Natal Midheaven in Cancer

Posted by Luminakisharblaze on March 29, 2011 at 3:54pm in Astrology

(Bernice Grebner)

First Decanate (Cancer-Cancer): These people sense what others want and do well because they cater to the desires of the public. However, this can cause them to change their vocations a lot. It can give great popularity with the people, for they hold the public through emotional chords.

With Capricorn-Capricorn on the nadir, they want to have accepted ranks with the public even if they have to be in a limited area. They are conservative with the family and are probably strong disciplinarians. They don't like to change, and hate to move. They want the home to be strong and sturdy, and they have strong drives to acquire possessions for that home. It can give problems within the home, problems of perhaps too much responsibility and duty.

Second Decanate (Cancer-Scorpio): Along with the talent for sensing needs and desires of the public is the talent for delving into the secrets of nature itself. This can give a very successful career dealing with the public. They sense many things concerning their careers that less sensitive people leave unnoticed; hence they may take avenues that are less obvious. The result of this is they will be a tremendous success.

With Capricorn-Taurus on the nadir, they take pride in the home, where everything is organized and beautiful. They like the idea of owning their own home. They are materialistic and know how to acquire resources. They like the home to have enough land around it so they can enjoy nature, either raising flowers or having a few vegetables in the summertime. They make good hosts or hostesses, and enjoy showing off their properties.

Third Decanate (Cancer-Pisces): They instinctively know what people; and because they gravitate to careers that cater to these needs and work hard giving service they succeed exceptionally well. The ability to work long and hard gives monetary reward.

With Capricorn-Virgo on the nadir, they need to stop being secretly critical. Even though they may not voice their criticism, it can affect their health. Strong drives to keep the household organized can sap their energy and they do not feel secure. This gives a tendency to worry about little details while neglecting the big ones.

(Frances Sakoian and Louis Acker)

These people are acutely sensitive to their reputations and standing in the world. It is important to them to be considered responsible and respectable. In many ways there is a close tie between professional activity and the home life. These people often have partners in their profession or business.

With Capricorn on the fourth house cusp, since they want everything in its proper place, they are great disciplinarians and household organizers. Yet nothing is every systematized to their satisfaction. Much work and responsibility are concentrated in the home. Although their families tend to be conservative and austere, it is important to them that their homes be recognized as contributing to the life of the community.

(Dane Rudhyar)

When Capricorn is found at the Nadir point of the chart, public concerns may well dominate a person's private life - that is, if no special planetary 'influence' is at work in the fourth and tenth hosues. Professional or social activities, however, will tend to be determined by expediency. Indeed, the public or professional life should be managed with a keen sense of adjustment to the rapidly changing moods of the community. If the individual identifies his own fourth house personality with a broad, social, or cosmic purpose - Capricorn - he will indeed need flexibility of response, a sense of timing, and a 'psychic' feeling of what is vital and acceptable to his public, in order to succeed. With such a position, one most often finds a Libra Ascendant; and this of course emphasizes the concern with social issues and values, and the ability to deal with groups - and in so dealing to discover one's own identity.

(Jeanne Avery)

The Moon rules this tenth house of career, social life and public life. The tenth house also describes the relationship with the parent of the same sex. Since the Moon rules the feminine sex, sensitivity, feelings, and emotions, the personality photographs that parent as being especially sensitive, emotional, and vulnerable. He may see that parent as having been orphaned or abandoned in his or her early life. The parent-child relationship has deep emotional implcations and can be extremely difficult for the individual to handle. The person feels as though he or she has to mother and protect that parent whether it is father or mother. He may feel he has to put his own emotional reaction aside in order to protect that parent. He hesitates to do anything that might stir up an upsetting situation. He comes to an early decision that he must keep peace in order to keep the status quo. He may not want to deal with emotional encounters, since they are painful to him. While he feels tremendously protective and mothering, he may resent having to be understanding all the time. He feels he gets the short end of the stick in the realm of being nurtured and understood.

The feelings are so deep between the Cancer MC person and the same-sex parent that the 'child' sometimes feels helpless to make situations better for the parent. He may appear unfeeling at times when in reality the feelings are just too hard to deal with. During a therapy workshop, one young lady with Libra rising became aware for the first time of a deeper relationship with her mother than she had previously acknowledged. She said she realized that she had compromised her whole life to please her mother. She felt she had never cut the umbilical cord, even though she was grown and now married.

In areas of career, the native with this MC may be especially vulnerable. If the relationship with the parent of the same sex was basically a good one, the Cancer MC has a good relationship with his public. In a positive sense, this person understands the trends of the times and the needs of people perhaps more than almost anyone else. The Moon rules the collective unconscious. It indicates areas that we share as far as hunger needs and emotional needs are concerned. The Moon is the planet strongest in the charts of writers, for instance. If the native with a Cancer MC is able to work though his own emotional pain and any difficulty in the relationship with the parent of the same sex, he is especially gifted in writing about matters with which people will readily identify. He writes from his feelings, not his intellect.

