Hi Kids,
Today I’ve been researching the 2010 annual for Aries. I am looking for some feedback from those born under this Sun OR rising sign about what has been happening in your professional life, and how this is intersecting with your relationship life.
Please post your comments here. Thank you!
cosmicsigns
The thread between my professional and personal life this year is a quest for security & companionship. I began a dream job in August, but now realize it’s lonesome compared to my previous position, not as community oriented as before. I can work from wherever, and not checking in with anyone is liberating, but kinda lonely. No one notices if you arrive late, but there’s also no one to notice if you arrive at all. And personally, the man I’m involved with (who I reconnected with in August as well) is craving freedom after a divorce, which I logically understand, but emotionally am very threatened by and uncomfortable with. I think often about the messages here on planetwaves, regarding compersion & polyamory, but am struggling with the reality of such ideas within my situation. Maybe those are practices that come after a solid relationship is established, because it doesn’t make sense to me at this beginning stage. Friends, of course, say its obvious he’s not serious, but I’m trying to think about it differently, and not let society’s norms lead my thinking. I can’t think of when I’ve craved security or company this much, it’s definitely a theme right now. Interestingly, both the job & man would be considered my “ideals” But now that I “get what I want” it’s not nearly enough & has thrown my foundation off.
April 6, 1967, 3:35 PM Cleveland, Oh. These past 2 years have been intersting, I had alot of responsibilities handed to me at work with little recognition, as much as I dislike being the “leader”, I consistently get stuck in that position. Now I have a new chief- I’m still trying to “read” her- I know that changes are coming at work – but I’m trying to be optimistic and hope everything is for the better. 2010 theme looks to be about change, change and more change. Really, I just want to escape and get my head together-I’m not a beach person- but lately that is all that I have been dreaming about. On the relationship front- I’m crushing on a Gemini workaholic- and nothing is going anywhere- everytime I ignore him – he pops up- it is annoying. ARRGH!!!
Happy to check in, Eric:
Aries with Libra rising, Taurus moon
Grand cross:
Achilles and Uranus conjunct the MC, Chiron conjunct IC, Saturn and Neptune conjunct on AC, Sun and Venus conjunct on the DC
Working two jobs for the past year – one as a full time funeral director (paid) and the other as Centre manager for a Tibetan Buddhist centre in the Sydney CBD (volunteer). Went through a financial purge in 2003 and have been struggling to make ends meet for the past 6 years.
Have had to discipline my mind to get used to the 7 day a week work routine. Basic attitude that seems to work is to remind myself “Most people don’t have even one job they love but I am fortunate enough to have TWO.” Feel joyful most days to be of service to people who are genuinely in need or seeking spiritual insight. Interact with about 100 people a week in emotionally intimate situations.
On difficult days, I wish I could run away and be a highly paid corporate CEO (again) in a beautiful natural setting (like Tasmania) working with a hot science team to bring forth ecological technology and makes gobs of money (again) to bankroll worthwhile causes (like building a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Sydney) that are struggling for resource. Funnily enough, a job that fits exactly that description appeared last week and I applied for it. Got a call from the headhunter but given I am a woman, over 50 and do not have an MBA (was too busy living it to go to school to study it) – it will take a miracle to be seriously considered and hired.
Have had steady physical energy – very reliable and can gauge by the fact that I walk to work 5 days a week – 4 kilometres every day – and feel strong and well (am 56 years old). Menopause from 2000 to 2006 was very difficult but have come through it renewed and healthier than ever.
My partner has not been able to find work but we have been enjoying the role reversal – he’s the kindest and sanest person to live with. It’s working for us. My youngest son is just finishing up his High School exams this month and has good prospects and the desire to go on to University. He shares the same birthdate with me (April 15th) and also is Aries with Taurus moon. He’s a sane fellow – albeit a bit lazy – and has a lovely girlfriend.
Our household is a harmonious one – we are straight with each other about our needs and boundaries while being respectful and kind. It works for the 3 of us.
Ambition is my constant companion and stirs up desires that would perhaps be best left alone until they actually sprout.
