Career Choice Report for Albert Einstein

INTRODUCTION

This section reviews some of the technical aspects of astrology used to generate this report. If you wish to go directly to your personalized interpretations, skip this section and return to it at a later time. The personal information begins on page 5.

This report interprets your birth chart from the point of view of career factors in the horoscope. The material is drawn from four sources: (1) the astrological literature, (2) Carl Jung's writings on psychological types, (3) scientific research on vocation and the planets (especially the work of French statistician Michel Gauquelin), and (4) the author's experience as an astrologer over many years.

Many of the interpretations assume that you know your birth time accurately within a few minutes. If you are uncertain of the exact time, you can either cast a chart for SUNRISE of your date and place of birth or choose the UNKNOWN birth time feature of the program. The sunrise chart provides an informative general report for anyone born on the same date and in the same place on earth and offers a valuable perspective on vocational issues. Clicking on the Unknown time button calculates the Moon and planets for Noon for the place of birth, but places them in a solar houses chartwheel. The unknown time report omits interpretations for time-sensitive points.

This material is based on large statistical samples. Most people find that about 80% of the interpretations fit them closely whereas about 20% appear less applicable. If contradictory traits appear in the report, it is likely that both traits are aspects of your personality, but they are in conflict or vie with each other for expression. Astrology affords one of many perspectives on career potential. You should weigh the contents of this report with other sources of information such as your school record, job experience, vocational testing, your own sense of your likes and dislikes, and input from people who know you well. Astrology can guide you by suggesting options, but you alone have the ultimate responsibility to decide on a career path.

The birth chart outlines your potentials -- what you may become depending on how you develop your talents and confront your challenges and liabilities. It also helps you to identify your essential needs and chief motivations. The chart can both validate what you know of yourself and suggest further possibilities. It is up to each of us to weigh these factors in deciding on a career path that will be satisfying and promote personal growth. There are many paths open to each of us; our final destination depends on the choices we make along the way.

The natal horoscope taken in its entirety is a symbol of the person as a whole. Jung called this type of symbol a mandala. The signs of the zodiac represent twelve basic needs (and their corresponding challenges) that must be met in the course of human development. A particular planet can occupy any of the twelve signs and thus has available twelve different modes (signs) for expressing its fundamental planetary drive or energy.

The houses of the horoscope symbolize the twelve broad areas of life where we seek to fulfill our basic needs. The planets signify the fundamental urges, drives, energies, or functions of the human personality. Each planet occupies a particular sign and a particular house. In addition, the planets make connections among themselves (the aspects) that clarify how these energies connect with each other. Soft aspects (sextiles, trines, and conjunctions of harmonious planets) show natural abilities and things that come our way easily without much toil. Hard aspects (squares, oppositions, and conjunctions of inharmonious planets) show challenges and talents that require work to develop but that may lead to significant achievements.

In vocational astrology the second, sixth, and tenth houses are the most important. The second house indicates what resources (talents, values, money, and assets) are at our disposal for developing our self-worth and making a living. The sixth house symbolizes the work environment, our co-workers, and the type of day-to-day labor involved. The tenth house is the quintessential house of career and shows where we can become successful and achieve recognition in the eyes of the world. Pay careful attention to the second, sixth, and tenth houses when reading this report. Consider the signs on their cusps, the planets ruling those signs, and the planets within those houses.

Also consider the strengths and weaknesses of this type of information. A computer-generated interpretation can only list and describe the individual astrological factors in your chart, but it cannot synthesize them into a coherent story. You will need to put everything together into a meaningful whole that best fits your life experience and personal development. At some point, you may wish to consult a professional astrologer for further insight into your birth map.

An important key is to pay close attention to any themes that come up repeatedly in the report. Such recurring themes represent significant needs that must be met for you to have a satisfying career. In addition, because the planet Saturn is so closely linked to what we do in the world, it is especially useful to study the information about Saturn in your chart. In several places, there are lists of various occupations taken from the astrological literature. These job lists should be understood merely as illustrations of general principles rather than as specific recommendations of a career to pursue. It is not possible to pinpoint a single specific vocational choice in a horoscope.

Regarding the Gauquelin research, the author has found that Gauquelin's findings about the meanings of planets in high intensity zones generalize to planets that are emphasized in other ways, according to the rules of traditional astrology.

Planets in Signs and Houses

Cancer Ascendant

Cardinal, Water, Yin

Keywords: nurturing, intuitive, sensitive, protective, tenacious, imaginative, musical, conservative, cautious, frugal, security-conscious, moody, family-oriented.

With Cancer rising, you tend to be a bit on the quiet side and may not be sufficiently assertive when it comes to getting your needs met. You are unlikely to want to take charge and instead may prefer to let someone else deal with other people or manage a situation. You generally prefer a more indirect, behind the scenes approach. You enjoy taking on challenges and generating new ideas, but you may be a little weak on the follow-through. You work well in a crisis or under pressure and prefer to have the freedom to pursue your own interests. The Water element gives you good intuition, emotional sensitivity, and a desire to heal or otherwise take care of others. Because of your moodiness, you may prefer to work by yourself in a quiet setting.

Key phrases for Cancer are "I feel," "I nurture," and "I protect." People with Cancer here often gravitate toward occupations in which they can emphatically attend to the needs of others by providing some sort of product or service. Cancer is a sign connected with mother, home, country, and domestic issues; and there is often a close link to one's family in career matters. You may have a knack for understanding the moods and tastes of the general public. You feel a strong need to derive emotional satisfaction from your work by being part of a supportive and nurturing unit. Cancer is a tenacious sign and you are likely to show great determination in pursuing your career goals. In afflicted charts, career setbacks may be due to disregard for tradition and family values, severing family ties, sexual indiscretion, or excessive emotionality.

Occupations found among people with a prominent Cancer include: health care (e.g., nursing, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, social work), the humanities, teaching, politics (serving the needs of the country), banking, show business, publishing, the restaurant industry (chefs, caterers, restaurateurs), real estate, commerce, and home construction. Musicians, poets, and dancers frequently have a Cancer Ascendant. It also occurs in the charts of authors of cookbooks, fix-it-yourself books, textbooks, and children's books. Novelists and playwrights with a prominent Cancer produce works that reveal great psychological understanding. Cancer may also suggest work in plumbing, shopkeeping, the hotel or food business, laundry work, or market gardening. Cancer is a symbol of the oceans, and the occupation may involve dealings with liquids, the use of water, or the sea. An interest in mysticism, psychic phenomena, and the occult is often present.

