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     Name:         Julia Roberts
      Date:          Oct 28, 1967
      Time:          00:16:31                 AM EDT    +04:00
      Place:         Atlanta , GA 84W23'17"                             33N44'56"

 

 
Transit and Solar Arc Positions for Dec  1, 2004

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 the everyday nature of your work and would thrive in a retail sales atmosphere or food service because of the foundation of daily routine from which interesting changes can emerge. You can develop a felt sense for the cycles of businesses like these, and thus are able to predict trends and manage inventory. You like being around large numbers of people. You can be moody, as you feel the emotional currents around you. At the same time, it is this sensitivity that gives you a certain magnetic charm. You always seem to get the lay of the land early in the game, and that gives you an edge. You would also do well in fishing, sea-going industries or nurturing careers. Water is your element. You understand the currents and eddies of all life and can get the most from it by following the flow. This is just as true of gathering your nets as it is of guiding the path of others. You may incorporate music into your work. Here again is an endeavor in which an understanding of the flow of the medium is demanded. Even if you are not the musician, you have an appreciation of the importance of sound and can apply it to your particular career.

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.

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.

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.

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:

Creativity for you involves the spiritual side of life. You find pleasure in being inspired and in inspiring others to fulfill their greatest potential. Yours is a quiet creativity, immersed in thought. You seek to blend your experience of the physical world, your educational process and your intuition into a creative admixture where nature and art co-mingle to produce something spiritually pleasing. You are the individual who can see beyond the initial idea, through the building process, and yes, past the completion of a project. You are able to envision the effect of your work on the world and to transform creative energy into a spiritual tool.

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.

 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.

 There are currents in your subconscious that push you to evolve into the best you can possibly be. Match these urges with your keen sense of the world, and you may find that your work comes close to measuring up to your ideals. Upheavals in your life are the stuff of greatness, as you can see past the moment to the future, and thereby guide your actions. Imagination and emotion can be powerful career tools. You may be a natural healer.

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.  Your inner sense of beauty can become a source of tension when you find yourself in excessively indulgent situations. When you are attracted to another individual, use your own physical and mental tension to attract them.  You find that you have the energy to work with diverse situations and take advantage of whatever opportunities come your way.  Blessed with good health and generally destined for success, you are able to control expansion in your life by choosing your direction consciously.  Major changes in your life are the result of difficult struggles and delicate health. You tend to attract serious people into your life.  Striving for power can cause stress in your life. You will experience remarkable advancement, as well as dramatic health changes, both for the better and for the worse. Stress can make you difficult to deal with, and power plays can throw you off balance.

The typical results of your creative forays have the following characteristics:

You are often aware of subconscious feelings and thoughts which are not evident to others. This comes through in your awareness of situations which arise in your environment. You often know information about your surroundings and about people which surprises you.  You suffer from a periodic lack of energy and are susceptible to infections. You have an innate sense of timing. You are inspired to acts of devotion. Avoid unnecessary use of drugs.  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 have the potential for developing your psychic gifts. While you sometimes experience confused psychic states, you can achieve spiritual enlightenment.  You are a highly sensitive person and can develop your psychic gifts steadily throughout your life. You are aware of events before they occur.

You have a heightened emotional life which is directed into specific areas of your life. You pursue your goals with almost fanatical zest and must be careful to consider other people in your excitement.  The exertion of power in love relationships can be intensely satisfying. It can also bring about the end of valued relationships. You are artistically gifted.  You live for the dare, constantly active, sometimes falling precipitously.

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 emotional eagerness can cause you to tax your physical system at this time.

Don't gamble right now, as you tend to experience losses or the fall out from your ill-advised personal actions. You tend to deceive yourself and others, and to be deceived. You feel numb.

Current and Future Trends for the Coming Year

Drastic changes can occur at this time. Disputes or quarrels can occur.

The challenge just now, and for some time to come, is to manage your own power wisely.

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.

