Richard Benjamin
in Relationships

Tenderhearted and sympathetic to an unusual degree, Richard Benjamin has an understanding of other people's feelings and needs which borders on telepathy. Richard Benjamin is extremely compassionate and cannot bear to see any fellow creature - human or animal - suffer. Because of his kindness and nonjudgmental attitude, people suffering from pain or confusion are drawn to Benjamin for help, which he readily gives. Sometimes Benjamin's soft-heartedness is taken advantage of.

He is a gentle, poetic soul and has a great love and affinity for music. Because many of his feelings are vague and he cannot easily verbalize how he experiences life, music seems a natural language for Benjamin. He is also extremely romantic and often "in love with love".

Richard Benjamin may have done extensive traveling in his early years, or in some way had a background which enables him to understand and identify with many different types of people or cultures.

Benjamin has a craving for things which are far away and foreign or for things he has never experienced before. Richard Benjamin wants to completely immerse himself in the feelings and tastes of a new place, rather than simply have facts or an intellectual appreciation. Emotionally, too, Richard is restless and something of a wanderer.

Richard Benjamin feels that little, daily acts of caring and thoughtfulness are essential to the happiness and success of relationships and he knows how to make others feel accepted, loved and cherished. He enjoys good relationships with women.

He is tolerant and forgiving and always ready to overlook mistakes and give others a second chance. Richard Benjamin expects, and draws out, the best from people and he enjoys making others comfortable and happy. Because of his emotional generosity, his life is rich with friends, and often financial blessings as well.

Powerful and complex emotions stir Richard Benjamin, and his emotional life and closest personal relationships are apt to be tumultuous until Richard does some deep soul searching. Buried feelings and memories that he does not want to deal with may surface at unexpected times. Holding in fears, secrets, or "taboo" thoughts and feelings can only serve to intensify them, and Richard Benjamin needs to share them with someone who is sympathetic, trustworthy, and fairly objective. Ridding himself of emotional compulsions and deeply embedded patterns that do not serve him can be tremendously liberating, if Richard Benjamin is willing to do the necessary inner house cleaning.

In a love relationship, Richard Benjamin is more interested in the person's sense of humor and intelligence than in her physique. Richard likes a partner who is mentally alive and keeps him guessing and Richard Benjamin becomes restless and bored with someone who never asks questions, changes or surprises him. It is very important to Richard Benjamin's happiness to talk, share ideas, go places together and learn new things together. Richard Benjamin needs ample social stimulation, is somewhat of a flirt, and likes to have many friends of both sexes. Benjamin finds a possessive, jealous partner very stifling.

Richard Benjamin often hides his affection, or finds his feelings difficult to express or get across to the person he loves. Being openly affectionate and trusting often does not seem safe to Richard. He may feel his love will not be appreciated or reciprocated. Richard Benjamin may get involved in secret love relationships or fall in love with a person who is quite unavailable to him. Love and sacrifice often seem to go hand in hand for Richard Benjamin - having to give something up to be with the one he loves, or having to relinquish some person or some aspect of an important love relationship.

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

Astrological factors in this Astro Profile section:

Moon in Pisces

Moon in 9th house

Moon Trine Venus

Moon Conjunct Jupiter

Moon Quincunx Pluto

Venus in Gemini

Venus in 12th house

Venus Trine Jupiter