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I. Introduction
This short extract gives you a taste of your personal "Career
and Vocation" horoscope by Liz Greene. The small samples taken
from various chapters convey an impression of the complete vocation
horoscope (18-25 pages) which can be ordered
as an E-Horoscope or a bound book in the AstroShop.
When we are children, people say to us, "What do you want to
be when you grow up?" At that age, we usually have dreams. When
we are children, we are still capable of hearing the voice of the soul.
As we grow older, the questions change. There is no longer time for
dreaming; we must now "face reality" and think about how to
survive in the big, bad old world.
This astrological report is about your vocation. It is meant to help
you get a sense of what you might be good at and what might be good
for you, so that your working life has a meaning as well as a pay
cheque.
II. How You See the World
This chapter briefly describes your personal perspective on life and
explains how you can best express this in your career.
III. Your aptitudes and strengths
This chapter, which contains 8-10 pages, is one of the most
comprehensive sections in the "Career and Vocation"
horoscope. Here is a short selection of three samples from the
numerous aptitudes described in the complete report.
An honest and realistic understanding of your fundamental strengths
can help you to orientate yourself in the world and put your energy
into areas where you can hope to shine and achieve at least many of
your most cherished goals.
You are a restless and imaginative soul who sees perennially changing
new possibilities. This can make any work you do seem like a kind of
provisional "try-on", a prelude to "the real thing".
Even if you are in a prominent position with considerable
responsibilities, you [...]
[..] Try not to "sell out" this quality of aspiration, for
it is one of your great gifts and could ensure that the work you do
truly contributes to a better world. There is a bit of the
old-fashioned preacher in you, for you have strong moral perspectives
and want others to recognise [...]
[..] Try to avoid work which subjects you to others' schedules and
structures, or which forces you to be in others' presence every hour
of your working day. No matter how much you like and are able to
communicate with others, your inner nature needs clear boundaries, an
indication [...]
IV. Know Your Limits
This chapter describes your personal limitations and suggests how
you can deal with these in your professional life. In the complete
horoscope, this chapter is about 5-7 pages in length. Please
click here to read a complete sample report
Career
and Vocation
for Bob Dylan, born on 24 May 1941
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Text by
Liz Greene, Copyright © Astrodienst AG 2007
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Chapter I - INTRODUCTION
Finding a True Vocation
When we are children, people say to us, "What do
you want to be when you grow up?" At that age, we
usually have dreams. We know that we want to reach the Moon,
or learn to fly the fastest aircraft in the world, or save
endangered animal species, or make some brilliant scientific
discovery that will transform human lives. We are not yet
old enough to worry about job markets and balancing budgets
and supporting ourselves and our families. We have only our
dreams and the secret certainty that we are unique and have
a very special thing to do in life. Even if our parents have
different dreams for us, we know the difference between
their dreams and our own. When we are children, we are still
capable of hearing the voice of the soul.
As we grow older, the questions change. People say to us,
"You had better start thinking about what you want to
do with your life. How will you make a living?" There
is no longer time for dreaming; we must now "face
reality" and think about how to survive in the big, bad
old world. The inner sense of specialness fades before the
numbing evidence of high unemployment figures, stiff
competition for every job application, and economic swings
and downturns which make us feel we are fortunate to get any
kind of work at all. And if we find ourselves discontented
in that work, or we lose our jobs, we feel demeaned,
devalued, and unable to trust our deepest dreams and
aspirations, because there might not be any other work. And
even if there were, we have probably long since lost that
inner connection which could tell us what makes our heart
sing and restores the sense of having a very special thing
to do in life.
This astrological report is about your vocation. It is meant
to help you get a sense of what you might be good at and
what might be good for you, so that your working life has a
meaning as well as a pay cheque. If you are looking for a
direction, astrology could help you to find it; if you
already have one, astrology could help you confirm and
perhaps enhance it. The English word "vocation"
comes from a Latin root which means "to call".
Having a calling implies something higher or deeper - an
inner Self or soul which knows what we are really here for.
Today we use the word "vocation" mainly in
relation to those who feel a religious calling. The
challenges and problems of the changing world, with its
rapid and unsettling advances in technology and its shifting
political and economic currents, have frightened us and
turned our minds away from the inner importance of what we
do in life. Yet so many people feel directionless or are
unhappy in their work, even if they are well paid for it.
Few of us possess the luxury of inherited wealth; most of us
must make our own way in the world. Work, no less than
relationship, lies at the core of our lives and occupies
most of our waking hours. Yet we may be unable to think from
the centre outward - to focus first on who we are and what
inspires us, and then seek vehicles for this in the outer
world. Instead, we think from the outside in, focusing on
what others, or our own hidden insecurities, tell us is
possible. We are not brought up to know and trust ourselves
and our abilities, but rather, to know only the limits of
external reality. And then we hammer ourselves into shape to
fit them.
