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Planets and points · Beginner

Midheaven

Also called Medium Coeli, MC, MC

Where the ecliptic crosses the meridian above the horizon; astrologers associate it with career and public life.

The Midheaven is the chart's highest point. In quadrant systems such as Placidus it is also the cusp of the tenth house; in Whole Sign and Equal houses it can fall in the ninth, tenth or eleventh.

How it is worked out
From the right ascension of the meridian (local sidereal time) and the obliquity.
Where sources differ
Because it is not always the tenth cusp, the MC and the tenth house are not interchangeable terms, a point on which users of different house systems talk past each other.
  • Kind: Calculation, Interpretation
  • Tradition: Shared across Western traditions
  • In this site’s birth chart: used

Related: Imum Coeli, Tenth house, Angles, Whole Sign houses

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