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Astrological Profile for Elisabeth Ashley

by Stephanie Clement

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Your Chart Data

Name: Elisabeth Ashley
Date: Aug 30, 1939
Time: 03:30:00 AM EST +05:00
Place: Ocala,FL
082W08'00" 29N11'00"

Transit and Solar Arc Positions for Jan 1, 1999

Interpretation text copyright 1998 by Stephanie Clement
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Introduction

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

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

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

Your Ascendant or Rising Sign

Let's begin with a description of your Ascendant or rising sign. Here you find your natural expression in the world - the way you present yourself to the world and the way others see you.

You tend to seek official positions, either civil or political, or you find appointment to positions by such people. Whereas some people seek the work and not the position, you definitely are after the position itself. Yet you would not choose work that demeans you in any way, as that would not suit your sense of pride. Arrogance can get in the way of your smooth rise, so maintain your confidence, if you can, without acting like you are above everyone else. You seek to be in charge of some area of your work, whether it be as team leader, a management position, or as owner of a company. You are well-equipped to make decisions and you desire to be in an authoritative position. You may not make it to the top of the biggest heap, but you will be on top of your heap. Amazingly, you are usually able to do this in an open, honest way.The Sun seeks to shine and so do you, in whatever career you find yourself. Your extraordinary willpower and determination keep you going when others would have given up and gone some other direction. You demonstrate loyalty to the organization and its leaders. By the same token, you encourage and expect loyalty from your peers and subordinates.Generally you seek to live life at the fullest. This means that you also seek to acquire the means, as it takes money to get the things you want and to do all the things you want to do. Over time you develop the art of displaying luxury without seeming ostentation.

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.

You are often at your creative best when others cannot see anywhere to go. You have a somewhat ruthless ability to hang on and survive, and in fact you thrive on crises. You understand the cycle of birth and death, and can see past the end of a cycle. Your creative work demands steady attention to achieve a complete transformation. Your greatest pleasure is found in work that achieves the birth of something new and wonderful out of something old and dead. Your feelings are always an integral part of your creative process.

You may find that at some point your creative focus is modified to include a somewhat different mode of expression that has the following characteristics:

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

At a still later time you may develop a third creative inclination, which will have the following characteristics:

Your creativity lies in the ability to focus on yourself and your personal process. Your serious attitude toward life, the planning and striving for success, form a large part of your creative life. You thrive in the midst of change because you are able to keep one eye on the job and the other on the larger goal. You take the greatest pleasure from taking the materials at hand and producing concrete results from them. Never one to wait until all the optimum conditions exist, you make conditions change to suit you. Your self-control is not the result of lack of emotion, but rather emerges from your self-examination and understanding.

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.

While the approval of others is nice, it is self-approval that you ultimately need. You are able to carry off the dignity required in stressful situations. Your fearlessness can get you into tight situations, but is a valuable career asset most of the time.

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

Your creative efforts blossom in private, where you are allowed to try out ideas without concern for what others may think. There is plenty of time for them to evaluate your work when you are finished, if you are in the optimum working situation.

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.

You feel the beauty of your environment as though it were a living thing. For you, moderation can be difficult yet rewarding. When you become agitated, you need an outlet for your thoughts and feelings. Direct restless behavior into concentrated meditation and action. Blessed with good health and generally destined for success, you mature through experiences with others which reveal the role of arrogance in your personality. The constructive qualities of firmness, modesty and determination develop and persevere in a climate of inhibition and seriousness.The typical results of your creative forays have the following characteristics:

The exertion of power in love relationships can be intensely satisfying. It can also bring about the end of valued relationships. You are artistically gifted. You have a pervasive desire for power; this desire focuses, for the most part, on the spiritual or mental sphere. However, you can attain leadership positions. It is possible for you to lose everything. You may struggle to attain success and can be proud of your accomplishments. You have the potential to grow in spiritual awareness if you can avoid purely egoistic aims.

Current shifts in your creative pattern may be indications of a refinement of your activities to suit the daemon or inner voice. Your awareness of that voice is subject to changes that can have sweeping effects on your career path.