Because every birth horoscope is unique, astrology teaches
us that each individual has a unique nature and a unique set
of abilities. While a horoscope cannot tell us which company
will offer us a job, or how much we can expect to be paid,
it can help us to understand that, if we wish to feel our
lives matter, we need to express in the outer world at least
some of who we are in the inner one. No job is perfect; we
must all compromise. What matters is that what we do
connects us to something special inside, something that
makes us feel worthwhile and impels us to offer our best to
life. The insights of astrology are not literal and specific.
They are symbolic and psychological, and tell us about
spheres of life which inspire us, needs which nourish our
souls, and personal limits which mark the boundaries of what
we are capable of achieving in one lifetime. We cannot
become other than what we are, and no human being contains
all possibilities. We are all good at different things. The
right mix of realism and faith in ourselves can ensure that
we feel our passage through life has been worth the effort.
To make the best use of the astrological insights offered by
this report, it is important to remember three things.
First, a sound understanding of one's needs, potentials, and
limits is far more important than the facts and figures
presented to us by the outer world. It is not that facts and
figures do not matter. But even if there is only one job
available and four hundred applicants seeking it, we possess
more power than we realise to create our own reality. If
that job is truly right for us, and we are prepared to do
the necessary preparation and training, we will achieve it -
somewhere, some time, somehow. Second, we must not be afraid
to try. Trying and failing and trying again are far better
than not trying at all, for we can learn from our failures
even more than we learn from our success. Understanding why
we might unconsciously court failure or fail to seize
opportunities may also be important. Many people are dogged
not by lack of ability, but by a deep unconscious conviction
that they do not deserve to be fulfilled. Understanding
ourselves more deeply can help us to distinguish between
real limits and unnecessary self-sabotage. Third, a birth
chart cannot, of its own volition, create our opportunities
for us, any more than a road map can make us take a journey.
A birth horoscope can show us a direction and encourage us
to make manifest our highest values and most cherished
dreams. But each individual must make the decision to set
off down the road. If we refuse through fear or cynicism,
and remain sitting on the doorstep yearning for what might
have been, we cannot blame either astrology or the world for
our discontent.
Chapter II
How You See the World
Each of us sees the world differently, and feels strong
and competent in some areas and uncertain or ill-equipped in
others. No person is perfectly adapted to every sphere of
life. Finding the right direction may depend partly on your
knowing how you evaluate and adapt to life, and finding an
outer situation which matches your fundamental outlook. Of
course it is not as simple as just looking for a place where
you can exercise what you believe to be your strengths and
avoid what you perceive as your weaknesses. Sometimes,
working to develop sides of your personality where you feel
unsure can generate the greatest feeling of accomplishment.
But it does help if your perspective on life is in harmony
with what you do, and you can therefore feel confident and
able to meet the challenges which your work offers. It can
also make a difference if you are able to remain loyal to
your values and needs, rather than accepting a situation
where you believe neither in what you are doing nor in the
people you work with.
Find a vehicle to communicate your
ideals
You are a restless soul with a great need for personal
freedom. You also have a low boredom threshold, which can
make it difficult for you to do repetitive work for any
length of time. You need people to talk to and ideas which
inspire you; and you also need an audience to listen to your
own inspired thinking. You could sell anything to anyone,
provided you believe in what you are selling; and you might
also make an excellent teacher or educator. You could have a
gift for languages. Work which requires travel or involves
you in different world-views and different nationalities and
modes of life might prove very rewarding. You are naturally
idealistic, and potentials mean more to you than reality.
Therefore you need to work in spheres where you can
contribute new and innovative ideas, and deal with a wide
variety of people. Try to avoid an institutional setting
where you would be cramped and stifled by small minds and
too many rules and regulations. You are not incapable of
discipline. But you prefer it to come from your own
perception of what is required, rather than from regulations
imposed by those whom you do not respect. You have little
tolerance for stupidity and ignorance, and even less for
prejudice and wilful narrow-mindedness. Because you think
globally, you need to work in an environment where others
look beyond the confines of their own back garden.
Although you are likely to be deeply concerned with social
issues, you may be repelled by the world of politics,
because you find it hard to be silent if you feel strongly
about an issue. Hypocrisy is not your style. Therefore you
need to work with people who are not afraid to hear the
truth from you. All spheres of knowledge might be suitable
for you to work in, from television and publishing to the
internet to university education. You may also have strong
spiritual commitments, since the pursuit of meaning matters
as much to you as knowledge. This may attract you to work
which involves some spiritual or idealistic commitment to
the betterment of human life. Teaching such subjects -
astrology, yoga, psychology, health and alternative healing
- could appeal. So could film and television projects which
allow you to utilise your fine imagination as well as your
communication skills. Most importantly, make sure you are
not hemmed in by your work. You must have air to breathe,
thoughts to share, ideas to inspire, new projects which
challenge you, and a large world to traverse, physically or
intellectually. Think big - not in the sense of "making
it" on a grand scale, but in terms of the real values
and ideals which inspire you. You will never be happy mired
in the mundane. You may need to curb your restlessness, and
learn to discipline yourself more than you might like. But
you can do this if you feel there is a deeper or higher
meaning in what you are doing.
