Astrology on the State of the American Workplace

State of the American Workplace

Seventy percent of U.S. employees are either “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” at work, according to Gallup’s 2013 State of the American Workplace report. Put more simply, most of us hate our jobs. According to Gallup, 30% of U.S. employees are “engaged” at work, which the polling organization defines as those “who are involved in, enthusiastic about, and committed to their work and contribute to their organization in a positive manner.” The rest of us are “emotionally disconnected” from our workplaces, making us much less likely to be productive. Fifty-two percent of employees says they are basically “checked out” at work, and 18% say they’re so unhappy they’re actually acting out their unhappiness in the workplace. “Every day, these workers undermine what their engaged coworkers accomplish,” Gallup’s report says.[1]

As I have mentioned in several posts, eclipses tell us where there is a crisis and where we need to end old patterns of behaviour.  Here we look at the solar eclipse [19ta31] of  May 9, 2013, placed very prominently on the descendant at Washington,  to see that it is giving us the same message that is revealed by the Gallup report. But we will also see that our conclusions are different.

 The eclipse makes the following aspects.

Conjunct: Lilith [18ta40]; Pallas [19ta27]

Semi-square : Vesta/Hades [4cn00]

Keywords for asteroids [2][3]

Vesta: Commitment to work; using work as a compensation; dedication to accomplishment or goals; emotional distancing

Hades: deterioration, decline, disgust

Lilith: rejection

Pallas: need to please (often at expense of integrity)

Since these asteroid pictures are a part of the bigger planetary aspects formed by the Pluto-Uranus- Kronos- Hades T-square we need to understand them in that context.

Kronos-Hades: decline of ambition; disgust with authorities or rules

Kronos-Uranus: to be aware of defiance of rules

Pluto-Uranus :  disruptive behaviour based on emergent (formerly repressed) psychological content;  to see individuals disconnect or distance themselves as a form of control; collapse of an old order

Finally as we have shown in the past, every eclipse releases its message on days that the progressed Ascendant or MC axis touch the planets as they did on June 27, 2013 when the Gallup report was released.

Conclusion: This author disagrees with the  superficial understanding and quick fix solutions offered by Gallup. The problem is far deeper than just exploitative employers. People have been treated like machines. Work, as we define it now, no longer feeds our souls.

[1] http://ti.me/1aSChY5

[2]  http://www.treehousemountain.com/html/keywords.htm

[3]  http://www.treehousemountain.com/html/keywords2.htm