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Natal Midheaven in Libra
Posted by Luminakisharblaze on April 14, 2011 at 6:42pm in Astrology
(Bernice Grebner)
First Decanate (Libra-Libra): In business they will be more than likely to work with partners. They are fair with their associates and believe in the cause of justice. They make excellent judges, lawyers, or post-holders in any vocation that demands a talent for arbitration. They are the diplomats par excellence.
With Aries-Aries on the IC, they no doubt have a domineering parent and, because of that, they are strong masters of their own homes. Somehow this position forces them to learn to relate to a parent, which, if not successful, can lead to revolt against family tradition. It can give activity with the family, activity that makes them feel comforted and warm.
Second Decanate (Libra-Aquarius): They are the public relations people in their businesses. They work well with partners and have original and ingenious ways of earning money through their vocations. They turn cool exteriors to the people they deal with, thereby being able to reach unbiased decisions best for all. However, they are warmer and more attached than they seem to be. They are excellent in administrative work.
With Aries-Leo on the IC, these people are consciously interested in home affairs or the establishment of a home. This is the influence that makes a person gravitate to being a foster parent. They have great interest in helping and teaching children. However, it does give a shyness they have with other people, even if at first it does not seem so. It can give a vigorous sex life into old age.
Third Decanate (Libra-Gemini): They are best working in businesses with partners or someone they can discuss problems with - someone who can help make the decisions. They are more successful if they choose vocations where they can talk and use their powers of communication. They are fair and diplomatic in dealing with their business associates. Working conditions must be peaceful for them to be at their best. This person does not handle the public by being a fighter but by being an arbitrator.
With Aries-Sagittarius on the nadir, here the home is open to all. Even though they are the leaders of religious or philosophical discussion in their home, their true inner religious leanings may not really be out in the open, or too much religious leadership can drain their energy.
(Frances Sakoian and Louis Acker)
These people often have partners in their professions. They are charming and skillful in winning over people who are in positions of power, and thus gain promotions. However, possessing a strong sense of ethics in professional matters, they usually have good reputations and standing in the community.
With Aries at the nadir, these people are aggressive in matters relating to home and family. The home is sometimes a battlefield for emotional spates. It is generally filled with mechanical devices and implements.
(Dane Rudhyar)
Aries at the cusp of the fourth house stresses the need for sharply focused activity and enthusiasm, or faith, in the search for personal foundations and inner security. Security is not too likely to be found in passive subservience to a tradition or family pattersn. As an English philosopher wrote during the early 1930s: 'The only security is no-security'; or, one might say: the best defence is to take the offensive. The problem is: where does one want to go?
The zodiacal sign at the Midheaven should provide the answer to this question, and this sign is invariably Libra. Thus the goal should be to participate in a definite social activity and perhaps in the establishment of new social values. This sense of participation in a communal enterprise can be so overwhelming as to imply the sacrifice of the values attached to a strictly personal life - especially in a case where Sagittarius is at the Ascendant. Such a total devotion to a seocial-cultural process may hide a deep sense of personal insecurity, which in turn may mean a quasi-adolescent and unstabilized approach to home situations, perhaps a revolt against the mother and all binding forms of posessive love. A solution for personal problems of integration should be sought in those tradition-transcending values which participation in a large, future-oriented or spiritual-religious community might - it would be hoped - reveal to the soul operating at a critical state betweem two psychological and mental stages of human evolution.
(Jeanne Avery)
Libra is the sign of balance, diplomacy, graciousness, charm, and art. It is an Air sign, indicating intellect, so this person's social inclinations are stimulated by interesting people who have interesting ideas. Venus, the ruler of Libra, describes anything of beauty, love, and harmony. In social life, one with this Ascendant is gracious, charming, diplomatic, and the balance wheel. He is loved by his public, and whenever he is in the public arena, the loving, beautiful part of his nature emerges fully. He loves social life and activities connected with the arts, and has strong cultural inclinations.