You experience the impulse to be, and you require no noticeable substance to enjoy the inspiration.  First you identify the descent of spiritual energy into the creative part of your mind.  New potentialities emerge.  Second, you become involved with the creative force of authority that emerges directly from your thoughts.  Later you will have the inner authority to merge thought and action as you move toward creative expression.  The creative healing force of heat is the third aspect of the impulse to be.  And finally there is the creative ability to look into the future and to pursue your individual purpose.  A key word for your experience is TO AROUSE. You may incorporate some of the following personality traits in your career activities: spiritedness, self-confidence, ability to enjoy life, enthusiasm, a tendency to burn yourself out, self-centeredness, restlessness, unrestrained desires, strong intuition, optimism and inspiration. At best, you demonstrate traits of self-motivation, dedication, courage and energy.

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.

Your balanced approach to activities is very helpful in the work situation, as you are able to take charge when the time is right, or work through the details of the daily grind, or engage in imaginative brain-storming about future projects. You are generally flexible enough to work well with others, and to encourage them to produce their best. This will make you a good manager or supervisor.

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 Scorpio, you are primarily the Feeling type.

If the sensation types say, "Just the facts, maam," the feeling types say, "and how does it feel when that happens?" Feeling types evaluate situations on the basis of sentiment and may disregard logical processes as ineffective with others and unsatisfying to themselves. They can think logically, but may choose not to unless pressed by circumstances.

You are not an emotional disaster area. Rather you are prone to making judgments about things, as in "I feel that is the best way to go." In order to maintain the capacity for fair judgment, it is important to remove or reduce any psychological pollution in the work place caused by unkind, unsympathetic gossip, threatening behavior on the part of co-workers, or idle complaining that is not backed by constructive suggestions.

You can do well in careers that call for sensitivity in relating to other people. You have the ability to bridge the gap between people, and therefore make good counselors, sales people, heads of families, members of the clergy - any job where interpersonal relationships are at the core of productive work.

You have a psychic connection to the people and things around you. Often you can "get the point" before other people even state it. You can over-react, but generally return to an acceptable level quickly.

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 Leo, your secondary function is 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.

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 reserved, somewhat emotional basis. You tend to judge situations well, but may be less than tactful in stating your opinions. You are able to go with the flow if it is not too far from your own opinion of the proper direction.

Your naturally impulsive nature may have led you to rash action more than once, usually not a helpful tendency where career is concerned. At the same time you have intuitive abilities and creative talents that guide your impulses, so that what at first seems ill-advised often turns out well. You like change.

Your personality naturally tends to exhibit a caring, sympathetic attitude toward others. You may tend to be reserved, even shy, and certainly sensitive to the feelings of others and yourself. You can make decisions in the clinches. There is a tendency to depend on others - you may need to stand on your own merits more in the work place.

The qualities you most easily recognize in yourself are the capacity to apply personal effort in your work and the ambitious pursuit of the goals you set for yourself. You recognize your optimism a personal strength. You also recognize your capacity for rashness and the occasional inability to let go of an idea that has lost its usefulness. You know that you respond effectively in moments of crisis.

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 developing an inspired sense of purpose. Your self-confidence will grow during this period and you will experience an increased enthusiasm for your work.

For the next few months, your thought processes are stimulated. You are able to learn to apply logic to whatever situation you encounter, and you take a somewhat businesslike attitude to everything in your life.

During the current period you have more feelings of security and practicality. There is a reserve, even caution, in your career decisions. You tend to be thorough in your work. Purposefulness shows in your actions. Egotism and a desire for pleasure can sometimes interfere with otherwise sound work practices.

The qualities you stand to gain at this time include the ability to preserve what you have gained, the persistence in achieving worthwhile results, and your concern with security. You are generally tolerant of others but can become distrustful if they give you reason. You know that you can see past imperfections in others. You know you resist letting go of material things and that this can prevent you from forward movement. You understand your desires better than most people.

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 live in a world of balanced considerations between what you desire to accomplish for yourself and how you respond to the needs and desires of others. You exercise the initiative when that seems appropriate. At other times you go along with the plan, even though it is not your plan. Cooperative efforts appeal to you, but you are equally able to take independent action. This combination of strengths is beneficial in the career world, as you can roll with the punches, working alone or with others, without discomfort either way.

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 are an eager beaver type, a person who is always into the next activity ahead of everyone else. Yet you need someone to precede you, to wave your flag, so to speak. You sometimes feel as though you have arrived at your destination before you sent the telegram saying you were coming. The slower pace of communication helps you to moderate your thinking.

