Astrological Profile for Deepak Chopra
Your Chart Data
Name: Deepak Chopra Date: Oct 22, 1946 Time: 03:45:00 PM INT -05:30
Place: New Delhi,INDIA 077E12'00" 28N36'00"
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. As an Astrologer, Joan 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 have a strong vision of what can be accomplished and have the ability to motivate others. You combine a psychic sense of how
things are with a sympathetic understanding of what people need. And you are responsive to those needs. The oil and gas industries
are possible career fields, as well as the motion picture industry. In fact, any field that has an element of glamour is good for you.
You would have made a good pioneer/cowboy, and can make a living in a career that focuses on the glamorous side of the cowboy
art even now. You have an underlying psychic talent that will be incorporated into your work, even if the field is not much oriented
toward it. How could you not do this, with your near clairvoyant ability to see into how things will be. You grasp the abstract nature
of your work and can convey it to others creatively. Progressive healing methods may be up your alley career-wise. Never one to
stick to the tried and true, you will experiment with new avenues and make your decision based upon results. You could be a
magician. In the field of magic illusion is the key, but in other fields you need to avoid fraudulent activities and restrict illusion to
subtle medium of advertisement.
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 power lies on the ability to rest with thoughts and feelings, to allow them to run their course without interference.
Your fertile mind is able to soak up the facts; you thrive in situations where you can apply that knowledge to problem-solving. You
tend to immerse yourself in projects, and may need to take a moment out for yourself to enjoy the process. You take pleasure in the
fact that you can manifest a stillness of turmoil even in the midst of intense work effort. You are at your best creatively when you
work with the natural direction of life, not fighting the currents around you.
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 have the will to create and the stamina to see a process through to completion. You are self-reliant. Your urge for offspring can
focus on children, or it can be directed toward some other manifestation in the material world. You thrive on the process of bringing
ideas to fulfillment, on the heat of production, if you will. You want assurance that your works will survive you in some way. Your
creative heat is like the oven that bakes the bread or hardens the pottery. You recognize that creativity takes a certain amount of time
and cannot be rushed. You take the greatest pleasure from the pregnant process of development, whatever the line of work you
pursue.
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 partnership with others. You may feel stifled by overly assertive supervisors and even resent any
appearance of control by others. Yet you may also feel isolated if no one is around to share in the creative process.
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 are loyal to a fault, and perhaps beyond. Generally reliable, you can come up with creative responses to situations and you are
diplomatic at the same time. You consider education of the younger generation to be a priority and may use your creative talents well
in this area. You are most creative in structured situations, so you will do well around accountants, vocational counselors, chemists,
civil engineers or government workers - anyone whose work depends on organization and structure. You manage responsibility
creatively. You can find the creative elements in the work of efficiency experts, economists, landlords and masons. It's the structure
of things that attracts your attention and holds it.
You are reliable to the nth degree, and loyal to a fault. These characteristics make you a valued employee or partner in business.
Your shyness needs balance, and a partner or coworker can help you to come out of your shell. You are a born diplomat.
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 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 will gain recognition and accomplish much if you can
avoid extravagance. The constructive qualities of firmness, modesty and determination provide concrete situations in which to
develop mastery of inhibitions and management of delicate health. Your life is filled with changes but you have a progressive mind
which can manage them. You have the ego skills to work with your intuitive ability. You generally have plenty of nervous energy.
The typical results of your creative forays have the following characteristics:
Your mission in life may center on the development of self-control. Depression caused by your inner thought processes can be a
signal to spend time with others, even though you feel like isolating yourself. Your love life is inhibited by your serious acceptance
of duty. Your sober, sensible side can attract partners much younger or older. Even temporary separations can cause you pain.
Jealousy can be a problem. You are often happiest when you are involved in secluded activities. Your patience, diplomacy, and
sense of duty are exemplary. Your life is filled with challenges successfully met. 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 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 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.
Emotional intensity in your life produces conflict. Opportunities arise to work with women. Use your innate artistic talent and
recognition of beauty to overcome a tendency to dwell on emotional conflicts. Impulsive actions reflect inner irritation. Rashness
can cause problems which can be overcome through honest self-assessment and personal effort. You tend to begin projects with
tremendous energy. Intense emotions can create challenges in your life involving other people. You tend to exaggerate things and to
strain your nervous system. Yet you will have sudden successes which come out of these tense periods. You need to balance fear
and anxiety with restful periods. You have a heightened emotional life which can be 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.
