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Astrological Profile for
Sharon Stone

by Stephanie Clement

Your Chart Data

      Name:        Sharon Stone
      Date:          Mar 10, 1958
      Time:          04:00:00 PM EST  +05:00
      Place:         Pittsburgh, PA     

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

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

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

Your Ascendant or Rising Sign

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

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

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

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.

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.

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:

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

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

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.

Your creativity works best in areas where communication flows freely. Thus any career that involves travel, computers, or any form of communication will appeal to you. You can manage two or three projects at one time.

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.

 You are loyal to a fault, and perhaps beyond. Generally reliable, you can come up with creative responses to situations and you are diplomatic at the same time. You consider education of the younger generation to be a priority and may use your creative talents well in this area. You are most creative in structured situations, so you will do well around accountants, vocational counselors, chemists, civil engineers or government workers - anyone whose work depends on organization and structure. You manage responsibility creatively. You can find the creative elements in the work of efficiency experts, economists, landlords and masons. It's the structure of things that attracts your attention and holds it.

 You have a talent for the legal professions, whether it be as a judge or a clerk or a jailer. You appreciate justice and seek it out. You may leave your home country, or certainly your family for greener pastures. Develop wisdom in your actions.

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 take a practical, common sense approach to cyclical changes in your life. You can use this approach in business situations by maintaining a sense of your objectives. If you experience a lack of clarity in the midst of changes, you can balance nervousness with physical activity.  Your inner sense of beauty can become a source of tension when you find yourself in excessively indulgent situations. When you are attracted to another individual, use your own physical and mental tension to attract them.  You find that you have the energy to work with diverse situations and take advantage of whatever opportunities come your way.  Blessed with good health and generally destined for success, you occasionally allow inner agitation to upset your glandular balance through dietary or emotional excess.  The constructive qualities of firmness, modesty and determination provide concrete situations in which to develop mastery of inhibitions and management of delicate health.  Sudden changes bring new circumstances into your life. You have intuition which helps you, but only after some agitation.  You are far more sensitive to your environment than most people. However, others will not be aware of this unless you tell them.

The typical results of your creative forays have the following characteristics:

Clear communication is needed to overcome obstacles in business and family situations. The challenge is to develop a stable base of operation and then stick close to it in spite of pressure.  Difficulty and separation in love relationships causes strain which can impact your health. Even temporary separations can cause you pain. Jealousy can be a problem.  You experience harmful energy from time to time. This aspect is a source of personal development, but it is not easy. Conserve your vitality.  Inhibited rhythms affect your physical body and your social existence. you are able to overcome difficulties. You are self-willed and gain or suffer because of this.  You experience cruelty in your life which must be offset by other factors. You have the potential to grow in spiritual awareness if you can avoid purely egoistic aims.

Your kindness, especially toward women, affects the major transitions of your life. Expansive gestures of kindness lead to spiritual growth.  You gain popularity quickly and easily.  You may expereince the challenge of appropriate behavior in the work environment, as you are totally lovable and may give out overly personal vibes.  Fortunate decisions help you overcome challenges. You have the ability to concentrate on a particular goal and thus will have successful results professionally.  Fortunate turns in your life are the stuff of legends. Occasionally you miss the opportunity, but generally you seek independence and adventure and find them.  The richness of feelings in your life is the result of your close connection to the psychic realm. You are a dreamer and a mystic. Sometimes you suffer losses because of unprofitable speculations.  You have a pervasive desire for power; this desire focuses, for the most part, on the spiritual or mental sphere. However, you can attain leadership positions. It is possible for you to lose everything.

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 own arrogance can get in the way of successful business dealings at this time. Stifle your urges and go with the flow. Don't gamble right now, as you tend to experience losses or the fall out from your ill-advised personal actions.

Your own dissatisfaction can lead to jealousy of others and separations caused by your harshness.

Current and Future Trends for the Coming Year

You rebel against everything, and the results are not good. Now is a good time to resolve tensions through exercise or other constructive means.

You have been working toward your goals in private, and now is a time for additional developments of a positive nature.

You find that the simple things in life serve your needs best at this time. Your own dissatisfaction can lead to jealousy of others and separations caused by your harshness. You may become aware of personal responsibilities and the authority you demonstrate to others.

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.

Your creative capacity lies in the ability to identify what is.  First you can be yourself.  Then you can exercise creative discrimination in the world around you.  Thirdly, you have the creative ability to lead, to assume your full authority.  And finally you will exercise the will to integrate, the ultimate expression of your grounded physical experience.  A key word for your creative process is TO MATERIALIZE. Traits you may find useful in your career include a solidly grounded approach to life, a sense of place in the world, a sense of practical limitations, attention to physical needs, focus of vision and reliance on what "works".  At best you don't let vocational considerations dominate your life, but address issues of practicality with creative awareness.

