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Astrological Profile for Pablo Picasso

by Stephanie Clement

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Christine Bennett

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Your Chart Data

    Name: Pablo Picasso
    Date:    Oct 25, 1881
    Time:    11:15:00 PM LMT +00:00
    Place:   Málaga, SPAIN
               004W25'00" 36N43'00"

Planet	Sign	Position	House	House Cusps
Sun	Scorpio	02°Sc43'	04th	01 05°Le38'
Moon	Sagittarius	08°Sg13'	05th	02 01°Vi52'
Mercury	Scorpio	24°Sc15'	04th	03 28°Vi27'
Venus	Libra	04°Li32'	03rd	04 25°Li05'
Mars	Cancer	12°Ca21'	12th	05 07°Sg17'
Jupiter	Taurus	23°Ta34' R	10th	06 08°Cp39'
Saturn	Taurus	09°Ta27' R	10th	07 05°Aq38'
Uranus	Virgo	17°Vi02'	02nd	08 01°Pi52'
Neptune	Taurus	15°Ta31' R	10th	09 28°Pi27'
Pluto	Taurus	28°Ta47' R	10th	10 25°Ar05'
Midheaven	Aries	25°Ar05'		11 07°Ge17'
Ascendant	Leo	05°Le38'		12 08°Ca39'

Transit and Solar Arc Positions for Jul 1, 2008

Planet	Sign	Transit	N Hs	Planet	Sign	Solar Arc	N Hs
Sun	Cancer	09°Ca08'	12th	Sun	Pisces	11°Pi00'	08th
Moon	Gemini	03°Ge42'	10th	Moon	Aries	16°Ar30'	09th
Mercury	Gemini	17°Ge39'	11th	Mercury	Aries	02°Ar32'	09th
Venus	Cancer	15°Ca01'	12th	Venus	Aquarius	12°Aq49'	07th
Mars	Leo	29°Le21'	01st	Mars	Scorpio	20°Sc38'	04th
Jupiter	Capricorn	18°Cp35' R	06th	Jupiter	Libra	01°Li51' R	03rd
Saturn	Virgo	04°Vi29'	02nd	Saturn	Virgo	17°Vi44' R	02nd
Uranus	Pisces	22°Pi39' R	08th	Uranus	Capricorn	25°Cp19'	06th
Neptune	Aquarius	23°Aq56' R	07th	Neptune	Virgo	23°Vi48' R	02nd
Pluto	Sagittarius	29°Sg35' R	05th	Pluto	Libra	07°Li04' R	03rd

Introduction

What do I want to be when I grow up? This childhood question is now being considered by people from fifteen to fifty. The number of jobs available is not the main problem. The difficulties come from two areas: first, the vocational possibilities are rapidly changing. Second, many of us are considering our second or even third career because our original choice is becoming obsolete, or makes demands upon us that we could not have anticipated, or is losing prestige, or no longer pays well enough, or has become so mechanized as to bore us to automated tears. In short, we want more.

This report describes your vocational aptitudes from the astrological perspective so that they can be matched in the career marketplace. While the jobs themselves are ever-changing, personality is founded on a solid base upon which to pivot. Self-understanding can supply the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual clues to your best line of work. Then you can determine how to apply your strongest capabilities to the career field you find most attractive.

The best career is one that allows you to use your natural talents and skills. Astrologers use a number of considerations to determine the energies that are strongest and most beneficial in your chart, identifying the type of activities that will be most likely to achieve career success. Sometimes your latent abilities will require training to develop into appropriate occupational skills. Also, you may have talents that serve your avocation - your hobby - better than your career. In this report we will consider a number of possibilities so you can get a sense of which talents are most beneficial in terms of career, and how to develop and use them.

Your Ascendant or Rising Sign

Let's begin with a description of your Ascendant or rising sign. Here you find your natural expression in the world - the way you present yourself to the world and the way others see you.

You tend to seek official positions, either civil or political, or you find appointment to positions by such people. Whereas some people seek the work and not the position, you definitely are after the position itself. Yet you would not choose work that demeans you in any way, as that would not suit your sense of pride. Arrogance can get in the way of your smooth rise, so maintain your confidence, if you can, without acting like you are above everyone else. You seek to be in charge of some area of your work, whether it be as team leader, a management position, or as owner of a company. You are well-equipped to make decisions and you desire to be in an authoritative position. You may not make it to the top of the biggest heap, but you will be on top of your heap. Amazingly, you are usually able to do this in an open, honest way. The Sun seeks to shine and so do you, in whatever career you find yourself. Your extraordinary willpower and determination keep you going when others would have given up and gone some other direction. You demonstrate loyalty to the organization and its leaders. By the same token, you encourage and expect loyalty from your peers and subordinates. Generally you seek to live life at the fullest. This means that you also seek to acquire the means, as it takes money to get the things you want and to do all the things you want to do. Over time you develop the art of displaying luxury without seeming ostentation.

