10th House(Karma Bhava) Profession Career Astrology

10th House(Karma Bhava) Profession Career Astrology

The tenth house is known as the Karma bhava. It is considered to all the works that a person does in his life. It is also related to a person’s business. A person’s wishes are revealed if there is a moving sign in the tenth house. The tenth house helps in analyzing if a person will be successful in life or not. This bhava also explains a person’s self-confidence and an independent business.

With the presence of a stable sign in the tenth house, a person is determined and focused. He likes to be independent. Such a person is focuses in business activities and is also patient.

 Signs, planets, houses and profession

There are different techniques to determine one’s profession with astrology. In modern astrology the profession is indicated, mainly, by the 10^th house and her ruler, but also by the Sun position, in sign and house, and the Ascendant. In traditional astrology the profession was found by analyzing the planet which rules profession and we will see different methods to discover that planet in the second part.

Planets and profession 

Planets are very important in our quest to determine the right profession and other skills, abilities that might be useful in career. The planets that should be analyzed are: the planet which rules profession (more in the second part), the planets from the 10^th house or near the MC, the planet which rules the 10^th house. Let's see some characteristics and professions associated with planets in astrology:  

Sun: 
dignified people, leadership, commander, chief. 

Moon:
 public success, writer, politician, interpreter of dreams, magician, irrational mind, timidity, stupidity, jobs connected with water, seas.

Mercury: 
scientist, scribe, mathematician, merchant, accountant, teacher, orator, astrologer, astronomer, writer, business man, banker, financial manager.

Venus: 
actor, musician, poet, dancer, painter, fashion.

Mars: 
soldier, fighter, athlete, business executive, doctor, commander, robber, arms, killer of animals, people who work with iron and fire, surgeons, engineers. 

Jupiter: 
judge, lawyer, priest, philosopher, teacher, administrator, business man, politician.

Saturn: 
scientist, doctor, tax collector, inferior work, laborer.

Houses and profession

The 10^th house, which rules career, profession, is definitely the most important. The sign and the planets from the 10^th house give the basic image. Still, there are other houses which can give valuable information about profession, about the area of life where our profession can manifest: the houses where the planet which rules profession, the sun and the ruler of the 10^th house are placed. Let’s see what those planets represent if they are found in:  

House 1 
indicates professions very important for the subject, that means everything for him and take all the time. Also can be related with appearance, how a person looks or the physical body.

House 2
 indicates professions related with money, wealth, estate, banks, stock exchange, money market, business, moveable possession.

House 3
 indicates professions related with mass-media, newspapers, television, education system, language, literature, contracts, communication, messages, letters, rumors, telephones, postal service, short journeys, travelers, locomotion system. 

House 4 indicates professions related with land, farming, agriculture, every occupation for taking care of the land, mining, property, buildings, structure, property market, tradition, history, parents, inheritance from parents, ancestry, graves.

House 5 
indicates professions related with joy, pleasure, holidays, creativity, luxurious things, gifts, feasts, leisure industry, recreation, pubs, public parks, sport, games, gambling, speculation, lottery, art, dance, music, theatre, love, romance, procreation, children.

House 6
 indicates professions related with medicine, activity connected with illness and disease, dentists, doctors, nurses, health industry, poorly rewarded work, servants, hard labor, small beasts, pets. 

House 7
 indicates professions related with partnerships, unions, alliances, agreements, marriage, lawsuits, enemies.

House 8
 indicates professions related with others money, taxes legacies, insurance money owned to others, testaments, death, accidents.

House 9 
indicates professions related with higher education, universities, colleges, public administration, lawyers, counselors, foreigners, advisors, philosophy, religion, principles, theories, revelation, dreams, visions, divination, astrology, long journeys, airlines.

House 10
indicates public activity, reputation, fame, authority, success, power, glory. Commanders, police, courts, judges, magistrates are symbolized by the 10^th house. 

House 11
indicates professions related with groups who share an aim, political ideas, county council, parliament, supporters, friends, benefactors.

House 12 indicates professions related with clandestine activity occult groups, infirmity, disgrace poverty, banished persons, hospitals, asylums, homeless people.

Careers by planet

Sun 
authority, politicians, scientists, leaders, directors, government employees, doctors, jewelers

Moon
 nursing, the public, women, children, travelling, marine, cooks, restaurants, import/export.

Mars
 fire, energy, metals, initiative, weapons, construction, soldiers, police, surgeons, engineers.

Mercury
 intellect, writing, teaching, merchandise, clerks, accountants, editors, transport, astrologers.

Jupiter
 finance, law, treasury, scholars, priests, politicians, advertising, psychologist, humanitarian.

Venus 
pleasures, luxuries, beauty, art, music, entertainment industry, sex industry, hotels.

Saturn 
the aged, death, real estate, labour, agriculture, building trades, mining, monk.

Rahu 
researchers, engineers, physicians, medicine/drugs, speculators, aviation, electricity, waste.

Ketu 
idealism, enlightenment, religion, secret affairs, poisons, metaphysics.

Uranus 
scientists, inventors, computing, astrologers, lab technicians, electronics.

Neptune 
photographers, movies, marine, oil, pharmaceutical, psychics, poets.

Pluto 
research, investigators, insurance, death, longevity-related technology, espionage.

Careers by sign

Aries 
army and police, surgeon, mechanics, iron and steel, firefighting, industrialists, athletes.

Taurus 
luxury goods, jewelry, cosmetics, music, actors, banking, tailors, fashion, property.

Gemini 
media and journalism, accountants, representatives, translators, writers.

Cancer 
naval and marine, fishing, nursing, interior design, food, petroleum, historians.

Leo 
government jobs, politics, religion, investing, diplomacy.

Virgo 
computing, astrology, accounting, media, doctors, healing.

Libra 
judges, artists, cosmetics, fashion, receptionists, advertising, interior decorating, prostitutes.

Scorpio 
chemicals, drugs, liquids, insurance, doctors, nurses, police, occult.

Sagittarius 
law, religion, banking and finance, entrepreneurs, athletes, clothing and shoes.

Capricorn 
raw material extraction and processing such as lumber and mining

Aquarius 
advisors, consultants, philosophers, astrologers, engineers, computing

Pisces 
doctors, marine related, chemicals, oil, painters, hospital, prisons.

Careers by house

First 
self-employment, politics or the public at large, the body (e.g. health club)

Second 
banking, investments, accountants, restaurants, teaching, consultants, psychologists, writing

Third 
communication, arts, sales, advertising, computing, writing, publishing

Fourth 
agriculture, building trades, real estate, vehicles, water, geology and mining

Fifth 
politics, stockbrokers, religious rituals, entertainment, authorship

Sixth 
lawyers, military, police, labour, health related professions, food, waiters.

Seventh 
business, trade, merchant, females, foreign business.

Eighth 
insurance, research, death-related, metaphysics (e.g. astrology), sex industry.

Ninth 
law, university teaching, travel, religious professions, foreign countries.

Tenth 
government jobs, dealing with public and the masses, managers, politics.

Eleventh 
trade and business, accountants, financial institutions, group work.

Twelfth 
foreign, jobs requiring secrecy, travels, hospitals, prisons, charities, advocacy.