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.
Current and Future Trends for the Coming Year
Intense emotional feelings accompany this period of change. Take care of yourself. Socialize with women.
You are in a period of change, with many career and business offers to consider.
You find you have little control over your feelings and how you express them. This is an emotionally trying time.
At this time you tend to overdo at work, and you push too hard to achieve your objectives. This can cause anxiety.
You may become aware of personal responsibilities and the authority you demonstrate to others.
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, selfcenteredness, 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 tend to be excitable, impulsive and emotional, with an apparent lack of logical thought patterns. You can be unpredictable at
times. This combination is good for work that involves convincing others, such as entertainment or sales. Your pressure cooker
energy can explode from time to time.
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 Libra,
you are primarily 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.
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 Virgo, your
secondary function is the Sensation type.
Sensation types are primarily interested in practical considerations of the world. They will look at the actualities - facts first. They
depend on their five normal senses for perception. They wish to have the experience, not hear about it from others. Sensation types
learn by doing, so the learning process may be slower. To be satisfied, they need to go over things carefully. They are not less
intelligent because they go slower - they are more careful. When given the time to assimilate information, the sensation type may
remember it longer and understand the practical uses in more detail. Studying the theory of engineering may be difficult for the
sensation type, but the application is their forte. You demand satisfaction all along the way, and will not select occupations that are
without positive feedback. You are a healthy consumer, loving life and what it has to offer on the material level and you are best in
careers involving real "stuff". You would be a good real estate person, interior decorator, or chef. You enjoy working with your
hands and can make this part of the vocation or at least an avocation. You would be a good doctor or health care professional. Any
career that requires attention to and intimate understanding of the details is suited to the sensation type.
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 joyful eager basis. You have good observation skills and a
socially adaptable nature. Always willing to try a new method, you may appear inconsistent or superficial with the old. Associations
are important to you.
You support your natural intuitive understanding with a sensitivity to the facts as they present themselves. You are generally firm in
your position and consistent in your work. You have a sense of duty which makes you a reliable employee or co-worker.
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 subtleties of achieving status and success, the ability to plan far into the
future for such goals, and the ability to choose from many potential paths. You have an inherently conservative attitude, yet are
open-minded to new things. Your inner spiritual beliefs are a stable source of inspiration. You enjoy adventure, yet usually only
gamble for the fun of it. When you hold to your philosophical position too tightly, you may have trouble accommodating new ideas.
It is better to work from a flexible model of the world if possible. You respond to others by thinking through the problem, developing
a solution, and then doing what needs to be done, or finding the help you need. This is accomplished from a somewhat aloof,
although inspired position.
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 may experience an eagerness to get on with new career plans. As you learn to control rash impulses,
you gain a sense of self-confidence during this period. ou may see your ideals moving into reality.
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 capacity to hold back and observe, coupled with strong planning skills. Timing
is everything for you, and you strive to not wait too long to act. You understand the dynamics of leadership and cooperation and
seek for strong team effort whenever possible. You usually see failures as learning situations, at least where your co-workers are
concern. Proper behavior is important to you, yet you can laugh at your occasional missteps. You tend to think you know everything
and may resist input from others - the weight of your personal experience is NOT everything. You know the difference between
reaction and response lies in knowing yourself on a deep spiritual level. The best response involves service guided by higher
consciousness.
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.
The extravert evaluates events external to the self. For such an individual other people are the basis for personal decisions. In
extraversion the flow of energy is outward; your thoughts mainly concern external objects. You tend to live life and then figure it out
afterward. You are usually relaxed and confident, plunging into the water before you know how deep it is. Conduct is essentially
governed by external conditions. You tend to unload your emotions as you go along and take an expansive attitude to everything.