Now take these initial impressions forward with you as you read the rest of this report. You will come to see if and how these general characteristics fit into the overall picture of your vocational possibilities. As you read, you may find apparent contradictions. This happens because we are complex beings with many interests and abilities. This report presents some of your many choices along the path to vocational success and satisfaction.

Your Creative Touch

Human creativity falls into three principal arenas: creation (the making of things), recreation (the entertaining side of life), and procreation (the creation of the future). Everyone actively engages in all three creative processes, and we often confuse the feelings of one for another. The term "recreational sex" captures the sense of confusion. Some of us work really hard to get "good sex". Some of us feel sex serves only one purpose, that of procreation. Some of us find the deepest spiritual meaning of life in sexual union. To confuse such deeply meaningful matters with mere recreation can be a problem. In terms of career, creativity plays a big role, but typically sexual involvement in the workplace only serves to establish barriers to the free flow of ideas. To gain better understanding of the inner creative urge in its multiplicity of expression is to gain a leg up on the career issues that can lead us to money and fame without also finding inner satisfaction in the work itself.

Creativity for you involves the spiritual side of life. You find pleasure in being inspired and in inspiring others to fulfill their greatest potential. Yours is a quiet creativity, immersed in thought. You seek to blend your experience of the physical world, your educational process and your intuition into a creative admixture where nature and art co-mingle to produce something spiritually pleasing. You are the individual who can see beyond the initial idea, through the building process, and yes, past the completion of a project. You are able to envision the effect of your work on the world and to transform creative energy into a spiritual tool.

You may find that at some point your creative focus is modified to include a somewhat different mode of expression that has the following characteristics:

Your creativity lies in the ability to focus on yourself and your personal process. Your serious attitude toward life, the planning and striving for success, form a large part of your creative life. You thrive in the midst of change because you are able to keep one eye on the job and the other on the larger goal. You take the greatest pleasure from taking the materials at hand and producing concrete results from them. Never one to wait until all the optimum conditions exist, you make conditions change to suit you. Your self-control is not the result of lack of emotion, but rather emerges from your self-examination and understanding.

Many people find that the creative urge seeks to apply itself in a particular area of life that may have very little to do with career. By the same token, the creative voice can dictate the path of vocation, if it is either strong enough or consistent with the overall vocational choices. It helps to understand what part of the creative process most pleases you, what feelings and activities you consider to be most creative.

You like to focus on the practical considerations and leave the daydreams to others where work is concerned. You measure success in terms of results. Results for you include completion, harmony and dependability, all managed in a timely manner.

It also helps to be aware of how you can use your creativity to the best advantage.

Your creative process can manage the most public demonstrations. This is probably because you do your homework ahead of time, but you are known for the results you achieve, not for behind the scenes activities.

Who do you most like to play with when you are being creative? You may think this an odd question where career is concerned, but it strikes at the heart of the career game. If you surround yourself with people who share your creative interests, you will fulfill your inner urge more directly and completely. Just as children work hard at their games, you can play hard at work and thus enjoy this part of your life that takes up the bulk of your waking hours.

Your creative processes are imaginative and impulsive. You can change from one task to another with ease. You have an instinctive ability to manipulate the materials at hand to achieve an emotionally satisfying result. You depend on creative connections for learning. You can be creative around a wide range of emotional types, from crazy people to folks who work with children, airline hostesses to bath attendants, from housewives and domestic servants to nurses, midwives and obstetricians. You enjoy commerce, so exhibitors at fairs, grocers, bakers, shopkeepers, sales people and the public are likely to stimulate your creativity. Night-workers, watchmen and tavern keepers appeal to your night side. You may even get creative in an oceanic environment.

Your life is made up of changing moods and changing circumstances. Your desire to learn takes you in many directions and affords you the opportunity to explore the world of ideas as well as the world of travel. Alternately optimistic and pessimistic, you generally can find the best in any situation. Learn to take the slings and arrows of career change in stride.

You can develop a sense of the importance of creativity to your work, and also what factors affect your creative expression, by considering how you seek creative interplay with others and with the world.

You seek the ideal in all your relationships and are sometimes surprised to find that great beauty comes with its apparent lack of inner substance. Life delivers leadership and success to you; take care to develop relaxed relationships and a healthy life style. The constructive qualities of firmness, modesty and determination develop only after awareness gained through difficult struggles and delicate health. Sudden changes bring new circumstances into your life. You have a progressive mind which can manage such changes. Your intuition emerges under stress in order to guide you. Striving for power is the strongest indicator of transitions in your life. Remarkable advancements are thrust upon you throughout your life. From these you develop your psychic and your social powers.

