This post is a continuation of Find YourPerfect Career - Part 1.
In Part 1, you have discovered the qualities
that you need to develop within yourself and apply them to your career. In this
post, you will discover another piece of the career puzzle, which is to
identify the type of work (activities) to apply your qualities to. To do so, you will need to locate the house
position of your MC Ruler (i.e. the planet(s) in charge of the sign of your
MC).
The Best Type of Activities to Direct Your Qualities
If the sign of your MC is Scorpio, Aquarius or
Pisces, you would have two MC rulers, a traditional ruler and one modern ruler.
This means that your ideal career will consist of two type of activities with
an emphasis on the activities of the traditional ruler.
MC Ruler in 1st House
Potential Areas to Direct Your Qualities
Your body, your physical appearances, health,
you calling the shots, a one-man show
Musings on Some of the Potential Areas
You cannot be reliant on others to be
successful. You are on your own. You will have to work hard to get there. What
you put in is what you get back.
You want to be seen by others or the world. So
working behind the scenes wouldn't cut it for you.
MC Ruler in 2nd House
Potential Areas to Direct Your Qualities
Physical and tangible resources and materials
including money, wealth, physical possessions, investments and savings, and
attitudes towards them
Musings on Some of the Potential Areas
Your career is likely to be strongly
influenced by your personal resources and the often tangible and material
things that you value. For example, you may value boats and all things related
to boats. Your career may jolly well involves boats.
We don't just make money from our careers.
There are actually other sources of income/money: spouses, inheritances,
children (lucky them!), lottery, speculations and investments, just to name
some sources. For you, however, the chances are that you make your money from
your career.
MC Ruler in 3rd House
Potential Areas to Direct Your Qualities
Things, people, concepts in your immediate
daily environment, e.g. communication, routine travel and transportation, early
education, paperwork, relatives and siblings, local neighbourhood or community,
and neighbours
Musings on Some of the Potential Areas
In most modern day careers, we need to
communicate, be it written, verbal or otherwise. However, the extent of
communication varies from career to career. For you however, it's best for your
career to be heavy on communications. For example, you may be in PR, an author,
a social media manager.
Sometimes, your relatives or siblings are part
of or involved in your career. For example, you could be in a business with
your sibling just like Walt Disney whose brother managed the commercial aspect
of the business (while Walt focused on the artistic side of things).
Commuting may be part and parcel of your
career too. Examples like delivery truck drivers, (junior) internal audit
professionals and nurses who deliver health talks throughout the country come
to my mind.
MC Ruler in 4th House
Potential Areas to Direct Your Qualities
Home, family, the past, roots, parents
especially the father, personal lives, working from home, home country, taking
over your parents'/parent's business
Musings on Some of the Potential Areas
Ever thought of working from home? If you
haven't, try it and see how you like it. It is likely that your career can be
done or managed from home, for example, writers, international salesperson,
private tuition teachers, pet hotel owner.
You might do something about your roots, e.g.
bloodline, the country that you come from. The Irish company Ancestry.com,
which assists clients to trace their ancestral roots, is the perfect example.
MC Ruler in 5th House
Potential Areas to Direct Your Qualities
Children, love affairs and anything fun or
creative, e.g. the arts, performing arts (including teaching), recreation,
games, sports, hobbies, gambling
Musings on Some of the Potential Areas
Think creativity and artistic talents, the
show business, theatre, musicals, performers, comedians, a star on You Tube
with millions of loyal followers. Career for you involves a platform (physical
stage, a boardroom or otherwise) where you can shine and express your creative
talents.
For some people, you might be responsible for
the success of your children as their success becomes your "career"
(an apt description since you invest an inordinate amount of energy into their
lives). I think of the bible character Rebekah who strategized so that his
younger son Jacob would receive his father, Isaac's blessing instead of the
older son, whom the blessing was meant for. A dear friend of mine who has this
position worked ceaselessly so that her daughter would be successful. Her
daughter is now a medical doctor and an actress.
I personally know of a forex trader who has
this position.
Your hobby/hobbies may become your career too.
Or you may jolly well be a sportsperson.
