Consciousness and The Ideal of Self:

Brent Rivera is determined to obtain a superlative grip on his emotional urges; he practices holding back his impulses and controlling them. Although it is not an easy apprenticeship, he wants to be able to bear strain with patience, endurance, and stamina. More than anyone else, he is aware of the need for a solid and stable foundation as a prerequisite to any effective action.

Brent Rivera’s personality and behavior are liable to be disrupted by a contradiction between the masculine and feminine archetypes ruling Brent Rivera’s psyche. Because Brent Rivera’s sensitivity is in conflict with Brent Rivera’s determination, Brent Rivera’s attitude and performance may sometimes be moody, fluctuating, and uncertain. Usually, Brent Rivera has the feeling Brent Rivera has to make superhuman efforts to succeed in assuaging Brent Rivera’s yearnings and fulfilling Brent Rivera’s ambitions. Brent Rivera’s unconscious, sensitive side often disapproves of Brent Rivera’s conscious endeavors and stealthily works to defeat them, causing crucial omissions, mistakes, and gaps which effectively sabotage Brent Rivera’s plans. In Brent Rivera’s relationships, the images Brent Rivera builds up and projects on the other are contradictory. As a result, any bond, even if it is pleasant and positive, might also annoy Brent Rivera. Brent Rivera could find it dissatisfying and irritating at the same time.

Brent Rivera is sober and rather reserved and may even strike people as harsh and austere at times. Perhaps Brent was raised in an atmosphere of rigor and sobriety, and, as a result, grew up very fast. Brent has acquired a spirit of self-sufficiency, tend to be rather uncompromising, and have a touchy sense of personal dignity and worth. It is almost as though Brent were fighting an inner battle with Brent’s father or a father figure. The psychological models Brent received from Brent’s father or a father figure as a result of Brent’s interaction and Brent’s own interaction with authority may not have played a major role in shaping Brent’s relationships with the outer world and society. Brent may thus have been forced to compensate for this lack with individual determination.

As a result, although Brent is skillful, meticulous, conscientious, and efficient, a lack of self-confidence and personal assurance sometimes makes Brent timid and hesitant. Brent sometimes feel as though Brent is only masquerading as a respectable, sober adult. Brent tend to be far too critical of Brent’s self and rarely feel satisfied that Brent is living up to Brent’s ideal. These unnecessary guilt feelings may lead Brent to turn down the prominent career positions for which Brent is fully qualified. Brent is aware that early success is often short-lived and fragile and that time rewards those who know how to be patient and persistent, like Brent.

Adaptation and Sensitivity:

Because Brent Rivera’s personality is ruled by his mind, he needs intellectual stimulation in order to feel fulfilled. He is always on the move, in search of new contacts. Curious about all sorts of different subjects, he takes care to inform himself about many things. He enjoys conversation and communication and hopes to be admired for his talent and wit. Due to him having such a wide variety of interests, however, he can be something of a dilettante, and his thinking may sometimes lack discipline.

Brent Rivera has a sensitive nature. Although he may sometimes have trouble controlling his emotional reactions, they are nevertheless a source of vital energy for a constructive passion and may make an extremely positive contribution to his career. In relations with other people, he is quite friendly; he willingly reaches out to people and knows how to listen to their desires and their problems.

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

Love and Sensuality:

Brent Rivera 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.

Brent Rivera’s birth chart indicates a somewhat introverted emotional function which is influenced by the cultural values traditional to Brent’s family and social class. Because Brent does not always trust his emotional urges and reactions, Brent generally prefers to hang back and acquire some perspective before committing himself emotionally.

Brent Rivera’s emotional involvement might be the source of some dissatisfaction for him. The usual romantic behavior and the lifestyle values prevailing in this area are not really appropriate for him. As a result, he seeks few intimate emotional relationships or contacts. He tends to stay in the background and fulfill his emotional needs by sublimating. He might not attain full romantic satisfaction until he reaches middle age.

