Opportunities Astrological Report for John Doe


Astrological Profile for John Doe
by Stephanie Clement

Your Chart Data Name: John Doe
Date: Aug 09, 1959
Time: 02:07:00 AM EST +05:00
Place: Arcadia,SC
081W59'27" 34N57'29"


Planet		Sign		Position	House	House Cusps

Sun 		Leo 		15°Le58' 	02nd 	01  29°Ge29'
Moon 		Libra 		14°Li25' 	04th 	02 29°Ca29'
Mercury 	Leo 		09°Le59' R 	02nd 	03 29°Le29'
Venus 		Virgo 		16°Vi04' 	03rd	04 29°Vi29' 
Mars 		Virgo 		12°Vi23' 	03rd	05 29°Li29' 
Jupiter 	Scorpio 	22°Sc43' 	05th	06 29°Sc29' 
Saturn 		Capricorn 	01°Cp01' R 	07th	07 29°Sg29' 
Uranus 		Leo 		16°Le38' 	02nd	08 29°Cp29' 
Neptune 	Scorpio 	04°Sc20' 	05th	09 29°Aq29' 
Pluto 		Virgo 		03°Vi19' 	03rd	10 29°Pi29' 
Midheaven 	Pisces 		10°Pi17' 	09th	11 29°Ar29' 
Ascendant 	Gemini 		29°Ge29' 	01st	12  29°Ta29'

Transit and Solar Arc Positions for Jan 1, 2003


Planet		Sign		Transit		N Hs	

Sun 		Capricorn 	10°Cp29' 	07th 	
Moon 		Sagittarius 	20°Sg45' 	06th	
Mercury 	Capricorn 	28°Cp17' 	07th 	
Venus 		Scorpio 	23°Sc59' 	05th	
Mars 		Scorpio 	19°Sc47' 	05th 	
Jupiter 	Leo 		16°Le52' R 	02nd 	
Saturn 		Gemini 		24°Ge25' R 	12th 	
Uranus 		Aquarius 	26°Aq17'	08th 	
Neptune 	Aquarius 	09°Aq35' 	08th 	
Pluto 		Sagittarius 	18°Sg17' 	06th	

Planet          Sign            Solar Arc       N Hs

Sun             Virgo           27°Vi57'        03rd
Moon            Scorpio         26°Sc24'        05th
Mercury         Virgo           21°Vi58' R      03rd
Venus           Libra           28°Li03'        04th
Mars            Libra           24°Li22'        04th
Jupiter         Capricorn       04°Cp42'        07th
Saturn          Aquarius        13°Aq00' R      08th
Uranus          Virgo           28°Vi37'        03rd
Neptune         Sagittarius     16°Sg19'        06th
Pluto           Libra           15°Li18'        04th



Introduction

What do I want to be when I grow up? This childhood question is now being considered by people from fifteen to fifty. The number of jobs available is not the main problem. The difficulties come from two areas: first, the vocational possibilities are rapidly changing. Second, many of us are considering our second or even third career because our original choice is becoming obsolete, or makes demands upon us that we could not have anticipated, or is losing prestige, or no longer pays well enough, or has become so mechanized as to bore us to automated tears. In short, we want more.

This report describes your vocational aptitudes from the astrological perspective so that they can be matched in the career marketplace. While the jobs themselves are ever-changing, personality is founded on a solid base upon which to pivot. Self-understanding can supply the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual clues to your best line of work. Then you can determine how to apply your strongest capabilities to the career field you find most attractive. The best career is one that allows you to use your natural talents and skills.

Astrologers use a number of considerations to determine the energies that are strongest and most beneficial in your chart, identifying the type of activities that will be most likely to achieve career success. Sometimes your latent abilities will require training to develop into appropriate occupational skills. Also, you may have talents that serve your avocation - your hobby - better than your career. In this report we will consider a number of possibilities so you can get a sense of which talents are most beneficial in terms of career, and how to develop and use them.


Your Ascendant or Rising Sign

Let's begin with a description of your Ascendant or rising sign. Here you find your natural expression in the world - the way you present yourself to the world and the way others see you. You enjoy all aspects of communication, and thus would do well in writing, telecommunications, or travel. You see the value of internal clarity and seek a clear connectin between your spirit and its expression. By the same token you understand the importance of clear communicatin between people and strive to express yourself well.

Teaching or other use of the mind suits your personal style. You have a well developed sense of judgment and can teach others to be discriminating in their studies or work as well. In addition, through teaching you continue to learn.

You can handle clerical or postal work, and can serve well as an intermediary or agent. These types of work draw on your ability to manage details and to keep several projects going at once.

You may develop a skill for conflict resolution. You see the inherent harmony of things behind the apparent discord, and your clarity of expression can help others to focus on the desired outcome instead of becoming mired in the unpleasant realities of the moment.

What you need is an opportunity to use your mental faculties in your work. You may become bored easily, and therefore need challenges. If it is lacking in your education, you train yourself to be logical and analytical. You need to maintain a level of objectivity to be successful.

Now take these initial impressions forward with you as you read the rest of this report. You will come to see if and how these general characteristics fit into the overall picture of your vocational possibilities. As you read, you may find apparent contradictions. This happens because we are complex beings with many interests and abilities. This report presents some of your many choices along the path to vocational success and satisfaction.


Your Creative Touch

Human creativity falls into three principal arenas: creation (the making of things), recreation (the entertaining side of life), and procreation (the creation of the future). Everyone actively engages in all three creative processes, and we often confuse the feelings of one for another. The term "recreational sex" captures the sense of confusion. Some of us work really hard to get "good sex". Some of us feel sex serves only one purpose, that of procreation. Some of us find the deepest spiritual meaning of life in sexual union. To confuse such deeply meaningful matters with mere recreation can be a problem.