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.  

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 obstinacy. You will do better in a career where personal responsibility and authority are maximized.  Working for someone else can aggravate the tendency to demand your own way, while working for yourself, or at least in an area where you direct your own activities, is desired. You have the ability to concentrate on your research abilities and emotional endurance to see you through the long haul. Keep this in mind in every area of life, not just vocation. You learn through diligent, serious application of effort.

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 a philosophical and logical education, either through college or other continuing education. Begin with a job that requires mental accuracy - work of an intellectual or logical nature. Later your quick wits can be brought into the picture. After strong basic training and education, you will thrive in a business or profession that demands your quick perception. You are not a natural executive and may want to avoid such positions until later in your career, as you need to produce in your own right.

Current Direction

You have been meeting the world on its terms and now it is time to meet the world on your terms. Now you need to take up your own internal challenge to make the highest possible productive mark. You will realign your thinking with the drive of your inner daemon.

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.

Your instinctive responses are fully available at this time. You establish your security by focusing your emotions so they do not carry you away. You may be emotionally sensitive during this time, but learning to control your responses is the key to establishing personal boundaries and choosing the focus of your mission.

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 you may be critical, even though you barely know what you are talking about. You can also be irritable for no apparent reason, and somewhat nervous. As you gain experience, these seeming limitations develop into job skills. You organize your work environment neatly and efficiently. You develop work methods and skills which allow you to be on top of every situation. You learn from your nervousness how to adapt to situations before they cause you discomfort. Your skills take you in the direction of detailed work or scientific investigation (even if your field is not science).

Your drive to succeed cannot help but result in significant accomplishments of some kind. You can over-estimate what you can do on your own, and may need to develop a team to work with closely. You are very logical and methodical in your work and demand that of coworkers. Independence is part and parcel of success for you. You can be very focused, and rarely leave a project uncompleted.

The career can flourish through the cooperative efforts of energy and structure, as conditions exists which make this path easy for you to follow. On the one hand, the structure of the best career path is enhanced by the application of energy while on the other hand, your energy is easily directed to fill the requirements of the career's structure. In this way the detrimental and stressful tendencies toward harmful action or weakness are decreased, while your energy is skillfully applied in the most fruitful direction.

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.  

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.

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.

You may find that at some point you undertake a second, rather different career that has the following characteristics:

You are persistent and have great endurance. There is a slow but sure evolution toward security and at the same time a development of tolerance for others. You can be entrusted with projects that require steady attention to bring them to fruition.  This person can be happy as an employee only when your personality is given elbow room. Career fields suited to you include actors, art dealers, artists, banking, cabinet maker, cashier, commercial artist, confectioner, dancer, finance, geology, money lending, music, psychometry, sculpture, singer and surveyor.

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.

You find career mentors in your immediate work environment who can be most helpful in your advancement path. You grasp the changes in your career field easily and are able to follow them.

Your career is a function of the work environment. For example, if you are a physician working in a large metropolitan area, you are connected closely with a hospital and probably know the staff well. If you live in an isolated area, you still practice medicine, but the environment may include an office, patients' homes, or other out of the way locations where your services are needed.

You are ambitious. That said, your usually cautious nature can keep you from becoming overly materialistic in your career. Self-control may be the key to maximum success.

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 have a direct connection between your ego-consciousness and your soul. The emphasis on inner spiritual meaning and values becomes a catalyst for self-understanding. The focus is less on individual expression and more on a flexible life path which asserts the desire to nurture others in terms of what you know about yourself. This flexibility does not encourage a focused approach; rather it allows for diffuse interests based upon deeply rooted spiritual values. Your natural ability is to allow pre-conscious or unconscious motives to emerge into awareness; these motives are part of what you can learn about yourself.  The connection between who you are and what you know about yourself is indirect, coming through the influence of others.  The easiest path to self-awareness for you is not through thinking, so you tend toward a career that focuses on other strengths. 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.  You find yourself acting without self-examination, and this is not always the best plan. You work best in situations where considerable training is involved, so that your actions become second nature. You are interested in expansion, optimism and religious or spiritual interests.  Your thinking emphasizes the nobler facets of human expression as a result of consciousness. The urge to expand is joined with self-awareness to produce direction and optimism. This combination often signals success throughout life because the higher, more comprehensive awareness of cosmic law is so closely linked to ego-consciousness. It is as though the two are one expression for you. The desire to accomplish something important can be a powerful motivation, and leads to self-awareness.  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.  Whatever psychic awareness you bring to your career is a felt thing, not the result of thought. You may find that your thought processes are sometimes inconsistent and self-awareness depends on listening to your "gut".  Power is often outside your conscious control. You find it is governed by unconscious drives for the most part. You develop a disciplined will through other channels.

