Dear Mallory

Dear Mallory,

I am at a crossroad in my career where I'm feeling a little bored. I'm a solo-entrepreneur, I have a desire for more variety in my work and I'm wondering if that means expanding my own business in different ways or should I get back into the corporate world?

~ Professional Secret Keeper 

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Dear Professional Secret Keeper,

Despite being an Air Libra Sun, your chart is Fire-dominant.

Fire rises. It's spontaneous. It resists containment.

So when your work becomes repetitive, isolated, or invisible, your energy gets doused.

Fire needs novelty and action. Air needs intellectual and social stimulation.

Both need autonomy.

So the real question is simple: Will corporate give you more freedom or less?

Let's get even more precise.

Your Sun, Rising and Venus are all in Libra: you are built for relational environments.

But boredom isn’t about your Libra Sun.

It’s about your Sagittarius Moon.

Your Moon, Uranus, and Saturn are all in Sagittarius.

Your Moon and Uranus say: I need adventure. Expansion. New terrain!

Saturn says: Slow down. Be responsible. Be realistic, the institution is the most secure.

This is the tension.

Add Jupiter and your North Node in Aries, and the complexity gets louder:

You are built for self-direction.

Corporate would satisfy your Libra need for interaction, but likely at the cost of autonomy, which will dampen your Fire.

Expanding your business feeds your independence, but only feels worth it if the business is constantly evolving.

There may be a third option.

Jupiter, your planet of growth, sits in your house of partnership.

Your expansion may not come from doing different things, but from alliance.

A strategic or unexpected partner could increase stimulation and visibility without costing you freedom.

This move satisfies Libra’s need for interaction, Sagittarius’ need for growth, and Aries’ need to initiate based on their own inspiration. 

Bottom line:

You don’t need more structure (Fire hates that). You need more stimulation.

Before returning to corporate, explore a bold collaboration that stretches you.

If the idea of building something bigger with someone energizes you, that’s your answer.

This can lead to all sorts of new adventures.

Follow the option that activates you, not the one that merely soothes you.

And if you choose to go corporate, negotiate autonomy upfront.

P.S.

Saturn and Neptune are about to enter Aries - this signals a structural reset of how you work. So yes, whatever path you choose, you are in the season of redesign.