Consciousness and The Ideal of Self:

Griffin Johnson 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.

Griffin Johnson is extremely vigorous and energetic and has an immense need to assert his individuality. His attitudes and actions are actually motivated by an unconscious desire for power. They puzzle 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 is lively, alert, and determined, but he is too easily distracted from goals by futile competition or opportunities to exhibit his power. He has a short temper and must learn to control his impulsiveness, which might expose him to a great deal of unnecessary conflict.

Griffin Johnson has a great potential for creative, constructive accomplishments; however, it is sometimes difficult for Griffin to gain access to this part of Griffin’s self. Griffin is confident in Griffin’s self and life but may tend to be nonchalant. Griffin sometimes needs a little stimulation to get Griffin rolling and take some initiative. Griffin’s optimism and inner certainty do not always drive Griffin to give Griffin’s utmost efforts to achieve a goal. The communications skills Griffin possesses are an advantage as well as a handicap. Griffin makes use of Griffin’s theatrical gifts, convincing eloquence, and ability to listen. The best careers for Griffin would be teaching, communications, philosophy, the legal profession, theater, and public relations.

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

As a result, although he is skillful, meticulous, conscientious, and efficient, a lack of self-confidence and personal assurance sometimes makes him timid and hesitant. He sometimes feels as though he is only masquerading as a respectable, sober adult. He tends to be far too critical of himself and rarely feels satisfied that he is living up to his ideal. These unnecessary guilt feelings may lead him to turn down the prominent career positions for which he is fully qualified. He 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 him.

Adaptation and Sensitivity:

Physical and mental freedom are vital to Griffin Johnson. His youth and home may have been of the rootless, wandering type, which could have given him a taste for movement and independence. He needs to be aware that his life has a purpose and hunt for it in various belief systems, both traditional and new age. In fact, he has an unmistakable gift for philosophy. The faraway appeals to him, and travel is likely to be an important aspect of his life.

Griffin has a sensitive and affectionate nature. He seeks tenderness and gentleness more than passion. His relationships with others are smooth and pleasant, and he has a natural sense of tact and social grace.

Because Griffin Johnson discovered his individuality early in life, he quickly developed an original and independent identity. His first taste of liberty may have led him to challenge the education and values he received from family and class tradition, and he was able to forge a strong, original personality and philosophy. His relationships are usually free of conflict, because he is able to reconcile his need for independence with his desire for affection. However, his partners should be open and lively people, able to keep pace with him in his rapid evolution. He has an inspired and extremely lively wit and a brisk interest in the future, technological progress, and new lifestyles. He would be especially successful in communications-related careers like journalism, film, TV, radio, and advertising. Although he is an individualist, he has a powerful desire to contribute to the evolution of society and better its development.

Sexuality is an important part of Griffin Johnson’s life, and his relationships are most often determined by his instincts. If he has a relationship that is exclusively satisfying sexually, however, he might feel frustration, because he is driven by a kind of unconscious guilt to seek fulfillment for his heart and soul as well. Griffin tends to be a rather excessive and tormented partner, who often re-evaluates the bonds that connect him to his partners.

Love and Sensuality:

Griffin Johnson is looking for the ideal love and tends to idealize their friends and lovers. A bizarre character, Griffin Johnson may prefer to dream of their soulmate instead of making love to one; Griffin Johnson is more in love with the idea of love than anything else. Griffin Johnson’s idealism may hide a fear of truly committing themselves to a relationship; Griffin Johnson tries to intellectualize everything. In time, two options will seem clear to Griffin Johnson: an amorous friendship based on shared ideas and intellectual exchange, or an open relationship, free of all constraints except mutual respect.

Griffin Johnson’s birth chart indicates an emotional function which is usually expressed carefully and reasonably. Distrustful of their emotional urges and somewhat wary of their feelings, they try to rid themselves of all partiality and try to get some perspective and distance before making an emotional commitment.

Although Griffin Johnson is naturally fairly emancipated and relaxed, he is always held back by a network of scruples and obligations. He is likely to commit wisely, rather than for love or out of discouragement. Nevertheless, he will find the atmosphere of the home somewhat constricting and should continue to pursue a career outside in order to relieve the pressure.

Griffin Johnson is equally sensitive to both outer and inner beauty. Griffin Johnson may arouse great love or Griffin Johnson could become a muse and inspire great works of art. Griffin Johnson could find happiness with a partner who knows how to awaken Griffin Johnson’s more exalted emotions and can communicate with Griffin Johnson on an artistic or spiritual plane.

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

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

From the outside, Griffin Johnson seems to be detached and aloof, but on the inside Griffin is an extremely complex individual, full of contradictions. Because Griffin sometimes feels vulnerable emotionally, Griffin tries to control not only Griffin’s own feelings and urges, but may also strive to manipulate those of Griffin’s partners. Griffin aspires to a profound and enduring spiritual unity, but at the same time, the idea of abandoning Griffin and yielding to the other terrifies Griffin. This anguish may be a source of rather extreme behavior patterns and a somewhat self-focused attitude which could damage the relationship. Because Griffin is guarded and somewhat secretive, Griffin tends to be suspicious and is especially uneasy about spontaneous intimacy, although Griffin is fascinated by sexuality. Within the privacy of the couple, Griffin will not express Griffin’s feelings unless Griffin is subject to some tension. Life may be peppered with frequent crises and feuds, arguments and spats which usually act as erotic provocation. This derivation of eroticism from anxiety tends to be one of the fundamental characteristics of Griffin’s emotional and sexual functioning. As a result, Griffin is likely to be attracted by stormy and complicated relationships.

Mental and Intellect:

Griffin Johnson sometimes considers the input from his subjectivity and emotions as static which he tries to tune out to go straight to the essence of knowledge. As a result, regardless of his field of study, he tries to obtain perspective. He will elaborate a thought on the basis of fairly cold, abstract logic, supported by sober, concise, and immaculate reasoning. His choice areas of study could be mathematics, philosophy, legislation, or political science. Ideologies, theories, and any other system of reasoning could serve as “food for thought” for Griffin Johnson.