HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ?
From birth we are told by all those around us what they believe we are and what they believe we should or will become. If we have experiences, feeling, or Energy Blocks which encourage us to react as if we have been abandoned, we can seek security and acceptance in everything we do by following these assessments by others.

IF their assessments of us are CORRECT, and they seldom are, we can structure our life accordingly and become very materially and socially successful and content.

IF those assessments, projections, and expectations are WRONG, we will likely live a life of success or failure, and, depression and discontent. Depression has consistently been reported for decades as the most frequent ailment justifying the visit of a North American to their doctor. This, in spite of the fact that it is socially unacceptable to admit to depression and many institutionalized religions deny those who experience it as spiritually lost.

WITH UNDERSTANDING and SELF-DIRECTION, you do not have to remain lost. When I was in my pre-teens, I found the career of aircraft pilot to be a desired future. I studied piloting, aircraft construction plans, and read books about flying. Then I was informed that because I wore glasses, and pilots at the time had to have uncorrected excellent vision ... I could never be a pilot. So, I put aside all thoughts of flying.

A DIFFICULTY WITH HUMAN-BASED AUTHORITY is that it can never be perfect and is seldom relevant or considerate of an individual. Such a sanctioned or institutionalized authority just forgets its mistakes and promotes its successes. That is called "denial". This is called "objective". When you don't know that you don't know, mistakes and misdirections and frustrations are common.

FAILURES CHALLENGE US TO CHANGE, or be defeated.
I became interested in commercial diving as a career.
This was no easy step coming from a farm situated thousands of miles from an ocean and a distance from a major lake. I did learn to swim, become a SCUBA diver, and passed a home-study course in commercial diving. I came within a hair of becoming such a diver.

There was a great personal expense in the specialized training involved and I had little money. I was against joining the military, an alternative training medium, as a means to an end. I had severe pollen allergies and these could make diving hazardous. The risk level perceived at the time denied a commercial diver life insurance and private health insurance. My parents, peers, friends, minister ... all advised me that if I was going to leave the farm the only good direction to go was to head for the city and get a job in business.

I went to the city and fit myself in.
Years later, I could show success in business, a failed marriage, and many years of frustration and unhappiness. A lower back injury and a later severe whiplash together with a massive industry downsizing FORCED a career change. I decided to quit wasting time making any more choices which no matter how hard I tried nor how adept I became ... ended in failure.

I decided to be "intelligent" about the process of career change so I paid for an established and well recognized extensive and scientific career assessment and counselling service: the YMCA Career Counselling Service, in Toronto, Ontario. After two days of constant aptitude, skill, preference and communications testing, I was interviewed. Several days later I got the results.

THE RESULTS.
I was told that I was suited for more careers and more variation of careers than average. I would make an excellent detective ... but not a good regular policeman, a necessary step ... so avoid that. I would make an excellent forestry and environment specialist ... but the field was already glutted with graduates who could not get a job. I would make an excellent surgeon ... but I was too old (at age 30) to be admitted into medical school.

Among the other possibilities, I was also judged as best suited to be successful as a Psychologist or Sociologist, ... so I took night school courses for a year to gain entry to a university. Four years of full-time studies later, I graduated in the middle of a recession with no jobs available for my new training and the mandate that if I was not working within an unemployable industry within months ... my training would be considered out-of-date.
The guidance was good; the timing was wrong.

COULD THIS ALL HAVE BEEN AVOIDED: waste of career training, time, money, health, relationship, security, happiness, and effort. This process is mentioned here because it has been a frequent experience of North Americans born between 1945 and 1975 ... baby-boomers, prosumers. We are even encouraged that because so many people have experienced this kind of career wandering, job change, relationship breakdown, and health challenge --- that it is NORMAL and should be expected. Normal is health. This is not.

AN ACCURATE, THOROUGH CAREER POTENTIAL can be defined, from birth, which matches the Basic Personality of the individual. Following that path will find you contentment and focus. Experimentation and intuition brought the discovery to me. Indeed, all of those people whom I knew were ignorant of it and negative to it.

From my early teens, I had been interested in the study of religions, philosophy, myths, and the occult ... with the emphasis on religions. At this time of career change, not the first time --- I decided to innovate and try something different. I did not know anyone who had tried this and I didn't expect much. I chose and went to one of the few full-time professional astrologers in the area.

PROFESSIONAL ASTROLOGY: Most North Americans have no experience of this. Many are exposed daily to amateur or well-intentioned practitioners who abuse the art for material gain. This is comparable to going to and reading the reports of a dishwasher conjecturing about brain surgery. The difficulty is that most of the public cannot understand the difference between the many frauds and the real thing. As the perfectionist that I was at that time, I looked for a true professional and found one. While the career counselling service was running tests, Mr. Robin Armstrong, of Toronto ... was preparing my astrological chart.

TO IGNORE AND DENY your Basic Personality is like buying a car on sight alone. You do not know what features it has and your assumptions and expectations may always be wrong ... leading to failure and dissatisfaction.

You do not know what fuel (motivation) it requires.

When does it require servicing (needs) ?

What repairs (health) can be planned for ?

How many gears does it have ?

How fast can it cruise (abilities and traits) ?

Can it be upgraded, and if so, how (capabilities) ?

Has it had any recalls (weaknesses) ?

What do others like about it (strengths) ?

How often does it tends to breakdown (patterns, cycles, tendencies) ?

If you would not buy a car with such little information, why would you run your life with such little self-awareness?