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Astrological Profile for Stephen Spielberg

by Stephanie Clement

Your Chart Data

Name: Stephen Spielberg
Date: Dec 18, 1946
Time: 06:16:00 PM EST +05:00
Place: Cincinnati,OH
084W27'25" 39N09'43"

Planet	Sign	Position	House	House Cusps
Sun	Sagittarius	26°Sg27'	06th	01 10°Ca47'
Moon	Scorpio	06°Sc51'	05th	02 00°Le47'
Mercury	Sagittarius	07°Sg48'	06th	03 23°Le01'
Venus	Scorpio	19°Sc15'	05th	04 20°Vi45'
Mars	Capricorn	01°Cp09'	06th	05 26°Li11'
Jupiter	Scorpio	17°Sc56'	05th	06 05°Sg44'
Saturn	Leo	08°Le09' R	02nd	07 10°Cp47'
Uranus	Gemini	19°Ge29' R	12th	08 00°Aq47'
Neptune	Libra	10°Li38'	04th	09 23°Aq01'
Pluto	Leo	13°Le07' R	02nd	10 20°Pi45'
Midheaven	Pisces	20°Pi45'	10th	11 26°Ar11'
Ascendant	Cancer	10°Ca47'	01st	12 05°Ge44'

Transit and Solar Arc Positions for Aug 01, 2000

Planet	Sign	Transit	N Hs	Planet	Sign	Solar Arc	N Hs
Sun	Leo	09°Le20'	02nd	Sun	Aquarius	21°Aq00'	08th
Moon	Leo	26°Le01'	03rd	Moon	Capricorn	01°Cp24'	06th
Mercury	Cancer	20°Ca35'	01st	Mercury	Aquarius	02°Aq21'	08th
Venus	Leo	23°Le19'	03rd	Venus	Capricorn	13°Cp48'	07th
Mars	Leo	00°Le09'	01st	Mars	Aquarius	25°Aq42'	09th
Jupiter	Gemini	06°Ge00'	12th	Jupiter	Capricorn	12°Cp29'	07th
Saturn	Taurus	29°Ta26'	11th	Saturn	Libra	02°Li43' R	04th
Uranus	Aquarius	19°Aq14' R	08th	Uranus	Leo	14°Le02' R	02nd
Neptune	Aquarius	05°Aq04' R	08th	Neptune	Sagittarius	05°Sg11'	05th
Pluto	Sagittarius	10°Sg15' R	06th	Pluto	Libra	07°Li40' R	04th

Interpretation text copyright 1998 by Stephanie Clement
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Introduction

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

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

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

Your Ascendant or Rising Sign

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

You enjoy the everyday nature of your work and would thrive in a retail sales atmosphere or food service because of the foundation of daily routine from which interesting changes can emerge. You can develop a felt sense for the cycles of businesses like these, and thus are able to predict trends and manage inventory.You like being around large numbers of people. You can be moody, as you feel the emotional currents around you. At the same time, it is this sensitivity that gives you a certain magnetic charm. You always seem to get the lay of the land early in the game, and that gives you an edge.You would also do well in fishing, sea-going industries or nurturing careers. Water is your element. You understand the currents and eddies of all life and can get the most from it by following the flow. This is just as true of gathering your nets as it is of guiding the path of others.You may incorporate music into your work. Here again is an endeavor in which an understanding of the flow of the medium is demanded. Even if you are not the musician, you have an appreciation of the importance of sound and can apply it to your particular career.

Now take these initial impressions forward with you as you read the rest of this report. You will come to see if and how these general characteristics fit into the overall picture of your vocational possibilities. As you read, you may find apparent contradictions. This happens because we are complex beings with many interests and abilities. This report presents some of your many choices along the path to vocational success and satisfaction.

Your Creative Touch

Human creativity falls into three principal arenas: creation (the making of things), recreation (the entertaining side of life), and procreation (the creation of the future). Everyone actively engages in all three creative processes, and we often confuse the feelings of one for another. The term "recreational sex" captures the sense of confusion. Some of us work really hard to get "good sex". Some of us feel sex serves only one purpose, that of procreation. Some of us find the deepest spiritual meaning of life in sexual union. To confuse such deeply meaningful matters with mere recreation can be a problem. In terms of career, creativity plays a big role, but typically sexual involvement in the workplace only serves to establish barriers to the free flow of ideas. To gain better understanding of the inner creative urge in its multiplicity of expression is to gain a leg up on the career issues that can lead us to money and fame without also finding inner satisfaction in the work itself.

Your creative eye focuses on refinement and elegance, both in the process itself and in the result. For you means do not justify the ends if the means are messy and undignified. The ends are satisfying only when they have the stamp of quality that elegance suggests. You thrive on the creation of glamour around your work, but not if it detracts from its meaningfulness. You take the greatest pleasure in partnerships, and therefore work best in situations where you have someone with whom to share projects. You are able to balance the objective and subjective perspectives in your creative work.