Recent Influences

Your love life is undergoing stresses that you have not experienced in the recent past.

Current and Future Trends for the Coming Year

Your egocentric approach can be the worst possible way to approach things just now. Less is definitely more in the force department for you at this time.

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

You are dependable in your work, capable of persisting through to completion with assigned tasks. You are able to recall details and accumulate the information you need for your work. You can be rather stubborn. You are 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 Virgo, you are primarily 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.

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, maam," the feeling types say, "and how does it feel when that happens?" Feeling types evaluate situations on the basis of sentiment and may disregard logical processes as ineffective with others and unsatisfying to themselves. They can think logically, but may choose not to unless pressed by circumstances.You are not an emotional disaster area. Rather you are prone to making judgments about things, as in "I feel that is the best way to go." In order to maintain the capacity for fair judgment, it is important to remove or reduce any psychological pollution in the work place caused by unkind, unsympathetic gossip, threatening behavior on the part of co-workers, or idle complaining that is not backed by constructive suggestions.You can do well in careers that call for sensitivity in relating to other people. You have the ability to bridge the gap between people, and therefore make good counselors, sales people, heads of families, members of the clergy - any job where interpersonal relationships are at the core of productive work.You have a psychic connection to the people and things around you. Often you can "get the point" before other people even state it. You can over-react, but generally return to an acceptable level quickly.

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 practical basis, working within a tested, stable framework of order and method. Your focus is on reality.

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

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

Individual Strengths Being Developed at This Time

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

At this time you have the potential to grow through developing 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 will be able to hold on to your gains better. You appreciate the finer things that stable work can provide. You gain a more practical outlook during this period, and those skills can be carried forward into the future.

During the current period you have more adaptability and mobility, along with good understanding of events around you. At the same time you like to see change and can implement it yourself. Your good manners come across well in the work environment. Others respond well to you because you show a wider range of interests and knowledge of human nature.

The qualities you stand to gain at this time include versatility and adaptability. You can manage more than one career at any given time and enjoy the variety. You love activity, both physical and mental. You recognize that your creativity is somewhat sporadic. You understand that things are always in a state of flux, and you even thrive on this diversity. You are less likely to resist change than most people. You know you can respond to others and that you are a strong mediator.

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.

You have a balanced view of the world, sometimes considering your internal values and sometimes responding to events and people outside yourself. You have moments when you are at one extreme or the other, but for the most part you are near the gyroscopic center, neither deeply introverted nor very extraverted. You experience life more like the gentle waves on a lakeshore - there is movement, but no tidal wave and not much undertow either. Consciousness, for you, incorporates self and other in a blend of considerations.

Another pair of differences fall on a continuum between very self-directed and self-motivated to more responsive or reactive to other people and outside forces.

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

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

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

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

You are a person who tends to consider things carefully and rarely jumps into any situation too quickly. You usually find that the ground has been laid and the path prepared for you. Thus, even though you have taken a considered approach, you are not too late to reap the benefits.

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 inertia. Without outside stimulation you can tend to slow down almost to a halt. You are better suited for a position in your career field where you work closely with others or have a boss who gives you specific assignments with realistic deadlines. Your perseverance is then supported by exterior mile stones of achievement. You have the ability to concentrate on your steadfastness and methodical pursuit of goals to see you through the long haul. Keep this in mind in every area of endeavor, not just vocation. You learn through methodical processes over time.

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 restraint - the ability to moderate your talents, skills, desires and arrogance. You can start just about anywhere and rise quickly. Executive positions are good from the get go. You will need to take stock from time to time and consolidate your position before you make any big moves. Your natural understanding of the way things work leads you to withdraw or retire while you are at the height of your power.

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 desire to define yourself and your image in terms of the outer world. You may feel pressured to work very hard during this period, and your responsibilities may feel unusually heavy. Choose to define yourself instead of allowing your superiors to force you into a mold of their design. Then you see your true worth more clearly.