Subtle and intelligent, Brent Rivera is a mixture of cheerfulness and melancholy, of shallowness and depth. He protects his sensitivity with irony and is always trying to keep control of himself. It is difficult for him to yield entirely to love, because he fears the power of his emotions. He must have an atmosphere of merriment and movement in which to thrive; otherwise, he may feel stifled, in a relationship with a person who is too old or too dull and down-to-earth for him.

Sensible and level-headed on the outside, Brent Rivera is a true romantic at heart. He dreams of an extraordinary person who will carry him off, far from home and who, most of all, will cure his latent emotional depression. But real life is more mundane, and he may end up with an uninspiring partner who can offer neither security nor excitement. In the end, friendships could prove more rewarding.

Brent Rivera has an ardent and amorous character, and his relationships are enlivened by intensity and passion. A charmer perpetually engaged in a quest for the ideal love, he is often more in love with the idea of love than with a partner. As a result, his love life may be subject to some instability. He is generally attracted to original people who defy norms, standards, and classifications, and expect them to amaze and fascinate him. His greatest contradictions surface when an intimate relationship is established. Although he merges his ego entirely into the couple, he is likely to demand a total autonomy and liberty which are inimical to intimacy. If his partner charms and captivates him long enough, there is some possibility that they will form a more solid bond with him; otherwise, he is likely to yield to his need for novelty and fall under the spell of an entirely different person who exerts a new kind of charm for him. Midlife may be a turning point for him from this point of view. His contradictory attitude may in some ways hide a compulsion to reject and deny the bonds of dependency inherent to a love relationship. His behavior enables him to remain aloof, to commit himself only halfway without consciously admitting it to himself, and to avoid feeling guilty if and when he lose interest. An insatiable appetite for novelty and exaltation sometimes keeps him from forming stable relationships.

Indeed, he is tormented by the struggle between his undeniable need for affection and an equally imperious desire for personal progress and emancipation. As a result of this inner turmoil, his romantic aspirations are usually sabotaged sooner or later by his conviction that his partner has become an obstacle to his individual progress. Because he thinks of love as a restraint, he may even eventually consciously refuse any emotional approach to love interests. As an ascetic, he 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, he is also likely to meet “the one” who inspires him to initiate a change in his behavior.

Brent Rivera has a romantic imagination, soaring with idealism, dreams, and poetry. He is emotive and hypersensitive, making him especially vulnerable emotionally, since he is sometimes overwhelmed by his feelings and affects. Although he seeks an ideal soulmate, a partner with whom he could maintain blissful, smooth relations, he is sometimes met with disillusionment. Because his rather excessive sensitivity and his need to merge with the other are deep and powerful enough, they can submerge his judgment and discernment, so he sometimes forms extremely intense bonds too quickly with individuals who are not appropriate partners in many ways. When he meets someone, he falls under the enchantment of his dream of ideal love and cannot keep himself from delighting in a reverie of future romance, placing the other on a pedestal. Early on in the relationship, he yields to another of his characteristic urges and loses himself in the individual who is so dear to him, melding with them, only to awaken one morning and find himself as if in the arms of a stranger, greatly astounded and disappointed. Actually, his psyche is constructed in such a way as to make his sensitivity a function of the environment, in many cases; it follows the flow of momentary emotions and impressions. Before he takes on any major commitments, he should make a conscious effort to evaluate the relationship realistically, and see whether the person really reciprocates his intense love, for he may merely be in love with the mirage of an ideal partner. His tendency to believe in his illusions may mark him as an easy prey for people with bad intentions. It would be a good idea for him to find a different object for his affections, or a form of sublimation, because he tends to be so disappointed by his great emotional investments. The delicacy and subtlety of his imagination procure artistic refinement for him, and he loves the arts, music, and literature, which could all be good sources of emotional involvement and fulfillment. Because his sensitivity also makes it easy for him to empathize with the psychological or social difficulties his peers are struggling with, he might also find it rewarding to commit himself to social work.

Mental and Intellect:

More theoretical than logical and more intuitive than rational, Brent Rivera’s thought patterns come to the fore when they are applied to a vast subject. Brent Rivera is attracted to wide open spaces and distant horizons; as a scholar, Brent Rivera feels an affinity for higher studies such as philosophy or law. However, foreign languages or contacts abroad might also interest Brent Rivera.

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