Yours in the dharma,
Linda
Aries Rising – and Sun Sign Cancer
I have always been bold, dynamic and enthusiastic in my career and have loved every minute of it. However, 2009 is a different story. As a cancerian and having Pluto in my opposite sign , the sign of Polarities for me, 2009 has been brutal. My career aspiration intersected with my relationship desires and the best way to describe the experience it “Extreme Emotional Pain” . Also, as per your forecast of 8 year review and Venus retrogade in Aries until June, the timing of the crisis was end of April to End of May and I have been reeling from it since. Off course, Most important revelation I have had was the most of things I was doing was to satisfy a lack or shortage of some kind in my self. This revelation came in April- May time frame, may be this is what Venus taught me!! But for spirit and inspiration for career is still very much alive and in fact has matured more than I can describe.
aries sun, virgo moon, gemini rising. EXPANSION! the year of expansion. In both my professional life and my relationship life. What has expanded is my vision for the possibilities of both. My goals and ideas of the last few years seem micro in comparison. I was able to let go of some self imposed limitations, realize my heart matters to me, and that I can and deserve to think bigger and achieve bigger.
And also- it feels like they’re two seperate things or two different paths that don’t really intersect, it can go either way.
I could go one way which would give me really close and fullfilling relationships but my career wouldnn’t be exactly ideal, or I could follow the career path which would be following a kind of passion but one which takes me away from any sort of fullfilling relationships and kind of down a road that only gives me interactions with one type of people. If that makes sense.
Hi Eric, I’m a pisces with aries rising 2.55degrees with mars in cap and pluto transiting my midheaven.
I’ve had a rough rough year socially and professionally. It all started to come together around September 2nd approx this year where i seemed to be starting afresh and learning what good relationships should feel like but at this time i lost my job. Then I had a problem where my dad and his wife came back from an extended trip overseas (i was staying in their house while they were gone) and since then raltionships went downhill and i became a hermit again because of emotional stuff they stirred up. Now I have started work again for the same company and it is going ok but relationships are still on hiatus. So I feel like maybe thats pluto on midheaven (father figure controlling or something). Which brings in the ic as well- when that is ok everything else seems to go well.
my son is an Aries, born on the 19th of April, 1995 @ 10:39 pm, Santa Monica, CA. He’s a deep well of emotion…very bright, and struggling like most adolescents do. He’s had some rough years socially, but we’re crossing our fingers that this year he will stop being so self-critical, anxious and depressed, and move into a new phase of discovering many of his unique gifts that have been invisible to him. He has danced with the dark side for quite some time, feeling enormous angst about the state of the planet, and is easily overwhelmed, but he has the capacity to enjoy the present moment; he’s resilient and has a wonderful dry sense of humor. Don’t know if this is helpful, Eric, since he’s not in professional mode yet (blissfully) other than being an expert at his video games.
Aries sun (Libra asc). Professional life great as always, have been in great well paid and settled work for last two years. Not intersecting at all with relationship life, which remains shit.
Hi Eric,
I’m an Aries, Virgo moon, Cap on the cusp Rising. I have several business ventures including a candle company, a publishing company, a virtual art shop and various teaching/reading/seminar work. They all depend on relationships in some form or other.
The publishing is greatly influenced by a passionate writer friend who fuels my love for poetry. He also fuels my art by being sort of a muse. I wouldn’t even have a publishing company if it weren’t for him actually. I published a book by him last year to go in the candle catalog and word spread online before I even released it so I went with it. Released it on amazon and put it in the New York Book fair.
Another friend, a woman who took me in after my divorce, has just become partner in the candle company and is reinvigorating it with her enthusiasm and talents. I was wondering what to do with it, not wanting to quit but finding it hard to manage on my own and she saved the day. I was dating a guy for a few months and he left the job he was in for 5 years to come into the company and then decided not to. We are no longer dating anyway, but it was strange. He said he just needed something to say, I suppose it was a way to leave a job and not be so fearful. He is still unemployed.