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

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

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

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

Many people find that the creative urge seeks to apply itself in a particular area of life that may have very little to do with career. By the same token, the creative voice can dictate the path of vocation, if it is either strong enough or consistent with the overall vocational choices. It helps to understand what part of the creative process most pleases you, what feelings and activities you consider to be most creative.

You have a strong will and you enjoy that quality in others, as long as they don't get in your way. You feel passionately about things and you are fearless in the face of danger and criticism - sometimes even a bit reckless.

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

Young people can inspire your creativity. Their natural capacity for the new and interesting pushes your thought process. You may also do well in sports, either as part of a team or as an individual participant. Activity is the key, not competition.

Who do you most like to play with when you are being creative? You may think this an odd question where career is concerned, but it strikes at the heart of the career game. If you surround yourself with people who share your creative interests, you will fulfill your inner urge more directly and completely. Just as children work hard at their games, you can play hard at work and thus enjoy this part of your life that takes up the bulk of your waking hours.

Your creative processes are imaginative and impulsive. You can change from one task to another with ease. You have an instinctive ability to manipulate the materials at hand to achieve an emotionally satisfying result. You depend on creative connections for learning.You can be creative around a wide range of emotional types, from crazy people to folks who work with children, airline hostesses to bath attendants, from housewives and domestic servants to nurses, midwives and obstetricians. You enjoy commerce, so exhibitors at fairs, grocers, bakers, shopkeepers, sales people and the public are likely to stimulate your creativity. Night-workers, watchmen and tavern keepers appeal to your night side. You may even get creative in an oceanic environment.You have great creative potential. You are able to express creatively because of your understanding of harmony and your ability to refine an idea into a beautiful result. You inspire love in others because of a warm heart and charming, magnetic personality.Clothing manufacturers, art dealers, artists, composers, cosmeticians, anyone whose work involves elegance and beauty will appeal to your creative side. Women may be more likely to get your juices flowing. You could provide services for florists, musicians, or even be a bridal consultant. The idea is that you need a sense of the artistic to pervade your work if your creativity is to develop fully. The justice system, particularly judges and juries, could be part of your creative scene.You choose between indulgence in pleasurable activities and the focusing of your mind on matters of the inner heart. You enjoy intrigue and use your intellect well in figuring out puzzles and competitive choices. You have a knack for finding the auspicious moment to speculate. Activities involving children tend to call upon your versatility.You enjoy being around true professionals, so look to attorneys, ambassadors, professors, even Supreme Court justices or accomplished writers to stimulate your creativity. You could also find that people associated with these professions are just your type, such as journalists, critics, deputies or registrars. It is the atmosphere of philosophy, learning and judgment that appeals to your creative part.

You can develop a sense of the importance of creativity to your work, and also what factors affect your creative expression, by considering how you seek creative interplay with others and with the world.

You seem to have limitless amounts of energy; the trick is to learn when to stop for a rest. The constructive qualities of firmness, modesty and determination can be derailed by internal turmoil relating to delicate health and pessimistic thoughts. Sudden changes bring new awareness. You have a progressive mind which can manage such changes. You tend to polarize feelings about new relationships. Strong inner tensions allow you to utilize individuality in your quest for power. You will experience remarkable advancement, as well as dramatic health changes, both for the better and for the worse. You dislike the limitations of working for others, preferring to be the one in charge.The typical results of your creative forays have the following characteristics:

Thinking and feeling are both avenues for personal growth for you. You are able to assimilate information and to put it back out; thus you are a good student. The process, though sometimes painful, is the source of personal growth. You tend to begin projects with tremendous energy, and then let opportunities slip away. Rashness can cause problems which can be overcome through honest self-assessment and personal effort. Develop self-control. There is a difference between thoughtfulness and depression. Sometimes you feel very isolated from others. Reckless abandon can cause accidents. Use your mental abilities to think plans through before taking the first step. Nervous stress leads to mental agitation and an increased desire for activity. You use your emotional state as a tool to gain success; there is a tendency to overdo the emotional side of life. You are often aware of subconscious feelings and thoughts which are not evident to others. This comes through in your awareness of shifting cycles. You seem to have precognitive information about changes. You have a heightened emotional life which is directed into specific areas of your life. You pursue your goals with almost fanatical zest and must be careful to consider other people in your excitement. Love is a hallmark of your life. You have both the possibility of relationship conflicts and the potential for harmonious long-term relationships. The key to either is in the tactful yet heartfelt communication of your feelings. You fall in and out of love easily and are constantly making adjustments because of this. Repressed feelings can cause physical pain or illness. Fortunate decisions mark the major turning points of your life. You have the ability to concentrate on particular goals. Manage your stress to protect your heart. Fortunate turns in your life are the stuff of legends. Even apparently negative situations turn out for the best in the long run. Try not to exaggerate in the moment. Your desire for power should be complemented by an understanding of the cause and effect relationship between your actions and the results. Even though you have high spiritual aims, the methods you use cannot sink into exploitation of others.