If he is in the art world, he responds to the sufferings of people through his art, showing his concern through a desire to bring beauty and pleasure to mankind. If in fashion, he is able to sense what people will want in furnishings or clothing, and will cater to their needs. In the theatre, he will portray especially sensitive roles. He can also appeal to women in particular.

These people can have great appeal to the public, seeming to touch people on a cosmic level.

The Moon is the fastest-moving body through the zodiac. Its many aspects daily can indicate changeableness or moodiness in public ventures. With good aspects, the compassion and sensitivity are high; but with difficult aspects, the individual can be vulnerable and take things too personally. He may have difficulty in career ventures at times, yet it is this very disturbing quality that can become his greatest asset in public life. Learning to work through his own emotional pain seems to enable this person to have a greater identity to, and therefore response from, the public in general.

With Saturn ruling Capricorn on the cusp of the fourth house, security with a home can be of paramount importance. Land or property may be representative of the security, or compensate for the lack of it, in the relationship with the parent of the opposite sex. This house describes the 'photographs' he has taken of that parent and can indicate the heaviest karmic lesson to be learned in life. The fourth house of home also indicates the conditions in the latter part of life. The individual with this IC comes into his strongest time of responsibility as he grows older.

Saturn has been described by the Kabbalists as the 'playpen' Mother Earth puts her children into. A playpen represents both security and limitation for a child. He is released from that playpen when he is able to assume responsibility for himself and can take care of himself. Saturn is also related to the parent ego state in terms of Transactional Analysis. The parent part of ourselves is developed by listening to the real parent's messages. A parent may tell a child, "Be careful, you're too little. You can't do that". An individual may continue giving himself limiting messages long after they are valid. The aspects to Saturn in the natal chart indicate the kind of permission he was given from the parent of the opposite sex. If the aspects to Saturn are extremely heavy, his parent messages could have ranged into the destructive area.

With a well-aspected Saturn in the natal chart, the Capricorn IC has photographed this parent as the conservative, responsible, solid citizen who teaches him duty, discipline, and a sense of high responsibility to himself and to others. As this individual grows older, he assumes the same position of responsibility carried by that parent, perhaps taking it a step further to express any unrealized potential of that parent. He has been given supportive messages from his parent and may focus on establishing a strong home base from which he can go forth into the world. The care of family land and property may fall on his shoulders. His roots and family tree are essential to his sense of well-being. He feels great stability from his parent and knows support will always be there. Any punishment or discipline from that parent is just and to teach value. Good old-fashioned principles, a strict code of ethics, and encouragement toward achievement in life are inherited from this supportive, nonjudgemental parent.

More often than not, Saturn has at least a few difficult aspects in a chart. When this is true, the Capricorn IC may feel rejected by that parent, and may have felt an excess of coolness, reserve, and caution in his relationship with that parent. Sometimes this can indicate the lack of presence of that parent, whether physical or emotional. The parent may not have been around. Separation by death or by distance is possible, as well as a detached attitude. Capricorn IC can photograph that parent with deep insecurities. The parent may have 'stayed in his own playpen' for safety's sake and transmitted those same safety messages to the child with Capricorn IC. In the extreme, the parent's deep insecurities convey a 'you're no good' message to this child. The examination of the aspects to Saturn in a natal chart is extremely important in enabling the individual with this IC to fulfill his highest potential and purpose later in life. The personality can tell how far out of his playpen he has climbed by the kind of environment he chooses. If he lives in dark, small places, he may feel a safety ensured by having little elbow room, but still be plagued by the inherited insecurities. Many times, even if the individual lives in a large, spacious, airy home, he may have some small corner that he can call his own. That niche represents his safety and security in some way, almost like going back into the womb.

The fears related to wanting to keep to such a small, safe place are directly connected with the overly cautious, overly judgemental messages transmitted by the parent of the opposite sex. A turning point in that relationship can come when the Capricorn IC is able to encourage the parent to steadily climb out of the limiting circumstances. When he can overlook the negativity and see the insecurity or heavy programming or conditioning in the parent's childhood, the Capricorn IC may even motivate himself by a sense of responsibility to that parent, thereby fulfilling his ultimate potential in the long run. The healing of the karmic relationship comes through love. It is possible that the controlling, limiting messages from that parent were motivated by a fear that the Capricorn IC child would forget his filial duty, going out into the world never to come home again.

Many times, fearing his own imperfection, one with this IC can use his home situation as an excuse for avoidance of his highest sense of duty. He will tend to his home base stoically, keeping everything spotless, but eventually will feel trapped and limited. If he can knock down the walls of his playpen and convert it to a trampoline, he will always have the security of his home base to return to after his ventures out into the world around him.

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