In terms of career, creativity plays a big role, but typically sexual involvement in the workplace only serves to establish barriers to the free flow of ideas. To gain better understanding of the inner creative urge in its multiplicity of expression is to gain a leg up on the career issues that can lead us to money and fame without also finding inner satisfaction in the work itself. Your creative eye focuses on refinement and elegance, both in the process itself and in the result. For you means do not justify the ends if the means are messy and undignified. The ends are satisfying only when they have the stamp of quality that elegance suggests.

You thrive on the creation of glamour around your work, but not if it detracts from its meaningfulness. You take the greatest pleasure in partnerships, and therefore work best in situations where you have someone with whom to share projects. You are able to balance the objective and subjective perspectives in your creative work. You may find that at some point your creative focus is modified to include a somewhat different mode of expression that has the following characteristics: You are often at your creative best when others cannot see anywhere to go. You have a somewhat ruthless ability to hang on and survive, and in fact you thrive on crises.

You understand the cycle of birth and death, and can see past the end of a cycle. Your creative work demands steady attention to achieve a complete transformation. Your greatest pleasure is found in work that achieves the birth of something new and wonderful out of something old and dead. Your feelings are always an integral part of your creative process. Many people find that the creative urge seeks to apply itself in a particular area of life that may have very little to do with career. By the same token, the creative voice can dictate the path of vocation, if it is either strong enough or consistent with the overall vocational choices. It helps to understand what part of the creative process most pleases you, what feelings and activities you consider to be most creative.

You bring diligence and orderly procedures to your creative work, giving it a logical balance. You are capable of being overly critical, and you recognize that quality in others. Your methodical approach solves many problems without undue stress. It also helps to be aware of how you can use your creativity to the best advantage.

Your creativity works best in areas where communication flows freely. Thus any career that involves travel, computers, or any form of communication will appeal to you. You can manage two or three projects at one time. Who do you most like to play with when you are being creative? You may think this an odd question where career is concerned, but it strikes at the heart of the career game. If you surround yourself with people who share your creative interests, you will fulfill your inner urge more directly and completely. Just as children work hard at their games, you can play hard at work and thus enjoy this part of your life that takes up the bulk of your waking hours. You choose between indulgence in pleasurable activities and the focusing of your mind on matters of the inner heart. You enjoy intrigue and use your intellect well in figuring out puzzles and competitive choices.

You have a knack for finding the auspicious moment to speculate. Activities involving children tend to call upon your versatility.You enjoy being around true professionals, so look to attorneys, ambassadors, professors, even Supreme Court justices or accomplished writers to stimulate your creativity. You could also find that people associated with these professions are just your type, such as journalists, critics, deputies or registrars. It is the atmosphere of philosophy, learning and judgment that appeals to your creative part.

Awareness is a creative process. Your awareness allows creativity to emerge and each creative act inspires greater awareness. You are enthusiastic in all activities, but should be certain of the direction of your passions. Special projects can draw on your psychic power and can feel magically delightful. Your creative imagination takes you through the veil of reality into another world, populated with artists, movie stars, detectives and spiritual counselors. You are able to take ideas and manifest them in the material world for others to see. You enjoy being around people who can let their imaginations emerge in their work, like illustrators, writers and occult practitioners. Hospital and pharmacy employees, opticians or anyone who changes our perceptions of the world are interesting as well.

You can develop a sense of the importance of creativity to your work, and also what factors affect your creative expression, by considering how you seek creative interplay with others and with the world. You take a practical, common sense approach to cyclical changes in your life. You can use this approach in business situations by maintaining a sense of your objectives.

If you experience a lack of clarity in the midst of changes, you can balance nervousness with physical activity. You seek the ideal in all your relationships and are sometimes surprised to find that great beauty comes with its apparent lack of inner substance. Blessed with good health and generally destined for success, you experience challenges which focus your attention on the development of healthy attitudes and good nutritional habits. The constructive qualities of firmness, modesty and determination can be derailed by internal turmoil relating to delicate health and pessimistic thoughts.

Sudden changes bring new circumstances into your life. You have a progressive mind which can manage such changes. It is possible to align your thinking to minimize upsets connected with new conditions.

The typical results of your creative forays have the following characteristics: Fortunate turns in your life are the stuff of legends. Occasionally you miss the opportunity, but generally you seek independence and adventure and find them. You are challenged to maintain structure when your psychic energy is pulling you off balance. Deceptive currents in your life can also help you develop qualities of compassionate foresight. You are methodical in your work, planning carefully and working very hard. Do not allow your inner tension or inhibition to create a foundation for illness.

You are a highly sensitive person and can develop your psychic gifts steadily throughout your life. You are aware of events before they occur. Your emotional life leads to personal growth, but only when you balance emotions in social situations. You experience passionate relationships because of your ability to moderate between Self and Other.

You have a warm heart and creative abilities. There can be fluctuating feelings or a lack of tact. You fall in and out of love easily. In fact you enjoy the beginning and ending of relationships because of the excitement. Your actions sometimes appear eccentric to others. Current shifts in your creative pattern may be indications of a refinement of your activities to suit the daemon or inner voice. Your awareness of that voice is subject to changes that can have sweeping effects on your career path.


Recent Influences

Your love life takes on a level of compulsion, and you feel intense attraction. Your romantic life makes you aware of all the beautiful things around you. You can be successful in many areas right now, including business activities, speaking engagements, and common sense analysis. Your idealism is at a high now, and you tend to speculate a bit. There may be gains without much apparent effort.


