Astrological guide offers help when choosing a career

Clearly it is to everybody's advantage to be happy in their work, and the choice of a career is all-important. Again, there is the case of a boss who wonders whether to give a man a chance to do a new job, give him a break. What sort of a risk is the boss going to take? Every man and woman likes to narrow down the odds in a gamble. This is just what this astrological guide might do for you when you are deciding on a career for yourself or your children, or pondering whether to give a person an opportunity to prove themselves.

ARIES 21st March – 20th April

You need a job with much freedom, not a lot of petty supervision, but independence of action. You work hard. Office jobs are quite unsuitable as is anything with a lot of routine. You enjoy jobs that bring you into contact with other people, but you do not fit too readily into teams, organizations and groups. You will tend to be respected for hard work and results but not well-loved by superiors. Try a Traveling representative, open air work, or being your own master.

TAURUS 21st April – 21st May

You work at your best only if the background of your home and emotional life are settled. If you can find a restful job which is in comfortable surroundings you work very well indeed. You have a great facility to spend money, you need it very badly and provided that your working conditions are right you can work yourself into the ground to get it. Horticul­ture, forestry and agriculture do not pay all that well but Taurus do well in them. Success in luxury and artistic professions.

GEMINI 22nd May – 21st June

People under this sign usually have brilliant intellectual capacity; clearly their work should be of a type that gives full range to their ability and remarkable enthusiasm for hard graft. Gemini people must avoid any work which is dull, monotonous, and routine; they need freedom. Inventive, creative, full of initiative, Gemini people fit into almost any working group - although they may not always like them.

CANCER 22nd June – 21st July

Cancer folk drive themselves very efficiently; when they start something they invariably push it through to its finish. Usually this sign does its best when working alone or without direct supervision. Hotel and restaurant managers, cafe owners, swimming pool superintendents, shopkeepers and managers. Fashion work, scientific, photo­graphic work - almost any serious, worthwhile job with an intellectual challenge and a chance of meeting and talk­ing to people attracts Cancer types. Loyal and conscientious workers, Cancer is quickly put off by unfair treatment or bad conditions of work.

LEO 22nd July – 23rd August

Your difficulty in work is that you feel instinctively and insistently that you should be at the top. Young Leo workers are often far too impatient. Leos never really enjoy working in a mass to be just a cog in a wheel; you must have a chance for good promotion. Brilliant organisers, you give orders far better than you take them, unless you respect the ability of your superiors.

VIRGO 24th August – 23rd September

You usually prefer a job like the Civil Service or a similar occupation in which everything is set out in black and white. You need rules, fairness on both sides, and do well in scientific, technical and analytical work. You are clever in accountancy and all precise matters. You are not good in jobs where much imagination and initiative is required, although there is great talent in acting here. You make superb efficiency experts, but usually expect too much from other Zodiac signs.

LIBRA 24th September – 23rd October

You are not easy to place. You will often change a job according to emotional dictates. In art, music, ballet, exhibition work, modelling, etc. you can excel. You co-operate marvellously with people you like, and might easily follow a favourite boss into another job - even if it meant a lower salary. You make sympathetic (if not always 100% faithful) bosses: Everyone comes to you with their tale of woe. You can be good diplomats and politicians. You can succeed in almost any work you undertake - provided you are emotionally happy.

SCORPIO 24th October – 22nd November

You prefer work with a touch of adventure in it, with a chance to use your tact, charm and wit. Your natural fierce energy and your organising powers need a natural, healthy outlet. Chemists, dentists, doctors, car mechanics, professional soldiers, engineers; your talents are many. Many politicians and reformers are Scorpios. You must find something that intrigues your mind, otherwise boredom will surely set in!

SAGITTARIUS 23rd November – 22nd December

Intellectuals, farmers, electricians, inventors, many indeed are the fields of success available to Sagittarians - but not the Civil Service! You need freedom to move, to make responsible decisions and in which to bestow the benefits of your leadership. Any field of activity in which you serve a section of, or the entirety of, a community will make you very contented. Educations should also appeal, as you are the eternal student!

CAPRICORN 23rd December – 20th January

Among this sign are often found the quiet, efficient, overmodest experts. People will treasure your memory for years - which is just as well for you are seldom paid what you are worth. Albert Schweitzer, Heinrich Pestalozzi and Grock (the great clown) all made contributions of one sort or another to human happiness and welfare: they all died poor. You make superb schoolteachers, doctors, administrators, lawyers, historians, masseurs, and civil engineers. You desperately, need security and are slow to act, slower to change jobs and slower to adapt: thus God created you - let none blame you if you differ from them. You work at a slower rhythm than most, and are easily misunderstood.

AQUARIUS 21st January – 18th February

Yours is a fantastic sign. If you overcome the slow contemplation that more aggressive signs mistake for laziness you can show talent and sheer genius second to none. You can excel at anything and everything you put your mind to. In the non-biblical writings it is reported that Jesus taught this world is a bridge, do not build upon it. Aquarians usually do not put themselves wholly 100% into anything - however good they are at it; there is always a deep occult awareness that life on earth is more than overspecialisation in one small field. There is no field of human endeavour in which Aquarians have not excelled and made a name for themselves. Your versatility is remarkable. In adaptability few people can match you. Tolerant bosses usually, you overwork yourselves more than you do others. The latest scientific fields are ideal for practical Aquarians; atomic, electric, space research etc. You cannot work if subjected to injustice or if unhappy in your job.

PISCES 19th February – 20th March

Tireless workers, excellent (often selfless) assistants but not very good businessmen and women on your own account. You work better in company than singly. You are authors, singers, scientists, priests, politicians and poets. Orderly and well-disciplined workers, you are well respected. Albert Einstein and Copernicus were both Pisces.