Some notable personalities with Cancer rising include Johann Sebastian Bach, Helena Blavatsky, Barbara Bush, Cher, Robert De Niro, Albert Einstein, Judy Garland, Bill Gates, Saddam Hussein, Jessye Norman, Rudolph Nureyev, Julia Roberts, William Shakespeare, and Leo Tolstoy.

The sign, house, and aspects of the Moon, which rules Cancer, will give further clues about your self-assertive drives. The same holds true of the decan ruler(s) below.

SECOND DECAN: Your Ascendant lies between 10 and 20 degrees of Cancer. Hence, your sense of identity also comes under the influence of the second decan of Cancer, which is governed by SCORPIO, PLUTO, MARS, and the Chaldean ruler MERCURY. You are good with your hands and quick on your feet. There is often tremendous ambition, determination, and a fair amount of obstinacy. You are likely to be interested in secrets, mystery, clandestine affairs, spirituality, and the deeper meaning of life. The combination of Mercury with Mars/Pluto in this water sign produces many fine athletes, dancers, singers, musicians, physicians, and researchers. Some well-known people with this decan rising include Dave Brubeck, Robert De Niro, Albert Einstein, Judy Garland, Mitch Gaylord, Leona Helmsley, Jim Henson, Billy Joel, Joe Louis, Oliver North, Rudolph Nureyev, Ross Perot, Diana Rigg, Richard Strauss, and Vanna White.

Sun in Pisces

The Sun symbolizes our core identity and basic life energy. For us to feel authentic, our careers must allow for expression of our Sun sign's creativity and will to be.

Keywords: sensitive, intuitive, creative, imaginative, musical, artistic, poetic, caring, healing, self-sacrificing, humanitarian, spiritual, private, escapist, fond of solitude.

Pisces, the twin Fish swimming in opposite directions, is a sign that is kind, adaptable, sensitive, sympathetic, peaceable, and highly intuitive. Neptune, the modern ruler of Pisces, is god of the boundless and transcendental seas. Pisceans are often philosophical, otherworldly, and imaginative. Pisces is often referred to as the sign of poets, artists, musicians, dreamers, psychics, and mystics. Many Pisceans are a bit absent-minded and inattentive. They are drawn to careers that enable them to make use of their rich fantasy lives or to explore alternate states of mind. They enjoy dealing with the unseen, mythological, or hidden aspects of reality; and they have a greater than average inclination to experiment with mind-altering methods or substances. Some go in search of mystical or spiritual experiences.

In a statistical survey of sun signs by Paul Field (1964), the largest number of prominent people in Who's Who were born under Pisces (with Capricorn in second place). Such prominence may be due to the traditional rulership of Pisces by expansive and entrepreneurial Jupiter, the king of Mount Olympus. In this same survey, Pisces produced many musicians, sea captains, and U.S. Senators and Representatives. The Piscean sensitivity to collective desires can make them popular politicians, entertainers, performers, models, musicians, or writers. Famous Pisceans include Sidney Poitier, Ansel Adams, Elizabeth Taylor, Albert Einstein, Meher Baba, John Steinbeck, George Washington, Senator Edward Kennedy, Frederick Chopin, George Harrison, Jackie Gleason, Darryl Strawberry, Rudolph Nureyev, Spike Lee, Rob Lowe, and male model Fabio.

Typical Piscean interests that may lead to career choices include medicine, hospital or prison work, hypnosis, pharmacology, dreams, mythology, psychology, the unconscious, spirituality, meditation, and theorizing on a grand scale. Many Pisceans desire to render some type of service and may become nurses, doctors, teachers, social workers, therapists, anesthesiologists, radiologists, hypnotists, clergy, or restaurateurs. Others find themselves working in the arts, photography, dance, music, theater, travel, education, creative writing, or the occult. Pisces is a private sign that often prefers to work alone, in secrecy, or behind the scenes. Some become librarians, publishers, laboratory researchers, museum workers, or private investigators. Pisces is also linked to occupations dealing with water, fluids, alcohol, drugs, narcotics, chemicals, oils, and the oceans. Pisceans are able to sense what the public desires and can do well in fashion, advertising, acting, filmmaking, and other pursuits that depend on public taste.

Further clues to understanding your basic motivations can be found by studying the house, sign, and aspects of Pisces rulers Jupiter and Neptune. The same holds true for the decan ruler(s) described below.

THIRD DECAN: Your Sun lies between 20 and 30 degrees of Pisces (approximately March 11 - 20), your sense of identity and purpose in life come under the influence of the third decan of Pisces, which is governed by SCORPIO, PLUTO, and Chaldean ruler MARS. The Scorpionic influence often indicates a desire to penetrate, to cut away superficial layers, and to gain power and control. You may have an interest in medicine, surgery, research, psychoanalysis, the military, police work, investigation, psychic phenomena, human sexuality, chemistry, or work that involves iron, fire, explosives, or the use of weapons or instruments. You are fond of competition, challenge, and vigorous physical activity. Athletic talent is often present. Renaissance artist Michelangelo had natal Sun at 24 of Pisces as did Nazi doctor Josef Mengele who abused his knowledge and power in a Scorpionic way to torture the innocent. Other members of this decan include Rudolf Nureyev, Edward Albee, Albert Einstein, Walter Annenberg, Billy Crystal, Judd Hirsch, Kurt Russell, Liza Minnelli, Bruce Willis, Spike Lee, Jessica Lange, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, psychic Edgar Cayce, and Presidents Andrew Jackson and James Madison.

Sun in the First House

The Sun represents our individuality, willpower, and sense of self. The house occupied by the Sun reveals areas where we can feel authentic and express who we truly are.

A first house Sun indicates a person who knows his or her own mind and is rather self-sufficient. You project a great deal of self-confidence and are likely to have a commanding presence. This is usually a sign of a strong physical constitution and general good health. You are good at asserting your will and getting your needs met. There is often leadership ability and a natural feel for the use of power and authority. Most likely you would prefer to be your own boss or to work in a job where you have a great deal of freedom to do your own thing. You are probably courageous, daring, and outspoken. This would be an excellent position for an actor, politician, or entertainer.

Moon in Sagittarius

The Moon represents our feelings, emotions, capacity for empathy, psychological reactions, and habitual or subconscious patterning. It signifies our need for security and our mothering instincts -- how we feel about, nurture, and care for one another.

A Sagittarius Moon suggests that your somewhat shy exterior conceals a lively, energetic, optimistic, sociable, and outgoing personality. You have a strong sense of personal independence and an adventuresome spirit. There is often athletic ability and a fondness for exercise, physical activity, excitement, competition, sports, swimming, and the outdoors. A liking for animals and an enjoyment of travel are common. You may be interested in teaching, guidance counseling, higher education, the law, science, philosophy, religion, preaching, travel, foreign cultures, publishing, journalism, or broadcasting.

