IDENTIFICATION OF SETBACKS IN PROFESSION
The professional matters are one of the important and pivotal facets of life. The success of life in other fields such as relationships, social recognition, self-actualization, mental peace, sense of achievement, etc. etc. is dependent upon the professional success of the person. The delay professional settlement and setbacks in a profession causes serious setbacks to the mental and physical health of the person. The delays and setbacks are caused by: a) When the prime and secondary determinants are weak. b) When the prime determinants are badly placed. c) When the Sun or Sun-like planets are weak and severely afflicted. d) When the most effective points of the houses governing professional matters are under the close influence of the functional malefic planets or the most malefic planet. We shall now take up case studies to demonstrate the impact of weakness and afflictions to the professional determinants and the most effective points of the houses ruling the professional matters. The weakness of the professional determinants result in ordinary or routine careers with delayed settlement while the afflictions result into professional setbacks. The case studies include the charts where problems arose due to natal afflictions and charts where problems arose due to the transit influences, but were short lived. The case studies further include the charts where the professional setbacks were averted with the help of the performance of astrological remedial measures. The case studies also include charts where for lack of trust in the power of the astrological remedial measures, the individuals did not perform the suggested astral remedies and suffered professional reversals. These individuals were the so-called believers in destiny. When they believe in destiny, it is not understood why they cannot treat the performance of the astral remedies as part of the destiny. To derive the full benefits of the astral remedies, it is important that Jupiter or the lord of the ninth house or the fourth house is well placed or strong in the nativity. ROUTINE WORKERS CHART 1 MALE BORN 10TH APRIL 1967, 2117 HRS. GURGAON, INDIA. The sign Scorpio rises in the ascendant. The Sun and Jupiter are the prime determinants of professional matters in this case. Cancer rises in the dasamsa ascendant. The Moon becomes the additional prime determinant of professional matters. Mars, Venus, Rahu and Ketu act as functional malefic planets. The Moon and Jupiter act as Sun-like planets. The Sun is placed in the fifth house and is weak. Jupiter, the lord of the house of status, is in infancy and placed in the ninth house. It is weak but closely influences the ascendant. The Moon acts like a Sun but is weak as it is placed in the house of conflicts. Mars closely influences the most effective point of the houses occupied and aspected and the planets, the Moon and Venus. Both Mars and Venus are weak due to infancy. The most malefic planet, Venus, exerts its close malefic influence on the ascendant. The group of planets the Sun, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and the Moon give a predominant interest in the profession of general administration and engineering. The lord of the house of gains, Mercury, is debilitated and in utter infancy. The lord of the fourth house, Saturn, is strong and placed in the house of professional education. The native is an engineer due to the significant impact of Saturn. But the weakness of the prime determinants, additional prime determinant and secondary determinants resulted into prolonged unemployment for the person in spite of his being an engineer signified by the lords of the fourth and tenth houses in the fifth house. He was prescribed thewearing of a Kavach for strengthening the weak functional benefic planets, which could bless him with a job in the beginning of the year 1995.