I. Introduction
This short extract gives you a taste of your personal "Career and Vocation" horoscope by Liz Greene. The small samples taken from various chapters convey an impression of the complete vocation horoscope (18-25 pages) which can be ordered as an E-Horoscope or a bound book in the AstroShop.
When we are children, people say to us, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" At that age, we usually have dreams. When we are children, we are still capable of hearing the voice of the soul. As we grow older, the questions change. There is no longer time for dreaming; we must now "face reality" and think about how to survive in the big, bad old world.
This astrological report is about your vocation. It is meant to help you get a sense of what you might be good at and what might be good for you, so that your working life has a meaning as well as a pay cheque.
II. How You See the World
This chapter briefly describes your personal perspective on life and explains how you can best express this in your career.
III. Your aptitudes and strengths
This chapter, which contains 8-10 pages, is one of the most comprehensive sections in the "Career and Vocation" horoscope. Here is a short selection of three samples from the numerous aptitudes described in the complete report.
An honest and realistic understanding of your fundamental strengths can help you to orientate yourself in the world and put your energy into areas where you can hope to shine and achieve at least many of your most cherished goals.
[..] You might be happier in one of the helping professions, particularly those such as medicine and psychiatry, which deal with real-life problems but need the kind of vision and idealism which you could inspire. You might also be attracted to other forms of service to the community, [...]
[..] Although your vision may be unconventional, you have a need to be accepted by the world in general as a competent and "normal" person. If you wish to work in a more unconventional field, make sure you have the right bits of paper so that you feel you can demonstrate your [...]
[..] You understand the extremes to which nature, and human nature, will go in order to survive, and you have a deep determination to transform anything you find, either in yourself or in others, which is destructive or damaged by that primitive survival instinct. This gives [...]
IV. Know Your Limits
This chapter describes your personal limitations and suggests how you can deal with these in your professional life. In the complete horoscope, this chapter is about 5-7 pages in length. Please click here to read a complete sample report
Recognising your innate limitations can help you to focus your energy in the right direction and get the maximum fulfilment from your work.
[..] But it is doubtful that the higher reality toward which you aspire requires you to curtail pleasure in the incarnate world in which you are living and working. You may need to find a creative balance between your ideals and your capacity to enjoy the pleasures of everyday [...]
[..] Try to remember that you cannot cure the world's ills by yourself, nor can you help those who do not wish to help themselves. Discrimination is an important faculty which you may need to work hard to develop, however hard or selfish it may sound; there is only one of you, [...]
V. Working with Others
The two final chapters of "Career and Vocation" deal with the way you work together with your colleagues in your everyday working life, and what success means to you personally.
One of the most important factors to consider in terms of your direction in life is how you work with others. Everyone has his or her own style of relating in the working environment; everyone has different needs and requirements.
VI. What Success Really Means to You
When people speak of "success", they generally mean a position of importance in the world's eyes, or a job that yields lots of money and all the material pleasures and comforts that implies. But success, in terms of the deeper issue of vocation, is a highly individual thing that means different things to different people.