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 be excitable, impulsive and emotional, with an apparent lack of logical thought patterns. You can be unpredictable at times. This combination is good for work that involves convincing others, such as entertainment or sales. Your pressure cooker energy can explode from time to time.

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. You may decline to take the initiative in any situation, choosing to let someone else be in charge. You need a boost to gather momentum for projects, and are willing to wait patiently for a push from a source outside yourself.

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 Pisces, you are primarily 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.

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 Sagittarius, your secondary function is 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.

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 reserved, somewhat emotional basis. You tend to judge situations well, but may be less than tactful in stating your opinions. You are able to go with the flow if it is not too far from your own opinion of the proper direction.

Your naturally impulsive nature may have led you to rash action more than once, usually not a helpful tendency where career is concerned. At the same time you have intuitive abilities and creative talents that guide your impulses, so that what at first seems ill-advised often turns out well. You like change.

Your personality naturally tends to exhibit restless energy, together with self-confidence and enthusiasm. You expect to find a place in your career and to hold it. You desire recognition and may sometimes seem self-absorbed. Your sociability is a career strength.

The qualities you most easily recognize in yourself are the 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.

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 patient considerations of how factors in the environment are likely to evolve. By considering the practical outcome, you give yourself another way to evaluate problems and deal with them.

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

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

The qualities you stand to gain at this time include awareness of your own individuality and independence. You know that you are impressionable, and you know how to verify your impressions before taking action. You are generally considerate of the needs of others and can nurture when necessary. You know that you must occasional fight hard for what you want and are fearless when the fight is important to you. You can respond decisively to any situation that arises, and when you do not, the inner turmoil will be intense.

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 an eager beaver type, a person who is always into the next activity ahead of everyone else. Yet you need someone to precede you, to wave your flag, so to speak. You sometimes feel as though you have arrived at your destination before you sent the telegram saying you were coming. The slower pace of communication helps you to moderate your thinking.

Summary

Thus far this report has revealed traits of your personality 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.

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 self-doubt. Because you tend to doubt yourself, your best career direction is one which allows you to study the theory and philosophy carefully before you put them into practice. The legal and religious professions provide strong possibilities because they are based on an established body of information. Such careers draw on your prudence and intuitive judgment. You have the ability to concentrate on your sense of justice and logical follow-through to see you through the long haul. Keep this in mind in every area of endeavor, not just vocation. You learn through serious study of theory.

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 understanding of your self-worth without an associated obsession about independence. To make the best use of your abilities, begin with a job working for a friend or family member for starters, with a social or political dynamic where you get a broad perspective of the career field. Your strong personality will demand recognition. A solid start will lead you to such a position in your career, provided you follow your personal ambition closely. Diplomacy will gain you the help you need along the way.

Current Direction

You take the awareness you have of your productive capacities, and you apply it in the world. You are able to accept challenges and work with them, based on an awareness of your impact on the world around you. Instead of the world challenging you, you are able to carry your challenge into the world.

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.

Now is the time to get to know the individual inside you. You may feel a loss of self-confidence where career is concerned, and the solution is to re-assess your inner capabilities. As you redefine yourself in terms of your strengths, you regain the capacity to act decisively to pursue your personal mission and your chosen career.

Ego could get you into trouble at this time. The best path is to define your own needs while also considering the needs of others. The strongest leader is one who makes a personal impression and facilitates the creative process in others.

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.

The career can flourish through the cooperative efforts of energy and structure, as conditions exists which make this path easy for you to follow. On the one hand, the structure of the best career path is enhanced by the application of energy while on the other hand, your energy is easily directed to fill the requirements of the career's structure. In this way the detrimental and stressful tendencies toward harmful action or weakness are decreased, while your energy is skillfully applied in the most fruitful direction.

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.

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

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

You have multiple talents and skills, as well as the energy to apply them. However, this is not necessarily the stuff of a long term career in one place. The tendency to scatter your energy can actually develop into a package of skills that make for the successful manager, as you can keep track of many projects and guide employees well. Give yourself the right mix of responsibility and people contact and you will thrive. Career fields suited to you include accountant, advertising, book sellers, book binders, bookkeepers, broadcasting, bus driver, cab driver, clerical work, computer operator, train conductors, court reporter, editing, handwriting expert, informants, information management, journalism, letter carrier, librarian, linguist, literary criticism, mechanics, messenger, merchandising, news reporter, novelist, office worker, photo engraver, proof reader, radio and television, railroad men, repair man and secretary.