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

Recent Influences

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

You are in a period of change, with many career and business offers to consider.

Current and Future Trends for the Coming Year

You achieve sudden advancement, but actually it is based on past efforts. Establish your leadership position now. You actively engage in meeting other people, turning mere contacts into longer lasting career relationships.

You may miss the best opportunities just now because you are not focused or because you choose to argue about a philosophical point.

Creativity and Career

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

Where You Have the Best Advantage

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

The creative process of nourishment is yours. You tend to sustain and integrate your resources; this gives you the power to respond and to feel. You can creatively reorient yourself, changing shape to fill whatever career container you have at the moment. You can broaden your experience by flowing and spreading yourself as far as you desire. This expansion of consciousness allows for commingling and interchange and is indicative of interpersonal commerce. You have the creative energy found in controlled passion. A key word for your process is TO NOURISH.You may manifest some of these traits in your career: emotional balance (or lack), empathic ability, a sense of your own feelings, psychic or intuitive ability, ability to face pain, and ability to express highest spiritual values of love, compassion, devotion. At best you master emotions instead of letting them have free rein.

These may not be your greatest strengths, yet they work better for you in the work environment, they help you to achieve greater career success and fame, and they may even be essential for financial remuneration. For some people, the things that work where vocation is concerned are very different from what work in relationships or other areas of life.

Your Most Likely Mode of Expression

You tend to make quick judgments and may be perceived as an emotional person when you are actually only stating your definite opinions. You are concerned about how situations feel to you, and you are also often concerned about the feelings of others. Decisions are made on the "gut" level. While excessive emotion is not helpful in the work place, you have an advantage in that you can tell how other people are feeling and use that knowledge to massage situations to suit your own desires. For you, the "gut" is as valuable an assessment device as all the logic in the world.

You are dependable in your work, capable of persisting through to completion with assigned tasks. You are able to recall details and accumulate the information you need for your work. You can be rather stubborn. You are also able to adapt to conditions as they arise, learning how to manage and attend to details. You can take on the role of mediator, as you can entertain more than one viewpoint. You can be indecisive.

How You Work Best

Each of us has to work within the framework of our personal traits and habits. Life is not so much about changing those habits as it is about choosing to emphasize one set of behaviors over another. Through this process character is revealed. If we changed our behaviors all the time, we would never settle into the strength of character that we need. Generally, when we desire to change ourselves, we aim to change how we understand and work with our inner being, how we can come to accept that being. This section of the report considers how you operate in the world, and thus how you tend to function in the work environment.

Your Strongest Psychological Tendency

The Sun is indicative of your primary psychological type. Psychology and astrology both suggest that each individual has a basic style in interacting with the world. The Sun sign indicates the more conscious portion of your style. Individuals do not necessarily conform to this in their outer expression, but it nevertheless is consistent with the underlying approach to life. With the Sun in Sagittarius, you are primarily the Intuitive type.

Intuitive types listen to their unconscious sources of information, eschewing normal perception. In fact, they are often largely unaware of what is around them in the material world. These people are the inventors, the artists, the forward thinkers because they can see the possibilities of an idea, often before the means of developing it are apparent. Therefore they pursue what they know the world is not yet prepared for. Intuitives jump to conclusions, yes, but not necessarily without the intermediate steps. They either go through those steps at light speed by sizing up an underlying principle or simply recognize an inevitable match of an idea's potential with their own desires. You fit into the educational system rather well, as many high school and college courses make use of the deductive skills intuitives share with the thinking type. You may respond well to the timed testing that is prevalent today. You can master the complexities of mathematics because you can grasp the results without having to ground your learning in some physical way.Intuitives contribute through their inventiveness. You are generally willing to sacrifice the pleasure of the moment in the hope of greater future achievement. You are also restless and crave inspiration. Because you thrive in situations where getting to the answer is important, you are good at problem-solving and tasks that require ingenuity. Careers in the creative arts, religious inspiration and scientific discovery all suit the intuitive type. You can become an inspired leader or promoter. For you the game is more important than winning, the chase more interesting than the end result.

Your Unconscious Interactive Style

The Moon indicates the less conscious component of your interactive style. It shows what skills and talents can be brought to bear when your usual approach is not effective, and as such it indicates your own internal support system. With the Moon in Scorpio, your secondary function is the Feeling type.

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

What You Show the World and What You Know About Yourself

If you are aware of how other people see you, you have a distinct career advantage. Such awareness provides a tremendous opportunity to present yourself in the best light possible. You may have a rather different persona in the work place than you have anywhere else because different traits are expected by your co-workers. You therefore can choose to display those personality characteristics that suit your work situation the best.

Your natural direction where individuality is concerned is to proceed on a spontaneous basis and to seek immediate intuitive solutions to problems.

You have emotional strength, although it sometimes seems like moodiness to others. Family matters are always a consideration for you, and work may have to take second place sometimes. You can be ruthless in your ambition and less than tactful. Your gut impressions are often right on.

