Bryce Papenbrook searches for stability in life. Every time he believes he has found a good balance, he realizes he wants something entirely different. He should become aware that the concepts of stability and balance are difficult to apply to life. By definition, life is movement, change, and perpetual instability.

Bryce Papenbrook is prone to mood swings and inconsistency in his behavior. This is due to the inherent conflict between the masculine and feminine archetypes that rule his psyche. His sensitivity is in conflict with his determination, meaning that he often has a moody, fluctuating, and uncertain attitude. Additionally, because his unconscious, sensitive side often disapproves of his conscious endeavors, he often makes crucial omissions, mistakes, and gaps which effectively sabotage his plans. In relationships, Bryce Papenbrook often builds up and projects images on the other that are contradictory, which can often lead to dissatisfaction and irritation.

Bryce Papenbrook is vigorous and energetic. He has an immense need to assert his individuality and his attitudes and actions are actually motivated by an unconscious desire for power. His lively, alert, and determined personality puzzles the people close to him, who cannot understand whether his behavior is the result of pure selfishness or merely of an excess of energy. He has a short temper and must learn to control his impulsiveness, which might expose him to a great deal of unnecessary conflict.

Bryce Papenbrook has a taste for luxury and magnificence, for a dazzling social life and a distinguished career. When things are going well for him, he tends to think of himself as the center of the universe, an attitude which those close to him do not always appreciate. Although he is quite likely to succeed in his ambition to become wealthy and popular and lead a remarkable life in the outer world, his lack of moderation and overweening self-confidence expose him to some danger. His exaggerated optimism could create difficulties by causing him to make errors in judgment.

You are sober and rather reserved and may even strike people as harsh and austere at times. Perhaps you were raised in an atmosphere of rigor and sobriety, and, as a result, grew up very fast. You have acquired a spirit of self-sufficiency, tend to be rather uncompromising, and have a touchy sense of your personal dignity and worth. It is almost as though you were fighting an inner battle with your father or a father figure. The psychological models you received from your father or a father figure as a result of your interaction and your own interaction with authority may not have played a major role in shaping your relationships with the outer world and society. You may thus have been forced to compensate for this lack with individual determination. As a result, although you are skillful, meticulous, conscientious, and efficient, a lack of self-confidence and personal assurance sometimes makes you timid and hesitant. You sometimes feel as though you are only masquerading as a respectable, sober adult. You tend to be far too critical of yourself and rarely feel satisfied that you are living up to your ideal. These unnecessary guilt feelings may lead you to turn down the 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 know how to be patient and persistent, like you.

Bryce Papenbrook cringes from life, passively hoping for a better future, a utopian society, or a transcendent state of consciousness. However, by taking refuge in dreams, he may expose himself to adversity, both socially and in his private life.

Bryce Papenbrook has a profound and fertile inner life and a prolific imagination, but his energy resources are not always sufficient to follow through on and accomplish his multitude of dreams. He tends to live in osmosis with his environment, and effort and action take a heavy toll on him. Usually, he understands phenomena and events intuitively, without really making any effort; so he is not in the habit of disciplining or shaping his thought processes. Like his thoughts, his personality is rather amorphous and disorganized. As a result of this lack of structure, he may have some trouble asserting his individuality and making some personal contribution to society through his career. His tendency to shut out reality and dream impossible dreams, like his refusal of responsibility and duty, may be a source of some difficulty for him.

Bryce Papenbrook generally tends to be motivated by activities which apply to social needs. He tends to give the best of himself in difficult situations which require crucial choices. His ability to concentrate and his gift for solving problems by deductive reasoning are his chief resources in crisis situations or at turning points in his life.

Bryce Papenbrook prefers to adhere to a pre-determined plan in order to maintain a sense of order in his life. He often behaves in a rigid manner, which can be difficult for others to understand. However, Bryce is a highly conscientious individual and thrives in a work environment. He is also quite skilled in the sciences and the arts, having a natural talent for clarity, detail, and precision.

Bryce Papenbrook 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.

Bryce Papenbrook has a sensitive personality. He may jump to conclusions, which could disrupt relationships, as well as career plans. He is subject to cyclical energy flows and goes from periods of feverish activity to periods of withdrawal and introspection. The aggressive element in his behavior may be explained by emotional problems he may have experienced in infancy: his mother, or a mother figure, may have had an energetic and volatile personality.

Bryce Papenbrook is an expansive, affable, and communicative associate. Indeed, some people find him generous almost to a fault! He gives of himself and his resources unstintingly. Paradoxically, there are times when Bryce is self-focused. He reacts instinctively, without taking the trouble to analyze a given situation, and is prone to misjudge. As a result, his everyday life may be riddled with a whole variety of practical problems. Indeed, Bryce senses a conflict between his social life and his family and will sometimes find it hard to fulfill himself in both spheres at the same time. His attitude toward his private life may inhibit his ambitions for social or career expansion; at worst, society (the law) may impinge on his private life. Bryce should be careful not to project his personal problems onto his partner. If, instead, the two of them analyzed the problem, they might be able to find opportunities to resolve it together.

