Career Path

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Marilyn Jameson

Astro Energetics

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Your Chart Data

Name: Marilyn Jameson
Date: Oct 19, 1972
Time: 08:43:00 AM PDT +07:00
Place: San Francisco, CA
122W25'06" 37N46'30"

Planet	Sign	Position	House	House Cusps
Sun	Libra	26°Li21'	12th	01 11°Sc42'
Moon	Pisces	16°Pi26'	04th	02 10°Sg54'
Mercury	Scorpio	15°Sc08'	01st	03 14°Cp02'
Venus	Virgo	16°Vi37'	10th	04 19°Aq07'
Mars	Libra	12°Li06'	11th	05 21°Pi43'
Jupiter	Capricorn	02°Cp57'	02nd	06 19°Ar07'
Saturn	Gemini	20°Ge20' R	08th	07 11°Ta42'
Uranus	Libra	19°Li11'	12th	08 10°Ge54'
Neptune	Sagittarius	03°Sg37'	01st	09 14°Ca02'
Pluto	Libra	02°Li49'	11th	10 19°Le07'
Midheaven	Leo	19°Le07'		11 21°Vi43'
Ascendant	Scorpio	11°Sc42'		12 19°Li07'

Transit and Solar Arc Positions for Aug 30, 2002

Planet	Sign	Transit	N Hs	Planet	Sign	Solar Arc	N Hs
Sun	Virgo	06°Vi45'	10th	Sun	Scorpio	26°Sc16'	01st
Moon	Taurus	27°Ta36'	07th	Moon	Aries	16°Ar21'	05th
Mercury	Libra	03°Li47'	11th	Mercury	Sagittarius	15°Sg03'	02nd
Venus	Libra	22°Li27'	12th	Venus	Libra	16°Li32'	11th
Mars	Virgo	00°Vi26'	10th	Mars	Scorpio	12°Sc01'	01st
Jupiter	Leo	06°Le09'	09th	Jupiter	Aquarius	02°Aq52'	03rd
Saturn	Gemini	27°Ge30'	08th	Saturn	Cancer	20°Ca15' R	09th
Uranus	Aquarius	26°Aq27' R	04th	Uranus	Scorpio	19°Sc06'	01st
Neptune	Aquarius	08°Aq51' R	03rd	Neptune	Capricorn	03°Cp32'	02nd
Pluto	Sagittarius	14°Sg54'	02nd	Pluto	Scorpio	02°Sc44'	12th

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Introduction

What do I want to be when I grow up? People from fifteen to fifty are now considering this childhood question. 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.

Cooperation is the key element to your best career expression. This means that you cooperate when it suits your position, and you facilitate cooperation among others when you are the leader. You don't have to be the leader, but you do thrive where strong team effort exists. You reserve the possibility of exerting extreme force if it should become necessary. You may even prepare yourself through the study of a martial art or other practice for the unexpected eventuality. What you realize more than most people is that all the training and preparation is designed to prevent the very outcome for which you train. Thus extreme measures are seldom needed. You like to use the latest in technology and methods in your work. For you to have the edge necessary for transmutation of the present into the best possible future you need adequate tools, it's that simple. You are not afraid to create your own precedent. You can be quite clever in your manipulation of materials or people. Your deep understanding of group dynamics comes from your psychic sensitivity to currents around you. The outcome is best when you do not force your ultimate desire on others, but rather seek to inspire them to move in the desired direction with all possible grace and speed.

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 creativity grows from a place of serenity where you can see the goal and the path as part of a seamless unity. Because you do not approach life piecemeal, career considerations must be part of the seamlessness or you will not be happy. You thrive in situations where you are participating in the larger vision of the future and not isolated to contend with the details. Your intuition is a vital part of the creative process. Your greatest pleasure comes in situations where you can demonstrate the compassionate side of your nature creatively.

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 revolves around the moment of inspiration. Like a small child, you thrill to the moment of discovery, the inception of a new plan, the desire to forge ahead, and passion for all that is new. Your creative process may not be evident to others at first, but there is action nonetheless. Like a brooding hen, you warm and protect your initial ideas with the assurance that they will produce a worthwhile product. It is this initial stage of creation that most pleases you, and you like to be the idea person. You need the silent moment for the idea to take root because dissipation of the energy too soon can prevent real progress.

