Career themes by planet

Career themes by planet

Aside from caste stereotypes, however, a more comprehensive understanding of planetary natures can afford much greater insight into career potential. Following is a table of professions with which each planet is associated. Again, if such a planet is in any of the angular houses, it lends a bias for that type of occupation.

Sun	Administration, leadership, classical professions, accounting, architecture, engineering, law, medicine
Moon	Arts & entertainment, domestic services, esthetics, hospitality industry, nurturing professions
Mars	Security, competitions (sports, litigation), combustion, construction, dismantling, skills based on strength
Mercury	Agency & brokering, business, analysis, calculation, communication
Jupiter	Counseling, investments, ministry, oratory, teaching, wisdom, writing
Venus	Art, adornment, beauty, culture, luxury, high-living products & services, pets, social pastimes, textiles, transportation
Saturn	Time, labor, land, manufacturing, tools & machines, recycling, guarded traditions, secret endeavors, old/dead/ancient/derelict pursuits, rock/stone/inert matter
Rahu/Ketu	Drugs, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, fuels, photography, computers, video games, new technologies, inventions, illusion, movies, buffoonery, fraud, occult, secrets, import/export, mysticism & metaphysics

Our analysis of a client’s career potential might be simple if only one planet occupies an angular house. In practice, however, there are often two or more angular planets. In that case, we may need to determine the relative strength of angular planets by applying certain criteria.

For example, a planet is strong in its own or exalted sign, when it has dig bala (directional strength), when retrograde, or as a full Moon. It is weak when debilitated, combust, in a planetary war (conjunct another true planet within one degree), or as a new Moon. Once we determine the relative hierarchy of angular planets, it’s often the strongest among them that will give the client a bias for a particular career.

Career themes via planetary combinations

Although a single strong planet might very well nudge the client into a certain occupation or career, in practice we expect more complexity. There are, after all, more careers to choose from than ever, and some of these are combinatorial in nature, eg, forensic accountant, prosthetic engineer, immigration lawyer.

The table below provides a list of possible careers when one or more planets occupy angular houses at the same time. The list does not account for one planet’s dominance over another, as discussed in the earlier section, although that’s something to always keep in mind.

SU	Administration, organization, control, politics
SU/MA	Administration, medicine
SU/MA/JU	Politics
SU/MA/SA	Medicine
SU/JU	Healing, religion, spirituality
MO/MA/SA	Sports
MO/JU	Travel
MO/VE	Arts, beautification, crafts, esthetics, food, beverage
MO/VE/SA	Entertainment
MA/ME	Computers
MA/JU	Law
MA/VE	Sex, scandal, primal charisma
MA/SA	Construction, labor, police, military, competition, confrontation, technology, science, tools, machinery
MA/SA/ME	Engineering, sports business, machinery, metal, electrical
MA/SA/RA	Science
ME/JU	Communication, media, acting, writing, advising, counseling, humanities
ME/JU/VE	Education
ME/SA	Business
JU/VE	Counselor, advisor, stage acting
JU/SA/RA	Occult
VE	Arts
SA	Heavy labor
RA/KE	Unusual, different, illusion, innovation, new technology

Me/Mo is writing

In the absence of angular planets

For the readers who’ve been following this thesis, and perhaps reviewing some charts in their files, questions naturally arise: What about charts whose angular planets have no strength? Worse still, what about charts which have no angular planets at all? Are those clients doomed to unemployment?

In practice, the absence of angular planets doesn’t make it impossible to identify a career, just a little more complicated. It involves looking at the chart another way, from the perspective of the ascendant, the Moon and the Sun. The resulting analysis identifies one or more “pointer” planets that subsequently identify associated career themes.