The natal chart.
Midheaven of career is ruled by Venus, in business minded, ambitious Capricorn in the first house. So your career and status, and your expression of yourself are tied together. Capricorn is very hard working, responsible, concrete, dedicated. Venus is pleasure, love, relaxation. So right here, we see a difficulty in expression of these two energies, they are on two different tracks.
Venus would indicate a career in the arts, beauty, decorating, visual arts, with libra tending towards aesthetics, law, politics, public policy, diplomacy. Capricorn finds Venus frivolous, and wants something more concrete and stable, that could take the form of architecture, arts endowments, public entertainment, also writing.. not novels and fantasy but text books, treatises, research documents, statistics, "serious" works.
Also on the midheaven is moon at the last degree of libra. The moon has phases, and the career will tend to have phases, there won't be one specific career over the lifetime but an evolution of careers. Moon is our emotional expression, so work will be the outlet, the practical manifestation of your emotions. Moon is sympathetic, caring, and in libra it is outgoing reaching out to others on an emotional level. You project sympathy and a nurturing caring image towards others.
So, and now we see something remarkable, the 6th house of work. The cusp is exactly conjunct the moons in both horary charts! So here is that link we noticed before and now we know why! So both horary charts can be considered valid.
In addition, the midheaven and moon conjuncts the late ascendent of one of the horary charts, validating it in spite of the late degree.
Back to 6th house, ruled by mercury in gemini. Gemini is an air sign, a double sign, and intellectual and communicative sign. So we know there will be more than one job, it will be in some way connected to communications. Mercury is in the 12th house conjunct Saturn, ruler of the ascendent, and the 2nd house of income and self esteem. Again, there is a direct link between work and personal identity.
The 12 house rules institutions, public organisations, hospitals, jails. It is the subconscious, and mercury here has antennas out towards the public awareness, it can pick up on the public mood.
Mercury in sagittarius is not comfortable, it tends to be scattered, but with stabilising Saturn it manages to sit still long enough to concentrate. Sagittarius is the sign of foreign travel, higher learning, cultural interests.
We are starting to see a theme here, no?
Mercury, ruler of the 6th of work, conjunct Saturn ruler of the 2nd, gives good possibilities of earning well through your work.
Sun is the basic individual, the innate personality traits, and here it is in sagittarius, again bringing forward the idea of travel, adventure, mixed cultures, internationalism.
With Uranus, there is a strong need for freedom, spontaneity, and there is a tendency to not be very consistent, as the uranuian energy will suddenly throw things up in the air, will go off on its own path, rebel against authority, and will be seen by others as erratic. (Here we are seeing the horary theme of lack of consistency. ).
On the ascendent is Neptune. So the way you present yourself to others passes through the nebulous filter of Neptune, others often have a hard time seeing you for who you are, you seem to be one but then are another. This isn't dishonesty, this is just a lack of clarity, and the natural quality of Neptune. (Again, this was shown in the horary).
Neptune is also empathy, compassion, so this repeats the idea of moon on midheaven. Others will pick up on this quality, they see you really care.
So far the link between career, emotional needs, projection, self esteem and income, all tie together.
But there is a very important energy source in the chart, the mars/pluto conjunction in scorpio. This is probably the most powerful aspect in the chart, and the most difficult one to handle. This too was in the horary, as moon opposing saurn/mars and square uranus. In strong scorpio there is no giving way, this energy is strong, passionate, courageous, and at the same time volatile, and ruthless. You have to have your own way, and to achieve it you will manipulate, use coercion, even violence, but you must get your way. Any means is valid to achieve your goal. When this is used to work towards goals it cannot be defeated, it is the winning card. But when it is turned against an adversary or coworkers, it is lethal. It is very important that this energy be directed positively, mars and Pluto are in the 10th house, so this energy becomes part of your status as well, people will view you through this, and if it is negative they will sense it immediately.
Mars/pluto does not like to take orders or obey authority, just like sun/uranus doesn't, so you should be in a position where you make the decisions, set the goals, and lead, or work on your own.
Last, note where south node is. Just inside the 9th house of travel, and international affairs. So this is touching a past life energy, this is where your comfort zone lies, where you retreat when you feel threatened or weak.
But this halts your growth, it just gives you comfort but doesn't push you ahead. Falling automatically back on this, and giving in to the draw of the foreign loving sagittarius planets, may seem natural, but it would be more beneficial to you to follow the north node, which would be travels, but not internationally. It would be communicating, or writing, but not higher education or law.
This is a long analysis, there is much more, as always in any natal chart, but by putting together the pieces, you may get a clearer idea of where to direct your energies, reset your goals.
It seems to me that both horary charts and the natal are coherent and not giving mixed signals. Can you pick them up and put them together?
You have a lot of potential, at the moment it doesn't seem to be channeled in the most effective way, you have to step back and evaluate. You can cherry pick, choose the positives and emphasise them, put the weak parts on the back burner. Your personal expression as a soul, and your work/career can go hand in hand. It's just easier if you are aware and moving towards the path that is most constructive for you as an individual.