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 a philosophical attitude to your work and you are able to adapt to rather different circumstances. You thrive in situations that require an open-minded look at the facts.

It also helps to be aware of how you can use your creativity to the best advantage.

You are most creative when you are both the source of the ideas and the implementer. You are quite capable of designing and developing products, imagining and producing results, in your chosen field.

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.

Generally you find that your creative impulse comes out in connection with other aspects of your life, and you may not think of yourself as being especially creative. Your energies are not focused on the creative act itself, but on people and activities that require creative effort on your part.

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.

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. The constructive qualities of firmness, modesty and determination develop and persevere in a climate of inhibition and seriousness. Sudden changes bring new circumstances into your life. You have a progressive mind, which can manage such changes. It is possible to align your thinking to minimize upsets connected with new conditions. The typical results of your creative forays have the following characteristics:

Your speculative ventures will fail if you lack the stable base from which to proceed. Thus generosity must be suited to the situation, and so must idealism. Stresses in your life can develop into a lack of vitality and energy. While you sometimes experience confused psychic states, you can achieve spiritual enlightenment perhaps through travel. You are a highly sensitive person and can develop your psychic gifts steadily throughout your life. You are aware of events before they occur.

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

You are aware of the power inherent in your charismatic effect on others.

You tend to deceive yourself and others, and to be deceived. You feel numb.

Current and Future Trends for the Coming Year

Your idealism is at a high now, and you tend to speculate a bit. There may be gains without much apparent effort. You are able to take on unusual problems and solve them at this time. You are in a period of spiritual evolution personally.

You are experiencing an idealistic love of all humanity, and therefore may not be totally grounded in the practical aspects of your work. Disappointment from someone you have trusted is a possibility at this time.

Creativity and Career

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

Where You Have the Best Advantage

In the world of vocation certain energies work to your best advantage.

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 enjoy social encounters of all kinds, and are therefore at home in a busy workplace where communication rules. Your logical intelligence helps you to think problems through from beginning to end before making a first step into the practical world of manifestation. Computers were designed with you in mind - you may even feel they are an extension of yourself. You may take a more impersonal approach to life in general, and you will want to cultivate the proper closeness with work associates by including more personal conversations in your work day. In general, though, your attention is on the larger abstract picture.

You generally prefer to take the initiative in any situation, choosing action over other considerations. Your initial enthusiasm is often what gets the ball rolling, and you can be counted on to move forward with projects. You can be impatient. You are also 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.

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 wrongdoing, 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 Pisces, your secondary function is the Feeling type.

If the sensation types say, "Just the facts, madam," 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, and 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.

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 you in the best light possible. You may have a rather different persona in the work place than you have anywhere else because your co-workers expect different traits. 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 have emotional strength, although it sometimes seems like moodiness to others. Family matters are always a consideration for you, and work may have to take second place sometimes. You can be ruthless in your ambition and less than tactful. Your gut impressions are often right on.

Your personality naturally tends to exhibit a readiness to make decisions in the clinches and an industrious approach to your work. There is an angry streak that can cause problems from time to time if it gets out of control, but you usually manage it well. This is due to the reserve you demonstrate in the work environment.

The qualities you most easily recognize in yourself are your high goals, coupled with the staying power to achieve them. You have self-confidence that fuels your desire to acquire highly placed friends and even your acquaintances are considered to be friends. You have the capacity for generosity and the organizational skills to make a good leader. You may be hypersensitive to humor when it is aimed in your direction. When pushed, you tend to withdraw from the discussion, to emerge later and claim the winning argument as though it was yours all along. You recognize the value of courage.

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 greater awareness of your feelings. During this period you can improve your ability to judge situations while avoiding the unnecessary negativity of arguing. You may also find you have a new level of reserve, even secretiveness.

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. You may see your ideals moving into reality.

During the current period you have more restless energy, together with self-confidence and enthusiasm. You expect to find a place in your career and to hold it. You desire recognition and may sometimes seem self-absorbed. Your sociability is a career strength.

The qualities you stand to gain at this time include a more critical attitude, which can be either petty or supportive. You know the importance of neatness and you always know where your "stuff" is. You may desire the security of a permanent position. You take a simple approach to personal advancement and cut to the heart of any problem. You resist letting go of details that have served their purpose and you need to clear out old material from time to time. You can bring your self-awareness to the bargaining table and make a good mediator because you are honest.

