Benicio del Toro
in Relationships

Benicio does not appear to be an intensely emotional or sentimental person, and he is often unaware of his own or other people's deeper feelings and emotional needs. Tears and tantrums bewilder him and make him very uncomfortable. Benicio del Toro would rather settle differences by talking things out reasonably and rationally, but he tends to ignore or poke fun at any attempt to probe his own or others' inner depths.

Benicio del Toro avoids heavy, demanding emotional relationships and is wary of making personal commitments.

He needs ample mental stimulation and feels close to people with whom he can share thoughts and intellectual interests. Conversation is very important to del Toro. The strong, silent partner is not for him.

Benicio del Toro has a soft exterior and tends to relate very personally and sympathetically to other people. However, Benicio sometimes lets his emotions overpower his reasoning and logic, and consequently he is sometimes biased in his opinions. Benicio del Toro is impressionable and rather gentle, or at least that is the way he comes across. Benicio wears his heart on his sleeves and cannot hide his emotions.

Benicio has conflicting emotional desires and needs which complicate his personal life and relationships. He may feel that he cannot depend on his love partner to take care of him or perhaps del Toro cannot decide what he really wants in love relationships: a parent or a lover. If his needs for emotional sustenance and love are not satisfied, overeating (especially sweets) can become a problem.

Benicio del Toro craves excitement, change and discovery, and cannot tolerate a routine or lifestyle that offers little in the way of surprise or challenge. Excitable, spontaneous and enthusiastic about anything new, he may be perceived by others as being too impulsive, especially in personal relationships. It is not easy for Benicio del Toro to make or keep commitments, since he does not know how he will be feeling from one day to the next. Emotional freedom is very important to del Toro. His domestic life may be very unstable - but del Toro likes it that way.

Highly sensitive and rather easily taken in, Benicio del Toro needs to beware of deceiving himself and allowing others to take advantage of his impressionability or gentleness. Daydreaming, fantasizing or other forms of imaginative, escapist behavior (such as watching television excessively or living his life through romance novels) could be something of an addiction for del Toro. Benicio del Toro tends to confuse images with reality and needs to learn to be more circumspect and discriminating. Disenchantment with women and close relationships could ensue as a result.

Benicio has intense desires and feelings and his personal relationships are deeply emotional, passionate and often stormy and painful as well. Benicio del Toro has powerful magnetic relationships with those he cares about, and he could become emotionally obsessed by another person. His feelings can become so urgent and compelling that he behaves irrationally. Benicio del Toro undergoes periodic emotional upheavals and purging when he must break all ties with the past and begin anew.

Benicio del Toro has a magnetic personality, are unconventional, and a bit unpredictable. Benicio loves to flirt and is likely to have sudden romantic relationships that do not always last. Benicio del Toro likes variety and always is seeking new experiences with people.

Benicio's emotional life seems to be overly intense and his sexuality is very strong. Benicio del Toro is likely to make many demands of his partner and he has to guard against possessiveness, jealousy and a tendency to force someone to love him.

He is inclined to be somewhat gloomy, is easily offended, and he tries to suppress the jealousy he may feel. Benicio del Toro may have been brought up to sacrifice and forego a lot of things, making him a bit hard and unyielding in later life.

Tremendously softhearted and sympathetic, Benicio del Toro gives very selflessly and devotedly to those he loves and often allows others to become overly dependent upon him. More compassionate than passionate, Benicio del Toro may become romantically involved with a person because he or she expresses a need for love, rather than out of mutual pleasure or attraction.

He is drawn to sensitive, imaginative, gentle souls - poets, musicians, dreamers - or to someone Benicio feels he can have a deep spiritual relationship with. Benicio del Toro idealizes love and has a very beautiful, romantic vision of what love relationships can be.

del Toro is a very sociable, congenial person and he wilts very quickly without relationships with good friends and people to share good times with. Benicio del Toro thoroughly enjoys working with others on group projects or community activities. He is quite happy when he is a part of a club, support group or team of some sort.

Benicio del Toro appreciates beautiful surroundings and congenial company, and though he enjoys helping people, Benicio del Toro will rarely put himself out too much in the process. He is good-humored and generous at heart but inclined to be lazy.

Benicio's pleasure-loving nature and his emotional and material generosity discussed above are counterbalanced by a certain caution or restraint in expressing his affection, and by a fear of heartache. At times Benicio del Toro is likely to be the jovial, friendly, rather extravagant person mentioned previously, but at other times he is far more contained as described here. Because he is upbeat and fun-loving, people probably do not suspect how sensitive del Toro is to being left out or unappreciated.

Intimacy does not come easily to Benicio del Toro and he may appear cold or unfeeling to others due to his emotional reserve and caution. Perhaps due to painful relationships and separations in his early life, del Toro does not trust others very easily and it takes a long time to break down all of his barriers and defenses. He may feel that he has few friends or people that really care about him. Benicio del Toro needs to learn to value and love himself more and to express his appreciation for others more openly.

When it comes to love relationships, del Toro is likely to feel pulled in several directions at once. In addition to his desire for depth and security in his relationships, Benicio del Toro has an impulsive side and a need for a lot of variety and excitement, as discussed in the following paragraphs. These urges do not have to conflict, but they certainly can, especially if Benicio acts on his spontaneous impulses without much consideration for their long-term effects on his personal life.

Benicio del Toro is not a traditionalist where love and relationships are concerned, and he often feels that formal commitments and conventional relationships are too binding and restricting. Thus, Benicio is not very comfortable with forming lasting attachments or letting other people depend on him. He may be attracted to wild, unreliable, highly creative and/or unstable people who do not offer him any security. Even if Benicio del Toro professes to want something steady and solid, he is very reluctant to give up his freedom and autonomy for its sake. At best, he is suited to serial monogamy or relationships that leave del Toro a lot of breathing space.

Sensitive and compassionate, del Toro tends to be the "giver" in any relationship. Benicio has high ideals and a refined attitude towards love relationships, seeking to relate in ways that go beyond egotistical and selfish needs. Benicio is attracted to people with artistic or mystical inclinations.

Intimate relationships are the arena in which Benicio del Toro explores the depths he is capable of. He could fall intensely and fanatically in love and be obsessive, extraordinarily jealous or deeply involved with his partners. del Toro will experience both heaven and hell in his closest relationships. There is undoubtedly a peculiarly karmic, fated quality to these relationships, which - though difficult - will teach Benicio del Toro things about himself and about love that he could not learn in any other way. del Toro will often enter relationships which he realizes - rationally - will be very difficult, yet he cannot resist them, nonetheless. Benicio del Toro needs not to avoid berating himself for these "bad" choices; instead, he needs to learn what he can from them.

His attitude could be a bit too optimistic, especially in regards to love relationships. Benicio del Toro loves to day-dream and may have many romantic and erotic imaginations that never materialize. He may have a flair for writing beautiful love poems.

Astrological factors in this Astro Profile section:

Moon in Gemini

Moon in 1st house

Moon Square Venus

Moon Square Uranus

Moon Quincunx Neptune

Moon Square Pluto

Moon Conjunct Venus/Uranus

Moon Conjunct Venus/Pluto

Moon Conjunct Saturn/Pluto

Venus in Pisces

Venus in 11th house

Venus Trine Jupiter

Venus aspects Jupiter and Saturn

Venus Conjunct Saturn

Venus aspects Saturn and Uranus

Venus Opposition Uranus

Venus Trine Neptune

Venus Opposition Pluto

Venus Opposition Jupiter/Neptune