The Tenth House in Astrology

Today we will take a look at Astrology’s tenth house. 

There are four houses known as the Cardinal Points which are the first, fourth, seventh and tenth houses.  These four energy channels are considered action points in the Horoscope.  The first house cusp or the Ascendant and the tenth house cusp (Midheaven also known as the MC) are the two most active areas in a Natal chart. 

When Transiting Planets (the location of the planets today) cross these areas of life (as all houses define areas of life) events take place.  Much of what takes place depends on the planet crossing this area and the energy it represents.  Every house cusp defines a particular area of life and these areas of life are enhanced when Transiting Planet’s or Progressed Planet’s energy enters each house (crosses over the cusp).  The Tenth and First house cusps far outweigh the other remaining ten areas of life which are represented by each house cusp.  We usually experience a shift as the Outer Planets cross this threshold.

The Tenth House cusp or the MC describes your occupation.  The ruling sign often is suggestive of the type of work you should be doing in your life, not necessarily what you are doing with your life.  When doing an occupational profile this area of the Chart is the first place an Astrologer would look to define what we should be doing.  I should, however, pointed out that the Moon’s Nodes are also very depictive of what we should be doing with our lives.

The Tenth House deals directly with your worldly ambitions and your outer goals.  It often portrays the ego and some of its characteristics, although the Ascendant Sign is even more descriptive of this.  When a planet in transit crosses this energy point, quite often there are changes to our occupation and our status in life.  As the fourth house cusp is always directly in opposition to the MC, when a planet crosses the tenth house cusp, it is also in Opposition to the Fourth House Cusp.  During these transformational transition periods, the home and family will also be affected by what is taking place within the occupation.

The sign ruling the tenth house cusp (especially if it is a Cardinal Sign) can depict public recognition, (especially if it is in a Cardinal Point which is between 29 degrees of the Mutable Sign before the Cardinal Sign or 0 to 1 degree of the Cardinal Sign).  An example of this would be having a Midheaven sign of 29 degrees Virgo on the MC or 0-1degree Libra on the MC.

Natal Planets in this house and aspects to these planets can provide the Astrologer with input into how the energy of this house will be relayed to the outside world.  It also indicates if the individual will have an easy time in work related ways and in his status in life or whether it will be challenging.  Quite often a Gemini or Pisces MC suggests two completely different occupations during the course of the individual’s life.  It is important, however, to understand the concept of “success”, for success does not always pertain to material worldly success.  

In most cases, we must have Natal Aspects that closely mirror events in the Transiting Planetary Energy for something of significance to happen, but in many cases, even when there are no Natal links to Transiting Planets crossing over the MC or the Ascendant, “things” may still happen.  As suggested earlier, these two areas are action areas of a Chart and are very significant when deciphering potential life issues when Transits or Progressions pass over these very important areas of our Charts.

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EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES

If you have been diagnosed with depression or any other psychological condition, regardless of its medical label, it is important to understand that this is an earthly, body condition.  This condition is not a reflection of you as an individual on a personal level.  This body which includes our brains, glands, transmitters are strictly a vehicle at our disposal.  There should be no burden of blame due to bodily ailment.  Should someone with genetic heart disease or Type I diabetes carry responsibility for their physical ailment?  .........of course not.

These are diseases with symptoms that usually can be lessened and/or controlled with healthy life styles and medication.  Modern medicine has many treatments available to control or at the very least lesson the symptoms of most conditions.  We must appreciate the progress that modern science has made.  The help may not be perfect but it is certainly beneficial.

Some individuals after accepting treatment experience positive results but once they feel more in control, there is often the urge to stop treatment.  It is important to realize that the treatment is lessening the symptoms.  If you discontinue treatment without working with your professional’s and adhering to their advice, the symptoms usually return.  We must leave diagnosis to the professionals and work with them to utilize the best possible treatments available for us...each as a unique individual!

Society has to view mental illness, in its many forms, simply as a physical body condition.  It is not a choice and is no one’s fault.  We must lose the astigmatisms so often associated with mental illness.