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 experience a lessening of personal control and an increased tendency to react to outer influences - to respond to the needs and
desires of other people. There is the potential to dissolve conditions which are rigid within the personality and to interact with others
in a more beneficial manner. You tend to merge your feelings and ideas with other people, caring less for personal ownership and
more for cooperative effort. You often make choices that are more beneficial to the people around you than to yourself, recognizing
that you gain more satisfaction from helping others. You make a strong facilitator because you are naturally aware of how other
people feel and thus are able to provide the motivation and circumstances for them to be successful. You measure your own success
in terms of the worldly results.
These two tendencies combine to produce a personal approach to the world.
You see yourself as an individual, on equal footing with others. Your efforts are usually directed toward cooperation with people
around you and how you choose to grow in that process. You are able to evaluate how you relate on a one-to-one basis with a
partner (or an overt enemy); how your sexual response works; what you receive from others, how you share feelings; and how you
engage a higher philosophy and relate to social values.
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.
The focus is on another time. Attention to the future is a function of good judgment, as you don't jump into things without an idea of
what is coming. This is a very convenient trait in the work place. You sometimes seem psychic to others, as you get unexpected
results from the careful mental process of the intuitive type. You gain insight suddenly - from the gestalt and not from the details.
This is not through inattention to detail, but rather from the ability to step back mentally and see the overall picture. This is a valuable
skill for a supervisor or planner. You sometimes are unable to explain your reasons - you simply "KNOW." This sort of statement
does not sit well with the logical rational minds of the so-called norm, any more than the super-fast mentality does. There are
therefore some limitations where work is concerned.
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 caution. Caution in itself is a good thing, but it can inhibit job performance in careers where the keynote is
on-the-spot action. You have the greatest career success in areas where a conservative attitude is well-placed, such as financial
management. You may be the person who seems to throw cold water on ideas which will drain personnel or financial resources too
completely. You have the ability to concentrate on your natural reliability and loyalty to see you through the long haul. Keep this in
mind in every area of endeavor, not just vocation. You learn through informal yet diplomatic situations.
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 asset you need to develop for career success is understanding of your self-worth without an associated obsession
about independence. To make the best use of your abilities, begin with a job working for a friend or family member for starters, with
a social or political dynamic where you get a broad perspective of the career field. Your strong personality will demand recognition.
A solid start will lead you to such a position in your career, provided you follow your personal ambition closely. Diplomacy will gain
you the help you need along the way.
Current Direction
You have come full circle twice in your life. You have not only completed the learning phase, you have also completed the
productive phase of your life. But don't think for a moment that you cannot continue to have a productive life. What is completed is
the cycle in which you developed a full understanding of your capabilities. The task of this period is to evaluate your career path and
to see what remains to be done to fulfill your mission. For many this will involve a gearing down from the pace of work. You may
also find yourself taking up a task that speaks to your spiritual mission more than your previous work, or you may spend more time
facilitating the activities of others.
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.
At this time you have the final opportunity to redefine yourself and to make adjustments in your personal path. Seek to identify the
methods which will best carry you forward into the world of social interaction, as you will face an extended period of being "on
display" in your career. If you feel depressed or weakened, make personally meaningful adjustments.
You can put your attention to details at this time, analyzing what is best for you and also what will make other people more
self-sufficient. Avoid the tendency to nag about every little point. It is also important to see how the pieces fit into the larger picture.
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 in life you want to be in control and impose your power on others. You can be ruthless and critical in your manner. You may
even be willfully destructive in your approach. These intense qualities can become your allies in the work place if you learn to
reserve your ruthlessness for the clinches. You can be in a position of power without stomping on others, even though you may
never be the diplomat. You learn to destroy only that which you are certain you will never need again. That you learn most from
these qualities is to become conscious of your goals and to find skillful means of attaining them without burning bridges
unnecessarily.
An innate survival instinct pulls you through situations that might devastate others. Oh, you can be devastated, but you rise from the
ashes of one job to attack another, directing your emotional energy into the future. You understand the cycles of the work place
well. You can be so intensely focused that you are not aware of others around you. You generally follow your heart, and this works
because your instincts are strong. You have powerful desires.