Chapter III
Your aptitudes and strengths
An honest and realistic understanding of your
fundamental strengths can help you to orientate yourself in
the world and put your energy into areas where you can hope
to shine and achieve at least many of your most cherished
goals. Recognising basic issues such as the capacity and
desire to handle responsibility, or the need for stability
and security, or the craving for constant new challenges,
can affect your decisions and help you to avoid wasting your
abilities in spheres where you are not likely to be happy or
at home. This does NOT mean that, if this report seems
contradictory to what you are presently doing, you should
abruptly throw aside everything you have built so far. If,
for example, new challenges and a degree of independence are
important for you in your work according to your
astrological profile, you should not immediately abandon a
steady job and charge off into the blue pursuing an
unrealistic dream. Further training may be necessary, and
your domestic responsibilities must also be considered in
relation to what is possible at any given time in your life.
But a personality which fundamentally requires an
independent creative platform from which to work means that
you might need to consider new possibilities within the
framework of your present circumstances, or work on a
long-term plan through which you can gradually achieve the
autonomy you need. The secret of real success - the kind
which is rooted in an inner feeling of a worthwhile life -
is to first accept who you are, believe in it, and stop
trying to model yourself on somebody else. Then aim to shape
your outer life in as many ways as are realistically
possible in order to provide the right working vehicle for
your true nature and values.
A life in the service of high ideals
You are a practical and well-grounded person, but you would
not be satisfied for long in work which is purely mundane.
You have a strong sense of some higher reality, and this
makes it impossible for you to feel contented merely
satisfying your own material and emotional needs. Instead,
you want to dedicate your energy and efforts to something in
which you believe wholeheartedly, so that you can offer
service of some kind to that higher source. But because you
are well anchored in the world, this service has to be
practical; you would not be content to work at a meaningless
job and then go home and quietly meditate. Your ideals have
to be translated into everyday actions and everyday work.
You need a vocation which allows you to know and see, on a
tangible level, that you are making the world a better place.
You would not have a lot of patience with groups which
pursue the ineffable while floundering on the practical
level; you want to see action and results. It is possible
that, in an earlier phase of life, you might have pursued
material rewards for their own sake, and demonstrated your
organising skills and qualities of leadership in a more
mundane sphere. In discovering your need to serve something
greater, you still need to feel you are effectual in your
efforts to anchor your ideals.
In some ways you would be well suited to a "fifth
column" kind of work, embedded within a conventional
structure or company but quietly dedicated to raising the
level of consciousness of the individuals with whom you
work. But this requires a level of deception which in the
end might not suit you. You might be happier in one of the
helping professions, particularly those such as medicine and
psychiatry, which deal with real-life problems but need the
kind of vision and idealism which you could inspire. You
might also be attracted to other forms of service to the
community, social or political, where you could use your
understanding of the ways of the world to bring about a
broader and more inclusive vision. Most importantly, you
need to know you are being of genuine service, and that you
are translating your beliefs into tangible form. Don't try
to split your life between a conventional work environment
and a hidden spiritual path. You are likely to feel most
fulfilled if you can combine these two distinct but
interrelated dimensions of your nature in a field of work
where you can be, and practise, both.
Bringing the vision down to earth
There is a constant tension in you between your intuitive
perception of the meaning in things, and your pragmatic need
to live in the so-called "real" world. If you do
purely practical work, your craving for contact with subtler
levels of existence can make you restless, frustrated, and
discontented. If you abandon material responsibilities in
favour of a spiritual path, your desire to be productive and
useful in a practical way can make you feel undermined and
unsure of your worth. You need to bridge these opposites
within you by creating material forms which can express your
inner vision. You could do this through one of the creative
media -writing, painting, working in theatre or film -
provided what you create is able to convey a message rather
than being merely pretty or pleasing. Or you could create
structures such as a school or business which is solidly
anchored in the mundane world but which serves as a purveyor
of the ideals to which you aspire. You may be happy
marketing knowledge, selling inspiration, advertising
consciousness - making your inner vision available to
ordinary people in ordinary, everyday ways.
You may need a group with which to work. This could give you
a sense of security and a feeling that you have at least
some collective support -even if your little collective is
considered "fringe" in the eyes of the larger
collective. Whether you find your group in a company or
institution, or in an educational setting, or in
organisations which are dedicated to ideals similar to your
own, you are likely to feel happiest when you know you have
a backup from colleagues. This is because the polarity of
your inner world tends to make you a little anxious and
insecure, and you may feel better when you know you are
getting validation from your peers. Qualifications may also
be important to you. Although your vision may be
unconventional, you have a need to be accepted by the world
in general as a competent and "normal" person. If
you wish to work in a more unconventional field, make sure
you have the right bits of paper so that you feel you can
demonstrate your competence to those who might question the
nature of the beliefs you espouse. At heart you are a
practical idealist who understands the necessity of working
to improve life from within existing structures, rather than
attempting to change the world as a renegade from without.