Your personality naturally tends to exhibit a caring, sympathetic attitude toward others. You may tend to be reserved, even shy, and certainly sensitive to the feelings of others and yourself. You can make decisions in the clinches. There is a tendency to depend on others - you may need to stand on your own merits more in the work place.

The qualities you most easily recognize in yourself are the ability to wait and see what will happen and the instability that this can create. You are impressionable and should cultivate the ability to use your intuition. You seek simplicity in your life and in your work. You know that you tend to take on other people's problems and the difficulties this can cause. You structure your life to include simple pleasures and to support your philosophical interests. You value your down time. You know you have higher spiritual perception than most people, yet you resist letting go of that in order to gain even more. You respond well because you can quickly assess a crisis situation and feel the flow of psychic energy. Over time this results in deeper spiritual awareness.

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

Individual Strengths Being Developed at This Time

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

At this time you have the potential to grow through developing a greater versatility. This is a good time to study, either to upgrade your skills or to develop new ones. You will also find yourself in more social situations and can refine your interpersonal skills during this period.

For the next few months, you will be able to hold on to your gains better. You appreciate the finer things that stable work can provide. You gain a more practical outlook during this period, and those skills can be carried forward into the future.

During the current period you have more feelings of security and practicality. There is a reserve, even caution, in your career decisions. You tend to be thorough in your work. Purposefulness shows in your actions. Egotism and a desire for pleasure can sometimes interfere with otherwise sound work practices.

The qualities you stand to gain at this time include the ability to preserve what you have gained, the persistence in achieving worthwhile results, and your concern with security. You are generally tolerant of others but can become distrustful if they give you reason. You know that you can see past imperfections in others. You know you resist letting go of material things and that this can prevent you from forward movement. You understand your desires better than most people.

How You Relate to the World in General

Many factors add up to the sum total of your presence in the world. Some character traits are quite stable, changing very little throughout your life. They are the "mind set" with which you approach all your activities and as such have a strong impact on your career. This section of your report considers how these persistent qualities affect you in your career endeavors.

Psychologists use the terms introversion and extraversion to describe two general ways of approaching the world. These tendencies are rather obvious to others, yet you may not recognize them in yourself.

In psychological terms, as an introvert you judge the world in terms of what events mean for you and you are not as responsive to others as the extravert. Life's activities tend to be measured on an internal, personally unique basis. In introversion one's thoughts refer more to the self, to what is within the individual. You seek to understand what life offers before you jump into it. If there is a real world for you, it is the inner world of ideas and subjective understanding. You tend to insulate yourself against the outer world in favor of the inner life.

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

You experience a lessening of personal control and an increased tendency to react to outer influences - to respond to the needs and desires of other people. There is the potential to dissolve conditions which are rigid within the personality and to interact with others in a more beneficial manner. You tend to merge your feelings and ideas with other people, caring less for personal ownership and more for cooperative effort. You often make choices that are more beneficial to the people around you than to yourself, recognizing that you gain more satisfaction from helping others. You make a strong facilitator because you are naturally aware of how other people feel and thus are able to provide the motivation and circumstances for them to be successful. You measure your own success in terms of the worldly results.

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

You tend to respond to others, at home, in personal relationships and in the work environment. Your fundamental beliefs were learned largely through family in childhood, and they may change only after significant thought. Your attitudes toward all objects of personal love, such as mate, child, pet, or friend revolve around responding to them. You usually choose to respond to the needs of others in the work environment, and your attitude toward peers and subordinates is focused as much on their needs as on the work demands.

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

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

Summary

Thus far this report has revealed traits of your personality which you may be more or less familiar with. Most people identify with one or more parts of their personality. You may not see yourself exactly as described here, and you certainly will want to consider the qualities that are entering your awareness now, as they are the fuel for future personality developments, and possibly for career advancement as well.

Your Vocational Indicators

Each of us has a natural inclination to function a particular way, and these tendencies become pronounced in vocational activities. We carry our personal desires across a personal boundary into the social milieu and find greater or lesser resistance to our desires there. Yet we may stubbornly press on, attempting to bend the world to our personal desires. We tend to hold on to the old form, even if it no longer serves us. "Better the devil you know" is itself a timeworn maxim.

If, instead of insisting, we learn from social feedback and adapt our approach to the world, we find that life is gentler and career more satisfying. Your personal emotional bias, how you concentrate your talents, and how you best learn from experience all impact vocation in spite of any desires to the contrary. There are several fundamental qualities that bear on vocation, and the following paragraphs consider these factors.

The focus is on your caution. Caution in itself is a good thing, but it can inhibit job performance in careers where the keynote is on-the-spot action. You have the greatest career success in areas where a conservative attitude is well-placed, such as financial management. You may be the person who seems to throw cold water on ideas which will drain personnel or financial resources too completely. You have the ability to concentrate on your natural reliability and loyalty to see you through the long haul. Keep this in mind in every area of endeavor, not just vocation. You learn through informal yet diplomatic situations.

