And back to what I was originally going to say....
I mean I work 8, 9, 10 hours daily at jobs I hate nearly everyday, involving physical labor. And I have nothing to show for it. When I was growing up, everyone told me that to be successful all you had to do was be willing to work hard. I see that's a lie or at least, it's a mistaken notion. I'm starting to think that luck and who you know is worth alot more than any amount of hard work.
I remember, I tried to enlist in the Air Force and I was really looking forward to going and traveling the world and having a military career. I met all of the requirements except for one detail.....I didn't have a straight spine like 99 percent of people have. Even my German Shepherd has a straight spine. I don't. So I was rejected.
I had a career in law enforcement, but unlike the majority of the population, I don't have a correctly functioning brain. I have ADD from as far as I can tell was caused by being born slightly pre maturely and being very sick as an infant. The first week of my life was spent in the NICU. So because I had undiagnosed ADD I lost my career.
And it's been just horrible for me when it comes to jobs my whole working life.
Your jobs are not the real work here. Not what I was referring to with that sixth house Jupiter. While the sixth house
can indicate work you do for a living, and yours probably does describe the jobs you've had, in some way, its core meaning is vocation, in the traditional sense: a calling. Originally, the word meant a religious calling: what made someone become a monk or a nun, and devote their life to it.
What do you have that you can give to society? It may or may not be anything you get paid to do. The meaning of sixth house transcends that.
Katydid excellently explained the difficulties, astrologically, that you have with work:
Yes, you do have Jupiter in the 6th. But it is squaring Saturn and Uranus /Moon in Sag and conjunct Mars.
So your Jupiter is under a lot of stress.
You mentioned your spine. The MC/IC axis rules the spine. Look at the placements on your MC/IC.
Chiron, the wounded warrior is on your MC.
Your MC is opposing Saturn/Uranus/Moon, which are straddling the IC.
And that opposition, which is aligned with your spine, is forming a T-square to Mars/Jupiter on the Descendant.
Those squares also have an impact upon your work/employment issues.
I think it is possible for you to find a career that you love and can be successful in. But it will take some focus on your part. What have you done about your ADHD? Have you sought help from a professional?
You will need help with that so you can focus on your strengths. What are you good at?
Again, I would take that "what are you good at?" question and divert it, at least for now, away from anything that has to do with a job. Focusing on work-related talents, under these circumstances, would be beating a dead horse. Time to give it another meaning.
To start with, you obviously write very articulately. Do you write anything besides forum posts? Anything publishable? Blog? Book?
Mercury rules your MC. You can become known for what you have to say. Chiron at the MC: you could speak your truth about your afflictions, which would provide affirmation not only for you, but also for others with similar problems. Disabilities, especially hidden ones, are much more common than you would think. And a Scorpio Mercury needs to go deep. Expose the hidden things.
Writing is a process of skill development that develops self. That's a sixth house message, and a Virgo message. It's extremely common for writers to have at least one significant placement in Virgo. Your Virgo rising fits that bill.
A Pisces sixth house suggests a kind of development in the spiritual realm, or through creativity. Is there anything you're interested in that fits that bill? You might or might not think of it as spiritual or creative, so feel free to think about your interests creatively!
Or it might point to something you do to help your health. Could be something similar to what the person I talked about in
this post did. Not that you necessarily have to take up tai chi, but it's one example of something that would fit with that Saturn/Mars and your Pisces sixth house, and engage your Jupiter in a health giving way.