Job change timing: when to switch and when to wait, according to your chart

Almost everyone thinks about changing jobs at some point. The harder question is whether now is the right time. A chart cannot tell you if the new company is good, but it can show whether a change of work is supported by your current period.

When a change tends to work

• When a new antardasha begins. The change of sub period is a common time for a change of job.
• When the running period belongs to the 10th lord, 11th lord, 3rd lord or 9th lord.
• When Jupiter transits the 9th, 10th or 11th house from your Moon, or looks at them.
• During Rahu periods, which often bring restlessness and a wish to move to something different or foreign.

When to wait

• When the dasha lord sits in the 6th, 8th or 12th house and the period feels unsettled.
• During Saturn in the 8th from the Moon (Ashtama Shani), when a hurried move can backfire.
• When you are changing only to escape a bad week and have no offer in hand.

A simple rule

Never resign first and search later. Take interviews while you are employed, compare two offers if you can and read the contract fully. Astrologers who suggest a date are best used to choose between the dates you have already found, not to create them.

Contract signing dates are sometimes avoided during Mercury retrograde. If an offer lands then, read every clause twice and keep a copy of everything.