Dear Pagalo (English)

26/11/62 8:01pm new york city. my question is... am i on a career upswing or a time of poverty?

Well. Were you on a career upswing, you would not have the time to ask me such questions. You would be sitting in the board of directors meeting, boss your secretary around, study the Wall Street Journal and get your teeth bleached for 300$ in the lunch hour. Whom are you kidding?

Nevertheless, lets have a look at your chart. If money comes to you, it comes rather unexpected and unpredictably. Hard labour may be a noble virtue – but not for you. You are a creative thinker, a talented communicator, full of ideas, witty, intelligent, inventive. It is all there but you lack the stability and the longterm commitment to your ideas. You are easily excited and easily bored. You appear to be convinced about your ideas, but on the inside you are not. Your fragile Cancer rising is constantly questioning and doubting. Your early environment was probably not without love but unstable, rather chaotic, unpredictable and this is a pattern you are still carrying.

If we were living in the 20ties or 30ties of the last century, I would suggest a career as a Gigolo on the French Riviera. Your naughty little Leo Mars squaring Venus and Neptun in Scorpio is exactly what the ladies like. You could whisper sweet little lies in their diamond studded ears as you grab for their portmonnaie. Or learn to play the lute and sing romantic ballades under their balconies. You could introduce grand business ideas of investements into gold and copper mines as as you lie on their antique sofa and put a few bottles of their Chateau Lafite Rothschild behind. And disappear the next morning with all their savings and the family silver, never to be seen again. This is exactly what people do who have a Sun-Moon-Mercury Stellium in Sagittarius, squared by Pluto and Uranus, plus a sexy little Venus-Neptun Conjunction in Scorpio. Unfortunately in our day and age such a career is out of the question. Which is in your case a real pity. If not to say a tragedy and certainly a true waste of talent.

Lets return to the here and now: With your transiting Chiron-Neptun in the 8th house it might be very well the case that you dream right now of some kind of inheritance, family money, scam, pilot game, online poker or some other postmodern insanity. A source of income that have nothing to do with a regular day job. This is not bad or generally an unhealthy idea - but the time does not seem to be perfect. I have to warn you that this might be a bubble, if not even a dream with a self-destructive edge. On the other side you have Saturn approaching your IC, the deepest and most sensitive part of your chart. Saturn on the IC can trigger very deep survival fears. One could describe it as the shopping bag lady complex – one sees himself sleeping under the bridges and going through all kinds of worst case scenarios. Alone, desperate, speaking to oneself and wearing wet and stinky old clothes. Remember it is a fear, an inner drama of an overly imaginative mind, not reality.

A quite promising Jupiter Opposition to Pluto and Uranus is happening right now. It is a potentially great transit but it has to be utilized. Dont expect pennies from Heaven – you have to inititate, create, invent, develop an idea.

My advice to you would be to develop and train what you are best in and what you can absolutely trust in: Your communication skills. Do something with them. Learn NLP or Hypnosis. You will always be liked by people, so work with people. Your Cancer Ascendent, the charming Sagittarius Moon and Sun, the intense Venus Conjunction Neptun in Scorpio – a classical people person.

I dont see Glenda, the Good Witch descending from the Heavens and handing you a big check or a Platinum Mastercard anytime soon. You have to do something where your skills as a starter and initiator are not only accepted but needed and totally appreciated. I see you as a diamond in the raw, torn between great hopes and destructive fears. Move out of this polarity.

And try to listen to your wife.