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 falls on a continuum between very self-directed and self-motivated to more responsive or reactive to other people and outside forces.

You have the potential to develop, to increase your skills and awareness. There is movement in the direction of greater personal control in your life than others experience. You like to be in command of situations and create your own circumstances. Even if you work for other people, you like to be responsible for your own work. You are able to exercise initiative and find ways to apply your will to projects. You like to see your projects grow and you put in the necessary energy for this to happen. You tend to measure success in terms of personal results.

These two tendencies combine to produce a personal approach to the world.

Your role in the world focuses on how you exercise authority and earn respect. As a general rule you are comfortable in non-intimate situations with friends and groups and you are able to set objectives for yourself and others. There may be profound interest in your inner, private life as well. You are interested in the working of your sub-conscious mind, and value time spent alone. You are able to work in seclusion.

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 that 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 decreased adaptability. You are best suited for a position that has change and flow to it, but that does not demand on-the-spot decision-making. You thrive in situations where you can think through and plan changes, as this draws on your problem-solving ability. You have the ability to concentrate on your studiousness and mental thoroughness to see you through the long haul. Keep this in mind in every area of endeavor, not just vocation. You learn through study and logical thought.

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 appreciation for the help others can - and do - offer. Take financial support that is offered to you and use it to begin a business. You should handle the money personally for best effect. You can rise to the directorship of a company through your financial acumen. Cooperative efforts will result in the best gains.

Current Direction

Now is the time for you to define yourself as an individual. You have spent time learning, you have spent time being a child of your parents, and you have spent time mobilizing your energy to move out into the world. Now it is time to actually feel the reality of going out on your own. You face the crisis of choice - choose to be your own person or choose to continue to be what other people want, or choose to ignore the fact that a decision is necessary. As you choose, so you will move forward into a fully creative phase of action.

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.

Be realistic about your present position with respect to others. Are their resources important to you? Or are you continuing to lean on them long after you gained understanding of the purpose they once served? The focus is on what relationships mean to you, not on changing them unnecessarily. There are, no doubt, some things that appropriately end at this time. The most important thing to lose is your sense of self-limitation.

At this time you need to control the restlessness that may arise. Steady, thorough communication and study of problems in your career will contribute to deepening your ability to place yourself in the most promising position. What you learn at this time will be available to you always, so pay attention.

All of these considerations come together into a package of skills, decisions, and goals combined with your current potential. The sum total is a description of your ability to learn from experience. If you are well placed in a career field, emotionally suited to the demands of the actual job, and oriented clearly to your goals, you will be successful.

How to Apply Your Energy to the Career

Having looked at how a solid foundation may be established, we now turn to the application of your personal energy to the goal of fulfilling your dreams. The previous paragraphs suggest the most natural form or structure of your career, while the following shows how you pursue it. How do you apply yourself? What drives you? How far can you go? These questions are all answered by your personal energy and how it can work with your natural abilities.

Without development, you tend to be somewhat superficial. You enjoy contradiction that has no purpose and you can be inconsistent or fickle. You manage to overcome these limited expressions of your energy so that you pursue career goals deliberately. You love to try new things and are in the forefront where computer tools are involved. Instead of being contradictory, you are able to see several sides of a question and you can get your team to pull together to achieve their goals.

Associations with other people are the meat of your career. You would feel terribly isolated without lots of interaction with others. You can be a strong team member and a good leader as well. Diplomacy generally wins out over negative emotions, regardless of how strongly you feel personally. Yet you can be very direct when the chips are down.

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.

Leadership is a word designed for your career. From childhood you wanted to be in charge of things. Not a person who enjoys being the target of anyone's humor, you want the spotlight to show off only the best, most socially attractive side of your personality. You need to move up from the bottom rung of the employment ladder at the earliest possible moment in order to find that spotlight.

Career fields suited to you include broker, investment banker, speculator, money lender, chair person, director, manager, organizer, entertainer, cartoonist, motion picture producer, theater manager/owner, goldsmith, government official, politician, dealer and manufacturer of sporting goods.

