What Job Were You Born For? 3 Clues in Your Birth Chart, Seen in Warhol, Einstein and Ronaldo
An artist, a scientist, an athlete. Nothing in common, except one method. Scroll: three clues, three real charts, then yours.
Her birth chart ID
Andy Warhol
6 August 19286:30 amPittsburgh
- ☉︎Sun Leo
- ACRising Leo
- ☽︎Moon Aries
Her birth chart ID
Albert Einstein
14 March 187911:30 amUlm, Germany
- ☉︎Sun Pisces
- ACRising Cancer
- ☽︎Moon Sagittarius
Her birth chart ID
Cristiano Ronaldo
5 February 19855:25 amFunchal, Madeira
- ☉︎Sun Aquarius
- ACRising Capricorn
- ☽︎Moon Leo
Sources disagree on Ronaldo's birth time, so read his houses with care. The Venus and Mars contact does not depend on the hour.
One method
Three clues in your chart.
Clue 1
Your 10th house: count 10 signs from your rising sign. Career, reputation, what the world sees you do.
Clue 2
The ruler of that sign, and the house where it sits: where your career gets its energy.
Clue 3
Your strongest planet, often the one on your rising point or your Midheaven: the tool you use best.
The key
Mercury: words, tech. Venus: art, beauty. Mars: sport, building. Jupiter: teaching, law. Saturn: managing. Sun: leading. Moon: caring.
Real chart: Andy Warhol
The artist who sold his own image.
Step 1
Leo rising. Count 10 signs from Leo and you land on Taurus: his 10th house, the house of career. Jupiter and Mars live there.
Taurus is ruled by Venus, the planet of art and beauty. And his Venus sits in his 1st house: the career goes through his own look.
His strongest planets: the Sun, less than 1° from his rising point, then Venus. The silver wig, the face, the name. He was the artwork.
Andy Warhol
1° between his Sun and his rising point
When the Sun sits there, the person and the image become one thing. The silver wig, the face, the name.
Real chart: Albert Einstein
The scientist: thinking in the house of career.
Step 1
Cancer rising. Count 10 signs from Cancer: Aries is his 10th house.
Three planets in it. Mercury, the mind. Saturn, patience and structure. Venus, the love of a beautiful equation. A career made of ideas.
Aries is ruled by Mars, which sits in his 7th house, the house of the other: rivals, partners, debates. Think of his long debates with Niels Bohr.
1905, Bern
4 papers in one year
Still a clerk at the patent office, he writes four papers, one of them with E = mc². Mercury and Saturn in his 10th house: ideas, built slowly.
Real chart: Cristiano Ronaldo
The athlete: Mars and Venus, glued together.
Step 1
Capricorn rising. Count 10 signs from Capricorn: Libra is his 10th house. No planet inside, so we follow its ruler.
Libra is ruled by Venus. His Venus sits in Aries, in his 4th house: home, roots, family. His career keeps coming back to Madeira and to his mother.
And Mars, the athlete's planet, sits less than 1° from that Venus, in its own sign. His two strongest planets: Venus first, Mars second. Beauty and fight, in one body.
Cristiano Ronaldo
5 Ballon d'Or awards
Mars, the athlete's planet, less than 1° from Venus, the planet of image. A champion who is also a brand, down to his own fragrances.
Same three clues. Three very different careers.
Your turn: find your three clues tonight
- 1
Find your rising sign, count 10 signs, and write down your 10th house sign and the planets in it.
- 2
Find the ruler of that sign and the house where it sits.
- 3
Look for a planet sitting right on your rising point or your Midheaven.
In 2027, Saturn spends the whole year in Aries and Jupiter enters Virgo at the end of July. Your 2027 agenda shows you, day by day, when the planets cross your own 10th house.
Your 2027, from your birth chart
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Your personalized 2027 agenda, day by day, from your birth chart: your strong days, the planets that cross your chart, every Moon already on the right day. A PDF to print, a lovely Christmas gift too.
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Questions people ask
How do I know what career fits my birth chart?
Look at three clues: your 10th house (count 10 signs from your rising sign) and the planets in it, the ruler of that sign and the house where it sits, and your strongest planet, the one on your rising point or Midheaven. Together they describe the kind of work where you shine.
What if my 10th house is empty?
That is very common and it is not a bad sign. An empty 10th house simply means you follow its ruler: find the planet that rules the sign of your 10th house, and read the house where it sits. Cristiano Ronaldo and Mick Jagger both have an empty 10th house.
What is the difference between the 10th house and the Midheaven?
In whole sign houses, the 10th house is the whole 10th sign from your rising sign. The Midheaven is an exact degree, the highest point of the sky at your birth. It often falls in the 10th sign, but it can fall in the 9th or the 11th. Both talk about career.
Do I need my birth time?
Yes, for the 10th house and the rising sign: they change every two hours or so. Without a birth time you can still read clue three in part, through your planets' signs and the contacts between them.
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Photos, Wikimedia Commons: Andy Warhol (Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain); Albert Einstein (Oren Jack Turner, Public domain); Cristiano Ronaldo (Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0); Steve Jobs (Matthew Yohe, CC BY-SA 3.0); Martha Stewart (Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0); Robert Downey Jr. (Philip Romano, CC BY-SA 4.0); Britney Spears (Glenn Francis, CC BY-SA 4.0)