Contact with the ineffable
Despite your firm grasp of reality and its limits, you have
a deep instinctive sense of connection with a larger unity.
This might be called a mystical inclination, although you
might not think of yourself in such esoteric terms.
Nevertheless, whatever terms you use, you have one foot
firmly on the ground and the other foot halfway through a
doorway into the invisible realms. This opens you to
inspiration from the collective psyche, which could be
effectively channelled through a creative medium such as
music. You can be highly imaginative and your inner world is
rich and vivid - even if, a good deal of the time, you feel
vaguely uncomfortable dwelling for too long in such
ineffable climes. Equally, your receptivity to higher planes
of existence could open you to inspirations in the sciences,
or in technology, where intuition rather than logic can
reveal exciting new concepts. You could also utilise your
gift in fields which cater to collective needs, such as the
world of film, because you can sense the dreams and longings
of the collective long before people know what it is they
are really seeking.
Your sensitivity to these higher levels of reality, and your
awareness of the suffering inherent in life, deepen your
need to feel you are being useful to others in some way.
Your strongest need is to work at something which serves
that deeper unity of life you sense so strongly. You have a
devotional nature and would not be happy if you could not
use your field of work as a vehicle for your devotion.
Whether you focus your efforts on other human beings, on
nature or the animal kingdom or the Earth itself, on
scientific research or social issues, just beyond your field
of vision is that invisible domain in which you sense the
meaning and purpose of earthly existence. It is likely that
you have spent a good deal of time not understanding the
"divine discontent" which has made it so difficult
for you to feel contented by ordinary material satisfactions.
You may even have drifted for a time, confused about your
direction and lacking confidence in your ability to stick to
anything for very long. But you have great persistence and
tenacity if you believe in what you are doing. Your vision
of unity, and your compassion for all living things, needs
to be embedded at the core of your work.
The gift of faith in life's goodness
You have a deeply optimistic spirit, and tend to see even
painful experiences as a means of learning and growth. This
innate faith in the essential goodness of life is a valuable
quality, both for your personal life and in your work. You
want to be able to share it with others, and you could make
an inspired teacher or educator because you want to open
others' eyes and hearts to the larger reality which you
yourself perceive. You also love learning and take pleasure
in encouraging others to learn. If your work does not
provide you with the opportunity to broaden your world-view
and communicate your discoveries to others, you can easily
feel bored and restless. Travel is probably nourishing for
you, because you expand your mind and discover new truths
about people and about life; and ideally your work should
allow you the opportunity to taste different cultures,
values, and environments. You need a certain amount of
freedom to move about, and you should try to avoid jobs
where you are confined to one place seeing the same people
day after day. Even if your travel is sporadic, you need it
as an important feature of your working life.
You are generous by nature and love to share your knowledge
of higher things. You might also enjoy a certain amount of
risk- taking in your work, for there is an adventurous
spirit in you which loves to discover new things in unknown
places, mental or physical. Most importantly, you need work
which stimulates your mind and your imagination, and keeps
you moving from project to project. You need to communicate
and to educate, in literal or metaphorical ways. Fields such
as publishing and media might suit you, provided you can
promulgate ideas which you feel will help make the world a
better place. Your need to be of service should be expressed
through work which allows you to enlarge others' vision.
Don't allow yourself to be trapped into playing the
workhorse in a large company, group, or institution.
Although you are perfectly capable of handling
responsibility and carrying more than your share of the load,
this would stifle your restless spirit and deny you the
right to pursue knowledge and communicate it with the
freedom you need and deserve.
Making the inner vision work in the
world
You may have already gone through a crisis in terms of your
work direction. Or you may be going through one now. Your
life has a tendency to fall into distinct chapters because
of the tension between the earthy and spiritual sides of
your nature; and a crisis in your work is likely to be the
result of the profound need to bridge the gap and unite the
opposites in your personality. Your work needs to include
both sides of you, providing a sound practical vehicle
through which you can make an impact on the world around you,
but also serving the inner ideals to which you are so deeply
devoted. There are several different spheres of work which
might suit you, but they all share one thing in common: they
enhance the human condition in practical ways, and reflect
both worldly craft and intuitive vision. Any work which does
not, like you yourself, include these opposites, will not
ultimately satisfy you. Neither extreme is likely to make
you feel fulfilled. Take your ideals seriously, and don't
ever betray them. But try to live them by offering a
tangible service to others, and to life itself.