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

You seek a secure livelihood, and therefore make a loyal employee who wants nothing more than a permanent position and the opportunity to advance without flamboyance. An orderly attitude makes you ideal for positions requiring a careful approach to the details of the job. In leadership positions be careful to avoid petty criticism, as there is a tendency toward hypersensitivity.

Career fields suited to you include administrator, inspector, statistician, mathematician, stenographer, secretary, office worker, civil servant, teacher, relief worker, editor, critic, illustrator, crafts, cheese maker, crop grower, food purveyor, merchant, chemist, dental hygienist and technician, dietician, doctor, healer, masseur, nerve specialist, nursing, domestic work, governess, poultry raiser, textile worker, armed forces, draftsman, animal trainer, veterinarian.

Additional factors that influence career direction and abilities you can apply in the job world include the following:

Your strong sense of responsibility serves you well in your career, in that you are reliable and consistent. In relationships this often translates to a controlled personality, which cannot indulge in the deeper passions. You can temper the control with an occasional flirtatious exchange without losing your perspective.

Abilities that help your career include humor, aptitudes, joy, kindness, tact, refinement, poise, and persuasiveness.

Your career may also involve theatrical agents, bedrooms, brides, bronze, clothing design, cosmetics, hair, music, poetry, art, and hotelkeepers.

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.

In the midst of action you remain calm. Your inner composure is a major asset where career is concerned. Patience gets you what you want in the end.

You are the sympathetic member of your work team, always striving for impartiality. You tend to let others make the decisions, or at least voice them, but you keep score and maintain the balance.

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 that 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 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 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".

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

Intensity in your emotional life can produce conflict. It can also develop strong emotional bonds with mates and children. Use your innate artistic talent and recognition of beauty to overcome a tendency to dwell on emotional conflicts. You are creative with words and thus forge solid relationships based on clear communication. Your light-heartedness is sometimes mistaken for a devil-may-care attitude. Your love life will go through inhibited periods. The sober, sensible side of you will emerge at such times. Your actions reflect the use of intelligence and attention to factual material. You fall in and out of love easily. In fact you enjoy the beginning and ending of relationships because of the excitement. Your actions sometimes appear eccentric to others.

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

You can take this anniversary of your birth to consider your progress. Awareness of what has worked (or not) will help in the future. You may experience some loss or damage caused by someone else. Your self-confidence may be shaken.

You feel comfortable in your position just now and are able to handle the work that comes your way very well.

Redefinition of the structure of your life: this is not limited to career changes, but may include many areas. You may separate from some of the people you have been close to. The re-structuring of your self-awareness through hard lessons requires personal tenacity. There can be inhibition and difficulties in manifesting change. There can be separation from people and things that have been mainstays of an individual's structure. Emotional tension. There is often a sense of originality in the ideas that emerge - they are indeed fresh from the perspective of the ego. Regulated breathing and meditation can lead to insight concerning your destiny because it helps you to connect with deep inner resources. Circumstances provide unusual and unplanned opportunities for changes in ego-consciousness. Changes at this time are sure to create emotional swings. Many original ideas emerge, bringing a shift in self-awareness with them.

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 that 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 that emerge.

Current and Future Trends for the Coming Year

Be definite. Be firm. Determination can get you through a slow period. You have had some plans for innovative change. Now may be a good time to push these plans forward.

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 virgin territory, hilly ground, kennels, the east wall in a room, or the east room in a building.

Geographic locations that may be suited to your work include Denmark, England, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, New York City, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Syria, or Wales.

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 entertainment businesses, restaurants, public gardens, cultivated land, lawns, locations with trees, rooms with low ceilings, basements, rooms with tiled floors, and southeast walls and rooms.

Geographic locations that may be suited to your work include Asia Minor, Australia, Cyprus, Florida, Holland, Ireland, Labrador, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New Guinea, Newfoundland, Persia, Poland, St. Louis, or South America.

The types of people you work with most successfully may not be the sort of people you would choose for friends or romantic partners. Understanding how to identify compatible co-workers can have a direct effect on career success or failure.

There is one area of your life that may be closely involved in your work. It shows where your actual work energy will be concentrated, as well as what outside factors can affect your work performance. Your work depends to a certain extent on these factors that would otherwise be outside the work environment.

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.

Circumstances over which you have no control will influence your work environment, often to your benefit. You are often on the spot to handle them quickly and