I stopped teaching for a while to focus on other things but one reason (a big reason) was the woman who runs the center I taught at was manipulating and I felt the only reason she had me at her center was to show me off to her friends. It was a strange deal and put me off. I’m a medium and like to feel a respect for what I do when someone is hosting me to speak and for her it was just power so I’d rather not do it there.
Economically, this has been the most challenging year I’ve had. It started out great on all fronts but really fell apart mid-year. It could have been leaving my husband because I needed so much healing from that. The momentum was shot and it’s been tough to get it back. I’ve also veered from the candles to write and draw more. I’m planning a big research project (that will hopefully become a book) for the early months of next year which will bring me to Austin. Austin because of friends there who will put me up for free as I investigate their subculture which is so lovely! So a change in the winds and hopefully the money, too. To speak frankly my finances have really plummeted to where I don’t really know if I’ll be eating next month! I haven’t had a car in about two months either. If it wasn’t for amazing friends and family I’d be homeless. lol It’s a good thing I enjoy life and always look on the bright side. I love what I do and, being an Aries, will always find a way to make things work.
Hope this helps!
Love Rachel
Oh, I have a Moon/uranus conjunction in Leo in the 9th house in a T-square with Mercury in Taurus in the 5th and Neptune in Scorp in the 11th. I need to be able to express myself.
Hi Eric,
I am an Aries Sun, Asc at 27 scorpio with the balance of my first house in Sag. Workwise, Career wise, these last two-three years have been spent actively trying to not hate my job. Well, not my job per se, but the way I am compelled to do it. I am a teacher. I am a good teacher (Jupiter on the MC in Virgo in a T-square with a 1st house Saturn in Sag opp a 7th house Mars in Gemini) in a Needs Improvement school in an urban school system. The system is corrupt (as is currently coming to light in all of the local papers), and heads will soon roll. I am somewhat of a maverick, a square peg in a round hole, and have recently come under scrutiny again now that we have a female principal. During the last five years our administrators have been men, and I get along very well with men. I like them and they like me. A certain kind of Black woman (I am a Black woman) hisses when I enter her sphere of awareness, and unfortunately my supervisor is that kind of woman. Fortunately for me, my test standardized test scores are good so hopefully it won’t get ugly before the school year is over.
With the school being on the Needs Improvement list for the last four years, we have to document everything in triplicate. We have to adhere to the state curriculum and pacing guide, we have to make and post charts of bi-weekly common assessments across grade levels, we have to have our lesson plans graded, ad nauseum. There is no room for creativity on the part of the teacher, and of course I am hating this because I know that what I can invent on my own will benefit the children much better than anything I can get off of the state website. It’s killing me and my attitude is very poor. I feel (and my numbers bear me out) that I don’t need that kind of intervention and so those rules should not apply to me. But they do, and I have to do all of that dumb shit along with everyone else. I hate it.
But I love my students.
Hi,
Aries sun, Gemini moon, Taurus rising. Professionally, it’s been overwhelming with change and challenge. Adapting, which is usually easy, has been nearly impossible. Everything that was a given is no longer valid. I guess you could say this about most things this year. Kaos is the new normal.
x o
I’ll add the first comment here, from an Aries clients I just finished with – who is about to make a big career move, into business. This is so much about the partnerships involved, both with the business partner and the clients. She is an innovator – part of the Aries birthright. She described an Eastern idea of karma, which is: if you plant an apple seed, you get an apple tree.
Well, I’m an Aries with Libra rising, so whose to say which part of the polarity is responsible, but here goes: Pluto on my IC broke up my parent’s 40-year marriage and they sold the house I grew up in; heartbreaking. Intensely focused on career and have some big things brewing for next year — but major fear of failure, of course. This focus on career has made me totally abandon working on my personal life and relationships — I’ve been very complacent about love and oddly not obsessing over it at all. Maybe it’s not complacency, maybe it’s just calm? I’m not sure. Sick and tired all the time during Saturn in Virgo years — hoping that will change now. Although not so concerned about dating, VERY obsessed about aging/looks lately. But I guess par for the course as a woman with Libra rising. I have, however, noticed an uptick in distress over recent months and weeks, I assume in preparation for Saturn going over my 3 degree ascendant. Hope this helps a bit!