There is one area of life where your hard work will achieve the best results. Because of this, you may be steered in a direction that you cannot easily perceive from within the confines of past experience. You need to look beyond past experience and desires into the larger context of your life to find the best place for your efforts. Most people expect a career to provide status, money, and other satisfactions. The type of work indicated here may seem odd, but deserves consideration nonetheless, as it may deliver long term rewards that you cannot perceive at the outset.

The personal asset you need to develop for career success is the understanding of both the value of money and your own value as a resource. To make the best use of your abilities, begin with a job with a salary or contract that demands accountability on both sides, in a career that does not involve speculation. The focus should be on making and handling money and material assets. There should be meticulous adherence to honest practice and you should avoid speculation of any kind.

Current Direction

You have been meeting the world on its terms and now it is time to meet the world on your terms. Now you need to take up your own internal challenge to make the highest possible productive mark. You will realign your thinking with the drive of your inner daemon.

You may also consider the area of your life in which these impulses can best be applied, and the focus that will gain the most positive results.

Associations take on a broader meaning at this time. You come to understand the influence you have among your peers more fully. If your path seems hollow, you may feel like a failure at this time. However, your efforts come together now to provide a sense of your position as it truly is, without depending on feelings you sense in others.

During this period you will be considering your personal values and you gain the most by matching your actions to your values. At this time you can shape your abilities to serve your own purposes as economically as possible.

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

How to Apply Your Energy to the Career

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

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

Your drive to succeed cannot help but result in significant accomplishments of some kind. You can over-estimate what you can do on your own, and may need to develop a team to work with closely. You are very logical and methodical in your work and demand that of coworkers. Independence is part and parcel of success for you. You can be very focused, and rarely leave a project uncompleted.Early in life energy almost seems to use you, as you have little control over desires. Throughout your life you learn to moderate desires of the moment with longer term plans, and you adapt to the environment of parental control, school requirements, peer pressure, marriage or relationship responsibilities, etc. Energy becomes, instead of its own director, an agent for your use, being guided by your will. You may find your will power and determination change in their expression earlier or later in your career, depending on your personal developmental path and how you respond to life. Some uses may seem out of reach in youth and commonplace in middle age, or vice versa.

Your Career Success

It is helpful to think of career success separate from the money earned, as success is not limited to material gain. A person could be held in very high esteem in his career field and not be the biggest success in the money department. Also, the slice of the career pie will often determine the earning potential. Of the three factors involved in vocation (career, money and work environment), the career itself has the most public impact. Here is where reputation is built, here is where one gains authority in one's field, and here is where ambition can be fulfilled.

You seek simplicity in your career. This may work well in the career environment, but it can lead to a lack of clarity because of over simplification. You need time alone to reflect, and therefore you are not well-placed in a position under constant fire. You can see the global picture and feel it deeply as well.Career fields suited to you include character actors, artists, astrologers, boat makers, chemists, dancers, detectives, distillers, chemical engineers, fishermen, hospital workers, monks, mystics, nuns, oceanographers, photographers, psychics, priests, prison guards service station owners and attendants, water occupations and occult writers.

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

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

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

You experience close ties between your career and your family. Your deepest held beliefs must be supported by the work you do, or you will not be satisfied.

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

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

You have a direct connection between your ego-consciousness and your soul. The emphasis on inner spiritual meaning and values becomes a catalyst for self-understanding. The focus is less on individual expression and more on a flexible life path which asserts the desire to nurture others in terms of what you know about yourself. This flexibility does not encourage a focused approach; rather it allows for diffuse interests based upon deeply rooted spiritual values. Your natural ability is to allow pre-conscious or unconscious motives to emerge into awareness; these motives are part of what you can learn about yourself.You may be more in touch with your own consciousness than most people because what you are and what you know about yourself are directly related. If there were no aspect between Sun and Midheaven, the connection would be less direct. You constructively express your energy by focusing on advancement toward success. You know yourself well enough to recognize your direction or mission early in the game. The easiest path to self-awareness for you is not through thinking, so you tend toward a career that focuses on other strengths.You are capable of a profound awareness that all concrete knowledge is rooted in the love principle. The close connection between beauty and ego-consciousness allows expression to embody harmony and balance in concrete form. This can include plastic arts, writing, and any activity whose aim is to achieve a higher level of harmony in the physical world as well as in interpersonal and social relations. You find yourself acting without self-examination, and this is not always the best plan. You work best in situations where considerable training is involved, so that your actions become second nature.You are interested in expansion, optimism and religious or spiritual interests. Your thinking emphasizes the nobler facets of human expression as a result of consciousness. The urge to expand is joined with self-awareness to produce direction and optimism. This combination often signals success throughout life because the higher, more comprehensive awareness of cosmic law is so closely linked to ego-consciousness. It is as though the two are one expression for you. The desire to accomplish something important can be a powerful motivation, and leads to self-awareness.You are susceptible to rigid ideas about the world. There will be far less movement with this combination, as it is less about awareness of change and more about the limitations we find in the physical environment. There is a focus on the structure of your own personality rather than on things outside the self. Because you may not have a strong sense of the structure of social systems, there is a tendency to be self-critical, sometimes leading to an actual loss of ego-consciousness. Ego-consciousness is not placed within the framework of the world, and thus has no solid ground on which to develop. The result is a difficulty in career and relationships which can only be overcome through steadfast adherence to your goals. The need for sufficient practice in thinking is apparent; clear thought processes will negate any tendency toward depression.You feel an emphasis on the suddenness and change in your life as well as rhythm, independence and even rebellion. You are usually in a state of being ready to take action, coupled with a strong intuitive sense of what direction to take with your life. Controlled by a well-trained mind, intuition can indeed provide equilibrium in your life, as you can foresee conditions and events clearly. When you are out of control, emotional imbalances result and change runs your life, instead of the other way around. The more out of balance you seem, the more your ego-consciousness is ignoring some significant portion of the psyche and its messages. Whatever psychic awareness you bring to your career is a felt thing, not the result of thought. You may find that your thought processes are sometimes inconsistent and self-awareness depends on listening to your "gut". Power is often outside your conscious control. You find it is governed by unconscious drives for the most part. You develop a disciplined will through other channels.