You are likely to be quite intuitive and visionary, with a natural ability to forecast or anticipate future trends. Your willingness to gamble or take risks may lead you to a career associated with investing, sales, gambling, speculation, the stock market, politics, big business, or entrepreneurial ventures. Artists, writers, musicians, philosophers, and creative thinkers with this placement often produce emotionally stirring works of deep spiritual significance. Personal contact with the mentally ill sometimes gives an interest in psychiatry, psychology, social work, or any of the mental health professions.

Moon in the Tenth House

With the Moon in tenth house or closely aspecting the Midheaven, you feel a need to make emotional contact with others, to meet some public need, and to achieve recognition or standing in the community. There is often an inner desire for prestige, popularity, power, status, and authority. Your ability to comprehend other people's feelings can lead to success in fields such as politics, marketing, psychotherapy, nursing, social work, education, catering, acting, entertaining, popular writing, sales, and public relations. Your intuitive and empathic understanding can make you a fine counselor, healer, psychologist, teacher, psychic, or astrologer. You have an intuitive feel for what the public needs or desires.

The Moon is also connected with nourishment, the home, nurturing, cooking, farming, gardening, milk products, shopkeeping, domestic services, real estate, the land, property, travel, and goods or services that appeal especially to women. You have a fine sense of humor and may even have comedic talent. An appreciation of music is also common. The Gauquelin research found that a prominent Moon was frequent in the charts of authors and politicians, but was uncommon in the charts of sports champions.

Through its rulership of the sign Cancer, the Moon may indicate a career that caters to public tastes, meets basic human needs, or provides domestic products or services (food, water, oil, gas, shelter, clothing, medications, etc.). You appreciate the value of laying firm foundations and have a strong sense of family, history, and tradition. Whatever work you do, you are likely to find yourself taking care of others or looking after someone or something. The house with the sign Cancer on its cusp will give further clues to a potential vocation.

Mercury in Aries

Mercury is the messenger of the gods. This first planet from the Sun represents our mind and thinking process -- how we learn, analyze, reason, and communicate. It also reveals how we use our hands, move our bodies, and explore our surroundings.

Mercury in fiery Aries symbolizes an intellectual warrior with an alert, incisive, and pioneering intellect. You are likely to be clever and spontaneous in thought, and forceful and spirited in speech. Opponents cower before your capacity for debate, competition, and repartee. Your capacity for strategic thinking serves you well in any type of competitive situation. Athletes with the placement have great manual dexterity, agility, and lightning-fast reflexes. Guitarists and other musical instrumentalists often have this placement. You may enjoy learning about Aries-ruled matters such as battles, weapons, adventure, exploration, and so on. Sometimes your mind is so fast that you make snap judgments or jump impatiently from topic to topic. You may need to learn to concentrate better and to stick with a subject long enough to master it.

Mercury in the Second House

The second house reflects your talents and potential sources of income. Mercury, the messenger of the gods, is associated with speech, movement, travel, flight, language, education, young people, communications, and commerce. You could be constantly on the go as an agent or as a field representative of a company. Your talent for communicating, teaching, writing, editing, speaking, lecturing, or singing may produce financial gain. There is usually good business acumen. Your work could involve travel, documentation, information gathering, reporting, literature, journalism, computers, analysis, specialized knowledge, training, linguistics, or other Mercurial pursuits. Occupations involving children or young people may be profitable. Mercury is also connected with health, hygiene, medicine, alchemy, divination, and the magical arts. An interest in the talking therapies or in learning about occult or mystical traditions would not be usual with the placement.

Venus in Aries

Venus is the goddess of love. This second planet from the Sun rules our affections, values, enjoyments, and how we relate to others. Venus also governs art, beauty, adornment, pleasure, fun, and our sense of appreciation of the finer things in life.

With Venus in Aries, you tend to be assertive but charming in going after what you desire. Your pleasant manner of putting yourself forward can lead to success in promotions or sales. You enjoy discovery, invention, exploration, challenge, and exercising your initiative in pioneering ways. You value your own opinions and generally prefer to have things done your own way. It is, however, sometimes difficult for you to be fair in respecting the needs and wishes of others.

Venus in the Second House

A second house Venus indicates good taste and a fondness for the finer things in life. You appreciate the value of things and enjoy spending money of material possessions. Your work may involve producing something of beauty or providing goods and services that give sensual pleasure. Venus here can also indicate income derived from working with clients or students, often in an advisory or counseling capacity. Gains may come from art, photography, fashion, music, song, dance, film, theater, or similar creative pursuits. Through its rulership of Libra, Venus may indicate an occupation related to law, mediation, arbitration, or partnership matters. Through its rulership of Taurus, Venus may suggest a talent for investing or financial management. Products or activities that appeal especially to women may be sources of income.

Mars in Capricorn

Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, is the ancient god of war. Mars represents our libido, initiative, and physical energy. The sign and house placement of Mars reveal how and where we express our passion, assert ourselves, and expend our energy.

You are a self-motivated, serious, and rapid worker who is good at starting things and working under pressure. Your common sense, practical attitude, and problem solving abilities make you a natural for work in organization or management. You have great ambition and are capable of directing tremendous energy into pursuing your goals. There may be mechanical ability, an aptitude for engineering, or skill at the use of tools or instruments. You are likely to possess financial acumen and to have a good head for business. You could succeed at any type of work that requires disciplined systematic effort toward achieving a tangible result.

Mars in the Eleventh House

An eleventh house Mars suggests that you direct a great deal of energy into friendships and social contacts. There is often a capacity for objective reasoning and a knack for science, computers, electronics, mathematics, or technical subjects. Others look to you for advice and counsel, and some with this placement go into fields like psychiatry, teaching, education, or social work. You may be skilled at repair, construction, carpentry, mechanics, or the maintenance and restoration of objects or gadgets.

Jupiter in Aquarius

Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is the king of Mount Olympus and the most benefic of all the planets. Jupiter represents expansion, wisdom, the higher mind, and the broadening of horizons. The sign and house placements of Jupiter show how and where we encounter good fortune and continue to grow in body, mind, and spirit.

Jupiter in Aquarius increases your intuition, originality, and altruism, and sensitivity to the needs of others. Your career benefits through the activity of sincere friends. The enhanced objectivity of Aquarius often manifests as political astuteness or as a talent for technology, computers, mechanics, engineering, research, or one of the sciences. You like to be on the cutting edge of whatever interests you. This position is common in the charts of successful physicians, teachers, lecturers, philanthropists, and theoreticians.

