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Question:

I decided to write to you because I’m desperate. For 18 months now I’ve been unemployed and I cannot find a job. Nobody seems to be interested in me. I have a lot of qualifications but something goes wrong at the last moment.That also means that my financial situation is in a mess as well as my emotional state. I have depression attacks and because of that I have become extremely passive. I’m going out of my mind. I tell myself that I cannot be that unlucky. Everybody goes through rough times. But this is too much.

—T.

Nina Gryphon:

Dear T.:

Long-term unemployment is very difficult, because you begin to doubt yourself, and it seriously affects your self-esteem. After a while, you begin to believe that the rejections are all because of your own weakness, whether or not that is true. As a result, after a while it becomes difficult to tell whether an unemployed job seeker could be a good employee or not, because they give off an aura of desperation. In other words, it is a vicious cycle. In this chart, we would expect to see the underlying causes for your unemployment. This is where horary astrology is so helpful, as it focuses on a very specific cause in any given situation. It is not just that it helps us predict the future, but it gives us a good photograph of the present. Personally, I find the latter even more helpful.

As always, I cast a chart for the moment that I understood your question. I use horary astrology to analyze this question, the name for which comes from the Greek: “of the hour.” The answer is always contained in the chart of the question. The chart is below.

In this horoscope, you are shown by Jupiter, Lord of the first house, and we can see that Jupiter is not in a happy place. It is in 15 Scorpio, where it is Peregrine, or without any essential dignity. Peregrine planets are ones that are neither good nor evil, they are rudderless, and are swept along with the winds of fate. You mentioned that you are extremely passive: this is a good definition of a Peregrine planet in practice. Further, Jupiter is just outside of the malefic 12th house of self undoing and imprisonment. I do not know why exactly, but many charts that I have seen where the person has been unemployed for a long time involve the 12th house. I would assume that this is because after a while you become your worst enemy - this, of course, is the very epitome of self undoing. A Jupiter like that is not one that screams out: “Hire me!”

The trick, then, is to get yourself cleaned up. I would recommend focusing on this before pressuring yourself to find a job. In your case, this may involve added education or training, combined with spiritual discipline. We can see that the moon, significator of your emotions, is in Gemini, where it is in the fall of Jupiter. Emotionally, you have a poor self-image. Jupiter, too, is in the fall of the moon in Scorpio. Your head and your heart are at odds, and neither is doing you much good. The only answer to this is to simply take yourself in hand, and get your act together. I noticed that the moon had recently separated from a square to Venus, which rules the 11th house of friends as well as the sixth house of illness. This is not a benefic Venus, because it is in its fall in Virgo. If you have had a health or mental health episode recently, this is probably what it refers to. This Venus will later sextile Jupiter. Note the very bad mutual reception between Jupiter and Venus; Venus is in the detriment of Jupiter, so whatever Venus is, harms you. Jupiter is in the detriment of Venus, so you hate whatever Venus represents. You mentioned episodes of depression; this may be it. Until you get this Venus under control, it will be difficult for you to get on the right track. This is why I initially recommended that you take a step back and look at your life as a whole, rather than defining it around your lack of a job. Consider what would be the most appropriate and healing path for you to take, because once you are well and strong, finding a job will be a breeze.

The chart does not show a job in the near future, but I would not expect that right now. In a sense, you need to reprioritize, and put your own well-being first for the time being. I wish you the very best of luck in this.

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