Current and Future Trends for the Coming Year

You have been under the spell of illusion and are now coming out of it, feeling rather depressed or disappointed. You are tempted to betray your partners, both in love and in the work arena. The challenge is to weather the ups and downs of this period. You may change career at this time. You fall in love with everyone and everything right now. This could even extend to new career responsibilities. Disappointment from someone you have trusted is a possibility at this time.


Creativity and Career

You may be wondering how creativity affects your career. Perhaps you don't feel that the work you do is very creative, or perhaps you have creative pursuits that are not part of how you earn money. Creativity is the expression of an ideal that we each find within ourselves. We each have a unique inner essence that deserves to be polished and re-fined in our individual ways. This essence can be expressed through vocation, and indeed it is a force that pushes us toward the most fulfilling career fields. Many factors combine to produce the best vocational choice. Multiple abilities may combine in a profession not usually associated with the individual qualities you possess.


Where You Have the Best Advantage

In the world of vocation certain energies work to your best advantage. The creative process of nourishment is yours. You tend to sustain and integrate your resources; this gives you the power to respond and to feel. You can creatively reorient yourself, changing shape to fill whatever career container you have at the moment. You can broaden your experience by flowing and spreading yourself as far as you desire. This expansion of consciousness allows for commingling and interchange and is indicative of interpersonal commerce. You have the creative energy found in controlled passion. A key word for your process is to nourish.

You may manifest some of these traits in your career: emotional balance (or lack), empathic ability, a sense of your own feelings, psychic or intuitive ability, ability to face pain, and ability to express highest spiritual values of love, compassion, devotion. At best you master emotions instead of letting them have free rein. These may not be your greatest strengths, yet they work better for you in the work environment, they help you to achieve greater career success and fame, and they may even be essential for financial remuneration. For some people, the things that work where vocation is concerned are very different from what work in relationships or other areas of life.


Your Most Likely Mode of Expression

You are able to figure out the nuts and bolts of situations, and then turn them to your advantage through practical effort. Not afraid of physical challenges, you also appreciate the creature comforts that success brings. You are well-prepared to handle the day to day operations of a business. You are the type who may have built sand castles as a child, and ends up designing homes, bridges, high rises and other structures as an adult.

You are able to visualize the results of your concrete labors. You are dependable in your work, capable of persisting through to completion with assigned tasks. You are able to recall details and accumulate the information you need for your work. You can be rather stubborn. You are able to adapt to conditions as they arise, learning how to manage and attend to details.

You can take on the role of mediator, as you can entertain more than one viewpoint. You can be indecisive. You may decline to take the initiative in any situation, choosing to let someone else be in charge. You need a boost to gather momentum for projects, and are willing to wait patiently for a push from a source outside yourself.


How You Work Best

Each of us has to work within the framework of our personal traits and habits. Life is not so much about changing those habits as it is about choosing to emphasize one set of behaviors over another. Through this process character is revealed. If we changed our behaviors all the time, we would never settle into the strength of character that we need. Generally, when we desire to change ourselves, we aim to change how we understand and work with our inner being, how we can come to accept that being.

This section of the report considers how you operate in the world, and thus how you tend to function in the work environment.


Your Strongest Psychological Tendency

The Sun is indicative of your primary psychological type. Psychology and astrology both suggest that each individual has a basic style in interacting with the world. The Sun sign indicates the more conscious portion of your style. Individuals do not necessarily conform to this in their outer expression, but it nevertheless is consistent with the underlying approach to life.

With the Sun in Leo, you are primarily the Intuitive type. Intuitive types listen to their unconscious sources of information, eschewing normal perception. In fact, they are often largely unaware of what is around them in the material world. These people are the inventors, the artists, the forward thinkers because they can see the possibilities of an idea, often before the means of developing it are apparent. Therefore they pursue what they know the world is not yet prepared for. Intuitives jump to conclusions, yes, but not necessarily without the intermediate steps. They either go through those steps at light speed by sizing up an underlying principle or simply recognize an inevitable match of an idea's potential with their own desires.

You fit into the educational system rather well, as many high school and college courses make use of the deductive skills intuitives share with the thinking type. You may respond well to the timed testing that is prevalent today. You can master the complexities of mathematics because you can grasp the results without having to ground your learning in some physical way.Intuitives contribute through their inventiveness.

You are generally willing to sacrifice the pleasure of the moment in the hope of greater future achievement. You are also restless and crave inspiration. Because you thrive in situations where getting to the answer is important, you are good at problem-solving and tasks that require ingenuity. Careers in the creative arts, religious inspiration and scientific discovery all suit the intuitive type.

You can become an inspired leader or promoter. For you the game is more important than winning, the chase more interesting than the end result.


Your Unconscious Interactive Style

The Moon indicates the less conscious component of your interactive style. It shows what skills and talents can be brought to bear when your usual approach is not effective, and as such it indicates your own internal support system. With the Moon in Libra, your secondary function is the Thinking type.

Thinking types tend to be less personal in their approach to the world. They are focusing on an objective truth that they hope to find, and not on the people in their path. They choose to be logical. They choose to be truthful. They choose to be argumentative - after all, they have argued with themselves enough times! They are usually able to go through a thought process once and stop, without needing to re-evaluate.

Air types benefit from an education that includes logical training, but they remain one-sided if they skip over the opportunities to appreciate the people and things around them. They judge the world through a logical process that seldom admits consideration of feelings.You can do well in careers where it is important to organize and assess quantities of information.

You tend to be somewhat more businesslike, able to "cut to the chase" in planning as well as performance. You contribute to society through intellectual criticism, through the exposure of wrong-doing, and through scientific research. You perform well in executive positions partly because such positions are somewhat impersonal. You are willing to tell the truth, even when it is not convenient.