Jupiter in the Twelfth House

A twelfth house Jupiter indicates keen intuition, a vivid imagination, and a capacity for creative writing or other forms of artistic expression. There is often an abiding interest in psychological and spiritual matters. Success may come through work with the disadvantaged, the mentally ill, or with those who are confined to hospitals, prisons, or institutions. You have a genuine desire to assist other people and are likely to be sensitive, empathic, artistic, reflective, and possibly psychic. Your work may involve you with dreams, fantasy, poetry, art, fashion, illusion, storytelling, hypnosis, meditation, divination, occult studies, unconscious processes, or philanthropic work. You may profit through matters related to oils, gases, pharmaceuticals, alcohol, drugs, medications, chemicals, or matters related to the feet. Some with this position do well at work connected to hospitals, asylums, prisons, monasteries, nursing homes, libraries, universities, museums, or other places of seclusion, quiet reflection, or confinement.

Saturn in Aries

Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, is the most distant planet that can be seen by the naked eye. It marks the outer limits of the visible solar system and has been called at various times the Cosmic Teacher, Father Time, and the Grim Reaper. Saturn symbolizes limitations, hardships, boundaries, fears, and the lessons we must learn. Like all good teachers, Saturn rewards hard work, discipline, and persistent effort.

Saturn in Aries increases your ambition and determination to succeed. You are likely to be serious, responsible, and dedicated to your work. You were probably forced by the circumstances of your life to become resourceful and self-reliant. Your self-discipline and persistence can make you a pioneer in your field. The main problem with this position is a tendency to be a bit too self-centered and headstrong.

Saturn in the Second House

A second house Saturn indicates that you are ambitious and willing to work hard to achieve success. You value status, authority, tradition, and history. You are likely to be conservative and responsible about finances. Your managerial and administrative ability can lead to a career in government, business, construction, or management. There may also be a talent for matters that require organization and disciplined thought such as teaching, engineering, mathematics, computer programming, or the sciences.

Uranus in Virgo

Uranus in Virgo marks a generation with unique and progressive ideas about health care, nutrition, hygiene, and life on the job.

Uranus in the Seventh House

Uranus is the first planet beyond Saturn's orbit and outside the boundary of the visible solar system. It symbolizes breaking through barriers via originality, inventiveness, and progressive ideas. Uranus reveals where we can express our novelty and uniqueness.

Your desire for personal freedom and independence can make it difficult for you to work closely with a partner. You are drawn to people who are stimulating, unusual, or highly creative. You may enjoy a career that allows you to have friendly but not too intimate relationships with other people (e.g., chef, educator, pilot, priest, counselor, astrologer, consultant, etc.).

Neptune in Taurus

Neptune in Taurus produces many creative and idealistic scientists, musicians, and artists. There is often a fascination with theorizing about the universe or about the inner world of psyche and spirit. A desire to put imagination to practical uses or to improve the well-being of the human body and our natural resources is not uncommon.

Neptune in the Third House

Neptune is the ancient god of the oceans, which are fluid, without form, and boundless. It dissolves the limitations set up by Saturn. This planet symbolizes all that is cloudy, nebulous, dreamlike, mystical, or illusory. Neptune represents compassion, intuition, empathy, sacrifice, and spiritual development. The placement of Neptune reveals where we may care for others, pursue our ideals, and be at one with the universe.

A third house Neptune indicates a highly intuitive mind and a keen imagination. There is often a talent for creative writing and an interest in occult, otherworldly, mysterious, psychic, transcendental, or spiritual matters. You may enjoy travel abroad or activities related to water or the sea. A fondness for art, literature, poetry, dance, or any form of graceful movement is also common. Many with this position enjoy learning about dreams, hypnosis, intuition, the unconscious, and the workings of the human mind.

If Neptune forms any aspect with Saturn, you are likely to have considerable talent for scientific or medical work. In afflicted charts, a third house Neptune can indicate nebulous, strange, or delusional thinking that may lead to unsettling behavior which is potentially harmful to self or others.

Pluto in Taurus

Pluto in Taurus often produces individuals with a special talent for education, science, building, architecture, healing the body and mind, issues of fertility or birth control, or the management of our natural resources.

Pluto in the Third House

Pluto is the ancient god of the underworld who ruled the realm of death and darkness. It represents immense power, transformation, radical change, renewal, and rebirth. The placement of Pluto reveals where we express our needs for control and regeneration.

A third house Pluto suggests excellent verbal skills and intellectual abilities. This placement occurs in the charts of persuasive communicators who are able to influence the masses. Your penetrating mind makes you a good student who is quick to learn and able to grasp difficult material. There is often a talent for scientific, mathematical, legal, or other forms of abstract thinking. You are highly intuitive and may excel at investigation and research. You may also enjoy psychology or other subjects that delve into the mysterious or unseen levels of reality. Some with this placement have a special knack for finance and investing.

Pisces Midheaven

Our vocation is shown by the tenth house, the sign and decan of its cusp (which is the Midheaven or MC in most house systems), the ruler(s) of the tenth, any planets therein, and any aspects involving tenth house planets, the tenth house ruler(s), or the MC.

Key phrases for Pisces include "I believe," "I imagine," and "I transcend." People with a Pisces Midheaven are highly intuitive and often have a colorful, dramatic flair. They gravitate toward occupations with an artistic, spiritual, psychological, imaginative, illusory, or charitable dimension. There is an ability to empathize and connect emotionally with others and a knack for sensing public moods and anticipating future trends. Such traits may allow you to do well at politics, advertising, journalism, investing, stock trading, forecasting, or public relations. A key Piscean motivation is to understand the dance of the universe on a grand scale.

Pisces on the Midheaven suggests a career that makes use of your emotional sensitivity, adaptability, imaginative creativity, and curiosity about unseen or inner dimensions of reality. A strong desire to serve humanity is typical and may draw you to work in religion, government, medicine, childcare, or the helping professions. In afflicted charts, career setbacks may be due to emotional instability, problems with drugs or alcohol, dishonesty, deceit, scandalous behavior, or parasitic relationships.

Some occupations signified by this placement include entertainer, actor, poet, dramatist, musician, dancer, artist, sculptor, jewelry maker, fashion designer, creative writer, painter, and filmmaker. There is often an interest in psychology, healing, medicine, psychiatry, psychotherapy, nursing, veterinary medicine, mysticism, spiritual counseling, philanthropic work, civil rights, or social justice. The sign of the Fishes may lead to a job in which you bring relief to the abused, infirm, downtrodden, oppressed, or disadvantaged. Pisces is also fascinated with dreams, hypnosis, meditation, past life regression, prayer, psychic phenomena, divination, the occult, and spirituality.

