Midheaven Means More Than Ascendant?

Question

On Terms Of Being Perceived By Others I've Read Some Sites Saying That Its More Important Than Ascendant. Saying That First People See You As Your Midheaven Then Once They Start Talking To You They See Ascendant And Your Sun Sign Comes Out Only After They Really Get To Know You. How Many People Think This Is True?

Answer 1

Midheaven is career and general public image. Ascendant is how people see at first, kind of like the mask you wear in public. It's also how YOU see you see the world. There are differences between the two. Both of them will still manifest based on your sun sign inclinations.

Answer 2

The Midheaven forms the cusp of the 10th house of the natal chart. The axis of the Midheaven, (also known as the M.C. or ‘Zenith’, is the point at which the ecliptic passes the meridian at the moment of birth) and the Imum Coeli, (I.C. -or the ‘Base of Heaven’ of the chart) is an indicator of the potential of our Spiritual and material path in life.

Along with our Ascendant/Descendant axis and the Moon’s Nodal Axis, the Midheaven/Imum Coeli axis reflects the way that we interact with the world at large.

It is sometimes known as the Axis of Destiny.

By natal position, you will feel a strong identification with the ideals of this Sign and hence admire, respect, and work hard at trying to develop those qualities. It symbolises qualities that we grow toward as we mature, but requires that we put in the effort to attain the optimum expression of those qualities.

A planet posited in the 10th house of the natal chart represents ways of being, qualities or types of activities that are important to us and which we will express in our public life, hence the connection of the Midheaven and tenth house with reputation. Experience shows that a 10th house conjunction to the Midheaven tends to express more definitely than a 9th house conjunction as there is a more specific and concentrated focus of energy in that arena of life - it is the cusp of the 10th that we are speaking of after all.

The house position of the ruling planet of the Midheaven's Sign is significant also, as this reveals a field of experience that very often will feel like a true calling at a very deep level.

The Midheaven reveals the reflection of our position within the community.
The Midheaven is a ‘public point’, that is, no transit or progression to this point can be kept quiet so to speak. Matters involving the job, career direction and lifestyle can emerge as this point receives contacts in the course of our life.. In youth, the M.C. can symbolise the parent by whom we define our public self. (Usually the father – but in cases of sole parenting, or where the father does not play a significant role in the bringing up of the child, it will be the mother or main care giver). Keep in mind when interpreting conjunctions to the Midheaven, that this is an axis - MC/IC - and is the vertical of the cross of matter - so polarity comes into play. The 10th /4th house axis represents our career and home; father/mother respectively, so what affects one (conjunction) will necessarily be reflected in the other (an opposition).

By solar arc direction, and progression, the Midheaven moves through the birth chart at the same rate as the Sun.
Most of us will experience the conjunction of Midheaven to a natal planet or planet to natal Midheaven at least once in our lives, and these contacts signal major life changes of some kind.

At these times our antennae to the cosmic influences is activated. Potentials of this activation are revealed in the horoscopic blue print of the potentialities of the birth chart, - as it receives contacts, we receive energies and qualities symbolised by the planets contacting the Midheaven. The contacts correspond to key periods of decision making, new realisations or important events and activities in our lives.

The Midheaven can reveal what we know about ourselves - that is, our self-awareness or ego-consciousness.
The symbolism of the zodiacal sign of the Midheaven, combined with the decanate, provides us with an understanding of the potential for self awareness and the drive to be that which we were divinely designed to become - wholeness, or individuation.

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