What You Show the World and What You Know About Yourself

If you are aware of how other people see you, you have a distinct career advantage. Such awareness provides a tremendous opportunity to present yourself in the best light possible. You may have a rather different persona in the work place than you have anywhere else because different traits are expected by your co-workers. You therefore can choose to display those personality characteristics that suit your work situation the best.

Your natural direction where individuality is concerned is to proceed on a spontaneous basis and to seek immediate intuitive solutions to problems. You have vivid communicative abilities and remarkable mental flexibility. You enjoy being around others and are sympathetic and willing to be helpful. You may lean on your co-workers for support occasionally, yet you thrive independently as a general rule. You spend time wishing for things and planning for the future.

Your personality naturally tends to exhibit adaptability and mobility, along with good understanding of events around you. At the same time you like to see change and can implement it yourself. Your naturally good manners come across well in the work environment. Others respond well to you because you draw on your wide range of interests and knowledge of human nature. The qualities you most easily recognize in yourself are the ability to wait and see what will happen and the instability that this can create.

You are impressionable and should cultivate the ability to use your intuition. You seek simplicity in your life and in your work. You know that you tend to take on other people's problems and the difficulties this can cause. You structure your life to include simple pleasures and to support your philosophical interests.

You value your down time. You know you have higher spiritual perception than most people, yet you resist letting go of that in order to gain even more. You respond well because you can quickly assess a crisis situation and feel the flow of psychic energy. Over time this results in deeper spiritual awareness. Sometimes it seems that other people understand you better than you do.

As you become more self-aware through experience and self-investigation, you see the connections between feelings, situations and events more clearly. You thus are better able to make creative choices in response to life's slings and arrows, instead of reacting from a less conscious drive.


Individual Strengths Being Developed at This Time

As you travel life's path, the balance of your attention changes. These shifts allow you to experience the world in different ways for a period of time, and thereby to develop new skills. The periodic shifts provide what you need to gain perspective if you are to take advantage of learning opportunities as they are presented. These shifts may call for career changes as well. At this time you have the potential to grow through patient considerations of how factors in the environment are likely to evolve.

By considering the practical outcome, you give yourself another way to evaluate problems and deal with them. For the next few months, you can come to understand your emotional nature as an inherent strength. You may develop a new toughness. The best path is to avoid aimless drifting while also steering clear of ruthless ambitious actions. You learn to use your feelings as a vocational tool.

During the current period you have more restless energy, together with self-confidence and enthusiasm. You expect to find a place in your career and to hold it. You desire recognition and may sometimes seem self-absorbed. Your sociability is a career strength. The qualities you stand to gain at this time include the capacity to apply personal effort in your work and the ambitious pursuit of the goals you set for yourself.

You may learn that your optimism is a personal strength. You also recognize rash impulses and the occasional inability to let go of an idea that has lost its usefulness. You learn how you respond in moments of crisis.


How You Relate to the World in General

Many factors add up to the sum total of your presence in the world. Some character traits are quite stable, changing very little throughout your life. They are the "mind set" with which you approach all your activities and as such have a strong impact on your career. This section of your report considers how these persistent qualities affect you in your career endeavors. Psychologists use the terms introversion and extraversion to describe two general ways of approaching the world. These tendencies are rather obvious to others, yet you may not recognize them in yourself.

In psychological terms, as an introvert you judge the world in terms of what events mean for you and you are not as responsive to others as the extravert. Life's activities tend to be measured on an internal, personally unique basis. In introversion one's thoughts refer more to the self, to what is within the individual. You seek to understand what life offers before you jump into it. If there is a real world for you, it is the inner world of ideas and subjective understanding.

You tend to insulate yourself against the outer world in favor of the inner life. Another pair of differences fall on a continuum between very self-directed and self-motivated to more responsive or reactive to other people and outside forces. You have the potential to develop, to increase your skills and awareness. There is movement in the direction of greater personal control in your life than others experience.

You like to be in command of situations and create your own circumstances. Even if you work for other people, you like to be responsible for your own work. You are able to exercise initiative and find ways to apply your will to projects. You like to see your projects grow and you put in the necessary energy for this to happen.

You tend to measure success in terms of personal results. These two tendencies combine to produce a personal approach to the world. You tend to focus your attention on the self and persona (what you show to the world), your possessions (financial worth) and feelings (self-worth), and how you express yourself to others and learn about your immediate environment. This is the area of life over which you have the greatest potential control, as you are the only one who even knows the true content of yourself. You are also the one who decides how to act toward others, and you are the source of your own personal motivation to learn and to communicate.

A third consideration is how your mind functions. How you assimilate information and then put that information to use in the outer world can have a huge impact on your career success. It influences not only the career choice itself, but also the area you choose within the career.

You tend to be ahead of yourself all the time. You seldom take the time to stop and smell the roses, as you are onto the next project already. You will need to cultivate the usual, the normal, the mundane to be successful in the work environment. You may struggle to learn meditation as sitting still is actually rather painful. Even if you slow down to a pace you consider deadly, you will still be going faster than most of the people around you. The cell phone and computers were made for you to keep track of the details and keep up to date as you rush through life.

If you are honest about it, you can learn to enjoy life at other people's pace, at least part of the time.


Summary

Thus far this report has revealed traits of your personality which you may be more or less familiar with. Most people identify with one or more parts of their personality. You may not see yourself exactly as described here, and you certainly will want to consider the qualities that are entering your awareness now, as they are the fuel for future personality developments, and possibly for career advancement as well.


Your Vocational Indicators

Each of us has a natural inclination to function a particular way, and these tendencies become pronounced in vocational activities. We carry our personal desires across a personal boundary into the social milieu and find greater or lesser resistance to our desires there. Yet we may stubbornly press on, attempting to bend the world to our personal desires. We tend to hold on to the old form, even if it no longer serves us. "Better the devil you know" is itself a timeworn maxim. If, instead of insisting, we learn from social feedback and adapt our approach to the world, we find that life is gentler and career more satisfying.

