Day Labor

I dreamed that I was doing a geomancy reading for a former co-worker, and made a point that she could expect problems with a day-laborer. This is odd, since she works in tech, which isn't a field known for day-labor, and so she asked how I knew this to be the case. "Well," I said, pointing, "this is Fortuna Minor, a figure of the Sun—a day—and it's in the sixth house, of somebody you pay to do a job—a laborer—and so, when you put them together, you have a day-laborer."

"Oh," she said, very impressed.

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(I thought this was funny, since if you know geomancy, it's a dream-joke! I'll try to explain. The sixth house is indeed—among other things—the house of people you hire, but the figure in a house doesn't describe a specific person or profession, but rather the energy you can expect from that sphere of life. Fortuna Minor there would suggest that anybody you pay to do a job will give you a quick and easy, but temporary, sort of success. So it's not the day-related quality of the literal Sun that matters here, but rather it's symbolic qualities.)