Mystic Chris
Sorry for the late response
Hello Minderwiz!
Thank you for taking the time to look at my chart and help me figure out what would be a good career for me. My comments follow your paragraphs in a different color.
You might be on to something with the possible astrology route.
Thank you again for spending the time to write an excellent analysis of my chart to help me with my career choices. It's good to get a different perspective.
Regards,
Mystic Chris
Hello Minderwiz!
Thank you for taking the time to look at my chart and help me figure out what would be a good career for me. My comments follow your paragraphs in a different color.
Minderwiz said:Your element balance is strong in Air and Fire but weak in Earth and Water (though the latter is supplemented by the Scorpio Ascendant). You are good at action and relationships, getting things going and asserting yourself and you have the ability to think things through. However you are not particularly practical and therefore your ideas and drive may lose touch with reality if you’re not careful. You are definitely an outgoing person, not only through the dominance of Fire and Air but also through all but the Moon and Neptune being above the horizon (and the Moon prefers to be below the horizon anyway).
Yes, I am strong in Air, just by observing my personality, but I also think I am very much water. Earth is definitely my weakest element, but thanks to all the Earth people in my life who push me to be my best, I think I'll be okay. (My mother and brother are Taurus and Capricorn Sun signs respectively.)
You have a good blend of the quaruplicities, so you can not only initiate but also adapt, whilst having the staying power to see things through.
Very true. I like to walk my talk and encourage people to do the same.
Your Sun and first House Moon are sextile – a good blend of feelings, emotions, will and creativity but your Ascendant doesn’t fit so well into this blend – How you project yourself is not altogether in line with what’s going on inside. Your Sun also is applying to a conjunction with Pluto – this implies some hidden depths to your creativity and possibly the ability to transform yourself by sheer will power or through giving rein to your creativity. Pluto however is often a very mixed blessing and is best treated with extreme care. Your Moon is applying to the sextile with the Sun and will then move on to conjunct Neptune. In traditional terms the Moon will translate the light of creativity from your Sun, to your first House Neptune, your dreams, and your spiritual aspirations. This is where you get your strong interest in the mystical.
Interesting points you make. I am glad that Scorpio is my ascendant so that it does not reveal me entirely. I was told by another who's into astrology that my Sag Moon in the first makes me an open book such that my feelings are easily expressed facially and verbally. I am very aware of this power Sun conjunct Pluto provides, and you are correct to say I should handle it with care. Pluto is transiting my first house, and I am currently going through major transformation, trying to understand my dark side so I can love myself fully.
About my Sun's creativity being translated through Neptune, I am not sure. I have not looked seriously into the applying and separating influences of aspects. I did not know that a planet can act as a link for two other planets. (It's always great to learn new things.) Also, I always thought that my interest in the occult sciences was attributed to Venus conjunct Uranus in my 12th house.
You were born when Mercury was the Planetary Hour Lord – and Mercury is in its own sign of Virgo, where it also has exaltation and in a degree where it also has dignity by Face. Mercury is the most powerful planet in your chart. In the tenth House it is Angular and therefore gains more dignity, but it is retrograde. Whilst the latter takes away some dignity, Mercury is still way in front of the rest. Your task is to overcome the retrograde (and therefore inward looking) nature of Mercury and make it work for you in a career. This is not quite as difficult as it seems because Mercury also sextiles your Ascendant – you and Mercury should get on well together and Mercury will have a substantial influence on your career path, if you can get him to work for you. Mercury also trines your Part of Fortune – so it is important for success in life.
I'm surprised you say that Mercury is my strongest planet. It makes sense with Mercury in its own sign. I figured Libra and Scorpio are my strongest signs because they have the most planets in them. Therefore, Venus and Pluto, which are also in sign reception, would be my most important planets. Although the Virgo traits shine through my character, Libra and Scorpio traits are way more pervasive. But good to know that I have Mercury to help me out in my career.
The tenth House ruler is your Sun in the eleventh. Unfortunately the Sun is in Fall in Libra, so what creativity you have may be difficult to channel into a career without much effort. Mercury in the tenth also rules the eleventh, so these two Houses should be strongly linked. The eleventh is usually associated with friends, politics, associations and hopes and aspirations. So you could have a career in any of these areas, especially where Mercurial skills are required – writing, communicating, analysing, speech writing for politicians, etc. Traditionally the eleventh was the House of the King’s ministers – associated with the Treasury and Public Service. So you might also have considered a career as a public servant, using those Mercurial skills as an accountant. I suspect that your Libran Sun would not be too happy being an Accountant unless it was for an association or political organisation which brought you friendship and an ability to harmonise with the world.
Interesting.
Looking at income from employment, your second House is ruled by Jupiter. With Sagittarius on the cusp you would hope that this is a sign of money ‘growing’ and you getting better off. Jupiter unfortunately is retrograde and in the Gemini, the sign of its detriment. It is angular though and in the seventh House may indicate money coming from partnerships, perhaps unconnected with your employment. It also trines your Sun, so this would bring some good luck to your creative expression (though I fear not an awful lot of luck given its debility).
Security is not strongly stressed in your chart. Apart from Mercury all the other personal planets plus Jupiter and Saturn are not strong. Your ninth House of long journeys is ruled by the Moon, which may suggest much travel, possible in phases of a lot of travel and then some stability. If so this can make a career difficult – unless you are working for the government, which comes back to the role of Mercury again.
Previous two paragraphs are a bummer. Good to know.
I suspect that you would just love to use that translated light from Sun to Neptune to make a career in the mystical side of life. The opportunity is there, as long as you don’t let the self-deluding side of Neptune take control. Neptune also trines your Part of Fortune ruler, Saturn and Saturn is in your ninth House of travel (both physical and spiritual) and your Part of Fortune is in your second, of resources and money. The opportunity is there, but if you take it, you are shifting focus from the strong Mercury to a series of weak (including Saturn) planets, so success is by no means guaranteed. Saturn being the planet of limitation and in its detriment, suggests that the ‘Fortune’ may not be wonderful – but then (back to Neptune) we can only dream.
Well, it's all good to know.
Edited to add:
I've just been reading Christian Astrology by William Lilly in relation to careers.
Two things of note, one of which I had considered but not taken up. The Ascendant ruler is in Libra and the ruler of the tenth is in Libra. Now Mars is in detriment in Libra and the Sun in Fall, so I glossed over the Libra connection. However, as Mars is in mutual reception with Venus (in detriment in Scorpio), the Libra connection should perhaps be considered. This would suggest that you may well enjoy music or poetry and with Mercury in the tenth that might suggest you may well want to write music or poetry. The Libra planets are unfortunately weak, so I'm not sure that would be a viable career, rather than something shared between friends - Venus is in the twelfth and Libra is on the cusp of the twelfth, so this may well be something that is more private than public (in the sense of a career).
Secondly, returning to Mercury in Virgo, as well as the careers of Secretary, School teacher, Accountant, Stationer or Printer, Lilly also adds the careers of "an excellent politician, a good ASTROLOGER, and of a divining soul".
So Mercury stands you in good stead in Astrology and divination - go with Mercury
You might be on to something with the possible astrology route.
Thank you again for spending the time to write an excellent analysis of my chart to help me with my career choices. It's good to get a different perspective.
Regards,
Mystic Chris
