Career profile from 10th Navamsha - BP Lama Jyotisha Vedic Astrology

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If you are old enough to have had some years of career activity, there is some empirical evidence of the material career - however modest. Housewifery is indeed a career and it is marked normally by Karkata rashi upon the unoccupied 10th navamsha. the lord of the 10th navamsha can be a very accurate guide to what a person does for a living.

For example my own lord of navamsha-10 = Guru = fairly strong in D-1 Simha-11 rashi yuti swakshetra L-11 Simha-Surya. Like most people with Mithuna navamsha lagna I am therefore mainly a teacher-guide. I've had corporate and university jobs, managed a travel agency, been an at-home mom, a babysitter, a waitress, hotel maid, farmhand, and a 4th-grade teacher. According to Guru, all these assignments long and short should have involved philosophy, understanding, world travel, children. Typical of Guru, many of these various jobs had an international focus. Currently I am affiliated with a university which is very much Guru-land. So, Guru is an accurate L-10 navamsha for me, judged by its karaka function (teaching-travel-guidance) and role in the radix (earning-11, skills training-3, dealing with conflict/outcaste-6). My Guru is also combust and there are no graha in 10th navamsha, which would predict a low-power public presence and low earnings (sigh).

Consider possibly 2-or-3 options for navamsha lagna rashi, within a birth time range of about 15 minutes (varies by season and latitude). For each option, which graha becomes L-10 navamsha? That graha should have a karaka function that matches behaviors that you really do perform the most frequently -- regardless of "official" job title.

Consider also what job skills of which one is most proudor by which one is most personally validated.

10 is the angle of public identity, the intelligence and control over others which is required to impose an orderly environment (in which environments would you, over time, acquire enough status to eventually become the boss?), respect and prestige.

Don't get stuck on job titles; look at the behavioral reality.

Younger people have quite a hard time doing this because they don't have much job experience and they get sucked into the glamour of titles. For example, a 20-something client mentioned that he wanted to be a videographer, and did I see that in his nativity. I said yes that was feasible because Budha was lord of 10th navamsha, and being a videographer involves lots of desk work with cut-and-paste, managing a million details, producing media publications, etc. It involves an endless stream of conversations, meetings, and calendars, and skills are both mental plus hand-crafty = coordinating the details of scripts with the "text" of visual imagery. Any job with the suffix "-graphy" in English = writing = totally Budha.
The young man was upset with my analysis, even though my divinatory answer to his query was "yes". The reason for his discontent was that he had recently graduated from an art school, and he thought of himself as an Artist. Just starting out in the labor-for-pay marketplace, he had not yet held an adult job, and he expected a careers to provide some type of larger-than-life ego validation. In fact, for most people, careers = social service labor. Public duty rosters are much more dictated by society's present needs than about an individual's preferences or tastes. That is why in Jyotisha, careers are assessed by 10th-from (Shani) and not 1-from (vitality) or 5-from (personal genius).
This young fellow presumed that I would find in his career profile some expression of his capacity to produce Magnificent Works of Art. Yet in real life most careers in Art are over-determined by the rules of the commercial marketplace, therefore most art jobs are technical and are ruled by Budha.
By contrast, Shukra on navamsha 10th = contractual agreements and accumulations of wealth. Money management, financial contracts, any sort of banking or collection of values, inventory or warehousing of luxury items for the pampered wealthy classes, or work that is predominantly of service to women, generally in the beautification trades.
Or one might become a marital therapist, a diplomat, or a counseling adviser, like the famous Jyotishi B.V. Raman who had a Shukra-ruled 10th navamsha. All of the counseling and negotiating arts are included under the auspice of Shukra the Equalizer.
But even a person who works for a Bank (Shukra) might have a Mangala-ruled D-9 karma bhava because what this person really does might be using money to create competitive corporate "take-over" wars (Mangala = competition and invasion). If the work is innovative or aggressive, the 10th navamsha can easily be governed by Mangala regardless of the overall category of the corporation or institution by which one is employed.
Budha on the 10th navamsha is also a positive marker for self-owned business handling any sort of commodity, because the self-owner inevitably performs his or her own administration (Budha).

Think in a flexible but logical way about which rashi should own the 10th navamsha. If you can find the match between it and the genuine job practices, the way in which this native typically serves society, you will have a very good proof of birth time within a range of about 2-5 minutes, and maybe even closer. The final step in BT rectification will of course require a few more life events to zero in on the exact BT to the minute-second mark.