Astrology can help you to become more aware of desirable changes in career. It can also offer insight into any feelings of unrest or anxiety associated with career. The following provides information about the recent past career influences and then discusses current conditions and future trends.

Recent Influences

You may experience misfortune at this time due to incomplete planning or inconsistent application of energy to the task.

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

Current and Future Trends for the Coming Year

It is easy for you to become confused and lose your way at this time, due to odd ideas that enter your mind unbidden.

Your Best Work Environment

Where the work environment and the securing of employment are concerned, astrology offers many useful insights. It also deals with the actual work that is undertaken. It can reveal how you react to work, to your work associates and to the work environment itself. Regardless of the actual title you hold, the place where you do the work and the people around you make a tremendous difference in the attitudes you develop in the work place. You can learn effective tools for obtaining the job as well.

The best work environments for you include dignified offices, churches, courts, banks, large institutions, universities, high ground, estates, large sites, upstairs rooms, place to store ammunition, southeast rooms or walls.Geographic locations which may be suited to your work include Alabama, Arabia, Australia, Bolivia, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Hungary, Illinois, Madagascar, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, Pakistan, Singapore, Spain, Toledo, Toronto, or Yugoslavia.

You may work in more than one type of environment or change jobs in order to move to a work environment described as follows:

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

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

Service is an integral part of your make-up. Your health, your work environment, your relationships with employees and employer all address this human function. This house placement of the Sun does not mean that you will always serve others, but rather that service is a principle to which you devote your individual attention.Your coworkers are strong, authoritative individuals. They are generally confident of their own skills and open and above board in their dealings with others. They are ambitious and desire recognition, so praising their successes is worth the effort, whether they be the boss, peers, or employees. They can brighten the work area both literally and figuratively. Associates tend to be men.You pay attention to the details of connections with others. Whether you are servant or master, you are aware of the subtleties of interaction between yourself and others. You are often able to maintain a detached perspective in the midst of chaos, and you later remember the details which are significant.Your co-workers combine the best of education and reason with a brilliance and versatility born of their changeable nature. These individuals observe and analyze, learning to discriminate between favorable and unfavorable forces. They make for skilled examination of every situation, but may not be reliable in the clinches, as they will dance away to the next situation in which their attention to every detail provides them with the fuel for their own advancement.Your energy is generally used for methodical activity. You have the capacity to organize your work and play activities carefully. You give attention to matters of health and diet, sometimes through necessity but more often through your focused interest in the general condition of your body/mind. You enjoy an independent role in the work environment and are generally able to work well alone.Your work companions are the driving force of action in the work environment. Constantly looking for a new venture, they dive into new projects and demonstrate their enthusiasm at every turn. They are impulsive and need the balance of someone who is more cautious, or at least more grounded. They enjoy working independently and are self-reliant. Their fearless attitude in the face of change can seem rash or even destructive. Above all, they are determined to succeed in their own right and not at the expense of others.

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

You understand the undercurrents in the work environment, identifying trends early and seeing the possibilities for change. There is no room for sarcasm or secretiveness. There may be healing potential in your work.

You bring confidence and creativity to your work environment, although you don't usually wave a flag to attract attention. You usually know when to make your move and have the self-assurance to do so.

Other Factors Affecting Your Choice of Work Environment

As you develop a sense of how significant your work environment is to your life in general, and also what factors affect your work performance, you regain the power to select suitable work.

