| 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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