Your personal emotional bias, how you concentrate your talents, and how you best learn from experience all impact vocation in spite of any desires to the contrary. There are several fundamental qualities that bear on vocation, and the following paragraphs consider these factors.

The focus is on your self-will and egocentricity. You tend to believe you know the "only" right way to do things. As such, you are best placed in an independent career situation that maximizes your ability to work hard. Your advancement may not be as fast as you would like, but you will know that you are responsible for your personal success.

You have the ability to concentrate on your self-restraint and desire for steady advancement to see you through the long haul. Keep this in mind in every area of endeavor, not just vocation. You learn through focused studies. There is one area of life where your hard work will achieve the best results. Because of this, you may be steered in a direction that you cannot easily perceive from within the confines of past experience. You need to look beyond past experience and desires into the larger context of your life to find the best place for your efforts.

Most people expect a career to provide status, money, and other satisfactions. The type of work indicated here may seem odd, but deserves consideration nonetheless, as it may deliver long term rewards that you cannot perceive at the outset. The personal assets you need to develop for career success are cooperative attitude and tactful demeanor.

Your first job needs partnership qualities, even if you are not an equal partner. There should be an executive quality to the work that will help you to build conscientious work habits and a track record for reliability. You are the natural partner type, so cooperation continues to be a big part of your work life. Together you gain the attention and success you deserve.


Current Direction

You take the awareness you have of your productive capacities, and you apply it in the world. You are able to accept challenges and work with them, based on an awareness of your impact on the world around you. Instead of the world challenging you, you are able to carry your challenge into the world. You may also consider the area of your life in which these impulses can best be applied, and the focus that will gain the most positive results. You are approaching the ending of a cycle in which you have learned about yourself, extended yourself into family and personal activities, worked with others, and refined your associations. You now have the opportunity to evaluate your personal progress with an intention of inspiring the next cycle. You may feel that fate is limiting your movement. Use this time to inspire yourself and to let go of negative desires of any kind. At this time you need to control the restlessness that may arise. Steady, thorough communication and study of problems in your career will contribute to deepening your ability to place yourself in the most promising position. What you learn at this time will be available to you always, so pay attention. All of these considerations come together into a package of skills, decisions, and goals combined with your current potential. The sum total is a description of your ability to learn from experience. If you are well placed in a career field, emotionally suited to the demands of the actual job, and oriented clearly to your goals, you will be successful.


How to Apply Your Energy to the Career

Having looked at how a solid foundation may be established, we now turn to the application of your personal energy to the goal of fulfilling your dreams. The previous paragraphs suggest the most natural form or structure of your career, while the following shows how you pursue it. How do you apply yourself? What drives you? How far can you go? These questions are all answered by your personal energy and how it can work with your natural abilities. Early on restlessness can keep you moving from one job situation to the next without seeming direction. You also tend to scatter your energies into projects that appear to be a waste of time. The qualities underlying these feelings, the readiness for action, mobility and versatility, are all qualities that carry the later career development to its highest point. You also have a sense of humor that grows out of your richness and variety of experience, and a sense of humor is a career asset for you. You are precise. You are thorough. You seldom miss details. You keep your appointments. In addition to these basics, you are a skilled researcher, able to resolve any ambiguity in the materials you are dealing with. You can be overly critical of yourself and others, and are somewhat irritable from time to time. Learn to leave room for uncertainty, refrain from judgment, and work with your natural intuitive capacity.Early in life energy almost seems to use you, as you have little control over desires. Throughout your life you learn to moderate desires of the moment with longer term plans, and you adapt to the environment of parental control, school requirements, peer pressure, marriage or relationship responsibilities, etc. Energy becomes, instead of its own director, an agent for your use, being guided by your will. You may find your will power and determination change in their expression earlier or later in your career, depending on your personal developmental path and how you respond to life. Some uses may seem out of reach in youth and commonplace in middle age, or vice versa.


Your Career Success

It is helpful to think of career success separate from the money earned, as success is not limited to material gain. A person could be held in very high esteem in his career field and not be the biggest success in the money department. Also, the slice of the career pie will often determine the earning potential. Of the three factors involved in vocation (career, money and work environment), the career itself has the most public impact. Here is where reputation is built, here is where one gains authority in one's field, and here is where ambition can be fulfilled.

You seek simplicity in your career. This may work well in the career environment, but it can lead to a lack of clarity because of over simplification. You need time alone to reflect, and therefore you are not well-placed in a position under constant fire. You can see the global picture and feel it deeply as well.

Career fields suited to you include character actors, artists, astrologers, boat makers, chemists, dancers, detectives, distillers, chemical engineers, fishermen, hospital workers, monks, mystics, nuns, oceanographers, photographers, psychics, priests, prison guards service station owners and attendants, water occupations and occult writers.

You may find that at some point you undertake a second, rather different career that has the following characteristics: The focus is on you and your aims in life. Ambition, confidence and optimism combine to make you a potentially strong leader, and conversely, a not so successful follower. However, here as elsewhere, this one consideration cannot be used to assess the total career package, or the whole person.

Career fields suited to you include adventurer, butcher, hat maker, diamond cutter or dealer, metallurgical engineering, fire man, hair dresser, iron worker, military, metal worker, optometry, service station owner or attendant, physical therapy, thermodynamics and welder.

For most people there is one area of the life, not necessarily associated with work, that influences the career strongly. There may be skills developed there that can be directly applied to the career. Also, it may influence the choices you make in where and how to pursue your career. Your career goals draw out the creative talents you possess, and your career should support your path toward self-reliance.