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

Feeling and the soul's direction. You may find yourself becoming aware of karmic connections during this time. Your soul's direction is subject to conscious guidance and thus greater emotional awareness is also possible. Change is almost a certainty in career as well as other areas of your life. A decided lack of ego-consciousness. There can be an opening to larger mystical and intuitive understanding which is indeed not grounded in personal ego, but rather is indicative of awareness which transcends the present. These unusual mental states include indecision, self-deception, wrong ideas, and aimlessness, as well as the more constructive altered states. There can also be supernatural or psychic awareness's which emerge.

Current and Future Trends for the Coming Year

You love a good discussion right now. Try not to turn it into an argument. Also try to think before you act. During this period you should take extra care in all your activities involving machinery, sharp things, and speech.  

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 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.

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 hard to reach places, places where hard labor is performed, abandoned places, slums, deserts, barren fields, mines, mountain peaks, storage buildings or rooms, corners near the ground or floor, south walls or rooms. Geographic locations which may be suited to your work include Antarctic ocean, Bulgaria, Connecticut, Georgia, India, Iowa, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, New Mexico, Texas, or Utah.

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.

Your energy is generally used for methodical activity. You have the capacity to organize your work and play activities carefully. You give attention to matters of health and diet, sometimes through necessity but more often through your focused interest in the general condition of your body/mind. You enjoy an independent role in the work environment and are generally able to work well alone.

Your work companions are the driving force of action in the work environment.  Constantly looking for a new venture, they dive into new projects and demonstrate their enthusiasm at every turn. They are impulsive and need the balance of someone who is more cautious, or at least more grounded. They enjoy working independently and are self-reliant. Their fearless attitude in the face of change can seem rash or even destructive. Above all, they are determined to succeed in their own right and not at the expense of others.

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.

The majority of your income will come from your actual work, or the fruits of that work. You will also find that your self-esteem is tied into your work environment, and you need to be clear about factors in the work environment over which you have no control, as you don't want them to affect your self-image adversely.

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 form relationships with successful women which are beneficial to you. You need to control expansive gestures to avoid wastefulness. You tend to fall into lucky circumstances; you also tend to spend very freely.  Blessed with good health and generally destined for success, you gain recognition without effort and accomplish much if you can avoid extravagance.  Fortunate decisions place you in beneficial circumstances. You find yourself in the position to resolve disagreements. It is easy to expand into new relationships.

Impulsive actions reflect the energy in your life. You tend to begin projects with tremendous energy. You find it easy to mobilize your energy when you are interested in a subject. Think things through before you act.  You use your powerful mind to help you through difficult transitions in your life. A tendency toward rash action can create unnecessary tensions. You can use inner tension to guide the direction of persuasive arguments.  You experience harmful energy from time to time, yet your endurance gets you through it. You are more effective when you throw your energy into tasks without also throwing your ego along with it.  You will make remarkable achievements during your life, but there is a price. You need to take care to avoid accident or injury because of carelessness. You are brutally truthful and sometimes intolerant of others.

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

Now is a time to enjoy the fruits of your labors, as you can gain the recognition and advancement that you have earned. Your idealism is at a high now, and you tend to speculate a bit. There may be gains without much apparent effort.

Success depends, just now, on your ability to apply forceful effort while resisting the urge to act too quickly.

Trends in the Near Future

Success depends, just now, on your ability to apply forceful effort while resisting the urge to act too quickly.

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?

Ambitious and persistent in the accumulation of wealth on some scale, you can appear selfish to others. Sometimes you indulge to the extreme, but usually your spending impulses are guided toward a few substantial dramatic pieces which have lasting value in the bargain. It would be a mistake to devote your entire life to gaining wealth, as this tends to isolate you from others who, at the very least, you want to be close enough to admire you. Self-esteem is enhanced be financial success; it also thrives when you are generous with your well-deserved material comforts.

