The 10th House, assertiveness
- Attached to Capricorn, symbolizing “We Realize”
- Axis of incarnation, fulfilment of life
- Mode : Cardinal (Angular)
- Element : Earth (matter)
The 10th Houserepresents your social accomplishment or your affirmation in society (self-image, in the sense of a rise or fall), your ego awareness (“Me”), your public destiny, your professional life (your work situation, career success, ambitions, goals, leadership, your companies, your place in community), important public events, opportunities (chances to seize) and responsibilities within the community (respecting its cohesion), your reputation, public honours (fame, rise to power, social ascension), society’s rewards and relations to the state or authority, important people…
The 10th House implies an “action” for the elaboration and completion of the social achievement, it represents the necessary acts. Its structuring symbolism is close to the planet Saturn.
The 10th House and the 1st House are crucial for defining the destiny and character that will allow this social concretization.
Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of personality precise :
The Midheaven vitalizes, collectivizes, universalizes.
In general, this sector is also usually assigned to :
- To the “father” at the level of generic Rulerships, given the Saturnian rules and the solar culmination of this sector.r
- Sometimes for men, to the mother
- For women, to the father
Some astrologers also vary this attribution during the course of life, for example for a woman the 10th House will represent the father in childhood and adolescence while the 4th House will represent him in adulthood (for a man it will be the mother who will be represented by the 10th House in childhood and then the 4th House in adulthood).
To realize this attribution (10th House to the father or mother), it is necessary to analyze the entire natal chart. This attribution is also not so much due to the gender of the parent as to his or her actual role in the household (single mother randomly assuming the role of father, weak or absent father, surrogate father).
Here it is above all the “normative parent” who brings limits, a framework, a structuring, the one who makes discover the social sphere, the collective, to the native…
The Sign in the 10th House, your Midheaven, will define the character with which you will approach your social elevation.
The Planets in the 10th House and their Aspects underline the achievement to be made and indicate the eventual facilities or difficulties that will have to be overcome.
The transits in the 10th House of your birth theme punctuate professional advances or falls, changes in the social environment, changes in the collective, readjustments of destiny…
Analyzing the 10th House :
- First look at its opposite house, the 4th House, the roots.
- Then look at the Squares : the 7th House, the 1st House (Angular Houses, representing action)
- Take into account the Trines : the 2nd House, the 6th House (Earth Houses, representing matter)
Planets Rulerships Analogy :
With the 10th House we culminate in the collective hemisphere of extroversion, social appearance, spirituality, and public life, in short of maturity.
To go further:
Wikipedia Article Midheaven (astrology)
See the Astrological Houses.