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 are a born planner. You seem to see into the future and figure out just the right direction to take. At the same time you want to
be held up as a shining example for your peers, so being stuck in an office alone is not good. Expect a mix of conservative attitudes
with spiritual leanings. Career fields suited to you include ad writers, advertising agents, airline employees, radio and television
announcers, attorneys, booksellers, book publishers, broadcasting technicians, churchmen, clergymen, counselors, flight engineers,
missile engineers, explorers, hunters, jockeys, judges, lecturers, military officers, navy men, pilots, professors, publicity directors,
theologians, travel agents, traveling salesmen and writers.
You may find that at some point you undertake a second, rather different career that has the following characteristics:
Endurance is a trait that advances your ambitions. There is such a strong focus on the career and its demands that you may become
more lonely over time because other people are not included in your plans. There is the ability to lead if the tendency to concentrate
over much is curbed. You are an employee who can be turned loose on projects with good results. Career fields suited to you
include administrators, architects, brick makers and layers, buyers, carpenters, cemetery workers, chiropractors, civil engineers,
contractors, vocational counselors, efficiency experts, gardeners, government officials, governors, ice dealers, industrial engineers,
landlords, land owners, leather workers, mathematicians, miners, orthopedic surgeons, ranchers, real estate agents, tanners,
tombstone makers and watchmen.
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 sometimes feel that you are engaged in a ruthless struggle in your career, but you also understand the cyclical nature of your
work and are able to accept change when it presents itself.
Your powerful magnetic personality attracts significant people to you and thus indirectly enhances your career. You may need to
learn to express yourself without appearing 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 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. 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 may find that you experience social interactions as though through a veil or fog. Yet you feel a
powerful drive to be understood and accepted. 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 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 are susceptible to rigid ideas about the world. There will be far less movement
with this combination, as it is less about awareness of change and more about the limitations we find in the physical environment.
There is a focus on the structure of your own personality rather than on things outside the self. Because you may not have a strong
sense of the structure of social systems, there is a tendency to be self-critical, sometimes leading to an actual loss of
ego-consciousness. Ego-consciousness is not placed within the framework of the world, and thus has no solid ground on which to
develop. The result is a difficulty in career and relationships which can only be overcome through steadfast adherence to your goals.
The need for sufficient practice in thinking is apparent; clear thought processes will negate any tendency toward depression. You
feel an emphasis on the suddenness and change in your life as well as rhythm, independence and even rebellion. You are usually in a
state of being ready to take action, coupled with a strong intuitive sense of what direction to take with your life. Controlled by a
well-trained mind, intuition can indeed provide equilibrium in your life, as you can foresee conditions and events clearly. When you
are out of control, emotional imbalances result and change runs your life, instead of the other way around. The more out of balance
you seem, the more your ego-consciousness is ignoring some significant portion of the psyche and its messages. 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.
Fortunate turns in your life are the stuff of legends. You seek independence and adventure, and can build up or release tension
through sudden changes in your activities.
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
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 awarenesses which emerge.
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 expiriences, 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
You may miss the best opportunities just now because you are not focused or because you choose to argue about a philosophical
point.
This is a time to be conservative, as you may experience losses and need to be prepared. You could lose a great deal if you are
wasteful of time or money at this time.
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 parks, playgrounds, yards, jungles, reservations, steep hillsides, natural fortresses, hot
and humid places, forests, main entry, living room, dining room, east walls or rooms, high enough to have to reach to get something.
Geographic locations which may be suited to your work include East Africa, Alaska, The Alps, Bohemia, California, Western
Canada, Chicago, Colorado, Detroit, France, West Los Angeles, Madagascar, Miami, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Oregon, Pacific
Islands, Philadelphia, Sicily, or Zanzibar.
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 level, productive land, gardens, cornfields, dairies and farms, barns, storehouses,
closets, pantries, home office, rooms usually kept locked, south walls or rooms, and crooked hallways. Geographic locations which
may be suited to your work include West Alaska, Assyria, Boston, Congo, Greece, Hawaii, Los Angeles, Moscow, New England
States, Turkey, Uruguay, Virgin Islands, N. Vietnam, Virginia, or the West Indies.
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 power is activated in the detail of your life. You leave nothing to chance if you can exert will and control. You serve others
with fanatical intensity. Yet you have the skill to achieve a great deal through the simplest methods. Off with their heads! This can be
the watchword of tyrannical coworkers, or it can be the rejuvenation that a budding work force requires. These individuals drive
others to change, to grow, and to master their abilities. They tend to drastic action from the beginning and may never learn to be
moderate. They understand how things work on the deep inner levels of both the physical and the psychic planes. They make their
own rules.
