How to request astro-vocational assistance

[Jim Eshelman]

Astrological vocational analysis means finding occupations that fit a person’s character. It requires a preliminary analysis of the entire birth chart to understand all strong themes in your character and how they mix to describe you as a whole, complex person.

Possibilities are endless! To help us move directly to something meaningful to you personally, please answer the following questions when you ask for an astrological vocational assessment:

1. What sorts of vocation interest you?
2. What kind of work have you done before that you liked? That you did not like?
3. Are you already studying, certified, or licensed in a field? How do you feel about those areas?
4. Please name three or four or five fields (or kinds of work) you want to seriously consider. For each, please give a sentence (just one or two sentences) about what each job means to you (why you feel positively or negatively about it).

After assessing the main themes in your natal chart, we will compare your background, interests, and wishes to what the chart shows of your character and suggest what field(s) best match who you are. (Sometimes the answer will be already evident in the summary you write for us. Sometimes, it will require specific insights from your horoscope.)

[Jim Eshelman]

Our current protocol for astrological vocational analysis is as follows. (This is a standard approach your Sidereal astrologer likely will follow.)

The astrologer will analyze the entire birth chart to understand your fundamental character. This analysis will not be included in the answer to your vocational question, but, as a mental exercise, is necessary preparation for the astrologer.

Next, a preliminary assessment of commonsense considerations about your relationship to work in general:

1. Malefic or benefic dominance tells whether you prefer working hard, expending energy and physically laboring (Saturn and Mars), or want an easier life with less labor and more leisure (Jupiter and Venus).
2. Sun is more purposeful, directed, and commanding. Moon is service-oriented and more willing to be flexible, adaptable, and fluid.
3. Uranus and Pluto will not follow conventional paths (and not always follow orders or respond respectfully to authority).
4. Mercury prefers mental work (moving information around). If Venus or Jupiter is stronger than the malefics, the person prefers using mind more than muscle. With Mars or Saturn, the leaning is more mechanical.
5. About half the planets are more social and like being around people. Most of the others are less social and work better on their own.
6. Any other commonsense worker trait issues that show in the chart.

Finally, the astrologer will respond to your list of possible fields primarily from a direct assessment of career-related matters:

1. Assess whether, by angularity, the chart falls easily into one of the four Gauquelin profile categories (Moon, Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn).
2. More broadly, look at all angular planets.
3. Assess all themes of Sun sign and Moon sign (joined with the planet angularity already identified). Come to a semi-final conclusion.
4. Midheaven sign (interpreted as the sign’s ruling planet conjunct MC) and Venus’ sign (for insight into what they love) can be used supplementally to confirm, finely tune, or stir conversation.