Children may play a big role in career and career decisions. Your powerful magnetic personality attracts significant people to you and thus indirectly enhances your career. You may need to learn to express yourself without apearing to be sarcastic or domineering. You can develop a sense of how significant career is to your life in general, and also what factors affect the progress of your career, by considering how you become more aware in general, how you interact with the people and events around you, and how these responses affect your work. You become aware of spiritual motives rather separate from your self-awareness. These motives are no less potent, only less integrated with your knowledge of yourself. The connection between who you are and what you know about yourself is indirect, coming through the influence of others.

You use your thought processes to develop self-awareness. To the extent that thinking has been cultivated, you are well-equipped to plan and pursue objectives on the mental level. It is essential for you to train the mind. Sloppy thinking will only lead to sloppy pursuit of objectives. One quality of mind is its changeability; you can lose focus if your mind is not well-trained and practiced. Another quality is the capacity to resolve conflict; you come to resolutions directly through self-awareness, or ego-consciousness, whereas other people may use different means.

You are capable of a profound awareness that all concrete knowledge is rooted in the love principle. The close connection between beauty and ego-consciousness allows expression to embody harmony and balance in concrete form. This can include plastic arts, writing, and any activity whose aim is to achieve a higher level of harmony in the physical world as well as in interpersonal and social relations.

The ability to decide what to do and the action itself are closely connected to the awareness of self. This connection between self and action leads to organizational ability, independence and determination. It also is indicative of prudence because you are bringing self-awareness to your activities. The integration of ego-consciousness with action results, then, in more orderly activities and fewer missteps. That is the constructive side. Less constructive expression can result in careless action, due largely to the lack of cultivation of thinking processes. Self-control gains improved results. You experience expansion in your self-awareness, but not through any action on your part.

You grasp the philosophical implications of your career activities. You cannot understand the structure of your career path directly, as most people do. You have greater success when you allow the career to develop without pushing. Apply yourself to the task at hand and let the chips fall as they will. You have an instinctual understanding of the balance of the people and circumstances around you. You won't have a conscious awareness of this, but it will be there, so trust it.

Uncertainty is the keyword for this combination. Ego-consciousness is frequently not available, or only after great effort. You must work hard to manifest the higher qualities of psychic awareness. The strength gained from contemplative practice of meditation can provide more consistent mental focus which compensates for dreaminess and aimlessness. As you move into the 21st Century, you will find better ways to work with uncertainty, thereby relieving any depression and mental disturbance which this planet can bring. Then psychic awareness will become a source of depth and strength. The prerequisites are the trained capacity for mental focus and a grounded connection to the material world. Definition in the physical realm balances the lack of definition coming from Neptune combinations.

Through sheer force of will you seek a mission in life and to fulfill it. No longer simply thoughts, the mission becomes a guiding force for transformation. As ego-consciousness is focused on life's mission, personal power is mobilized to attain success, to organize your life, and to express personal authority. Any misuse or misdirection of personal power can lead to disaster. Power out of control is like a race car without a conscious driver, dangerous in the extreme. Stories about the Sorcerer's apprentice address the fact that power without the knowledge of how to control it can lead to ruin.

You must train your mind and open your consciousness to broader vistas. Then power of will comes to be based on informed ego-consciousness. Astrology can help you to become more aware of desirable changes in career. It can also offer insight into any feelings of unrest or anxiety associated with career. The following provides information about the recent past career influences and then discusses current conditions and future trends.


Recent Influences

Your idealism is at a high now, and you tend to speculate a bit. There may be gains without much apparent effort. You may find that you are particularly inspired in your work, especially where planning is concerned. Optimism. This is a time when you are able to achieve goals you have been working toward. The stage is set now and fruition may come over a period of time. Personal growth and professional status both benefit. At the same time you may experience a period of good health. You are aware of your purpose and you are able to pursue it, thus achieving contentment. Emerging unconscious material, which can be intense and vivid.

There is little doubt that something momentous is occurring; the only doubt is whether the ego can manage the energy effectively. The older you are, the better you seem to be able to manage because you have had several similar expriences, and therefore can draw on similar experiences. Expect action and change at this time in your career and perhaps in other areas as well.


Current and Future Trends for the Coming Year

Disappointment from someone you have trusted is a possibility at this time. You are getting messages from the subconscious, and they are disturbing and not very helpful.


Your Best Work Environment

Where the work environment and the securing of employment are concerned, astrology offers many useful insights. It also deals with the actual work that is undertaken. It can reveal how you react to work, to your work associates and to the work environment itself. Regardless of the actual title you hold, the place where you do the work and the people around you make a tremendous difference in the attitudes you develop in the work place. You can learn effective tools for obtaining the job as well.

The best work environments for you include swamps, bleak places, drains, dumps, sewage treatment, drains, low wet ground, bathrooms and cleaning closets, medicine cabinets, toilets, northeast rooms or walls, mortuaries, or cemeteries.

Geographic locations which may be suited to your work include Algeria, Baltimore, Bavaria, Cleveland, East Indies, Korea, Manchuria, Milwaukee, Montana, Nevada, New Orleans, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Philippines, south Dakota, Tokyo, or Washington, D.C.

You may work in more than one type of environment or change jobs in order to move to a work environment described as follows: The best work environments for you include dignified offices, churches, courts, banks, large institutions, universities, high ground, estates, large sites, upstairs rooms, place to store ammunition, southeast rooms or walls.

Geographic locations which may be suited to your work include Alabama, Arabia, Australia, Bolivia, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Hungary, Illinois, Madagascar, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, Pakistan, Singapore, Spain, Toledo, Toronto, or Yugoslavia.

