Dear Deb:

Thanks for your comments. I learned a lot from your discussion of Venus and Jupiter. I know that L1 describes the querent, but it had not occurred to me that L7 also gives a lot of information about the querent in a stay-or-go chart.

Your reading of the chart has prompted me to reflect on several things about giving a reading, and my own process of evaluating a question. When I first put up Meredith?s chart, before I had evaluated it in any detail, my gut reaction was that the chart says ?go.? ?Look at that first house,? I thought. ?Who would want to deal with all that?? And then I saw that L7 was Venus in Sag, applying by trine to Jupiter. That?s obviously so much better! It almost seemed to me that anything else didn?t matter.

Then I started getting into all the details and rules, weighing dignities, afflictions, and so on. In writing my post, I was trying to sound neutral and fair-minded with respect to both possibilities, because I don?t think I should tell someone to leave her job (especially a stranger on the Internet). Maybe that prompted me to shift my focus too much. I don?t know. I did have a strong reaction to the chart initially and now I wonder if I should have trusted my gut more. Perhaps this question cannot be answered, but how much weight should be given to a gut reaction? Do others have positive or negative experiences "trusting their gut?"

Namaste?
LP

Hello everyone, a little update:

It has been 4 months since the deadline for applying for the voluntary severance and I have finally been given a decision. My application has been declined, they need staff in our section to stay.

Now that I am not in limbo and know where I can stand I can start looking around for other opportunities.

Deb wrote: In many similar questions I've often seen the 10th ruler or Moon about to undergo combustion at a time that someone has decided to walk away from a current job and begin a whole new chapter of their life professionally.

I found I'd asked the same question the last time the severance was offered, and L10 was about to enter combustion in that chart. Interesting.