Where does your money actually come from?

Your strong emotions can be a career asset if you direct them towards accomplishment and avoid projecting them onto other people. It is important for you to find work that inspires you, so that you are able to throw yourself into your activities and achieve good results. Your strong sexual passions have little place at work, so save them for your personal life.

The home is an important source of harmony for you and thus deserves your attention. The foundation of your belief system is rooted in familial and cultural history, yet you are not shy to incorporate knowledge from other sources in formulating your own approach to life. Your capacity to feel is an integral part of your developmental process.

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 find that you have the energy to work with diverse situations and take advantage of whatever opportunities come your way.

Impulsive actions reflect the energy in your life. You tend to begin projects with tremendous energy. You find it easy to mobilize your energy when you are interested in a subject. Think things through before you act.  You will be known for the extent of your kindness. You will also form relationships with successful women that affect the major transitions in your life. You need to control expansive gestures to avoid wastefulness.  Your mission in life may center on the development of self-control. Clear thinking and careful effort is needed to work through anxiety caused by family. Sometimes you feel very isolated from others.  Cycles in your life focus on your emotions. Yet you will have growth periods in which balance soothes and heals.  You are often aware of subconscious feelings and thoughts which are not evident to others. This comes through in your awareness of situations which arise in your environment. You often know information about your surroundings and about people which surprises you.  You have a heightened emotional life which is directed into specific areas of your life. You pursue your goals with almost fanatical zest and must be careful to consider other people in your excitement.  Blessed with good health and generally destined for success, you are able to control expansion in your life by choosing your direction consciously.  Fortunate decisions place you in beneficial circumstances. You find yourself in the position to resolve disagreements. It is easy to expand into new relationships.

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.

Somewhat jealous of your money, you may use it as a weapon instead of as a tool. You may struggle to achieve and maintain financial stability, yet your perseverance sees you through.

Astrology can indicate the importance of income in general, and how material matters affect your self-esteem.

You find that you have the energy to work with diverse situations and take advantage of whatever opportunities come your way.

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

Now is a time to enjoy the fruits of your labors, as you can gain the recognition and advancement that you have earned. You reap the "rewards" of any recent wasteful habits or behavior. Legal matters put you at a disadvantage. Your idealism is at a high now, and you tend to speculate a bit. There may be gains without much apparent effort.

Pay attention to the people you meet in work situations at this time, as they can be instrumental in your own career advancement.

You have had some plans for innovative change. Now may be a good time to push these plans forward.

Future Considerations

Allow an artistic flow at this time. You may become aware of new directions for your power to attract what you need. You find dealing with women causes friction at this time.

Viva la revolución! You desire change, and it happens, although not exactly the way you expect.

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.

Mediation occurs not only in conflict resolution between or among people; it is an internal psychic function as well.  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. Both Mercury and Saturn tend to express through two profoundly significant realities of being. First, you appreciate movement into incarnation. This movement includes the desire to manifest in the material world, and requires an effort of Will. Second, you experience a desire to cooperate with a larger plan. Thus you can combine both the will to manifest individually and the desire to return to the ultimate source. This is "the secret of beginnings."

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. You tend to seek concrete knowledge through the desire to manifest in the world. This placement addresses the creative passion as it expresses procreatively. The child is a physical example of the synthesis of opposites. You also have the energy needed to evolve in Consciousness to a higher expression - you can use your mind to mediate within the personality; you can also communicate between the personality and the soul. "The secret ...  is the mystery of the relation of Father, Mother and Child," a mystical expression of the power of love.

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 through the 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.

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.  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 Uranus 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 through fierce 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.

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 energy for movement in thought and action, your passion for dealing with higher spiritual goals is activated 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.

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 life's' mission through the desire to express through personality. This expression can become stubbornness, or it can exemplify purposeful progress. The co-existence of physical form and spiritual will illuminate our individual desires as well as the powerful idealism of the larger sphere of life. "The secret ... is revealed in the blinding energy of light (through) the sudden removal ... of world glamour."  

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.