The types of people you work with most successfully may not be the sort of people you would choose for friends or romantic partners. Understanding how to identify compatible co-workers can have a direct effect on career success or failure. There is one area of your life that may be closely involved in your work. It shows where your actual work energy will be concentrated, as well as what outside factors can affect your work performance. Your work depends to a certain extent on these factors that would otherwise be outside the work environment. Your work benefits from discriminating awareness of new situations and people. You don't have to be overly critical - it is better to encourage an attentive attitude than to stimulate arguments. You generally enjoy intellectual interchange with co-workers. Thus work relationships add to your own versatility and enhance your adaptability to the work situation.


Other Factors Affecting Your Choice of Work Environment

As you develop a sense of how significant your work environment is to your life in general, and also what factors affect your work performance, you regain the power to select suitable work. You have a cruel streak which must be tempered by other factors. You have the potential to grow in spiritual awareness if you can avoid purely egoistic aims. At certain times in your life changes in the work environment affect your career. You may change how you feel about your work and your coworkers. During some periods it is more difficult to be hired, or even to find a suitable place to work, while at other times changes within the work environment are easy to achieve.


Recent Experiences at Work

You find yourself in a leadership position at this time.


Your Financial Considerations

Of the three vocational considerations, money is usually the most personal and private. Yet at the end of your life, all you have to take with you is your self worth. All the money, all the material possessions, all the opinions of other people will make no difference at all. What you think of yourself is all you will have. Thus other considerations such as moral growth, personal debts other than those involving money, and self-esteem are tremendously important human issues. The question this chapter revolves around is this: How do you maximize your potential, fulfill your higher mission, satisfy your daemon, obtain the money you need to live, enjoy your life, enhance your moral growth, all within the confines of the natural talents you possess, in such a way that at the end of your life, you are satisfied - personally satisfied - that you did well? You can be tight-fisted with your money or you can be cautious, but it is important to understand how the difference plays out in your financial management scheme. You can appear timid with spending, and yet you are self-indulgent sometimes, causing your finances to have significant ups and downs. You are usually prudent where money is concerned, and your intuition tells you what is around the corner, giving you an edge. Material matters prosper when you purchase a few items for dramatic effect, while keeping the background elegantly plain. You will find that less stuff truly is more relaxing and rewarding.


Where does your money actually come from?

You have a strong need for affection, even love, from others, and therefore may demonstrate an obliging style. Still, when the chips are down, you have the strength of a general and are able to make the key decisions and stick to them. You would, however, prefer to have a dependable partner who takes that role. Your nurturing capacities are right at home.

Your emotional state is closely connected to your digestive system, indicating a need for attention to both to ensure health and happiness.

You learn through connection with a profound inner source of ideas and beliefs. Your conscious connection to financial concerns is strong. You are interested in money and finances and these areas may directly impact your self-esteem. You take a practical, common sense approach to cyclical changes in your life. You can use this approach in business situations by maintaining a sense of your objectives. If you experience a lack of clarity in the midst of changes, you can balance nervousness with physical activity.

You seek the ideal in all your relationships and are sometimes surprised to find that great beauty comes with its apparent lack of inner substance. Blessed with good health and generally destined for success, you experience challenges which focus your attention on the development of healthy attitudes and good nutritional habits.

The constructive qualities of firmness, modesty and determination can be derailed by internal turmoil relating to delicate health and pessimistic thoughts. Sudden changes bring new circumstances into your life. You have a progressive mind which can manage such changes. It is possible to align your thinking to minimize upsets connected with new conditions.

Thinking and feeling are aligned for you. You are able to assimilate information and to put it back out; thus you are a good student. You can use your mental capabilities to promote healing. Your heightened powers of intuition give you greater flexibility in all kinds of situations. Because you know or feel how conditions will change, you are able to maximize the benefits of cyclical movement.

You are challenged to maintain structure when your psychic energy is pulling you off balance. Deceptive currents in your life can also help you develop qualities of compassionate foresight. Your mind's eye has a camera which is animated by opportunities. You will have amazing successes which come out of these personal "movies".

You tend to exaggerate things and to strain your nervous system. You fall in and out of love easily. In fact you enjoy the beginning and ending of relationships because of the excitement. Your actions sometimes appear eccentric to others. Fortunate turns in your life are the stuff of legends. Occasionally you miss the opportunity, but generally you seek independence and adventure and find them.

Inhibited rhythms affect your physical body and your social existence. you are able to overcome difficulties. You are self-willed and gain or suffer because of this. You have specific patterns involving money and material things,. You also have a personal moral direction and path toward development of a healthy self-image.

There is another area of life, not necessarily associated with work, that indicates how you actually get your money. It can also reveal who or what has the most direct effect on your self-esteem. Thirdly, it can indicate how you tend to spend your income.

Home-related products and services can provide income. You may find that as you cultivate your basic belief system, you find rich resources for material support as well. You see money as the avenue to harmony, and you are creative in its use. You may occasionally succumb to extravagant temptations and probably own one or more art objects.

Astrology can indicate the importance of income in general, and how material matters affect your self-esteem. Changes in financial matters, as well as movement toward greater or lesser self esteem, indicate how career efforts are paying off materially and emotionally. The following are indications of recent changes in the area of personal resources, followed by current conditions and future trends in this area.


Recent Experiences

You may find that you are particularly inspired in your work, especially where planning is concerned. Awareness of your own leadership qualities provides you with the fuel for a career move that leads to a stronger position. You are in a period of awareness of your ability to make sweeping changes in your work, and your creative energy is at a high. Now is a good time to make changes that will put you in contact with other people of like mind. But don't go overboard with changes that are not needed. You have to work very hard to make any forward progress just now. Keep at it. Your private efforts will gain ground slowly but steadily.


