Arlo Parks

Your Sun in Leo in the tenth house is one of the most publicly visible and professionally commanding positions in the entire chart ... the Sun, which rules Leo and governs identity and self-expression, placed at the Midheaven in the fixed fire sign it rules, in the Angular house most associated with public recognition and lasting legacy. Your professional identity is characterized by genuine warmth, creative confidence, and an authority that people feel before they've fully assessed your credentials. You radiate the Sun-ruled quality of making others feel genuinely seen and valued in your professional presence, and that quality is itself a significant professional asset. Fixed modality gives your public identity a consistency and staying power that more variable professional presences lack ... your professional brand is clear, personally felt, and unmistakably yours. To work with this energy consciously, direct your considerable public warmth and creative confidence toward building something with genuinely lasting value ... the most satisfying professional path for this placement is one that allows the gifts to be expressed fully and the legacy to be genuinely worth leaving. The growth edge is professional ego: fixed fire in the house of public identity can resist the collaborative humility that sustained achievement usually requires, and learning to celebrate the team's success with the same enthusiasm as your own is a genuine professional virtue worth cultivating.

Your Moon in Sagittarius in the second house connects your emotional security to a relationship with personal resources that is fundamentally optimistic, philosophically generous, and organized around the Jupiterian conviction that abundance is always available and that experience is more valuable than accumulation. Sagittarius is mutable fire ruled by Jupiter, and in the 2nd house those qualities mean your emotional relationship with money is characterized by confidence, generosity, and a preference for using resources to fund the adventures, learning, and expansive experiences that feed your mutable fire soul rather than storing them as protection against the feared scarcity that more anxious financial temperaments consistently anticipate. This placement means financial freedom is your actual emotional need ... not merely a preference but a structural requirement: you feel most genuinely yourself when your resources are enabling you to move, learn, give, and engage with life's possibilities rather than simply providing a comfortable holding position. You may earn through education, travel, publishing, international work, or any domain where Sagittarian breadth of vision is a genuine professional asset. To work with this energy consciously, develop the specific financial discipline that Jupiter's expansive optimism in the 2nd most requires: a grounded structural understanding of your actual finances that provides genuine security rather than the enthusiastic assumption that more will always arrive because it always has. The honest growth challenge is that mutable fire in the 2nd can outspend actual resources in the service of the next inspiring possibility, and the growth is developing the practical financial architecture that allows your natural generosity and experiential orientation to operate sustainably rather than in cycles of feast and anxiety.

Your Mercury in Leo in the tenth house builds your professional reputation on the quality and presence of your voice ... the particular combination of confidence, warmth, and genuine personal investment in what you are communicating that makes people in your field pay attention to what you say and remember it. Mercury governs communication and professional intelligence; Leo is fixed fire ruled by the Sun, and in the tenth house of career and public standing, that quality means your professional authority is built on an expressive presence that is genuinely distinctive. You are known in your field as someone who communicates with conviction, who takes genuine pride in their work and its quality, and who brings a quality of personal investment to professional communication that more impersonal competitors cannot match. To work with this energy consciously, ensure your professional voice develops genuine depth of expertise alongside its natural presence ... the reputation that endures is built on substance as well as style. The growth edge is that Leo's fixed fire in the public tenth house can make professional reputation feel personally consequential in ways that make public criticism or professional setbacks unusually difficult to absorb; the growth work is developing enough professional self-security that your identity is not entirely dependent on public reception.

Your Mars in Leo in the tenth house is one of the most naturally powerful placements for career success, public recognition, and lasting professional legacy. You are built to lead, create, and be seen at the highest levels of your field. Careers in the arts, entertainment, politics, education, or any domain where personal presence and inspiring leadership matter suit this placement superbly. Others are drawn to your confidence and warmth, and your professional reputation tends to grow steadily through sheer force of authentic personality. The key insight: generosity toward those you lead builds the kind of loyal following that sustains a legacy far beyond your active years.

Your Pluto in Sagittarius in the second house directs transformative philosophical energy toward your finances, possessions, and deepest sense of personal value. Sagittarius' mutable fire nature brings an expansive, optimistic quality to Pluto's intense relationship with material resources. You may earn through teaching, publishing, international business, higher education, or any field that combines material reward with meaningful purpose. Financial situations can undergo dramatic shifts tied to changes in your beliefs or philosophical direction. Your self-worth is connected to your sense of living a meaningful, purpose-driven life ... money alone does not satisfy you unless it supports a larger vision. There may be a tendency toward financial risk-taking driven by optimistic faith that things will work out. The growth edge is grounding your expansive financial visions in practical, disciplined planning. When you combine Sagittarian optimism with Plutonian strategic depth, your relationship with money becomes a powerful expression of your deepest values and your capacity for abundance.

Your Chiron in Sagittarius in the second house directs the Wounded Healer toward finances and self-worth through Sagittarius' expansive, meaning-driven mutable fire energy. Your core wound involves the gap between your idealistic vision of abundance and the practical reality of your financial life. You may believe that money should flow easily if you are living your purpose, creating disappointment when financial struggle persists despite meaningful work. There can be a pattern of financial overextension driven by optimistic faith or a refusal to engage with practical financial planning because it feels spiritually limiting. Your gift is an understanding of how values and purpose drive genuine abundance, helping others align their financial lives with their deeper sense of meaning. The growth path involves bridging your idealistic relationship with money and your practical financial needs, recognizing that spiritual purpose and material responsibility are partners rather than opponents.