When the aspects to Venus are good in the natal chart, the parent of the same sex is exceptionally gracious, charming, and loving. The native with a Libra MC loves that parent, feeling great affection and consideration. His photographs of that parent are positive and beautiful. Mutual adoration makes for a very harmonious relationship. The parent may be particularly artistic, sociable, beautiful, and diplomatic. He tends to copy the parent in choice of career, perhaps assuming the unfulfilled potential of that parent.
If Venus is not well aspected, however, the personality sees that parent as being overly diplomatic, too easygoing, or one who cops out for the sake of peace. The parent may have avoided taking action, hesitating to make waves, or may have been lazy, undisciplined, or self-indulgent. If that is the case, the Libra MC's tendency may be to avoid career activity that is pleasurable; or he may behave more 'diplomatically' in career situations than is really natural. Self-indulgence is possible in social areas. The individual may associate with people in the theatre world, artistic world, or social scene, yet have no real personal closeness in his social life.
If Taurus is on the cusp of the 5th house, then both the fifth house of creativity and the tenth house of career will be Venus-ruled. If one with this combination expresses his creative ability in connection with career, he enjoys great fulfillment, has pleasure with career activities, and truly loves what he is doing. He will then surely be successful. If, however, the early parent messages were such that he represses his creative energy and overburdens himself, he will lack pleasure in connection with career projects, and may continue his own self-fulfilling prophecy of no joy in life.
If the Ascendant is Capricorn, any career activity can be a mitigating force in the hardship of his early life, since Venus is a natural antidote to Saturn. If he rewards himself through pleasurable social or career activity, he finds his tasks easier by far. His natural abilities to harmonize, create beauty, and work easily with people, are tremendous assets in his life.
With Aries on the IC, life seems to become more active and dynamic as the personality grows older. He becomes very courageous and daring, the antithesis of his behavior as a child. The planet Mars, ruler of Aries, indicates sexuality, drive, ambition, and the competitive spirit. In its negative sense, it describes frustration, temper, aggravation and impatience. Perhaps when the individual with this cautious personality understands his relationship with the parent of the opposite sex, he can begin to work through some of his anger, and transform his energy into dynamic action. If Mars is well aspected in the natal chart, the person is easily in touch with sexual energy, drive, and ambition. He has photographed the parent as energetic, active, ambitious, courageous, and expressive of a healthy sexuality. He will then be resourceful in connection with land and his home, will be energetic within that home, and will become a pioneer as he grows older.
If Mars is not well aspected in the chart, the relationship with the parent of the opposite sex is full of frustration and rage. He may photograph that parent as frustrated, with much submerged or over misdirected anger. The parent's inability to deal with sexual feelings can impair the Aries IC's future relationships with the opposite sex. A woman with this nadir may see her father as an 'impotent' male, frustrated by his own drives, and feel strong overt or sublimated anger toward him. She can be paralyzed in her own sexuality and drives - including ambition - as a result. She may have fights and arguments with her father that resolve nothing, and attract a mate as 'impotent' as her father. A continuing rage toward her mate and home life is likely. She may feel guilt about that and suppress her own energy, sexuality, and rage.
These patterns can be broken if the individual becomes aware of them through therapy or some other means. The energy level becomes especially high after those patterns are broken. Much energy is then channeled into the home life, and activity becomes even more important as the individual grows older. Since Mars rules physical activity as well as sexual energy, any activity that provides a physical outlet within the home keeps the individual healthy and happy, free from temper tantrums. Mars also rules metals. Creative activity such as metal sculpture, typing on a metal typewriter, needlework, building, gardening with metal tools, or sewing will release frustrations felt within the living situation. If the patterns of negative relationship with the parent of the opposite sex are allowed to remain undiscovered, the likelihood of bitterness and frustration in later life is a distinct possibility.
In cases where Mars is well aspected, the individual may become more sports-minded later in life. Pioneering energy is developed, with tremendous resourcefulness coming to the surface. Since Mars has strong two-year cycles, the individual with Aries IC may feel an impetus to move or make changes in his environment every two years. Moving furniture, remodelling, or rebuilding can relieve the itch to make a drastic change.