We are all equals.  We all have disorders is some shape or form that affect our lives at one point or another.  We each have to find our own way clear to deal with what we are confronted with.  Most of us will experience some form of depression during our lifetime and will find ways to deal with it.  The important thing to realize is that most conditions can be controlled either through medication or through the mind’s focus.  Positive reinforcement must always be our focus.  Each and every fragment of thought control and mind manipulation can assist us.  We are not at the mercy of life.

If your body (mind included) needs medical attention and if using treatments and medications help to balance the body and mind, be thankful that modern science and practices offer help to alleviate these conditions in life.

Stay strong and know that one you can experience healing and peace.  Practice meditation and do not allow negativity to control your life.  There are always options.  Know that you are not alone.  Others care and love you.  Love is the greatest healer.

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COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS

Together as a group we walk the road of life.  We have entered this consciousness to expand our inner growth through life’s experience.  Life is the teacher and we are the students.  Our ongoing push for truth is paramount in reaching our objectives in life.  Although we share this common purpose, we are also quite individualistic.

We are individualistic in our approach but share a common goal of love, enlightenment and an awakening to our pure essence.  We are energy formed from our pure essence.  Picture a camp fire.  Our pure essence if that fire but individually we are the sparks that form the whole.  We are one people who share this energy.  Individually we slowly move forward with our goals but as a group we can manifest much more easily manifest our dreams.

Goodwill and love is our driving force and we are all in search of these abilities that simply reside within each one of us.  Compassion and its energy can and does promote peace in an otherwise unruly world.  There are many of us who are quite aware of this pursuit and are consciously working to this end.  There are countless others that are beginning this journey and understand the obligation we have to our world.

It begins with you, as you are the centre of your world.  By radiating peace, you facilitate the same in others.  People feel your peace and tranquil nature and gravitate towards this energy.  It is human nature to want love and compassion.  Everyone is on this pursuit on one level or another.  We are generally a peace-loving people with a few exceptions who are completely ruled by the ego’s demand for power.

You are the motivating force behind this growing movement.  You are an integral part of this energy spreading throughout our globe.  This energy force extends to all corners of our world.  Many are actively working together as a unit promoting peace and love everywhere.  You are love and you express this quality in your own unique way, unfiltered and unified with purpose.

Abandon self-promotion and understand the workings of the universe.  Reach out to your world and do what you are meant to do.  Live your life within the bounds of love and make this expression a part of who you are.  It is already alive and well living eternally within the confounds of your being.  Release it and discover your own happiness through peace.   

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THE NINTH HOUSE IN ASTROLOGY

The ninth house in Astrology is the natural ruler of the sign of Sagittarius and the Planet Jupiter.  Sagittarius and Jupiter combined speak of optimistic expansion through the use of the mind and through life’s experience.  This house seeks to expand the scope of the mind’s focus using whatever means appropriate in reaching this understanding.......whatever that understanding may entail.

Higher education is one means to finding answers, whether this is through actual academic schooling or through the school of life.  As learning can come from many sources in the ninth house, long distance travel, foreign cultures and travel through the mind are all areas that relate to this house.  Many of life’s issues and deeper understandings can be attained while visiting foreign countries and the people one meets along this journey.  One seeks to discover more of our world through communication with people of different cultures to gain an appreciation of our own life’s meaning.

This house provides learned through gathering of information gained through experience.  It is the house of philosophy and religious interaction, and planets found in this house use their particular energies to uncover philosophic meaning to an otherwise conventional world.  Within the realms of the ninth house, the higher meanings of life can be unearthed by wisdom gained through experience of whatever satisfies this yearning for truth.

Dreams and visions also come into play in this house as the mind’s focus shifts and works through channels that consciousness only discovers when delving into these states.  Problems can be resolved through these avenues and then modified to fit into the proper channels of your life which are understood on a conscious level.

The ninth house is where we uncover the truth through whatever channel that provides us with answers.  It is the study of religion in its highest order and through philosophic understandings and truths that we slowly grasp while travelling our life’s journey. 

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Enter Spring

As life is a symbolic journey and we are now into the season of spring, it is significant to pay attention to the seasons in terms of our life’s course.  Life is a mirror’s reflection and spring is a time of renewal and a time of new life emerging.  As the perennials once again begin to sprout and emerge from beneath the surface, we can feel this energy in our environment and can join forces in the awakening that is taking place around us. 