Popularity is yours, but it can have its drawbacks. Too much popularity can bring the disadvantage of over-indulgence or conflict of interests. Fortunate decisions mark major turning points, yet you feel like you have been stung. You grow to accept change as a gift. Fortunate turns in your life are the stuff of legends. Yet you sometimes feel as if the gain was not worth what you had to give up. Develop tact and prudence in your ventures. You have a pervasive desire for power; this desire can help you to attain leadership positions. It is possible for you to lose everything and then to regenerate your life.You are able to engage your ego successfully in situations demanding logical, careful approaches. Your life is a series of advancements which are based on this use of mind. You have a vivid fantasy life which is connected to some form of psychic activity. You are seldom surprised by changes and see them as openings for further insight. You are at ease in situations where you can speak your mind and be heard. You persuade others by your own convictions, but consistency must be developed to maximize your skills.

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

Recent Experiences at Work

The sheer force of your will power can propel you into changes that are hasty or ill-advised. Now is a time to avoid quarrels. The power of your own determination is in full gear right now. You find that you can see future pitfalls more clearly than in the past, and take evasive action. Your success depends on clear communication, and you are aware of precisely what to say or write.

You are in a period of change, with many career and business offers to consider.

You press too hard and things may break.

Trends in the Near Future

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

You may miss the best opportunities just now because you are not focused or because you choose to argue about a philosophical point.

Your Financial Considerations

Of the three vocational considerations, money is usually the most personal and private. Yet at the end of your life, all you have to take with you is your self worth. All the money, all the material possessions, all the opinions of other people will make no difference at all. What you think of yourself is all you will have. Thus other considerations such as moral growth, personal debts other than those involving money, and self-esteem are tremendously important human issues. The question this chapter revolves around is this: How do you maximize your potential, fulfill your higher mission, satisfy your daemon, obtain the money you need to live, enjoy your life, enhance your moral growth, all within the confines of the natural talents you possess, in such a way that at the end of your life, you are satisfied - personally satisfied - that you did well?

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

Where does your money actually come from?

You love to explore everything, and this leads you into the recesses of your career field. You find the philosophical or unusual arenas in which to move. Your direction sometimes seems haphazard, but the outcome is that you know a little about everything, and a lot about the things that truly matter. You tend to hold onto your beliefs tenaciously right up to the moment when you change your mind. Your natural optimism and enthusiasm can infect your coworkers.

Service is an integral part of your make-up. Your health, your work environment, your relationships with employees and employer all address this human function. This house placement of the Sun does not mean that you will always serve others, but rather that service is a principle to which you devote your individual attention.Your coworkers are strong, authoritative individuals. They are generally confident of their own skills and open and above board in their dealings with others. They are ambitious and desire recognition, so praising their successes is worth the effort, whether they be the boss, peers, or employees. They can brighten the work area both literally and figuratively. Associates tend to be men.

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

Strong inner tensions allow you to utilize individuality in your quest for power. You will experience remarkable advancement, as well as dramatic health changes, both for the better and for the worse. You dislike the limitations of working for others, preferring to be the one in charge.Develop self-control. There is a difference between thoughtfulness and depression. Sometimes you feel very isolated from others. Reckless abandon can cause accidents. Use your mental abilities to think plans through before taking the first step. The constructive qualities of firmness, modesty and determination can be derailed by internal turmoil relating to delicate health and pessimistic thoughts. You are able to engage your ego successfully in situations demanding logical, careful approaches. Your life is a series of advancements which are based on this use of mind. You are methodical in your work, planning carefully and working very hard. Do not allow your inner tension or inhibition to create a foundation for illness. You have a cruel streak which must be tempered by other factors. You have the potential to grow in spiritual awareness if you can avoid purely egoistic aims. You have a heightened emotional life which is directed into specific areas of your life. You pursue your goals with almost fanatical zest and must be careful to consider other people in your excitement. You are at ease in situations where you can speak your mind and be heard. You persuade others by your own convictions, but consistency must be developed to maximize your skills. Your desire for power should be complemented by an understanding of the cause and effect relationship between your actions and the results. Even though you have high spiritual aims, the methods you use cannot sink into exploitation of others. You are a highly sensitive person and can develop your psychic gifts steadily throughout your life. You are aware of events before they occur.

You have specific patterns involving money and material things,. You also have a personal moral direction and path toward development of a healthy self-image.

There is another area of life, not necessarily associated with work, that indicates how you actually get your money. It can also reveal who or what has the most direct effect on your self-esteem. Thirdly, it can indicate how you tend to spend your income.

You may find that self-esteem is what you work with in the work environment. You are the one who is in charge of morale, officially or unofficially. You may also have responsibility for the payroll. Another part of your job may be the creative management of money or funds.

Generally you are a planner where finances are concerned, yet you are equally capable of enjoying the spending. Your personal focus may be more on philosophical aspects of the marketplace.

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

Strong inner tensions allow you to utilize individuality in your quest for power. You will experience remarkable advancement, as well as dramatic health changes, both for the better and for the worse. You dislike the limitations of working for others, preferring to be the one in charge.