Additional aptitudes and strengths
Although these are your main strength, there are other
qualities which you can build on as you consider the best
ways to utilise your energy and talents. These may not be as
dominant in your nature, but they are important nevertheless
and need to be considered in any assessment of your work
situation. An astrological chart, from the perspective of
vocation, presents us with an essential character pattern;
and the "ideal" sphere of work is one in which as
many of one's essential character qualities as possible can
be given an avenue of expression. There is no perfect job
for anyone, just as there is no perfect world. But these
important characteristics need room in your life, somewhere,
somehow, to be honoured and offered some vehicle through
which it can live.
Contributing to the human family
Your work needs to contribute some benefit to the human
family of which you so strongly feel a part. You are
idealistic and tolerant, democratic in spirit, and deeply
concerned with human potential and the possibility of
improving society. This does not mean that you are merely a
"do-gooder" with vague ideas about how to save the
world. You are more sensible than that, for you have a good,
clear, rational mind and the ability to plan and organise.
Whatever field you engage in, you need to know that you are
doing something for others as well as yourself. In fact,
sometimes "I" is not as much as reality as "we",
for you tend to think in collective rather than individual
terms. Sociology and psychology could interest you, for you
are fascinated by what makes people "tick" and
might enjoy working with theories and structures of ideas
which help to explain the mysteries of human behaviour. You
have a strong sense of how mass collective movements
operate, and you could make an excellent group leader or
organiser. You also have what is known as "the common
touch", for you are interested in all kinds of people
and can find a way to communicate your ideas in language
which is clear and understandable, rather than obscure and
technical. You could work in business, economics, or
politics, provided you felt you were offering something
positive to others, rather than merely amassing lots of
money. If you do amass lots of money, you are likely to give
a lot of it to charities or organisations which offer some
kind of support to others. You have a strong sense that
things should be shared rather than hoarded. You could make
an excellent educator, for you enjoy stimulating others'
minds and helping people to understand themselves better.
Make your humanitarian interests the basis for your
direction in life.
Taking the Promethean spirit to the
marketplace
Prometheus was the mythic figure who stole fire from the
gods and gave it to human beings so they could progress. You
have a good deal of this Promethean spirit in you. You too
feel human beings have vast potentials which they have not
yet fulfilled; and you too are prepared to work on the
fringe and be unconventional in your thinking and even your
behaviour if it will help realise those potentials. You need
to work for others - not necessarily in the literal sense,
for you are a little too independent in your thinking to
enjoy a hierarchical institution or organisation, but in the
sense of serving the evolution of the human family on
material, emotional, intellectual or spiritual levels. Your
work fulfilment comes from knowing that you are part of a
larger unity, and offering your particular talents to help
the human family move toward a better future. Whether you do
this within your own community through projects which help
those in need, or through a large organisation or movement
which seeks to make changes on a national or economic level,
you could never be content working at a job which gives
material security but carries no deeper significance in the
grand scheme of things. Back up your idealism with properly
trained skills and a good education, and find the right
group or organisation which mirrors the ideals in which you
believe so strongly.
Chapter IV
Know Your Limits
Recognising your innate limitations can help you to
focus your energy in the right direction and get the maximum
fulfilment from your work. All human beings have limitations,
and these need to be seen, not as "faults" or
"failings", but as the inevitable result of having
strengths in other areas. No individual has everything.
Being able to understand those areas where essential
character qualities might restrict your capacity to engage
in or enjoy a particular kind of work, is part of the
building of self-understanding and self-confidence.
Sometimes we have to try and then fail before we are able to
recognise that we are undeveloped, unsuited, or simply
uninterested in a particular sphere of life. Pressure from
family and peer group may push us into attempting to become
what we are not, and much time and energy may be wasted in
attempting to fulfil someone else's expectations when we
know we are not comfortable in that particular kind of work.
It is important to recognise that limits do not signify any
irrevocable flaw in character. Working hard on an area of
limitation may, in fact, produce great confidence born out
of hard effort, and sometimes real talent may be discovered
beneath the surface of what appears to be a block or
difficulty. It is up to you to discern whether a character
limitation needs to be worked on, or compassionately
accepted, or both.
Learn to enjoy the moment
Your chief limitation, in terms of work, arises from your
greatest asset: your deep commitment to serving a higher or
deeper reality. This commitment gives meaning to your
working life and allows you to feel you are making a useful
contribution to human evolution. But you may sometimes
forget that pleasure, joy, and the ability to live in the
moment are equally part of life. You can be very intense,
sometimes to the point where you deny yourself the kind of
ordinary everyday pleasures that, for many people,
constitute their reason for living; and if you take this too
far, you may find yourself becoming censorious or
judgemental toward colleagues who do not exhibit the same
degree of dedication you do. Try to lighten up a bit more.
Whatever your personal world-view or philosophy, you need to
avoid dogmatism or the belief that there is only one path.