You may find yourself employed in a hospital, prison, university, library, museum, or other place of seclusion or confinement. Pisces is connected (through Neptune) with oil, liquids, paint, alcohol, drugs, pharmaceuticals, gases, perfumes, chemicals, and anything that alters the mind or changes our perception of reality. Pisces also governs the feet and may indicate an occupation that involves dance, running, footwear, or other matters related to the feet. Neptune, the modern ruler of Pisces, was the god of the oceans, and many with this placement have an interest in ships, travel, sailing, fishing, the navy, storms, weather, and matters connected with the sea.

The sign, house, and aspects of Jupiter and Neptune, which co-rule Pisces, will give further clues about career potentials in your chart. The same holds true for the decan ruler(s) described below.

SECOND DECAN: Because your Midheaven lies between 10 and 20 degrees of Pisces, your career comes under the influence of the second decan of Pisces, which is governed by CANCER, the MOON, and Chaldean ruler JUPITER. The Cancer emphasis suggests a career in which you can nurture, counsel, or care for others. Your compassion and emotional sensitivity are key assets in your work.

North Node in Aquarius

The Moon's North Node reveals areas of potential for growth.

In Aquarius, the Moon's North Node advises you to develop your originality, inventiveness, and capacity for detached and objective reasoning. A talent for electronics, engineering, mechanics, computers, astronomy, modern science, or technology is sometimes indicated; and you probably enjoy teaching what you have learned to others. You benefit by honoring your desire to be independent and to pursue your humanitarian ideals. You must learn to develop your self-esteem, to adopt a more realistic appraisal of those in authority, and to be less dependent on the approval and admiration of others.

North Node in the Twelfth House

In the twelfth house, the Moon's Node suggests that you develop your capacities for empathy and compassion, creative imagination, rendering service, and alleviating the suffering of your fellow human beings. You may be drawn to work related to medicine, psychology, charity, unconscious processes, dreams, hypnosis, meditation, psychotherapy, or any endeavor that involves emotional or spiritual healing. There is often a talent for music, singing, poetry, creative writing, acting, painting, sculpting, glass blowing, or other forms of artistic expression. You may enjoy working with those confined to institutions such as hospitals, prisons, shelters, nursing homes, or mental health centers. It is important for you to attend to your spiritual life.

Planets in Aspect

Moon square Midheaven (Strength: 5.31)

With the Moon closely aspecting the Midheaven, you feel a need to make emotional contact with others or to meet some public need as part of your career. You are likely to be popular and may achieve public recognition. Your ability to comprehend other people's feelings can lead to success in fields as varied as politics, psychotherapy, nursing, social work, education, catering, acting, entertaining, popular writing, sales, and public relations. Your empathic and intuitive understanding can make you a fine counselor, healer, psychologist, teacher, psychic, or astrologer. The Moon is also connected with food and drink, shelter, nurturing, childcare, cooking, farming, gardening, milk products, shopkeeping, domestic services, real estate, the land, property, travel, and goods or services that appeal especially to women. You have a good sense of humor and may even have comedic talent. An appreciation of music is also common.

The Gauquelin research found that a prominent Moon was frequent in the charts of authors and politicians but was uncommon in the charts of sports champions. Through its rulership of the sign Cancer, the Moon may indicate a career that caters to public tastes or provides domestic products or services. Through its connection with the Fourth House, the Moon can indicate an interest in meteorology, geology, archeology, ecology, and the study of the earth. You appreciate the value of laying firm foundations and have a strong sense of family, history, and tradition. Whatever work you do, you are likely to find yourself taking care of others or looking after someone or something.

Mercury conjunct Saturn (Strength: 4.97)

Mercury/Saturn aspects indicate intellectual discipline, a serious outlook, good powers of concentration, and a knack for logical reasoning. You don't take things for granted, and you generally need empirical evidence to overcome your native skepticism. Not content with superficial understanding, you prefer to study subjects in depth. Some with this aspect prefer to work alone or in a quiet setting. Mathematical ability and a knack for working with figures are often present. Your work habits are careful, tenacious, methodical, and industrious. You are probably quite organized, hard working, and proficient at dealing with rules, regulations, fine points, and details. Writers with this aspect are typically masters of grammar and style. There is frequently great ambition, self-control, and a willingness to labor hard and long to achieve your goals. Others view you as honest, prudent, diligent, and cautious. This aspect is common in the charts of teachers, military leaders, and politicians.

If this conjunction forms stressful aspects with other planets, it can indicate lack of self-confidence, unwillingness to admit mistakes, and a proneness to depression. Children may have problems learning and difficulties in school. You may suffer hardships in your life that lead you to become cunning, bitter, cynical, callous, narrow-minded, or hard-hearted toward others. Shyness or social awkwardness is often present, and the tension associated with the aspect commonly manifests as acid indigestion.

Moon trine Venus (Strength: 4.53)

Moon/Venus contacts indicate popularity, optimism, refinement, and elegance. They lend balance, steadiness, and perspective to your thinking. Your ability to remain calm and collected under pressure can lead to success as a politician, military leader, statesman, filmmaker, entertainer, or athlete. You do well in adversarial or competitive situations because you keep your cool and are able to make the right move at the right time. Your sense of balance, form, and harmony favors any kind of musical or artistic pursuit. This is an excellent aspect for actors and performers whose livelihood depends on pleasing the public. You have a knack for perceiving inter-relationships and abstract connections, which may lead to an interest in mathematics, physics, computer programming, philosophy, musical composition, chess, or similar intellectual pursuits. There is often considerable literary talent.

Mars trine Pluto (Strength: 3.80)

Mars/Pluto aspects are emotionally intense combinations that increase your assertiveness, willpower, physical energy, and sexual drive. You are likely to be adventurous, passionate, and resolute in pursuing what you desire. Your intense need to win at almost any cost can get you into hot water. Dealing with some type of danger may be an aspect of your work. You have a strong interest in uncovering hidden matters and penetrating beneath the surface to understand how things work. Healing ability is often present. An interest in weapons or explosives may be present.

Sun sextile Pluto (Strength: 3.77)

The Sun aspecting Pluto indicates great emotional intensity, the courage of your convictions, and the determination to succeed or assume a position of authority. Pluto is lord of the underworld, and the life becomes a series of deaths and rebirths, at least on a psychological level. This is a powerful aspect because it links your sense of self, represented by the Sun, with Pluto's capacity for both radical transformation and massive destruction. Your work may involve you with matters related to birth, death, sex, power, control, elimination, or rejuvenation. You are able to get to the root of things, and you could do well as a researcher, counselor, or psychotherapist. An interest in medicine and healing is also common. Psychic ability is sometimes indicated.