Focus your impulsive action. This is a time to avoid scattering your energy by pursuing too many possibilities. Use your own will to direct you to the most constructive projects, and then pour yourself into them.

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

How to Apply Your Energy to the Career

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

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

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

The focus is on you and your aims in life. Ambition, confidence and optimism combine to make you a potentially strong leader, and conversely, a not so successful follower. However, here as elsewhere, this one consideration cannot be used to assess the total career package, or the whole person.Career fields suited to you include adventurer, butcher, hat maker, diamond cutter or dealer, metallurgical engineering, fire man, hair dresser, iron worker, military, metal worker, optometry, service station owner or attendant, physical therapy, thermodynamics and welder.

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

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

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

You take life and work very seriously. The structure of your mind is reflected in the way you structure your career activities. Like the mountain goat, you tend to make slow but consistent progress through life. If you become too one-sided in your thinking, use your intellect to consider alternative positions.Abilities that help your career include diligence, patience, persistence, desire for solitude and the ability to see the basics.Your career may also involve begging, bones, boots, cattle, shoes, chiropractic, locksmith, plain things, prisons, real estate and archeology.Meaningful rituals in your life will be those which address material demonstration of your success. Graduation from school or the presentation of a document can be very meaningful. You can create your own rituals which acknowledge your personal achievements, either publicly or privately.Abilities that help your career include mechanical ability, assertiveness, clairaudience, determination and quickness.Your career may also involve adoption, air planes, ankles, chiropractor, crisis management, detonation, drivers, healing, paradoxes, nuclear physics, psychology, broadcasting, recording and repairs.

For most people there is one area of the life, not necessarily associated with work, that influences the career strongly. There may be skills developed there that can be directly applied to the career. Also, it may influence the choices you make in where and how to pursue your career.

You find career mentors in your immediate work environment who can be most helpful in your advancement path. You grasp the changes in your career field easily and are able to follow them.Your career is a function of the work environment. For example, if you are a physician working in a large metropolitan area, you are connected closely with a hospital and probably know the staff well. If you live in an isolated area, you still practice medicine, but the environment may include an office, patients' homes, or other out of the way locations where your services are needed.

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

You can develop a sense of how significant career is to your life in general, and also what factors affect the progress of your career, by considering how you become more aware in general, how you interact with the people and events around you, and how these responses affect your work.

You have a direct connection between your ego-consciousness and your soul. The emphasis on inner spiritual meaning and values becomes a catalyst for self-understanding. The focus is less on individual expression and more on a flexible life path which asserts the desire to nurture others in terms of what you know about yourself. This flexibility does not encourage a focused approach; rather it allows for diffuse interests based upon deeply rooted spiritual values. Your natural ability is to allow pre-conscious or unconscious motives to emerge into awareness; these motives are part of what you can learn about yourself.You may be more in touch with your own consciousness than most people because what you are and what you know about yourself are directly related. If there were no aspect between Sun and Midheaven, the connection would be less direct. You constructively express your energy by focusing on advancement toward success. You know yourself well enough to recognize your direction or mission early in the game. The easiest path to self-awareness for you is not through thinking, so you tend toward a career that focuses on other strengths. 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 experience expansion in your self-awareness, but not through any action on your part. You grasp the philosophical implications of your career activities.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.Uncertainty is the keyword for this combination. Ego-consciousness is frequently not available, or only after great effort. You must work hard to manifest the higher qualities of psychic awareness. The strength gained from contemplative practice of meditation can provide more consistent mental focus which compensates for dreaminess and aimlessness. As you move into the 21st Century, you will find better ways to work with uncertainty, thereby relieving any depression and mental disturbance which this planet can bring. Then psychic awareness will become a source of depth and strength. The prerequisites are the trained capacity for mental focus and a grounded connection to the material world. Definition in the physical realm balances the lack of definition coming from Neptune combinations. 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.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. Your heightened powers of intuition give you greater flexibility in all kinds of situations. Because you know or feel how conditions will change, you are able to work with the challenges you meet. You will have remarkable achievements during your life, but find you have isolated yourself in the process. You need to take care to avoid accident or injury because of carelessness. You are brutally truthful. 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. You have natural psychic gifts which emerge during sleep or hypnotic states at first. You can achieve spiritual enlightenment through development of this inner vision.