If you work in the helping fields, there is a danger, if you
are too dogmatic, that you will impose your beliefs on those
who are seeking your help; and if you work within a group or
organisation, you may feel impelled to "convert"
those who have not yet seen the light, which can prove a
great irritant to working colleagues. Your heart is sincere
and your motives and commitment unquestionably fine. But it
is doubtful that the higher reality toward which you aspire
requires you to curtail pleasure in the incarnate world in
which you are living and working. You may need to find a
creative balance between your ideals and your capacity to
enjoy the pleasures of everyday material existence. You may
also strive too hard to be responsible, and take on too much.
You cannot save everyone, nor transform the entire world in
the span of a lifetime. Try to be respectful of the limits
of your time and energy, and do what you can to avoid the
trap of rigid thinking. You do not have to prove that you
are a good person in ways which could be hurtful to your
physical or psychological well- being.
Valuing creative self-expression
You are prepared to put a great deal of energy and effort
into serving those ideals in which you so strongly believe.
You want your life to be useful and productive, and you want
to know that you are doing your share to help human
evolution on some level. This is a wonderful quality, but
sometimes you may forget that you also have creative
abilities which need to be expressed for no reason other
than the sheer joy of it. You are not just a worker and
server; there is a part of you which is imaginative,
childlike, and in love with an inner landscape peopled with
romantic figures from myth. If you have artistic ability of
any kind, it is important that you honour it, try to develop
it, and include it in your working life if possible. If
impossible, then ensure that you have time each day, or each
week, for indulgence in this playful, creative world. Even
if you are not skilled in painting, writing, or music, you
may get enormous pleasure from these things, and need
constant contact with them to refresh your spirit and remind
you that life includes joy as well as hard work. Try to
balance the committed and the childlike in yourself;
together they make an enormously creative combination. But
if you try to suppress your playful, imaginative side in
favour of an ideal of self-sacrifice, you may store up a lot
of resentment and a deep envy toward those who are able to
give themselves permission to be irresponsible sometimes.
You have a powerful intuition, but you may fear its ability
to overturn your material stability, and you tend to need
highly structured containers in which to experience
revelations from the inner world. Sometimes these structures
may be too rigid. Intuition can work not only in the
spiritual realm, but also in the artistic one, and it may be
important for you to have more flexible creative vehicles as
well as the structures in which your belief system is
encapsulated. Try to loosen up, and learn to value creative
self-expression for its own sake.
Sacrifice of self is not always a
good idea
You have a strongly devotional nature and a great
sensitivity to the suffering in the world; and you want to
be able to be of service in some way because you sense the
higher reality behind life's apparent unfairness and
harshness. This is likely to attract you to a profession
which involves helping or healing others. If you are
involved in such work, it is very important for you to
recognise not only your physical and psychological limits,
but also your right to enjoy life as an individual. If you
are too self- sacrificing, you can exhaust yourself
physically and emotionally, and wind up disillusioned
because there always seems to be more pain which you cannot
heal. Try to remember that you cannot cure the world's ills
by yourself, nor can you help those who do not wish to help
themselves. Discrimination is an important faculty which you
may need to work hard to develop, however hard or selfish it
may sound; there is only one of you, and you would be wiser
to give your energy where it is most productive and needed,
rather than where it can be exploited or simply wasted.
Whatever ideals you espouse, and whatever your spiritual
philosophy, it is unlikely that any tablets written in stone
are demanding that you give up personal contentment and
pleasure; and if you believe you should, perhaps you might
look more deeply at the unconscious motives which could lie
beneath such a world-view. You are vulnerable to others in
your work because you care so much. You need strong
boundaries and a good, healthy dose of self-protectiveness.
You are also vulnerable because you will not always be able
to match your vision with the reality of the people with
whom you work. A clear, unjaundiced view of others' real
characters can help you to guard yourself against
exploitation and ensure that you will feel enthusiastic in
your work rather than drained or victimised.
Chapter V
Working with Others
One of the most important factors to consider in terms
of your direction in life is how you work with others.
Everyone has his or her own style of relating in the working
environment; everyone has different needs and requirements;
everyone needs a different degree of privacy or teamwork;
and everyone interacts differently with peers and with
authority figures. There is no "normal" way of
being with others, but it is important that you understand
just what you do need, so that you can maximise your
abilities in the best possible way. Many specific issues
concerned with your interaction with others at work have
been covered in earlier sections; the following paragraph is
more a summary of fundamental needs which might be helpful
to keep in mind.
Accepting those who have a different
vision
Your dedication to your ideals gives you courage,
determination, and a willingness to commit yourself
wholeheartedly to the welfare of others. You are at your
best when you are able to share your ideals and join in work
efforts which allow you to feel you are part of something
larger, and contributing alongside others to the evolution
of the collective. In such a setting, you can be generous
and selfless in offering your support to colleagues, and you
are willing to accept many foibles and weaknesses on the
part of co-workers as long as you can see that they are
motivated by the same vision you are. However, you may not
find it so easy to sympathise with those who do not see what
you see, and do not share your particular world-view. You
may find it hard to understand those who are focused on
their own personal satisfaction and success, or who are more
materialistic in their motivation. The difficulty is that
you are not always able to be flexible in your thinking, and
this can make you intolerant of those with differing
attitudes and viewpoints. Your intensity can make you a
little fixed in your thinking, and you may not find it easy
to accept the fact that truth can come in many forms.