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

You find career mentors in your immediate work environment who can be most helpful in your advancement path. You grasp the changes in your career field easily and are able to follow them.

Your career is a function of the work environment. For example, if you are a physician working in a large metropolitan area, you are connected closely with a hospital and probably know the staff well. If you live in an isolated area, you still practice medicine, but the environment may include an office, patients' homes, or other out of the way locations where your services are needed.

You are unconventional in your pursuit of even the most ordinary career. Intuition provides ideas and mental training can provide the proof that your intuition is accurate. Cooperation does not mean a loss of freedom.

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 become aware of spiritual motives rather separate from your self-awareness. These motives are no less potent, only less integrated with your knowledge of 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. You use your thought processes to develop self-awareness. To the extent that thinking has been cultivated, you are well-equipped to plan and pursue objectives on the mental level. It is essential for you to train the mind. Sloppy thinking will only lead to sloppy pursuit of objectives. One quality of mind is its changeability; you can lose focus if your mind is not well-trained and practiced. Another quality is the capacity to resolve conflict; you come to resolutions directly through self-awareness, or ego-consciousness, whereas other people may use different means. You are capable of a profound awareness that all concrete knowledge is rooted in the love principle. The close connection between beauty and ego-consciousness allows expression to embody harmony and balance in concrete form. This can include plastic arts, writing, and any activity whose aim is to achieve a higher level of harmony in the physical world as well as in interpersonal and social relations.  You find yourself acting without self-examination, and this is not always the best plan. You work best in situations where considerable training is involved, so that your actions become second nature.  You experience expansion in your self-awareness, but not through any action on your part. You grasp the philosophical implications of your career activities.  You cannot understand the structure of your career path directly, as most people do. You have greater success when you allow the career to develop without pushing. Apply yourself to the task at hand and let the chips fall as they will. 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.

You fall in and out of love easily. In fact you cast yourself as a principal player in love dramas. Your actions sometimes appear eccentric to others.

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

Recent Influences

You have been under the spell of illusion and are now coming out of it, feeling rather depressed or disappointed.

You are feeling particularly light-hearted at this time, able to perceive the design behind your work and life in general. Your own dissatisfaction can lead to jealousy of others and separations caused by your harshness.

A decided lack of ego-consciousness. There can be an opening to larger mystical and intuitive understanding which is indeed not grounded in personal ego, but rather is indicative of awareness which transcends the present. These unusual mental states include indecision, self-deception, wrong ideas, and aimlessness, as well as the more constructive altered states. There can also be supernatural or psychic awarenesses which emerge.

Self-knowledge. Such change is brought about through clear communication, and can involve changes in vocation. You stand to learn a lot about yourself at this time. Achieving harmony in your life, out of past struggles, is likely.  Vocational changes occur as you shift your thinking from inner (or outer) conflict to a sense of the proper path to resolving old problems.

Current and Future Trends for the Coming Year

Curb your present inclination to waste what you have worked hard to acquire. Your own dissatisfaction can lead to jealousy of others and separations caused by your harshness.

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

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

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

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

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

Your sense of balance and harmony contribute to your overall health, indicating the importance of these factors in your daily life. Moral and ethical values enter into your decisions about how you may be of service to the planet; the outer form this service takes is not as important as the inner motivation.

Socially refined to the last detail, Venus makes for courteous fellow employees.  Mostly female, these individuals are cooperative team members who sincerely think of others as well as of themselves. They love to feel a part of the group and they understand the dynamics of personal interaction in the work place. Part of what makes them so good at this is their temperamental nature which often masks a keen appreciation for their companions.

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 bring broad-mindedness to your work and will do well not to bring personal religious beliefs that could interfere with your work. Yet your idealistic attitude and idealism can be very useful.

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.

The constructive qualities of firmness, modesty and determination develop and persevere in a climate of inhibition and seriousness.  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.  Your love life is inhibited by your serious acceptance of duty. Your sober, sensible side can attract partners much younger or older. Even temporary separations can cause you pain. Jealousy can be a problem.  You experience harmful energy from time to time. Yet your endurance gets you through the difficult times. You are more effective when you throw your energy into tasks without also throwing your ego along with it.  Inhibited rhythms affect your physical body and your social existence. Your determination overcomes physical limitations. You are self-willed and gain or suffer because of this. Violence can be a part of your experience.

Growth occurs when communication is clear. It is sometimes painful, but always part of your gracious behavior. You may appear not to care when major events occur in your life.  The world of illusion provides career and personal challenges. You idealize love relationships and can be devastated when they end. You are able to communicate your ideals in some concrete form.  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.  You use your powerful mind to help you take advantage of opportunities. You are sometimes quick to argue and find fault.