Sun/Pluto aspects indicate a strong desire to probe beneath the surface in search of profound understanding. Many with this aspect are drawn to a type of work that involves crisis situations that force them to confront the darker side of human nature. A talent for penetrating research can lead to success in fields such as psychology, human sexuality, psychoanalysis, scientific research, detective work, mining, surgery, or any endeavor that involves digging deeply into something. There is often an interest in science and in understanding atomic power and the workings of the universe.

Jupiter square Pluto (Strength: 3.24)

Jupiter stressfully aspecting Pluto increases your ambition, determination, and leadership. A desire for power and ability to influence others are frequently present. You are hard driving and can rise to a position of prominence in your field. There is often healing ability and an interest in working with those suffering from mental illness, abuse, oppression, or trauma. A knack for matters related to money and finance is common. You are able to organize and manage large projects, and you may have an interest in law, economics, languages, culture, and social reform. This aspect occurs regularly in the charts of individuals who have achieved unique musical, literary, psychological, philosophical, pedagogical, religious, or athletic accomplishments. There is often a fascination with matters that are secret, hidden, mysterious, paranormal, or occult. In afflicted charts, there is a risk of extreme, arrogant, rageful, compulsive or addictive behavior.

Mercury sextile North Node (Strength: 2.32)

You enjoy communicating with people and may have a talent for writing, journalism, lecturing, teaching, computers, programming, or any Mercury-ruled pursuit. This aspect is common in the charts of essayists, critics, editors, and others who love books and learning. Your work may also involve travel, movement, agility, manual dexterity, sales, commerce, frequent talking on the telephone, or being constantly on the go. Through Mercury's rulership of Virgo, this aspect can indicate an interest in health care or any of the various types of therapeutic endeavors.

Jupiter opposite Uranus (Strength: 2.21)

Stressful Jupiter/Uranus aspects indicate restlessness and erratic bursts of enthusiasm. You especially value your independence and civil liberties, and at times may be a bit outlandish, rebellious, outspoken, or iconoclastic. There is sometimes a tendency to take risks, go to extremes, adopt fanatical positions, or engage in off-the-wall behavior. You are likely to have an unconventional or libertarian approach to philosophy, politics, and religion. An interest in technology, computers, astrology, and New Age studies is common.

Pluto quintile Midheaven (Strength: 1.89)

Pluto closely aspecting the Midheaven often indicates a special talent or expertise that can bring you fame or recognition. You may rise to a position of leadership, prominence, power or authority, but you must guard against becoming too bossy or dictatorial. You are probably skilled at the use of force or power; and your career may involve Plutonian activities such as transformation, regeneration, healing, elimination, transmutation, or destruction. You are able to probe beneath the surface and bring hidden conditions to light. Examples of people with Pluto in this position include doctors, surgeons, competitive athletes, healers, crisis workers, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, chiropractors, refuse workers, miners, scientists who deal with bombs or atomic power, artists and poets who probe emotional depths, and those whose work involves them with the darker, sinister, or violent side of human nature (violence, abuse, rape, etc.).

Pluto gives great determination and a capacity for intense concentration in career matters. Through its rulership of Scorpio, Pluto may indicate an interest in occupations related to sex, death, joint finances, money management, the military, the secret service, the police, investigation, or detective work. Pluto is also linked to secrecy, hidden matters, mysticism, the occult, brewing, refrigeration, penetration, cutting, the meat trade, undertaking, mining, drilling for oil, and other Scorpionic activities. Your work may involve the generation or use of power, or the management of material resources. You do best when you pursue a career that passionately interests you and that allows scope for your emotional intensity and sensitivity to others.

Venus square Ascendant (Strength: 1.65)

The Gauquelin research did not find a correlation between Venus and success in any particular field. However, a strong Venus usually indicates good looks and a personality that is gentle, charming, friendly, sociable, poetic, and gracious. This peaceable facade sometimes masks a great deal of cunning in relationships. There is often diplomatic ability, a dislike of aggression, and willingness to compromise. Venus is linked to artistic, musical, and other forms of creative expression.

Sun sextile Mars (Strength: 1.58)

Sun/Mars aspects enhance your courage, assertiveness, leadership, decisiveness, independence, and love of power. You are a pioneer who seeks an exciting career that will allow expression of your natural enthusiasm, energy, entrepreneurial drive, and crusading spirit. When you stand up for your beliefs and values, you inspire others to follow your lead. You like being in charge and would probably feel stifled in a routine job or a subordinate position. You enjoy adventure and competition, and may be interested in Mars-related careers like the police, the military, surgery, medicine, sports, politics, debate, and so on. Mars rules adrenaline and testosterone, so you may be drawn to careers that involve an element of risk, danger, competition, conflict, or daring. The Rambo movie character would have this aspect in his chart.

Sun semi-square Neptune (Strength: 1.37)

Sun/Neptune aspects indicate an idealistic, visionary, sympathetic, and kindly nature. You are sensitive and compassionate, and open to impressions from intangible levels of reality. There is concern for the plight of others and a genuine desire to be of assistance that can lead to a career in medicine, psychology, or another of the helping professions. Occupations involving education, service, charity, welfare, or social programs that foster the public good are not uncommon. A fondness for animals is often present. You have an active imagination and may have a talent for creative writing, poetry, music, dance, photography, film, drama, or for other forms of artistic expression. Some with this aspect are highly intuitive and evidence a strong interest in psychology, dreams, the unconscious, mysticism, theology, astrology, prediction, divination, spirituality, psychic phenomena, reincarnation, or the occult.

Stressful Sun/Neptune aspects suggest excessive emotionality, nebulous or paranoid thinking, and a lack of grounding in reality. Problems may arise because of escapism, abuse of substances, feelings of insecurity or inferiority, or a tendency to sacrifice your own well-being to please others. You may wish to take the easy way out or to accomplish great achievements without doing the requisite groundwork. These traits can make you an easy target for swindlers, con artists, and get-rich-quick schemes. An afflicted Neptune is also common in charts of individuals who have difficulties with their mental health and who may become involved in public scandals at some time in their lives. You must temper your idealism with prudence, choose associates carefully, avoid offering unsolicited advice, and use caution around drugs and alcohol. This Sun/Neptune energy can be channeled productively into serving the needs of others or working with those who are disabled, confined, or otherwise less fortunate than yourself.

