vocational astrology Landscape 3

Landscape Three

What The World Demands

What the World of Work Expects from the Individual

The last mode looks at those work applicational areas where we have the most power to be successful, and the areas where we will experience the most and the least friction from the world in reaching our success. Its one thing to know what gives us emotional satisfaction, and another to recognize how we might manifest those fulfillment needs(and the potential downfalls) through aptitude, ambition, and just plain nose to the grindstone. But without the last landscape we may still flounder.

The last is represented by the Impacts of the World itself. In this mode, astrology is used to determine what areas of action we are likely to find the world empowering us, and what areas it will give us the most resistance. To be successful we need to be able to find the best medium wherein we are most empowered, and least restricted. Some of these features impacted in this empowerment/resistance landscape can show the where of the practice of vocation, the potential motivational characteristics for a possible occupation, the best occupational area for income potential, the possibility of being an independent employER (rather than employEE), and the degree that finances will impact work for the individual.

This landscape is most successfully described in the various writings of Doris Doane, CC Zain, and Ken Stone. Some of these include: VOCATIONAL SELECTION AND COUNSELING, vols. 1 &2 by Doane, Astrology: 30 Years Work (also by Doane), Delineation with Astrodynes by Ken Stone, and Astrodynes for Windows by John Molfese, a component of the astrology computer program Astro- Deluxe for Windows written by John Halloran.

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The first step in this process is to determine the natural aptitudes of the client. An aptitude is an area of learning that we tend to pick up most easily and that we can most easily improve on. For example, Midori has an aptitude for playing the violin. She picked it up so fast that it appeared to be pre-written on her circuits in body and brain. My son has an aptitude for mathematical thinking. New math info that took others hours to learn, he understands right away. He was a college math major, but by the end of his sophomore year heÕd taken all the math he could, and has now added physics as a double major.

We look at aptitudes by finding the strongest planet(s) in the chart. Aptitudes are areas of action in reaching out to the world where action is easiest. Incidentally, while my son has an aptitude for math, it remains to be seen whether if we jump over to the inner traits whether its something he really gets enjoyment out of(I donÕt do this work for my children unless they ask me and they usually donÕt).

This is why vocational astrology analysis is so intensely synthetic. Having an aptitude and the potential ability doesnÕt mean it will necessarily be enjoyable for the client.

The next step is to determine aptitudes which the world will find most easily manifesting, and with the least friction. The first one is obviously the strongest planet. But manifestation of aptitude by the world with the friction/power patters comes from looking at the following 5 other factors:

a. Sign on the Ascendant

b. Moon Sign and decanate pattern

c. Aspects to the Moon: disharmonious/harmony and Power

d. Sun Sign and decanate pattern

e. Aspects to Sun: disharmonious/harmony and Power Abilities are broad areas that we can do well in. Midori has an aptitude for playing the violin. And she is obviously a terrific performer. She may not be a terrific teacher. One of my sonÕs avocations was playing the violin. He inherits this aptitude from his grandfather and father. But he had a teacher who ruined it for him. This teacher was a local concertmaster in the orchestra, but his abilities as a teacher of the violin were so poor that his students often left lessons crying, and their actual performances in their youth orchestraÕs deteriorated.

We study ability by looking at the strongest Planet and the Most harmonious planet(this becomes a combination which is just one planet, and then several numbers under it. An ability is a manifestation of the best of what gives you the least friction with and what you can successfully put most of your energy in. I might have the aptitude for interacting with people, but not the ability to put this together to run a restaurant.

The fourth step is to look at the potential environments where the focus of the energy potential is the greatest and where the least friction from others will be encountered. This is done by looking at the house structure.

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NowÉÉyou may have noticed that the concepts of the signs within the vocational analysis is not listed. This is because the signs indicate motivation to vocations in general rather than how the world views the individual. The signs are brought into the picture in the landscape of the Change Quotient, and in the internal landscape of traits and personal needs toward vocation.

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After looking at the aptitudes, abilities, and vocational environments, there are several other patterns which can be discerned. These include potential for self-employment, the degree to which the client will be influenced by the need to make a lot of money in a job, and the areas of vocation to which the individual has the best potential to have a greater income compared to the others.

IÕm only going to explain a little of the first here: The Potential for Self Employment. This potential is also manifested in circumstances where the employee need to have broad powers of self-starting, and in running departments or branches which should or can have a bit of the impact of a separate business in itself.

The major factors to look at are: the 10th House, the Sun, and the Jupiter/Saturn Harmony.

Obviously, the 10th House is significant. First, you are looking for harmonious aspects to the ruler of the 10th house and to the point of the Midheaven. Remember also that the you need to pay attention to the rulership. If there is a major Planet in the 10th house with BOTH a very strong power potential, and a very strong harmony potential, it may serve as the defacto ruler of the 10th and take over the job from the planet that rules the sign on the cusp. You have to look at the entire chart for this. Additionally, one needs to look at the strength of the 10th House itself compared to the other 11. This is partly a measure of the ability of the client to deal with the public and with publicity issues in the vocation.

The second is the Sun. In any business occupation, the boss needs to stand at the center. The boss needs to stand as the focal point, be able to evidence strong leadership, stimulate loyalty and devotion. For self-employment, or any operation which has self-starter aspects such as manager of an operation for someone else who remains behind the scenes, and strong and harmonious Sun is necessary.

Lastly, we have the Jupiter/Saturn picture. Both need to be strong and harmonious, or at least they need to be balanced of the Midheaven, Sun, and 10th house factors are OK. Saturn represents the ability to deal with detail, and to exercise caution in potential business decisions. Saturn works at those things which save the existing status quo. The Saturn aspect doesnÕt bring much new to the table; if its not obviously broken, no point improving it. Opportunities are often missed with a excessively powerful, but disharmonious Saturn. The opposite is the case for Big Spender Jupiter who may extravagant the operation into oblivion. But you wonÕt miss any new opportunities with it.

The look at Income potential and needs for income I havenÕt covered. If they are very strong, then dissatisfaction will abound no matter what else is there.

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This is only the outer landscape. FAILURE to consider the Change Quotient(which in my opinion also includes the Sign and Sign decanate, as well as the information included by Noel Tyl in SYNTHESIS AND COUNSELING IN ASTROLOGY.), and The Inner landscape(of traits and needs), will leave the astrologer with an inaccurate and incomplete pattern of vocational analysis for the client.