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

Success depends, just now, on your ability to apply forceful effort while resisting the urge to act too quickly. You may experience misfortune at this time due to incomplete planning or inconsistent application of energy to the task.

Success depends, just now, on your ability to apply forceful effort while resisting the urge to act too quickly. What appear to be sudden changes in your career and circumstances are really the result of your intuitive development.

Emerging unconscious material, which can be intense and vivid. There is little doubt that something momentous is occurring; the only doubt is whether the ego can manage the energy effectively. The older you are, the better you seem to be able to manage because you have had several similar expriences, and therefore can draw on similar experiences. Expect action and change at this time in your career and perhaps in other areas as well. Emotional tension. There is often a sense of originality in the ideas which 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 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.

Current and Future Trends for the Coming Year

The power of your own determination is in full gear right now. You are tempted to betray your partners, both in love and in the work arena.

Whether great or small, you experience successes in your activities at this time. Neurotic views of life surface now, causing you to feel inferior, or to doubt your most carefully laid plans.

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

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 scientific laboratories, reclaimed land or buildings, near new buildings, modern architecture, built-in equipment, northwest room or wall, unusual work places.Geographic locations which may be suited to your work include Abyssinia, Arabia, Arizona, Cyprus, The Holy Land, Kansas, Long Beach, Massachusetts, Michigan, Russia, Sweden, or Wichita.

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

Your energy is generally used for methodical activity. You have the capacity to organize your work and play activities carefully. You give attention to matters of health and diet, sometimes through necessity but more often through your focused interest in the general condition of your body/mind. You enjoy an independent role in the work environment and are generally able to work well alone.Your work companions are the driving force of action in the work environment. Constantly looking for a new venture, they dive into new projects and demonstrate their enthusiasm at every turn. They are impulsive and need the balance of someone who is more cautious, or at least more grounded. They enjoy working independently and are self-reliant. Their fearless attitude in the face of change can seem rash or even destructive. Above all, they are determined to succeed in their own right and not at the expense of others.

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

You have a somewhat materialistic approach to your work, yet you can use this to increase production. Your interest in finances helps you to see the larger picture. Be thorough in your work habits.

You have the direct connections you need in order to make career progress. You take a somewhat sober approach to your work.Your work environment is determined by your career and you may not have much choice over how it looks or who is in it. For example, if you practice law, you will of necessity be in the courts from time to time. If you work in food service, the atmosphere will be of the nature of cafeterias or restaurants. You may find the notable exceptions, such as catering private parties, which avoid the typical work environment of your chosen career.

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.

The constructive qualities of firmness, modesty and determination develop only after awareness gained through difficult struggles and delicate health. Your love life will go through inhibited periods. the sober, sensible side of yourself will emerge at such times. Even temporary separations can cause you pain. Jealousy can be a problem.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. You suffer from a periodic lack of energy and are susceptible to infections. You have an innate sense of timing and attract help at just the right moment. You are inspired to acts of devotion.

At certain times in your life changes in the work environment affect your career. You may change how you feel about your work and your coworkers. During some periods it is more difficult to be hired, or even to find a suitable place to work, while at other times changes within the work environment are easy to achieve.

Recent Experiences at Work

Get a firm grip on yourself and try to control your forcefulness. It is not only not appreciated; it can cause great harm.

Trends in the Near Future

The challenge is to act decisively without letting ego control you at this time.

Your egocentric approach can be the worst possible way to approach things just now. Less is definitely more in the force department for you at this time. You feel separated from others and you don't like it much. However, this is a good time to discover the value in spending time alone.

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?

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

Where does your money actually come from?

Your career thrives because of your diligence, your analytical ability and your methodical approach to your work. It is important for you to avoid a fault-finding attitude, even though it is your attention to detail that shows you the faults in others. Also, if your nose is too far into the book, you miss the opportunities around you. Apply part of your attention to examining the situation as you pursue the daily details.