Moon biquintile Neptune (Strength: 1.35)

Moon/Neptune contacts indicate idealism, emotional sensitivity, and a vivid imagination. Your keen intuition and accurate hunches assist you in making beneficial career moves. You may have musical, artistic, poetic, or literary talent. There is often an interest in the hidden aspects of reality, divination, spiritual matters, healing, alternative medicine, astrology, psychology, and the underlying or unconscious motivations of human beings. This aspect is common, for example, in the charts of psychiatrists and their patients. Your easy-going personality conceals a burning ambition to achieve something great or outstanding. You will need regular periods of respite, solitude, or meditation to regroup your forces as you seek to make your mark on the world. There may be a talent for film, acting, dance, fashion, sculpting, design, food preparation, speculative investing, legal or political strategizing, theoretical speculation, or other creative endeavors. A fondness for travel abroad is often present. In extreme cases, there is a tendency to engage in fanciful and impractical thinking that borders on self-delusion.

Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus (Strength: 1.29)

Venus aspecting Uranus increases your sensitivity and love of beauty. There is often an unusual, even eccentric, cast to your affections and emotional life. Your originality, inventiveness, and non-traditional interests are an important aspect of your work. There may be an interest in New Age topics or alternative methods of counseling or therapy. You are likely to be popular, witty, humorous, romantic, and charming -- but a bit excitable and restless. There is often a talent for the arts, music, literature, the theater, and the entertainment industry. If Mars is strong, you could do well working with metals in some way. A major risk of this aspect is a tendency to live on the wild side, especially in your love life. Sudden romantic attachments and subsequent breakups can distract you from your career path. You must choose your associates carefully and avoid taking reckless or foolish risks.

Stressful Venus/Uranus aspects tend to make you touchy, willful, stubborn, and high-strung. Some with this aspect develop emotional problems. You may persist in a wrong-headed or unreasonable course of action simply because you feel a need to do it your way out of some extreme notion about personal independence. You may be overly sensitive to rejection, and there is a risk of getting into difficulty because of an unconventional sexual life. Sudden disruptions in romance can interfere with the smooth progression of your career.

Neptune sextile Ascendant (Strength: 1.23)

With Neptune closely aspecting the Ascendant, you may be a master illusionist able to cast a spell over the masses. Others are likely to see you as attractive, alluring, or glamorous. You are attuned to hidden undercurrents and subtle nuances of meaning. There is often an interest in poetry, imagery, dreams, art, music, dance, literature, speculative theorizing, creative writing, mystery, magic, astrology, theology, and spiritual or occult subjects. Your career may involve filmmaking, photography, acting, singing, drama, stage performance, or other creative activities. Neptune is also connected with oil, gas, liquids, alcohol and drugs, chemicals, medicines, pharmaceuticals, long journeys, and the sea.

Many with this position seek to render some type of service to those who are ill, disadvantaged, or confined to hospitals or institutions. This is an excellent position for physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, hypnotists, priests, nuns, clergy, and others who desire to better the lot of humankind. You are highly intuitive and can use your accurate hunches to invest money wisely. Time spent in meditation or quiet contemplation is important to your well-being. A fondness for animals is often in evidence. In afflicted charts, this aspect cautions you to avoid any type of scandalous, deceptive, illicit, or destructive behavior.

Mercury inconjunct Uranus (Strength: 1.13)

The Mercury/Uranus quincunx often indicates a high degree of nervous tension. You will need to learn productive ways to cope with your anxiety. As Mercury rules the tongue, this stressful aspect suggests a tendency to speak too quickly or imprudently, a lack of discretion, or a brusque outspokenness. Such injudicious speech can lead to unpopularity and may provoke attacks against your character. The afflicted Uranus warns against getting yourself into hot water because of willfulness, vanity, conceit, self-exaltation, and wrong-headed behavior. You must resist the temptation to adopt foolish causes or to pursue your interests in a self-defeating manner. This aspect is common in the charts of musicians, psychiatrists, astrologers, astronomers, research scientists, theoreticians, engineers, mathematicians, computer specialists, and physicists. Your work may involve modern technology, innovative instruments, or novel modes of travel or communication.

Mars semi-square Midheaven (Strength: 1.09)

Mars closely aspecting the Midheaven suggests that a great deal of energy and enthusiasm is available for vocational matters. On the job, you prefer to make your own decisions and may want to be your own boss. Your initiative, pioneering spirit, and love of challenge are definite assets. You like to develop new ideas and initiate new products and services. There is usually leadership potential and an ability to inspire or motivate other people to action.

The Gauquelin research found a prominent Mars in the charts of soldiers, sports champions, scientists, physicians, and business leaders who started their own firms. It indicates stamina, courage, a capacity for hard work, and a desire to put decisions quickly into action. Mars may also indicate work that makes use of Mars-governed items such as iron, heat, fire, sharp instruments, tools, weapons, and mechanical devices.

Through its rulership of Aries, Mars may suggest a career that requires stamina, assertiveness, taking risks, confronting danger, or the potential use of force. There may be an interest in police or the armed forces, firefighting, government or politics, competitive sports, emergency medicine, crisis intervention, human resources, engineering, weapons development, prosecuting attorney, and similar pursuits. Your natural daring and love of excitement and adventure may lead to success in the world of finance, investing, sales, public relations, advertising, journalism, entrepreneurial ventures, or any field where you work under fire and need to make split-second decisions.

Through its rulership of Scorpio, Mars may indicate a career related to sex, death, rebirth, joint finances, penetration, cutting, investigation, elimination, transformation, mystery, or occult interests. If Mars is well aspected, you will be a persistent worker with a probing mind and a capacity for intense concentration. Scorpio likes to delve beneath the surface to understand and to foment radical changes. This placement favors medicine, surgery, acupuncture, psychology, psychoanalysis, chemistry, scientific research, sex therapy, and any of the healing professions. Other typical Scorpio occupations include mining, undertaking, banking, accounting, financial management, brewing, refuse collection, sewage maintenance, power generation, explosives, refrigeration, the meat trade, plumbing, and detective work. Psychic ability and a talent for divination are sometimes in evidence.

Saturn inconjunct Uranus (Strength: 0.10)

Saturn square Uranus indicates the potential for character growth that results from overcoming hardships, losses, and difficulties in your life. You may be a survivor who has had to cope with suffering and persevere in the face of obstacles. You are capable of original and objective reasoning, and there is often scientific or mathematical talent. Considerable leadership potential may be in evidence. There is usually great self-discipline and a strong sense of direction, self-will, and purpose in life. In your thinking, you struggle with a curious combination of traditional values (Saturn) and progressive or revolutionary ideas (Uranus). This aspect is common in the charts of healers, chiropractors, nurses, psychiatrists, and therapists. It can also indicate a talent for musical composition or an interest in radio, journalism, or broadcasting. Under stress you are prone to nervous tension and a risk of accidents. In extreme cases, there may be a certain arrogance and a tendency to overthrow the existing order or to take the law into your own hands.