Future Considerations

You may find yourself involved in some mystical, fantasy experience that changes your awareness of career or work issues. You are inclined to be impulsive at this time. Where work is concerned it is best to rely on consensus just now. You can make huge strides just now, but perhaps through radical changes. Advancement is nearly certain. You want to burst out of any confinement you feel in the work area just now. Your thinking may be a bit one-sided. You may suddenly feel shy about discussing your ideas and desires with others, preferring to keep them to yourself for a while. You are getting messages from the subconscious, and they are disturbing and not very helpful.


Career or Mission?

Now that we have examined the vocational possibilities from the geocentric perspective, it is time to consider your higher spiritual mission. Mission is driven by the spirit or inner psychic voice of the individual. Let's take a look at the spiritual potential that reflects the urgings of that voice. Seeing the universe from this perspective gives you a sense of your larger purpose. Then you can look back at the above information to discover the practical means to fulfill your higher purpose.

This section of the report considers several factors that make up your spiritual perspective. Some may be more familiar to you than others, and certainly some will have more impact on your vocation. The search for equilibrium in your life reaches beyond the limits of this plane of manifestation, seeking to integrate the experiences of body, mind and spirit into one profound experience of unfolded consciousness. This level of integration occurs when the soul and the personality are brought into alignment through accident or through ritual experience. Thus ritual is a valuable path for you as you develop a sense of equilibrium.

You can develop a fuller sense of the value of ritual throughthe unfolding of spiritual consciousness. Mature self-consciousness includes awareness of these two appearances and how they interweave to produce what we call life. In your daily activities you may seldom think of this profound reality of existence; as you grow in conscience you develop an affinity for sensitizing yourself to your higher mission.You can be energetic, even aggressive at times. At other times your energy is directed into thoughtful devotional activities, quieter but no less energetic. Your path to transformation of difficulty into harmony - the most direct way to actively engage will to guide your personal power - is to integrate power and will to act as a human being. You have the choice of how you implement your will.

Both Mars and Pluto tend to express through the nurturing capability of the material world which creates a physical form in which our personality and soul can develop on the path to higher spiritual realization. You have deep experiences which reveal the light to you. You have the capability of unified understanding of the feminine principle in all its expressions, embodying it in the mental, emotional and physical manifestations. Outer attention to detail reveals your inner understanding of unity.

Psychic awareness can be focused to identify the source of conflict and the ground upon which conflict may be resolved. Your higher vision is based on your examination of the essential duality of physical manifestation. One side of duality is the desire or passionate nature; the other side is the innate quality of compassion which comes from another level of experience. The awareness of essential duality is joined with the activity of the mediator to resolve into Unity. You develop your capacity for compassion throughfierce testing. The planetary energies are subjected to physical, mental and spiritual demands which leave you changed forever. While duality is part of all experience, there is a struggle that tests even the nature of opposites. This spiritual battle challenges you to rise above merely material considerations.

The path toward fusion of heart and mind, the subjective purpose for manifestation, is perhaps the most central experience of wisdom that you will ever have. Your life's processes are defined, and the expansive process of your mind and spirit relishes the richness to be found throughthe process of linking form and soul. Without this step the soul would not attach to the body and life independent from the mother would not be possible. This deep mystery occurs metaphorically while the Sun is sinking to its lowest point of the year, suggesting that the mysteries of life dwell in the dark recesses of consciousness.

We all accumulate debts and responsibilities on the path toward resolution of difficulties. It is through the exercise of intelligent activity - that is, the use of what we know and how we employ that knowledge - that we even begin to approach the freedom we seek from such indebtedness. You seek intelligent activity in all areas of your life throughthe material plane. The most complete understanding of the laws of Karma and dharma are embodied in planets here. You experience your work and its conclusion in connection with new beginnings as well, moving into a new cycle each time you complete the old one. Intellect becomes a principle factor, as you utilize concrete knowledge in your pursuit of intelligent activity.

Mediation occurs not only in conflict resolution between or among people; it is an internal psychic function as well. Concrete knowledge does not stop at the scientific definitions of things, nor is it limited to the scientific approach to understanding the relationships between people and things. It also includes a felt sense, an inner awareness of the right relationships between things. You can employ concrete knowledge in the mediation between personality and soul, between physical life and higher consciousness. Only through fusion of these apparently separate facets of your being can you approach true knowledge.

Both Mercury and Venus tend to express through the same sign as the sign of the Earth, which is the direction intelligent activity is most likely to move and will be described in a later paragraph. There is a particular direction in which your intelligent activity will most likely move. It is obviously where you position yourself and represents your strongest capacities as a human being. You will display intelligent activity in and your lifes' mission through melding love and wisdom into a working unity. Your sight is always set on the masses and not the individual, your goals and work tend to be global, in thought and in action. Ritual provides an avenue for working with others. By honoring the human connection to form, you are able to help people move forward. It is through the use of ritual that you are able to resolve difficulties between people, as ritual affords the possibility of acknowledging conflict while encouraging movement toward solution.


Conclusion

The above considerations can be woven together to present an integrated view of your career potential at this time. They indicate the talents and capacities you were born with, and they also suggest directions to go at the present time. As such they provide assistance in making career decisions and can be helpful in considering a wide range of possibilities. Naturally you have the final decision about what changes will be beneficial in this area of your life. Now that you have read your vocational report, you hopefully have a clearer sense of how circumstances have brought you to your present career position. You may also see ways to apply your natural capabilities, education and training to the goal of a more fulfilling vocation. Finally, you can consider ways to find a job and co-workers that enrich your work and help you come closer to fulfilling your life's mission.