The Midheaven is the degree of the zodiac on the cusp of house 10 in your birth chart. It doesn’t map a dynamic desire-urge but, in many respects, acts like a planet.
The Midheaven is your publicity amplifier broadcasting what you do your local community and the wider world.
You can receive good and bad publicity which influences how other people view you.
Your situation in regard to publicity is explained by the planets in your chart that aspect the Midheaven. What they depict is easily broadcast to the public.
Publicity and you
Some members of the community – politicians, businessmen, celebrities, athletes, movie stars and pop singers – are inclined to receive publicity and media attention. It satisfies their need to be noticed. Protestors and murderers receive publicity for other reasons. It’s a cultural thing.
You may not receive national publicity but what you do comes to the attention of your bosses, superiors and local community.
Maybe you have special abilities that come to the attention of employers and the public with little effort. You receive recognition and ample credit for what you do.
Maybe you have special abilities that don’t come to the attention of employers and the public. You receive little recognition for what you do regardless of your efforts.
What you receive in terms of publicity is mapped in your birth chart.
Publicity can be favorable and beneficial or unfavorable and detrimental.
Your socially acceptable behavior gets the thumbs up. Socially unacceptable behavior gets the thumbs down. You’re liked or disliked.
Some people think that all publicity is good. They crave fame or infamy.
If you wish to receive publicity you should follow some occupation or do something that’s inclined to get notice and attention.
Receiving ample publicity for what you do and achieve is a best-case scenario.
Aspects to the Midheaven
Aspects to the Midheaven map states of consciousness built by experiences in your soul’s evolutionary past where its behavior and actions came to the notice of others.
Birth chart aspects map permanent thought-compounds. They’re also known as stellar aerials that remain throughout your life until changed by personal initiative and the application of mental alchemy.
Progressed aspects involving the Midheaven are temporary thought-compounds that time when major publicity events are inclined to occur.
Your character expresses thoughts, feelings and impulses aka astral energy and the planets in your chart that aspect the Midheaven and their house positions map behaviors, abilities and activities that are inclined to receive publicity and public notice.
A harmonious aspect maps traits and qualities that tend to receive credit and favorable publicity.
A discordant aspect maps a thought-compound that’s inclined to attract adverse publicity and public notice for the wrong reasons.
High-discord aspects can map disgrace and dishonor.
The house where a planet forming a harmonious aspect to the Midheaven is located maps a life-matter that’s inclined to receive favorable publicity.
The house where a planet forming a discordant aspect is located maps a life-matter that’s inclined to receive unfavorable publicity.
The type of publicity you receive is determined by the aspects to the Midheaven in your birth chart.
What you should know about your Midheaven
You should know the relative power and functional status of your Midheaven.
If it is prominent publicity will feature in your life story.
If it has a harmony score, which won’t be absolute, you’re more inclined to attract favorable publicity and to receive ample credit for what you do and achieve.
If it has a discord score, which won’t be absolute, you’re more inclined to attract unfavorable publicity and to receive little credit for what you do and achieve. Even your outstanding abilities may receive little public notice.
You should know the planets that form harmonious aspects to the Midheaven and those that form discordant aspects.
The planets that form harmonious aspects by their house positions map behavior, abilities and activities that are inclined to receive favorable publicity.
The planets that form discordant aspects by their house positions map behavior and activities that are inclined to receive unfavorable publicity.
The behaviors and abilities mapped by planets that don’t aspect the Midheaven are unlikely to receive publicity and public notice.
Special note
The Midheaven in your chart is marked by a sharp blue line through your astral body. It can be seen clairvoyantly: by clairvoyance, the astral sense of sight ruled by Virgo.
Clairvoyant vision can also discern a heavy line running across your astral body in the region marking the sign and degree on your ascendant. If your birth time is unknown and this line can be seen the proper degree and minute on the ascendant can be determined.
Your true birth time is the moment you took your first independent breath and a chart calculated for the second, minute and hour this occurred will have the correct sign, degree and minute on the Midheaven in accordance with the sharp blue line marking its position in your astral body.
The time recorded on your birth certificate has been rounded off so there will be slight difference between the degree and minute on the Midheaven of the chart calculated for this time and the Midheaven of a chart calculated for your unknown true time of birth.
You can apply knowledge pertaining to the Midheaven and real-life experience to determine the accuracy of the Midheaven in your chart and, if necessary, make slight plus or minus adjustments to the minutes indicated.
This procedure fine-tunes your birth time and the minutes on all the house cusps so caution is needed: And if you’re confident that your birth time is close to accurate you should stick with it and the Midheaven it calculates.
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