The typical results of your creative forays have the following characteristics:

Emotional intensity in your life produces conflict. Opportunities arise to work with women. Use your innate artistic talent and recognition of beauty to overcome a tendency to dwell on emotional conflicts. Your mission in life centers on the development of self-control when change hits you. Cautious thinking may be helpful. Adjustment periods cause you to feel separated from others. Intense emotions can create challenges in your life involving other people. You tend to exaggerate things and to strain your nervous system. Yet you will have sudden successes which come out of these tense periods. You need to balance fear and anxiety with restful periods. You have a heightened emotional life which is directed into specific areas of your life. You pursue your goals with almost fanatical zest and must be careful to consider other people in your excitement.

Common sense, for you, depends on intellectual awareness. As long as you take a scrupulously honest approach to life, you will find that relationships are positive. Your active mind and optimism are your best teachers. Fortunate decisions mark the major turning points of your life. You have the ability to concentrate on particular goals. Manage your stress to protect your heart. Conditions frequently exist for you to experience success; you must take some action to manifest beneficial results or they will elude you. You have a pervasive desire for power; this desire focuses, for the most part, on the spiritual or mental sphere. However, you can attain leadership positions. It is possible for you to lose everything.

Current shifts in your creative pattern may be indications of a refinement of your activities to suit the daemon or inner voice. Your awareness of that voice is subject to changes that can have sweeping effects on your career path.

Recent Influences

Your idealism is at a high now, and you tend to speculate a bit. There may be gains without much apparent effort.

Your successes in the work and career world are balanced - and enhanced - by your inner spiritual awareness.

You achieve sudden advancement, but actually it is based on past efforts. Establish your leadership position now.

Current and Future Trends for the Coming Year

This is a time to be conservative, as you may experience losses and need to be prepared. You could lose a great deal if you are wasteful of time or money at this time.

Don't gamble right now, as you tend to experience losses or the fall out from your ill-advised personal actions.

Whether great or small, you experience successes in your activities at this time.

Dissatisfied with current conditions, you strive to make changes, with mixed results.

Creativity and Career

You may be wondering how creativity affects your career. Perhaps you don't feel that the work you do is very creative, or perhaps you have creative pursuits that are not part of how you earn money. Creativity is the expression of an ideal that we each find within ourselves. We each have a unique inner essence that deserves to be polished and re-fined in our individual ways. This essence can be expressed through vocation, and indeed it is a force that pushes us toward the most fulfilling career fields. Many factors combine to produce the best vocational choice. Multiple abilities may combine in a profession not usually associated with the individual qualities you possess.

Where You Have the Best Advantage

In the world of vocation certain energies work to your best advantage.

You experience the impulse to be, and you require no noticeable substance to enjoy the inspiration. First you identify the descent of spiritual energy into the creative part of your mind. New potentialities emerge. Second, you become involved with the creative force of authority that emerges directly from your thoughts. Later you will have the inner authority to merge thought and action as you move toward creative expression. The creative healing force of heat is the third aspect of the impulse to be. And finally there is the creative ability to look into the future and to pursue your individual purpose. A key word for your experience is TO AROUSE. You may incorporate some of the following personality traits in your career activities: spiritedness, self-confidence, ability to enjoy life, enthusiasm, a tendency to burn yourself out, self-centeredness, restlessness, unrestrained desires, strong intuition, optimism and inspiration. At best, you demonstrate traits of self-motivation, dedication, courage and energy.

These may not be your greatest strengths, yet they work better for you in the work environment, they help you to achieve greater career success and fame, and they may even be essential for financial remuneration. For some people, the things that work where vocation is concerned are very different from what work in relationships or other areas of life.

Your Most Likely Mode of Expression

You are able to figure out the nuts and bolts of situations, and then turn them to your advantage through practical effort. Not afraid of physical challenges, you also appreciate the creature comforts that success brings. You are well-prepared to handle the day to day operations of a business. You are the type who may have built sand castles as a child, and ends up designing homes, bridges, high rises and other structures as an adult. You are able to visualize the results of your concrete labors.

You are dependable in your work, capable of persisting through to completion with assigned tasks. You are able to recall details and accumulate the information you need for your work. You can be rather stubborn. You also generally prefer to take the initiative in any situation, choosing action over other considerations. Your initial enthusiasm is often what gets the ball rolling, and you can be counted on to move forward with projects. You can be impatient. You may have trouble adapting to conditions as they arise, learning how to manage and attend to details. You tend to make decision