandon Boyd’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. Normally, he has the feeling that 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.

Brandon Boyd has great strength of character. His courage and endurance enable him to accomplish even extremely arduous tasks. Although he sometimes behaves impulsively, he generally knows how to plan out an effective strategy, and, as a result, he reaches his goals without meeting any major obstacles. His forcefulness gives him certain leadership skills, which he may implement to creative and constructive ends.

You were raised in an austere and sober environment, which may have led to a sense of self-sufficiency. You are skillful, meticulous, conscientious, and efficient, but lack self-confidence and personal assurance. These guilt feelings may lead you to turn down prominent career positions for which you are fully qualified. You are aware that early success is often short-lived and fragile, and that time rewards those who are patient and persistent, like you.

Brandon Boyd hides a fear of emotional commitment behind a façade of fairly engaging idealism and a nearly palpable spirit of brotherhood and friendship. The truth is, Brandon prefers to observe life from afar rather than come down and dirty his hands in it. However, this fearful and distant attitude will not necessarily enable Brandon to know and love himself better.

Brandon Boyd is a gifted orator and charismatic person 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. He is fond of social events and parties, and enjoys entertaining and charming a captive audience of guests. Indeed, Brandon has special dramatic and artistic talents which would make him successful in any field. He also enjoys displaying his generosity, but he can also be easily offended. His partner will need to be a brilliant person, strong and sure of themselves, devoted to Brandon and able to enhance his reputation.

Brandon Boyd’s intellect is lively, agile, and sensitive. However, he does not 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. Moreover, his feelings sometimes blur his objective vision of phenomena and people, which may cause him to make errors in judgment.

Brandon Boyd maintains strong ties with his past, and it often seems difficult for him to open his heart to new people. His love affairs exist on the surface level, because his lust and sensual desire rarely turn into a need to understand, protect, and care for the other. Moreover, it is difficult for him to meet partners who combine the ideals of the tender parent and the great lover.

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

Brandon Boyd’s insecurities might cause him to come off as haughty and arrogant. His vanity is easily wounded, and he abhor overt criticism.

Brandon Boyd is sometimes afraid to love. The world of his feelings is characterized by a certain chill and restraint. But he is not unfeeling; on the contrary, his sensitivity is so delicate that he is careful to protect it. His determination to maintain control of his feelings and force his emotions to obey the laws of reason may stand in the way of intimacy and joy.

Brandon Boyd’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.

Brandon Boyd will have trouble finding the perfect harmony he seeks in love. He is proud and delighted to shine, and will not settle for anything less than a starring role. As a result, he demands quite a bit of his partner. Whereas he sees marriage as an opportunity for social advancement, he is liable to strike up with a mate more interested in ideas than success (unless they are always busy with their friends). However, after age 40, he may find harmonious fulfillment.

For Brandon Boyd, love is ruled by the sign of reason. However, his striving for lucidity may sometimes lead him to the impossibility of loving. If he does not succeed in overcoming his inhibitions, he might be liable to become involved with a fairly selfish and cold person. In this case, his home could be a cold and lonely place.

You are characterized by strong sensual and affectionate urges which drive you to seek pleasure. Your need for romantic fulfillment may compel you to marry, because you also seek 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 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.

Brandon Boyd is hypersensitive and tends to relive the anxieties, apprehensions, and romantic absolutes of his first love relationships, which occurred around the ages of 13-14 years or 20-21 years. He is exquisitely sensitive, but almost completely barricaded behind a layer of aloofness. He will not settle for anything less than eternal commitment, total harmony, and absolute loyalty. He is sometimes presumed to be cold, even by those close to him. He usually hides his emotional reactions or does not even allow them to reach the level of his consciousness, in an effort to protect his sensitivity, which he sees as his weak point. He is fairly vulnerable, even in the intimacy of a stable and established relationship. Usually, he will disguise his strong feelings as a kind of possessiveness or even jealousy. Certain misfortunes may arouse a negative emotional state inside him, and he feels unworthy of the love which is lavished on him. This psychological prohibition which rules over all of his desires and affects should loosen with the passage of time; likewise, his fear of approaching the other will diminish. As a result, the second part of his 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.

Brandon Boyd is a flexible individual, and his intellectual faculties draw on sudden flashes of pure intuition as well as logical, rational thought. He has progressive, inventive, and sometimes utopian ideas; they usually relate to human or social problems. He always strives to be in the vanguard, creating a better world for the future.

Brandon Boyd expresses his thoughts and ideas in direct, spontaneous outbursts. He is fairly extroverted and eager to discover and understand the outer world. An idealist, Brandon looks forward to a bright future but is sometimes subjective and reckless.

Brandon Boyd is an excellent speaker and has a great ability to communicate with people. However, when it comes to competing or dealing with direct conflict, he may be at a loss. He has a gift for orating and could be a great communicator or actor, but he might struggle in other fields.

In the early years of childhood and adolescence, you may have experienced a conflict which prevented you from developing your intellect and imagination in a harmonious way. It may be somewhat difficult for you to integrate new ideas and concepts or to give your thought structure and coherence. You may have a distaste for studying, which might require a great deal of effort for you. You may harbor feelings of insecurity that are so acute that they may undermine your will and therefore your ability to compete. However, if you overcame these emotions, you would see that you have plenty of marketable skills and that many satisfactory solutions to your feelings of ineptitude and inadequacy are within your reach. Because this psychological complex may be related to childhood or adolescent opposition to parental or academic authority, you may not readily accept people who represent law enforcement agencies or power as an adult. You may display some hostility or vindictiveness toward them as a matter of principle. You should sometimes be careful of what you say.