Open study · The Vocation Study
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The Vocation Study

Vocation is one of astrology’s oldest promises, but job titles alone are messy evidence. This study compares traditional vocational indicators with a participant’s real field, career stage, interests, values and preferred way of working.

Can a birth chart describe the work a person is drawn to?

Phase 1 · Preliminary75 of 400 charts
Submit Your Chart →Free · one participant profile · findings shared as each phase completes

Methodology

The study distinguishes a person’s actual line of work from the interests and working preferences that may sit underneath a job title.

01

The Calling

Which traditional vocation significators point to the participant’s actual line of work? This measures how closely the reading of the top of the chart lands.

Significators examined
  • The Midheaven and its ruler
  • Planets in the 10th house
  • The almuten of the chart
  • Rulership and essential dignity
  • Sect, the day or night distinction
02

The Interests

Beyond the job title, which elements and planets track what a person is drawn to? Interests are measured with the same model used by established career assessments, then compared with the chart.

Measured with RIASEC
  • Realistic, Investigative and Artistic
  • Social, Enterprising and Conventional
  • Preferences for working with things, data, people, ideas and animals
03

The Real Chart

Does the true birth chart perform better than plausible incorrect charts? This isolates whether correct birth data adds information beyond common patterns and base rates.

The comparisons
  • The participant’s real chart
  • Matched sham charts scored by the same rules
  • A base-rate baseline as a non-astrological control
Why this is measurable: The study uses the RIASEC model—the same six-part interest framework used by many career assessments—so the chart is compared with a structured profile, not a flattering paragraph about having many talents.
The questionnaire

What You’ll Be Asked

Answer from your life as you remember it, not from what your chart or a previous reading says should be true.

  1. 01

    Choose the field closest to your real work and identify where you are in your working life.

  2. 02

    Rate how much you would enjoy eighteen activities, whether or not you are paid for them.

  3. 03

    Describe the values, environment and kinds of work you naturally prefer.

The findings

Results in Three Phases

The analysis becomes more precise as the sample grows. Every phase keeps the misses.

Phase 1 Now filling

Preliminary

A first look at the signal once 400 charts are in. Early results, wide uncertainty, published openly.

Phase 2

Expanded

The analysis runs again at 2,500 charts, with tighter estimates and checks on what survived Phase 1.

Phase 3

Full

The complete analysis at 5,000 charts, including what worked, what failed and what remains uncertain.

How it stays honest

How We Keep It Honest

Blind first. The chart is calculated and its vocation predictions are recorded before anyone reads the participant’s answers.

Standard instruments. Interests are captured with RIASEC, the same framework used by professional career assessments, so the results can be compared with published research.

Misses published. The findings include where these significators fail.

Read the full methodology →
Ready when you are

Add Your Chart to the Sample

You will sign in by email, enter your birth details once, and use the same profile for any other study you choose.

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