Pluto semi-square Ascendant (Strength: 0.09)

You are an emotionally intense person who wants to assume power and radically change your environment. Others may regard you as a bit dictatorial. There is usually an interest in matters of birth, death, healing, transformation, and regeneration. You have a capacity to eliminate that which is useless and outworn to make way for new growth and development. Some with this aspect are drawn to investigate matters that are hidden, secret, psychic, occult, or paranormal. Pluto also gives an awareness of the darker side of human nature. In extreme cases, your emotional intensity and vulnerability may cause you to take extreme positions or to engage in manipulative, paranoid, or ruthless behavior.

Balance of Elements and Modalities

Abundant Fire

Keywords: ardent, creative, intuitive, aspiring, enthusiastic, inspirational, impulsive, spirited, future-oriented, energetic, passionate, self-confident.

An abundance of fire in a chart correlates with the Jungian function of intuition. You are able to perceive, unconsciously or intuitively, what is possible or likely to occur as a situation unfolds. From the data that you gather, you generate abstract possibilities regarding future trends. You readily perceive the underlying meaning and motivation of other people's actions. A pioneering, enthusiastic and enterprising spirit accompanies this intuitive perceptiveness. Fire wants to shine, to inspire and uplift others, to convey hope and encouragement -- to make its mark on the world in a grand, exciting, and stimulating manner.

You are good at finding new ways to do things, and others look to your leadership in launching new projects. You love challenges, especially when they prompt you into energetic activity that promotes your own interests. You see things in broad perspective with an awareness of the future implications of current actions. Unless the element earth is strong in your chart, a certain impracticality is one of your shortcomings and you will need to work on taking proper care of your body and your material and financial concerns. There is some risk of jumping to conclusions rather than carefully weighing the facts to come to a conclusion.

Introverted intuitives direct their attention inward and are often regarded as eccentric dreamers. They gravitate toward careers that utilize their visionary, psychic, mystical, forecasting, or prophetic abilities.

Extraverted intuitives put their intuitive flashes of insight to more practical purposes. They pursue careers where they can act as creators, innovators, pioneers, inventors, promoters, speculators, adventurers, or revolutionaries. They thrive on novelty and excitement and tend to be weak at doing routine tasks and following through. Their highly developed "sixth sense" and accurate hunches can make them successful as leaders, motivators, entrepreneurs, or investors. They make quintessential power-politicians.

Many creative professionals are highly intuitive. Examples include writers, architects, research scientists, gifted teachers, theologians, artists, musicians, psychiatrists, and neurologists. An abundance of fire (intuition) has also been reported in the charts of Protestant clergy and indicates an energetic expression of their feelings and ideals.

Abundant Earth

Keywords: practical, concrete, empirical, tangible, sensible, down-to-earth, results-oriented, able to manage material and financial resources.

An abundance of earth in a chart correlates with the Jungian function of sensation. You readily become cognizant of empirical reality. You consciously perceive immediate data, facts, and situations. You are a careful, solid, and dependable person who pays close attention to details. There is usually a capacity to make objective evaluations, think critically, and analyze matters logically. You enjoy being regarded as a person of wisdom and authority. Others trust you to get the job done and view you as a person with good head on your shoulders.

You tend to live in the present and to rely heavily on the information taken in by your five senses in a literal, concrete way. You make decisions only after doing your research and gathering all the facts. Your approach to life is practical, pragmatic, hard-nosed, and realistic. One of your strengths is a highly developed common sense, and you especially enjoy seeing tangible results of your activities. Some sensation types are quite sensual and even hedonistic.

The earth signs represent structure and material reality -- everything that is solid, tangible, and securely rooted. Your motto may well be, "I'll believe it when I see it," as you tend to be swayed only by hard, empirical evidence. You are drawn to a career in which you can use your body to manipulate physical reality in some way. You like to build, organize, structure, and bring projects to completion. You are good at carrying out plans in a sequential and orderly manner; and you generally prefer to work in a reliable, steady workplace setting. Others may see you as a hard-nosed realist who is interested in results that increase your sense of status and power. Some of your weaknesses may be a failure to pay sufficient attention to your intuition, a lack of enthusiasm (unless fire is strong), and an insufficient awareness of future trends.

Introverted sensation types are able to accumulate and store in their minds vast amounts of factual information. They may have a knack for meticulous scientific research. Introverted sensors enjoy doing manual tasks that produce some sense-related, material result (e.g., cooking, gardening, mechanics, carpentry, sculpting, painting, book writing, etc.). Their inner-directed sensual awareness is occasionally reflected in clairvoyant abilities. At times they are so inwardly directed that others regard them as passive, and they may also view themselves as passive victims of external forces.

Extraverted sensation types desire to sense, experience, and act upon their physical environment. They tend to be practical, to have good memories, and to do well with details. They like to use and enjoy their bodies and to manipulate the material world. Laborers, people who work with tools or materials, athletes, bankers, sales persons, marketers, business people, etc., are often among the group of extraverted sensors.

Abundant Substance

Keywords: practical, resourceful, organized, managerial, hard-working, skilled, methodical, systematic, materialistic, worldly, status-conscious

Many planets in houses 2, 6, and 10 suggest a career that meets the need of achieving some type of respect or recognition for producing tangible and practical results, often involving some type of analytic ability or technical skill. There is frequently a desire to work with products or services in the material world, and there is often a knack for business or administration. You value stability and have a strong sense of duty and responsibility.

Abundant Relationships

Keywords: relationship- and people-oriented, verbal, clever, sociable, interactive

Many planets in houses 3, 7, or 11 suggest a career that meets the need to be involved in dealing with relationships, whether they be relationships between people, objects, or ideas. You would most likely enjoy an occupation that involves frequent contacts with other people. This is common, for example, in the charts of teachers, lawyers, salespersons, journalists, counselors, psychologists, or anyone who works closely with clients. You are likely to have excellent communication skills, and your ability to perceive relationships may manifest as scientific or mathematical ability.

Abundant Angular

Keywords: dynamic, assertive, initiating, decisive, motivating, inspiring, freedom-loving, self-expressive, commanding, leading, pioneering

An emphasis on the angular houses (1, 4, 7, and 10) suggests a great deal of energy, ambition, and enthusiasm in pursuing one's career. You tend to be a self-starter, a go-getter, and a leader rather than a follower. You are decisive and like to make your own decisions and be your own boss. You would prefer to be the captain of your ship or the conductor of your orchestra. Typical careers of those with an abundance of angular planets include being a chief honcho, director, political leader, physician, athlete, explorer, discoverer, airline pilot, CEO, and so on.