Planets and Occupations

Planets and Occupations

If planets exert their influence on other departments of life, they do so on the means of livelihood also. This is a natural inference. But in delineating the effects of planets on the source and method of earning we should not forget the basic principle of astrology that all predictions should be made against the background of the country, the times and hereditary and personal environment of the native.

Why is a child born of a Negro couple dark though there may be the Moon, Jupiter and Venus in the Ascendant ? And why a child born of a white couple fair, though Saturn and Rahu be in the 1st house? In India, what was the percentage of higher education among women a hundred years back? And today, tens of thousands of girls are taking degrees and diplomas.

These background circumstances apply to means of livelihood also. In olden times when books on astrology were written, people generally follow their hereditary vocations. A barber’s son followed the barber’s profession and a grocer followed his father’s trade. But the times have changed. A percentage of people is still carrying on the profession or trade of their forefathers, but a large number of people have drifted from hereditary occupations.

People are migrating in increasing numbers from the rural areas to the towns and industrial cities. As such, we have to take account of the modern trends. This trend started in Western countries long ago but has been more noticeable in India now.

A profession or means of earning a livelihood may be determined by the houses or planets which are prominent in a horoscope.

• If the 1 is strong, the native would earn by his personal efforts.
• If the 2nd is strong, articles of food or speech would play a prominent part.
• The 3rd would indicate service, some connection with brethren, writings and short travels.
• The 4th effect would be lands and properties.
• The 5th has reference to learning, counsel, children, speculation, games of chance.
• The 6th would indicate service, labour, professions connected with sickness.
• The 7th would indicate partnership, husband or wife, travelling. etc.
• The 8th should indicate legacy, imports, exports, etc.
• The 9th indication would be contact with foreigners, foreign lands, law, religion, etc.
• The 10th is the house of profession and the nature of profession may be indicated by the lord of the 10th and the nature of planet or planets occupying or aspecting the 10th.
• The 11th is the house of gain or income and planets occupying or aspecting this house would bring in money according to the planet occupying or aspecting it.
• The 12th is connected with places of confinement and distant lands.

This is only an outline and does not cover the various matters falling in the province of each house.

In India, among the middle and higher classes, it is the male member who earns. The women and children, until the latter starts a career, are dependant on the male member for their livelihood. Good or bad luck of the wife may be reflected on the husband but as far as Yogas for earning are concerned, they remain in cold storage.

Whatever be the planetary positions, millions of people in rural or industrial sectors work as labourers. Millions of housewives work in that capacity and their means of livelihood is dependant on their husbands, sons or brothers. It is useless to examine or analyse their horoscope.

Horoscopes of only those persons should be examined who have an option to follow profession and in such cases the significance of the house and planet prominent in the chart will reveal the ability to earn in a particular manner.

Most of the readers are familiar with Varaha Mihira’s rule that profession is indicated by the planet which is in the 10th from the Sun or the Moon or the planets who are lords of the signs or Navamsas, in which the lords of the 10th from the Sun, the Moon or the Ascendant are placed.

Naturally, according to the above dictum, there would be more than one planet pointing to the source of income. Of these, I attach the greatest importance to the planet or planets in the 10th from the Ascendant, or the Moon rather than to the lords of the signs or Navamsas, in which the lords of the 10th from the Ascendant, the Sun and the Moon are placed. Varaha Mihira, however, gives a very small list of professions or commodities (in which the native may deal) under each of the planets.

According to him, for judging the source of income, the Sun represents the father, the Moon the mother, Mars enemies and Mercury friends. Commentators have included maternal uncle also under Mercury. Jupiter indicates gain from brothers. Venus is the significator of wife and Saturn of employees.

Gargi also states the same formula and advises that the source of income would be from the strongest of the qualifying planets. But we find in life that many men do not earn from one source alone. Naturally if different planets qualify, they contribute in giving money through professions and commodities falling in their provinces. Besides, the means of livelihood can be grouped under the following heads:-

• Dependence on others,
• agriculture,
• landed estates and immovable properties-rents from buildings,
• through educational talents,
• service,
• through partnership business,
• through legacy or inheritance,
• through religious sources,
• trade and commerce, etc.

Signs tenanted by particular planets also play and important part. Each sign represents so many things and the astrologer is confronted with the problem of selectivity. But that does not mean that an astrologer cannot be useful to a client in tendering advice.

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Suppose a lawyer puts up his birth chart before an astrologer and seeks his advice whether he can be successful in civil cases or criminal cases. Now the astrologer has to decide whether Mars is stronger or Jupiter. Mars would indicate criminal cases and Jupiter civil ones.

Or take another example. If a client puts the question whether he should start a business in partnership for earning a livelihood. If the 7th is afflicted, partnership business should not be advised.

Middle Eastern astrologers regard the 3rd and the 6th also as houses of service. People born in fixed signs are of sedentary habits and cannot be successful as salesman which requires movement. In any cases, Mercury should be strong.

Talking of Mercury, we know that it is necessary to have this planet strong for doctors, lawyers, brokers, middle men, commission agents, etc.

A strong Venus may give success in articles of fashion, scents, goods and commodities patronised by women, etc. In this way, the significance of planet should be applied and the resultant inferences drawn.

Another question that poses itself is whether a person would have the same source of livelihood throughout his life. Many persons start their career in service and later do tremendously well in their own business.

In such cases, the astrologer has to determine on the basis of the Mahadasa current, whether continuity in the career of service is indicated or the 2nd house is strong (in case of income from interest) or the 4th fortified (in the case of income from rent or agricultural income).

I do not advocate that the Yogas as given in texts (conjunction or aspects of planets) would fit in all cases.

I would, however, add that if some back-ground of the native is known, that may be helpful in prediction. Benefic planets in the 1st, the 2nd and the 11th bring money through sources for which the planets are significators.

I have found that people with Scorpio rising or with the Moon in Scorpio generally enter the career of service.

I have also observed that benefics in the 11th gain money by above board methods, while malefics in the 11th indicate money by underhand means.

In judging the means of livelihood, I would recommend attaching greatest weight to planets which tenant the 12, the 2nd, the 9th, the 10th and the 11. The houses and signs have their own significance, and they have also to be looked into.

But to indicate the exact means of livelihood, depends upon blending of influences and there too it would be very difficult to predict with exactitude. You may say a man would be an engineer, but whether a civil, mechanical, electrical, metallurgical or a textile engineer will depend upon he planet which is prominent.

If I have not made positive assertions that means of livelihood can always be predicted with precision. It is on account of the practical difficulties in doing so and then we have to realise and appreciate the limitations of astrology and of the astrologer.