MC Ruler in 6th House
Potential Areas to Direct Your Qualities
Health, being of service to others,
employment, craftsmanship, small animals
Musings on Some of the Potential Areas
What we do on a daily basis at work may not
necessarily be what we are known for. For example, a cashier at a supermarket
(his work) may be known for his stamp collections, which he exhibits at
galleries instead of his daily job as a cashier. As another example, an
accountant may be known as a psychic which is her sideline instead. For you
however, your daily work is what you are known for.
Often times, doctors and hospital workers have
this position.
Alternatively, you may in a career/work where
you to subjugate your own needs to "serve" others or something, for example, a soldier who serves
his nation, a butler or a president who serves his nation and citizens rather
than his own ego and agenda.
MC Ruler in 7th House
Potential Areas to Direct Your Qualities
Dealing with people, especially on a
one-to-one basis, marriage, business partnerships, conflicts with others, legal
matters
Musings on Some of the Potential Areas
You are advised to enter into a partnership
with someone to maximise your chances for success in your career. For example,
you can run a B&B business with your spouse. Or you may be a pianist and
collaborate with a singer which gains you fame.
Alternatively, your marriage partner can play
an important role in your professional life. There's an adage that behind every
successful man is a wife (rather sexist and implies that every successful
person has to be married). Anyhow, it could be the case that your life partner,
married or not, is responsible for (driving) your accomplishments.
An essential aspect of your career may involve
dealing with people on a one-to-one basis. There's plenty of examples here:
salespersons, therapists, psychologists, private tutors, insurance agents,
financial planners, general practitioners.
MC Ruler in 8th House
Potential Areas to Direct Your Qualities
Transformations including death, intimate sex,
taxes, loans, inheritances, insurance, emotional depth (e.g. psychology), all
things occult and taboo
Musings on Some of the Potential Areas
Your career would involve or require the
extensive support of others, be it financial support, emotional support or
otherwise. For example, you are an artist and the only way you can
"make" it is by a patron who commissions lots of work from you.
Sometimes, you don't have to work for a living
as you can live off your partner's money or your inheritance. Lucky you!
MC Ruler in 9th House
Potential Areas to Direct Your Qualities
Something foreign and even exotic including
non-routine travels, higher education, philosophy, religion, beliefs,
publishing, import-export, overseas; teaching
Musings on Some of the Potential Areas
Make your ideas, ideals or your philosophy of
life a big part of your career. Perhaps, seek to advance your beliefs and your
vision of what could be as your life work. Missionaries can have this position,
as well as philosophers and new-age spiritual gurus.
An alternative is to incorporate travel,
especially long-distanced ones, as part of your career. Maybe being a travel
agent may suit you. Or how about becoming an air steward? Or become a
professional traveller by writing for the Lonely Planet guidebook series?
Some of you may contribute to society by
teaching - college professors, primary school teachers or otherwise.
MC Ruler in 10th House
Potential Areas to Direct Your Qualities
Your personal accomplishments and reputation,
parents, especially the mother, authority, government, and public life
Musings on Some of the Potential Areas
According to astrologers M.D. March and J.
McEvers, much of your life may revolve around the need to prove to yourself and
others that you are somebody, that you count, that you can, will and must
achieve. You may do this in many ways. It is the fact that this is your life's
motivation which makes you different from others.
You may follow into one of your parents' footsteps
by taking over the family's business or you are in a career as a result of your
parent(s).
MC Ruler in 11th House
Potential Areas to Direct Your Qualities
Friends, groups, altruism, hopes and
aspirations, social causes, advancement of society
Musings on Some of the Potential Areas
Think groups of all kinds - trade unions,
United Nations, charitable organizations, clubs and societies, the parliament.
Think friends. A friend or friends who is
instrumental to your career, one way or other.
MC Ruler in 12th House
Potential Areas to Direct Your Qualities
Being alone/isolation, faith, healing, dreams
and fantasies, big institutions, the universe, behind the scenes, all things
hidden or unconscious
Musings on Some of the Potential Areas
Think of careers where:
- You work behind the scenes. For example, the elves in Santa's workshop (someone has to make all those presents!), a movie director, a film producer, the god(s) in the movie "Matrix".
- You are the mastermind - Russian mafias come to mind here!
- You are not who you seem to be - actors and actresses, undercover cops, mystery shoppers, illegal operators of gambling dens with restaurants as the shop front
- You spend lots of time alone - writers
- Healing professions are standard fare in this position, especially those who practise spiritualistic or holistic healing.