Although you are happiest when you know your vision is
shared, it is unlikely that you will find the perfect work
situation where every single individual with whom you work
has precisely the same world-view you do. People will always
differ, not only in their opinions but in the intensity of
their feelings about their opinions. You need to be more
open and willing to accept people as they are, rather than
judging them according to their particular spiritual
outlook. Many people may be fundamentally decent, good
people, but they might not formulate their feelings and
ideas in the same language you do. Try to refrain from
attempting to convert others to your way of thinking. This
can create animosity and difficulty in your working
relationships, and the ethical basis of such attempts is
questionable. The certainty of your convictions is
appropriate for you in your own individual life, but it may
not apply to others; and while there may be a single truth
for you, that truth may not be the truth which speaks to
others' hearts and souls. Sometimes you may assess people
too literally, and become critical if they do not behave as
you would wish, or phrase their perceptions in the same
language as yours. Greater tolerance and flexibility, and a
willingness to be wrong sometimes, can help you to create
much warmer and more genuine relationships with work
colleagues, even if their aspirations and ideals are
expressed in a different language from yours.
Chapter VI
What Success Really Means to
You
When people speak of "success", they generally
mean a position of importance in the world's eyes, or a job
that yields lots of money and all the material pleasures and
comforts that implies. But success, in terms of the deeper
issue of vocation, is a highly individual thing that means
different things to different people. Success in this more
profound sense is linked with an individual's capacity to
express in the outer world the values and ideals which
matter most in the inner world. Seen in this way, success
may not involve money or position at all; for it depends on
a quality of inner loyalty and integrity, and reflects the
real essence of individuality rather than a common consensus
based on superficial social or material concerns.
Success, for you, must reflect the efforts
you make to bring order to your inner and outer world.
Although material reality is important to you, you are not
motivated by monetary gain or status or a "top"
position in the world. Deep down, you are a craftsman,
whether you work with material substance or the stuff of the
human psyche or body. To integrate, polish, refine, craft,
and make whole and healed are the tasks toward which your
spirit impels you, and your work needs to allow you to do
these things in order to feel you are living a meaningful
life. Being useful is fundamental to any real sense of
success, and you need to know that your life is fulfilling a
useful purpose or serving the higher realities in which you
believe. More than many people, you are capable of loving
work for work's sake, for it helps you to feel connected to
the deeper rhythms of daily life and the larger pattern in
which you instinctively know your own life is embedded.
Integrity is also extremely important to you, on the most
profound level: you need to serve your inner ideal rather
than accommodate the external world simply for security or
material gain.
A certain diffidence and lack of
self-confidence could make you underrate your abilities, and
worries about being too "selfish" or
self-assertive could cause you to set your goals too low.
However, these anxieties could also serve a very positive
purpose, provided you do not stifle your need for individual
self-expression because of too much self-doubt. Your
inclination to restrain your self-assertive instincts could
help you to be more sensitive to the needs and rights of
those with whom you work, and your uncertainty about your
right to be "special" could ensure that you always
try to be authentic and honest in what you are offering. And
your powerful need for self-expression, hedged about by
uncertainty and unease, could contribute to the development
of a highly individual set of skills which truly earn you
the right to feel special even while you are offering
service to the larger unity of which you feel a part.
You need to work to make bridges, heal
what has been spoiled, integrate what has fallen into
disunity, and bring to its most efficient and healthy
functioning whatever has been contaminated, ignored, or
allowed to fall into disrepair. You might do this with
objects, with buildings, with the physical body, with the
psyche, or with nature or the plant and animal kingdoms. A
true vocation, for you, must allow you to bring to your
immediate world a little of the order and harmony which you
know to be the underpinning of all existence.
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Astrological Data used for Career and
Vocation
| birthdate:
24 May 1941 |
local
time |
9:05 pm |
| place:
Duluth, MN (US) |
U.T. |
03+05 |
| 92w06,
46n47 |
sid.