Life is sprouting and starting anew and our quest for awareness draws ever stronger.  We all participate in this process whether we are aware of this consciously or not.  Why are you reading this post?  It is part of the process and we are joined together as one uniting in our ongoing focus on the emerging of self as an individual but also as part of our pure essence. 

Spring is a beautiful season, as the grass begins to awaken with its brilliant colour, as the trees buds and as plants push forward with the intent to bloom.  As new life begins to unfold in the spring so do you, although this process does not begin with the seasons but resonates with them.

Our journey is ongoing just as the journey of each of the plants that are emerging from the ground.  They lie dormant for the winter, as we lay dormant before our awakening process or during times of holding onto negative energy.  Life pushes through the surface with great vigor but has to fight its way from beneath the surface as we do when attempting to recognize our evolutionary growth.  Breaking through the surface is always the most difficult and in maintaining our pursuit, we must remain relentless.  We have to push forward regardless of restraints and obstacles, just as the plant emerges through the pressures of the earth’s weight and obstacles in the way to finally break the surface.

Eventually we emerge just as the new sprouts of spring.  These sprouts are nurtured by the atmosphere, the sunshine and the rain shared by the clouds.  We in turn are nurtured by our attitude, love and life lessons.  It is obvious that we are all joined by our essence, something far beyond the mundane concerns of everyday living.  Those small obstacles that get in our way from time to time emerge initially as giants that penetrate our otherwise calm existence, yet when faced and dealt with dwindle in significance and no longer are seen as overwhelming obstacle.  The emerging plant deals with such adversity when stones and broken branches block the sunlight and obstacles which it too has to has to overcome.  If we are flexible, we can bend to get around any blockage in our growth.

Our life plays out as a mirror’s reflection.  If we pay close attention to our immediate surroundings and the environment we dwell in, we will realize that our exterior world is simply a reflections of inner self.  Take hold of life.  Defeat the challenging obstacles that hinder progress and allow your true self to emerge from beneath the surface and blossom into the beautiful flower you have always meant to be.

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SATURN/URANUS INCONJUNCT IN ASTROLOGY

Beginning in the third week of June and then strongly emphasized in July and then weakening in August of 2014, transiting Saturn and Uranus are making an inconjunct to one another at 15-17 degrees in Scorpio and Aries.  If you have, for example, your midheaven in 15-17 degrees Aries or Scorpio (in particular these two signs but other signs at the same degrees will also be under this influence), you will experience a need for adjustment and potentially a change of direction.

The inconjunct or quincunx is an Astrological aspect of transition and adaptation and usually signifies the requirement for alterations and adjustments to life.  The quincunx is not considered an extreme condition, such as a square and an opposition.  Some Astrologers link the quincunx to an added agitation which sometimes surfaces as health concerns, although not extreme in nature.  These stresses indicated by other influences in the Chart will surface and may turn into health concerns due to the strain of the initial contacts.

Inconjuncts suggest that one should face the situation accordingly and not to try to rid oneself by ignoring the issue.  It is important to actually face the problem and challenge its validity.  Once faced, you can make alterations which will help facilitate change necessary to overcome the condition.  It is like an added anxiety to an already difficult situation that exists.  These require an adjustment and the inconjunct expedites this action.

If your Ascendant or Midheaven is 15-17 degrees and particularly in the signs of Aries or Scorpio during the time frame as we first mentioned, your working environment, your aspirations, your goals in life and many aspects that affect you personally such as marriage and partnership will be activated and affected.  Your status in life may go through periods of change, and adjustments will be required during this time period.

If your Ascendant or Midheaven is affected during this time and natally (in the Birth chart) they are well aspected, these changes may not be very disruptive and may even be welcomed.  If these areas in your Natal chart are poorly aspected, you may experience turbulent times and abrupt changes that you will have to adjust too.  It should, however, be pointed out that aspect regardless of their nature always have a silver lining.  In most cases, the final conclusion of these events offers a new beginning and a chance for a new start.

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