Although you may appear cool and distant to others, you are actually very sensitive. In some cases, your rather austere and rigid behavior and refusal to yield too readily to sentimentality discourage others from being too demonstrative of their tenderness and affection. You sometimes have spells of melancholy in which you do not feel worthy of being loved and tend to forbid yourself emotional fulfillment. An austere or somewhat traumatic childhood experience may be the source of this behavior. It is difficult for your inner self to be detached from this past life, and you sometimes have trouble reconciling the image you have of yourself as an adult with the one you acquired back then. The idea you have of yourself as an individual is related to the image your parents projected onto you as a child. Nevertheless, the past is history, and you are now an adult. It should be easy for you to rid yourself of these phantoms through self-work. You have the ability to overcome your mistakes and great endurance and will power to achieve your goals. However, you must not repress your sensitivity in order to succeed.

Bryce Papenbrook tends to crave order in his life and to prefer to do things according to a predetermined plan. Unfortunately, because his logic and vision tend to be somewhat short-sighted, it requires a great effort for him to adapt to a situation. He is rigid, might struggle to make friends easily, and is sometimes wary of relations with those he is most attracted to. He is a gifted worrywart.

Bryce Papenbrook is sensitive and imaginative, but he has trouble distinguishing dreams from reality. Although his imagination can be an abundant source of inspiration for creative or spiritual evolution, it tends to be less helpful and positive in matters that concern earning a decent living. In a relationship, Bryce Papenbrook is extremely romantic and sees others the way they really are, but he doesn’t always enjoy their company. He has elegant tastes and enjoys art and beauty, which are some of his chief pleasures in life.

Bryce Papenbrook tended to keep his emotions tightly bottled up. He had a penchant for intense relationships, and sexuality was a prominent part of them. He liked to understand the hidden side of people, their secret or unconfessed motivations, and this is what would make a career which placed him in contact with troubled people particularly rewarding.

Bryce Papenbrook is sensitive and compassionate. He readily sacrifices his own interests to others, and he has a deep love for those around him. He is fairly confused and evasive, but he is capable of devoting himself entirely to the person he loves. He has a tendency to daydream and become lost in himself.

Bryce Papenbrook’s birth chart indicates an emotional function which is usually expressed carefully and reasonably. Distrustful of his emotional urges and somewhat wary of his feelings, Bryce tries to rid himself of all partiality and try to get some perspective and distance before making an emotional commitment.

Bryce Papenbrook prefers to blend in with the wallpaper, but is full of qualities, not the least of which is devotion. He does tend to be somewhat fanatical about perfection and detail. In love, his inhibitions might cause him to pass up many opportunities. But he may also find happiness with someone who is as sensitive or shy as he is, who would understand him and make him feel seen.

Bryce Papenbrook is a lover who cannot always sustain a commitment. His affairs are sometimes brief and fairly painful. He may tend to rush into relationships with people who are somewhat futile, or he may argue frequently with his partner.

Bryce Papenbrook has the ardent, importunate nature of a fervent lover. Indeed, affairs of the heart are one of his main purposes in life. His personal charm and magnetism are compellingly seductive; unfortunately, his attempts at conquest do not always lead to the fulfillment and satisfaction of his desires. Due to his impulsiveness and impatience to initiate new encounters, his approach to those he is attracted to may sometimes lack tact and delicacy. As a result of the foregoing, it may be somewhat difficult for him to maintain stable and harmonious relationships. Nevertheless, his emotional behavior is subject to a conflict between his quest for love and his need to satisfy his lust. His outpourings of affection and his need to be loved in return sometimes create complicated situations in which lust may be confused with love, or love may exist without lust, and he may feel unrequited or unfulfilled. This inner contradiction is a sign of his tendency to derive pleasure from suffering – either his own or that of his partner. The relationship thus becomes the setting for a sort of power struggle, weakening it as a source of psychological equilibrium. Nevertheless, he could sublimate this difficulty through artistic expression.

You are hypersensitive and tend to relive the anxieties, apprehensions, and romantic absolutes of your first love relationships, which occurred around the ages of 13-14 years or 20-21 years. You are exquisitely sensitive, but almost completely barricaded behind a layer of aloofness. You will not settle for anything less than eternal commitment, total harmony, and absolute loyalty. You are sometimes presumed to be cold, even by those close to her. You usually hide your emotional reactions or do not even allow them to reach the level of your consciousness, in an effort to protect your sensitivity, which you see as your weak point. You are fairly vulnerable, even in the intimacy of a stable and established relationship. Usually, you will disguise your strong feelings as a kind of possessiveness or even jealousy. Certain misfortunes may arouse a negative emotional state inside you, and you feel unworthy of the love which is lavished on you. This psychological prohibition which rules over all of your desires and affects should loosen with the passage of time; likewise, your fear of approaching the other will diminish. As a result, the second part of your 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. Any profound relationship will also require that you learn how to forget yourself occasionally in the other.

Bryce Papenbrook has a rather rational mind and a restrained intellect, which is usually subject to the rule of his disciplined imagination. Although he is likely to have flashes of intuition which may prove to be correct, his thought processes are sometimes precise and clear. His mind, which is oriented in many different directions at the same time, is ruled by his emotions and feelings. In tune with psychic and parapsychic phenomena, his thinking requires only the adjunct of structure to rise from the level of a blurry, uncertain, undifferentiated mass to that of a really significant vision with a grip on the real world.

Bryce Papenbrook tries to shun subjectivity and be as objective as possible. His thoughts are usually structured, and his reasoning, based on objective facts or experience, usually relates to practical goals.