time |
13:05:51 |
PLANETARY POSITIONS
| planet |
sign |
degree |
|
motion |
| Sun |
Gemini |
3°30'47 |
in house
6 |
direct |
| Moon |
Taurus |
21°30'46 |
in house
5 |
direct |
| Mercury |
Gemini |
23°02'40 |
in house
7 |
direct |
| Venus |
Gemini |
12°59'08 |
in house
6 |
direct |
| Mars |
Pisces |
5°58'49 |
in house
2 |
direct |
| Jupiter |
Taurus |
29°40'09 |
in house
5 |
direct |
| Saturn |
Taurus |
20°04'48 |
in house
5 |
direct |
| Uranus |
Taurus |
26°37'47 |
in house
5 |
direct |
| Neptune |
Virgo |
24°56'43 |
in house
9 |
retrograde |
| Pluto |
Leo |
2°22'17 |
in house
8 |
direct |
| Moon's
Node |
Virgo |
28°32'23 |
in house
9 |
retrograde |
| Chiron |
Cancer |
27°50'55 |
end of
house 7 |
direct |
| Planets
at the end of a house are interpreted in the next
house. |
HOUSE POSITIONS (Placidus)
| Ascendant |
Sagittarius |
20°19'42 |
| 2nd
House |
Capricorn |
28°46'52 |
| 3rd
House |
Pisces |
12°40'35 |
| Imum
Coeli |
Aries |
17°51'11 |
| 5th
House |
Taurus |
13°05'06 |
| 6th
House |
Gemini |
2°42'33 |
| Descendant |
Gemini |
20°19'42 |
| 8th
House |
Cancer |
28°46'52 |
| 9th
House |
Virgo |
12°40'35 |
| Medium
Coeli |
Libra |
17°51'11 |
| 11th
House |
Scorpio |
13°05'06 |
| 12th
House |
Sagittarius |
2°42'33 |
MAJOR ASPECTS
| Sun |
Conjunction |
Venus |
9°28 |
| Sun |
Square |
Mars |
2°27 |
| Sun |
Conjunction |
Jupiter |
3°51 |
| Sun |
Conjunction |
Uranus |
6°53 |
| Sun |
Trine |
Neptune |
8°33 |
| Sun |
Sextile |
Pluto |
1°07 |
| Sun |
Trine |
Moon's
Node |
4°57 |
| Sun |
Sextile |
Chiron |
5°39 |
| Moon |
Conjunction |
Jupiter |
8°09 |
| Moon |
Conjunction |
Saturn |
1°26 |
| Moon |
Conjunction |
Uranus |
5°07 |
| Moon |
Trine |
Neptune |
3°26 |
| Moon |
Trine |
Moon's
Node |
7°02 |
| Mercury |
Square |
Neptune |
1°54 |
| Mercury |
Square |
Moon's
Node |
5°30 |
| Venus |
Square |
Mars |
7°00 |
| Mars |
Square |
Jupiter |
6°18 |
| Mars |
Square |
Uranus |
9°20 |
| Jupiter |
Conjunction |
Saturn |
9°35 |
| Jupiter |
Conjunction |
Uranus |
3°02 |
| Jupiter |
Trine |
Neptune |
4°42 |
| Jupiter |
Sextile |
Pluto |
2°42 |
| Jupiter |
Trine |
Moon's
Node |
1°07 |
| Jupiter |
Sextile |
Chiron |
1°48 |
| Saturn |
Conjunction |
Uranus |
6°33 |
| Saturn |
Trine |
Neptune |
4°52 |
| Saturn |
Trine |
Moon's
Node |
8°28 |
| Uranus |
Trine |
Neptune |
1°40 |
| Uranus |
Sextile |
Pluto |
5°45 |
| Uranus |
Trine |
Moon's
Node |
1°55 |
| Uranus |
Sextile |
Chiron |
1°13 |
| Neptune |
Conjunction |
Moon's
Node |
3°36 |
| Neptune |
Sextile |
Chiron |
2°53 |
| Pluto |
Sextile |
Moon's
Node |
3°49 |
| Pluto |
Conjunction |
Chiron |
4°31 |
| Mercury |
Opposition |
Ascendant |
2°42 |
| Venus |
Opposition |
Ascendant |
7°20 |
| Numbers
indicate orb (deviation from the exact aspect
angle). |
|
Recognising your innate limitations can help you to focus your energy
in the right direction and get the maximum fulfilment from your work.
[..] It is important to make peace with the limits of mundane reality,
and recognise that potentials in your mind's eye, however glorious,
cannot replace the real achievement of anchoring your imagination and
ideas in concrete forms. However imperfect those forms may seem, they [...]
[..] Try not to be too insistent on being the sole centre of attention
in your work environment. Colleagues may grow to resent it, and those
in authority may feel as though you are trying to elbow them out of
the way. You are generous, loyal, and always willing to help those [...]
V. Working with Others
The two final chapters of "Career and Vocation" deal with
the way you work together with your colleagues in your everyday
working life, and what success means to you personally.
One of the most important factors to consider in terms of your
direction in life is how you work with others. Everyone has his or her
own style of relating in the working environment; everyone has
different needs and requirements.
VI. What Success Really Means to You
When people speak of "success", they generally mean a
position of importance in the world's eyes, or a job that yields lots
of money and all the material pleasures and comforts that implies. But
success, in terms of the deeper issue of vocation, is a highly
individual thing that means different things to different people. |
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