You place a great deal of importance on personal resources. While this includes money and financial affairs, it also includes your psychological well-being and your spiritual bank account. With the Sun here you tend to make money cheerfully and spend it cheerfully. In general you strive to create secure circumstances for yourself.Qualities that help you to achieve material success include candidness, confidence, willpower, dignity, loyalty, determination, self-consciousness, boldness, generosity and ambition. The Sun here deals with form and personality at the most basic level, the soul and consciousness on the intermediate level, and with life energy on the highest spiritual level.

Your conscious connection to financial concerns is strong. You are interested in money and finances and these areas may directly impact your self-esteem.

Blessed with good health and generally destined for success, you mature through experiences with others which reveal the role of arrogance in your personality.You feel the beauty of your environment as though it were a living thing. For you, moderation can be difficult yet rewarding. When you become agitated, you need an outlet for your thoughts and feelings. Direct restless behavior into concentrated meditation and action. The constructive qualities of firmness, modesty and determination develop and persevere in a climate of inhibition and seriousness. 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. Any inclination toward laziness in relationships will force you to adjust, as your partner will not tolerate it. Harmonious long-term partnerships depend on your willingness to remain flexible, even though your beliefs are unchanging. 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. The exertion of power in love relationships can be intensely satisfying. It can also bring about the end of valued relationships. You are artistically gifted. You suffer from a periodic lack of energy and are susceptible to infections. You have an innate sense of timing and attract help at just the right moment. You are inspired to acts of devotion. You have natural psychic gifts which emerge during sleep or hypnotic states at first. You can achieve spiritual enlightenment through development of this inner vision.

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.

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

Blessed with good health and generally destined for success, you mature through experiences with others which reveal the role of arrogance in your personality.

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

Recent Experiences

You may experience misfortune at this time due to incomplete planning or inconsistent application of energy to the task. Your own arrogance can get in the way of successful business dealings at this time. Stifle your urges and go with the flow. It can seem like a disaster today, but you will find that changes at this time work out in the future pretty well. You tend to deceive yourself and others, and to be deceived. You feel numb.

Your own arrogance can get in the way of successful business dealings at this time. Stifle your urges and go with the flow. It can seem like a disaster today, but you will find that changes at this time work out in the future pretty well.

You are tempted to betray your partners, both in love and in the work arena.

Future Considerations

Use your awareness of the beauty and harmony around you to fill in gaps, mend fences, and enhance your inner harmony. Now is a good time to avoid dietary excess. You will not wish to abstain from anything that tastes, looks, or feels good. You may jump into and out of romantic relationships at this time.

Don't gamble right now, as you tend to experience losses or the fall out from your ill-advised personal actions.

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.

Mediation occurs not only in conflict resolution between or among people; it is an internal psychic function as well. Concrete knowledge does not stop at the scientific definitions of things, nor is it limited to the scientific approach to understanding the relationships between people and things. It also includes a felt sense, an inner awareness of the right relationships between things. You can employ concrete knowledge in the mediation between personality and soul, between physical life and higher consciousness. Only through fusion of these apparently separate facets of your being can you approach true knowledge. You can be energetic, even aggressive at times. At other times your energy is directed into thoughtful devotional activities, quieter but no less energetic. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 Mercury and Venus tend to express through two profoundly significant realities of being. First, you appreciate movement into incarnation. This movement includes the desire to manifest in the material world, and requires an effort of Will. Second, you experience a desire to cooperate with a larger plan. Thus you can combine both the will to manifest individually and the desire to return to the ultimate source. This is "the secret of beginnings."

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 sensitivity on both the material and soul planes. At times you feel limited or even imprisoned in your body, yet you are able to use your physical manifestation to communicate about subjects of the Soul. You continually face the possibility of raising your human desires to a higher level of spiritual expression; through such activity you sympathetically raise your fellow beings as well. You grasp the meaning of polarity in human experience, opening the door to future progress.

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.