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

Recent Experiences

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

You find that you can see future pitfalls more clearly than in the past, and take evasive action.

Future Considerations

This is a time to be conservative, as you may experience losses and need to be prepared. You could lose a great deal if you are wasteful of time or money at this time. You tend to be overly daring just now, feeling immortal and invulnerable. Yet you have the capacity to perform well above your usual level. You find yourself struggling just now, but group activities can bring positive results, not the least of which is personal spiritual growth.

Career or Mission?

Now that we have examined the vocational possibilities from the geocentric perspective, it is time to consider your higher spiritual mission. Mission is driven by the spirit or inner psychic voice of the individual. Let's take a look at the spiritual potential that reflects the urgings of that voice. Seeing the universe from this perspective gives you a sense of your larger purpose. Then you can look back at the above information to discover the practical means to fulfill your higher purpose.

This section of the report considers several factors that make up your spiritual perspective. Some may be more familiar to you than others, and certainly some will have more impact on your vocation.

The search for equilibrium in your life reaches beyond the limits of this plane of manifestation, seeking to integrate the experiences of body, mind and spirit into one profound experience of unfolded consciousness. This level of integration occurs when the soul and the personality are brought into alignment through accident or through ritual experience. Thus ritual is a valuable path for you as you develop a sense of equilibrium. You can develop a fuller sense of the value of ritual throughthe same sign as the sign of the Earth, which is the direction intelligent activity is most likely to move and will be described in a later paragraph.Concrete knowledge does not stop at the scientific definitions of things, nor is it limited to the scientific approach to understanding the relationships between people and things. It also includes a felt sense, an inner awareness of the right relationships between things. You can employ concrete knowledge in the mediation between personality and soul, between physical life and higher consciousness. Only through fusion of these apparently separate facets of your being can you approach true knowledge. You tend to seek concrete knowledge throughan instinctual relationship to life. Physical human instinct includes a desire and need to nurture the body/mind. At the same time there is a profound instinctual drive to discover meaning, so much so that at some point life without meaning becomes intolerable. Just as physical life is breathed into us, so is the life of the spirit instilled within us. "The light of substance ... is ... awaiting the stimulation coming from the soul light."We all accumulate debts and responsibilities on the path toward resolution of difficulties. It is through the exercise of intelligent activity - that is, the use of what we know and how we employ that knowledge - that we even begin to approach the freedom we seek from such indebtedness. Your path to transformation of difficulty into harmony - the most direct way to actively engage will to guide your personal power - is to integrate power and will to act as a human being. You have the choice of how you implement your will.Both Saturn and Pluto tend to express through the unfolding of spiritual consciousness. Mature self-consciousness includes awareness of these two appearances and how they interweave to produce what we call life. In your daily activities you may seldom think of this profound reality of existence; as you grow in conscience you develop an affinity for sensitizing yourself to your higher mission.Mediation occurs not only in conflict resolution between or among people; it is an internal psychic function as well. Psychic awareness can be focused to identify the source of conflict and the ground upon which conflict may be resolved. Your higher vision is based on your examination of the essential duality of physical manifestation. One side of duality is the desire or passionate nature; the other side is the innate quality of compassion which comes from another level of experience. The awareness of essential duality is joined with the activity of the mediator to resolve into Unity.Both Mercury and Neptune tend to express through the testing of opposites. Energies are weighed and balanced here, and understanding begins to form about the profitable uses of polarity. Harmony is not only expressed through balance and symmetry, but through intentional asymmetry as well. Knowing how to work with this concept allows you to achieve new levels of energy.The path toward fusion of heart and mind, the subjective purpose for manifestation, is perhaps the most central experience of wisdom that you will ever have. Your life's processes are defined, and the expansive process of your mind and spirit relishes the richness to be found throughfierce testing. The planetary energies are subjected to physical, mental and spiritual demands which leave you changed forever. While duality is part of all experience, there is a struggle that tests even the nature of opposites. This spiritual battle challenges you to rise above merely material considerations.You can be energetic, even aggressive at times. At other times your energy is directed into thoughtful devotional activities, quieter but no less energetic. Your energy for movement in thought and action, your passion for dealing with higher spiritual goals is activated throughthe material plane. The most complete understanding of the laws of Karma and dharma are embodied in planets here. You experience your work and its conclusion in connection with new beginnings as well, moving into a new cycle each time you complete the old one. Intellect becomes a principle factor, as you utilize concrete knowledge in your pursuit of intelligent activity.

There is a particular direction in which your intelligent activity will most likely move. It is obviously where you position yourself and represents your strongest capacities as a human being. You will display intelligent activity in and your lifes' mission through the desire to manifest in the world. This placement addresses the creative passion as it expresses procreatively. The child is a physical example of the synthesis of opposites. You also have the energy needed to evolve in Consciousness to a higher expression - you can use your mind to mediate within the personality; you can also communicate between the personality and the soul. "The secret ... is the mystery of the relation of Father, Mother and Child," a mystical expression of the power of love.

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