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.
You are the "schmoozer", the one who soothes ruffled feelings and maintains harmony among your co-workers. A little training will
make you a skilled counselor.
You are likely to see whole companies or divisions of companies come and go during your working years, and these cycles serve to
stimulate your own career growth.
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.
Blessed with good health and generally destined for success, your consciousness emerges through the development of creative
spiritual awareness. Your personal growth hinges on your ability to accept authority, both from others and within yourself. Health
issues force you into such a position. Sudden changes force you to cope, yet your mind can manage easily. It is possible to align
your thinking to minimize physical upsets connected with new conditions.
You can be abrasive and coercive, pressing your own values on others to your own detriment. You are persuasive and usually win
arguments. Your own eagerness can be a detriment to your health unless you support your nervous system with proper nutrition and
rest. You sometimes appear to have superhuman power. You also seem to solve problems by applying excessive amounts of force.
Control cruel urges and you will get further. Your desire for power should be complemented by an understanding of the cause and
effect relationship between your actions and the results. Even though you have high spiritual aims, the methods you use cannot sink
into exploitation of others. You are a highly sensitive person and can develop your psychic gifts steadily throughout your life. You
are aware of events before they occur.
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.
Trends in the Near Future
This is a time to be conservative, as you may experience losses and need to be prepared. You could lose a great deal if you are
wasteful of time or money at this time. The challenge just now, and for some time to come, is to manage your own power wisely.
Awareness of your own leadership qualities provides you with the fuel for a career move that leads to a stronger position.
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?
Money comes most easily through self-assertion. Even if it would come from other sources, you are impatient with waiting for that
process to occur, and may feel compelled to create cash flow directly. Courage and a natural resourcefulness make such acquisition
of cash possible. The desire to be on the offensive may develop into a series of careers, or at least of projects. The money will be
more satisfying if it is gotten as a result of personal activity, and more so if that activity is somewhat aggressive in nature. There is
likely to be an edge on all money-making activities.
Where does your money actually come from?
An innate survival instinct pulls you through situations that might devastate others. Oh, you can be devastated, but you rise from the
ashes of one job to attack another, directing your emotional energy into the future. You understand the cycles of the work place
well. You can be so intensely focused that you are not aware of others around you. You generally follow your heart, and this works
because your instincts are strong. You have powerful desires.
You have spent time developing a conscious awareness of the meaning of life - of birth and death. Survival, emotional and physical,
is a focus for decisions and activities in your life. Your interest in life and death issues may influence your choice of career. You tend
to have an active dream life; dream information can be used to guide your daily activities. There is a drive, sometimes ruthless, to
fulfill your desires.
You use your powerful mind to help you through difficult transitions in your life. A tendency toward rash action can make endings
more abrupt than need be. Occasionally you may become involved in legal actions or other controversies. You can develop great skill
in argument.
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.
Your personal finances are often directly connected to the financial condition of others, and your work may involve handling other
people's money. You are reliable in this because you treat their resources as carefully as your own.
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 perserverance sees you through.
Astrology can indicate the importance of income in general, and how material matters affect your self-esteem.
You use your powerful mind to help you through difficult transitions in your life. A tendency toward rash action can make endings
more abrupt than need be. Occasionally you may become involved in legal actions or other controversies. You can develop great skill
in argument.
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
Your usual communication style takes on the edge of quarrelsomeness and can cause conflicts at this time.
You are aware of your position and how you would like it to develop or change.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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. 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 Saturn and Pluto tend to express 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.
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 the testing of opposites. Energies are weighed and balanced here, and understanding begins to form about the profitable uses
of polarity. Harmony is not only expressed through balance and symmetry, but through intentional asymmetry as well. Knowing how
to work with this concept allows you to achieve new levels of energy.
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 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 the 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.
Mediation occurs not only in conflict resolution between or among people; it is an internal psychic function as well. Your principal
path of approach to paradoxical problems of all kinds is through the 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.
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 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."
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.