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

You have been under the spell of illusion and are now coming out of it, feeling rather depressed or disappointed.

Your own dissatisfaction can lead to jealousy of others and separations caused by your harshness.

You achieve successful results in your career and work activities at this time, conclude favorable transactions or achieve good settlements. You bull your way through situations, but you end up exhausted from the effort. Will power is not the best approach just now. Any success you achieve at this time will require more effort than it turns out to be worth.

Trends in the Near Future

This is not a good time to overindulge in food and drink. Nor should you gamble in terms of your career just now. Your sexual life can be the most important to you just now. Work may have to take a back seat for a while. Success depends, just now, on your ability to apply forceful effort while resisting the urge to act too quickly.

You rebel against everything, and the results are not good. Now is a good time to resolve tensions through exercise or other constructive means.

During this period you should take extra care in all your activities involving machinery, sharp things, and speech.

You have been working toward your goals in private, and now is a time for additional developments of a positive nature. You may become aware of personal responsibilities and the authority you demonstrate to others.

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?

Money comes to you via practical management. You consider the details of all financial matters and manipulate the material realm with precision. Just as your emotional security is based on being honest with yourself, your material security is grounded in honest dealings with others. You can be overly self-critical when finances don't go the way you planned. You can be skeptical of other people's management abilities, seemingly egotistical in your analysis of their errors in judgment. Material matters prosper through your usually balanced approach to the practicalities.

Where does your money actually come from?

You are able to recall details like people's names with ease, and you remember the details of your life readily. Other people sometimes have trouble understanding you, though you always know what they are up to. You are a trivia master, finding the juicy tidbits of information to fill in conversational blanks. You are a receptive listener, always a valuable trait in the career area.

You sometimes come across as critical and unsympathetic. If you become sarcastic and argumentative, you lose the edge which your communication skills provide. Thus, you learn quickly to express yourself in a less emotional way, yet you are able to maintain an analytical frame of mind for the most part. You can take on large projects and complete them successfully.

You use your powerful mind to help you take advantage of opportunities. You are sometimes quick to argue and find fault.

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.

Your personal finances are often directly connected to the financial condition of others, and your work may involve handling other people's money. You are reliable in this because you treat their resources as carefully as your own.

Money can serve your philanthropic inclinations even before your own needs are fully met. Willing to renounce position, you may be too indulgent and impractical where finances are concerned.

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

You use your powerful mind to help you take advantage of opportunities. You are sometimes quick to argue and find fault.

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

Recent Experiences

You are feeling particularly light-hearted at this time, able to perceive the design behind your work and life in general. You tend to scatter your energy just now, starting but not finishing, or hurrying too much.

You can be successful in many areas right now, including business activities, speaking engagements, and common sense analysis. Your emotional eagerness can cause you to tax your physical system at this time.

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

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

Mediation occurs not only in conflict resolution between or among people; it is an internal psychic function as well. Your principal path of approach to paradoxical problems of all kinds is through two profoundly significant realities of being. First, you appreciate movement into incarnation. This movement includes the desire to manifest in the material world, and requires an effort of Will. Second, you experience a desire to cooperate with a larger plan. Thus you can combine both the will to manifest individually and the desire to return to the ultimate source. This is "the secret of beginnings."

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 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.

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. The power of the universe acts for and with you through the 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.  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. Both Venus and Jupiter 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.

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. You develop your capacity for compassion through fierce 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.  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. Both Mars and Saturn tend to express through the process of linking form and soul. Without this step the soul would not attach to the body and life independent from the mother would not be possible. This deep mystery occurs metaphorically while the Sun is sinking to its lowest point of the year, suggesting that the mysteries of life dwell in the dark recesses of consciousness.

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 nurturing capability of the material world which creates a physical form in which our personality and soul can develop on the path to higher spiritual realization. You have deep experiences which reveal the light to you. You have the capability of unified understanding of the feminine principle in all its expressions, embodying it in the mental, emotional and physical manifestations. Outer attention to detail reveals your inner understanding of unity.

The above considerations can be woven together to present an integrated view of your career potential at this time. They indicate the talents and capacities you were born with, and they also suggest directions to go at the present time. As such they provide assistance in making career decisions and can be helpful in considering a wide range of possibilities. Naturally you have the final decision about what changes will be beneficial in this area of your life.

Now that you have read your vocational report, you hopefully have a clearer sense of how circumstances have brought you to your present career position. You may also see ways to apply your natural capabilities, education and training to the goal of a more fulfilling vocation. Finally, you can consider ways to find a job and co-workers that enrich your work and help you come closer to fulfilling your life's mission.

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