The Midheaven in the Birth Chart represents the maximum point you want to reach in your life. In the Birth Chart, the Midheaven is an angle that has a lot of importance in personality reading and can indicate how you can develop in your professional career and what your purpose in life is.

The sign you have in the Midheaven will indicate the characteristics that you will imply in your profession, your reputation, and your position in the community.

In Astrology, the Midheaven is the 10th house of the birth chart, and represents your status, fame, promotion, social and business activities, your employer, and any other authority over you.

The most important information that the Midheaven provides is about your goal in life: how far do you want to go? Therefore, the professions of each sign are indicated by the position that each one occupies in the Midheaven.

What is the Midheaven in the Birth Chart

The sign you have in Midheaven indicates:

• What do you want to be "when you grow up"?
• Important qualities for you to seek to develop.
• What social position do you want to occupy
• In what ways do you want to have social recognition
• The way other people effectively recognize you
• The kind of work you can do
• What brings you fulfillment
• What kind of influence you have on your environment

Discover your Midheaven in the Birth Chart

It is important to point out that the sign of the Midheaven does not say "what" you will do professionally, but rather indicates "how" you will do what you want to pursue as a profession and career.

To discover the sign of the Midheaven in your chart, get the free version of your Professional Chart here .

Do not confuse the 10th house with the 6th house in the horoscope

When talking about work, many people confuse the 6th house with the 10th house in their birth chart. Professionally speaking, the difference between them is significant.

The sign you have in the 10th house, that is, in the Midheaven of your birth chart, helps you to understand your professional profile and the most promising areas of activity for you.

The 6th house in the horoscope, on the other hand, represents your daily work, how you handle and organize your work routine.

The professions of each sign

Now that you understand everything about the Midheaven, check out this guide to the professions for each sign in this part of your chart.

This is the first step to begin to understand your talents and the most promising areas for you to work in.

Midheaven in Aries

People with the Midheaven in Aries usually work hard in their profession to achieve their goals. They may have several careers before they discover what they really want to do.

Professional recognition may be associated with careers that require a lot of physical energy and a competitive spirit, and they may do well in professions that require a taste for risk, adventure, and a pioneering spirit.

Midheaven in Taurus

People with Taurus in the Midheaven tend to be ambitious, because having this sign in the 10th house means valuing material gains through their profession. In other words, it usually means the desire for status and prestige in their career.

Executive positions are very suitable for people with Taurus in the Midheaven, and professions connected with the conservation of property values can be interesting. The most traditional ones are banking, stock markets, applied economics, or political economy, but there are many paths in this area.

But whatever the career, it has to involve taste and enjoyment, which broadens the profession suggestions to jewelry, fashion, and hospitality, for example.

Midheaven in Gemini

Having more than one profession is quite common for those who have Gemini in the Midheaven. This sign in this part of the chart suggests jobs related to intellectual activities, such as mathematics, philosophy, and literary studies.

But also a career in business and communication, as an editor, writer, marketer, interpreter, journalist or teacher.

In addition, the Midheaven in Gemini speaks of ease in working with people, communicating ideas to the public, and giving lectures as well.

Midheaven in Cancer

The ability to intuitively know what people want is a very strong characteristic of those with Cancer in the Midheaven. In addition, they usually have the desire to be considered respectable and responsible.

Professions in which you have to analyze people's wishes or activities that require them to be careful and assistive, such as medicine or psychology, can be interesting.

They may also have artistic abilities, and so acting, doing poetry, working with music, gastronomy, or art history can bring a lot of fulfillment.

Midheaven in Leo

If you can lead or teach others, those with the Midheaven in Leo can feel they have found their calling. It is common to see teachers and religious leaders with this position in their birth chart.

In addition, professions with an emphasis on prestige, requiring initiative and self-confidence are possible. For example: working as a protagonist in politics, acting in soap operas, films, series or theater, and taking over the management of a company or area.

Working with jewelry or artwork or interior decoration can also bring professional fulfillment.

Midheaven in Virgo

People with the Midheaven in Virgo are usually perfection-oriented and very critical.

For this reason, they can be fulfilled in professions that require a lot of attention to details and criteria, i.e., they can work writing reviews, in the accounting area, or editing and organizing texts.

Careers that require a practical mind or manual skills are also favorable, so the fields of Technology and Crafts are indicated.

Midheaven in Libra

Libra in the Midheaven has a strong sense of impartiality and correctness in what they do. These characteristics make these people good in any position in the legal sphere, where they need to seek agreements or act as representatives of just causes.

In addition, they are usually people with a great ability to deal with the public, and a strong connection to the arts, so they may have a natural talent for diplomacy and careers in entertainment, fashion, theater, photography, and decoration, for example.

Midheaven in Scorpio

The person with the Midheaven in Scorpio is usually very dedicated, committed, and self-confident. Exploring the unknown can bring a lot of professional fulfillment, so they may do well in careers in investigative sectors, such as detectives and espionage, or activities connected with Psychoanalysis, Esotericism, and the Occult.

Also favorable are fields related to regeneration, healing and death, such as work in recovery hospitals, executor of wills or insurance.

Midheaven in Sagittarius

Those born with Sagittarius in the Midheaven usually have great plans for their career and want to go far, perhaps even working abroad. Their good reputation and idealism need to be expressed through their profession.

However, you need to learn to be more practical about projects. You tend to be a great professional in Education, sales, or in leading an area. You are usually a person who is oriented towards the meaning of life.

So you can also do well in Philosophy, in spiritual counseling, or in careers involving Justice.

Midheaven in Capricorn

Ambitious, people with the Midheaven in Capricorn tend to put their perseverance at the service of their career so that they can reach as high as possible.

Reputation matters a lot to these people, so they can easily take on responsibilities in public life, or in professions that require sobriety, prudence, and seriousness.

Your excellent organizational skills indicate that you are the ideal person to create structures and processes in a company.

Midheaven in Aquarius

Your humanitarian sense can make you work with something that has higher meaning and positive impact on society.

The position is favorable for working in large organizations and with activities that require creativity and, in addition, give freedom.

Anything where cutting edge technology can be applied tends to attract people with a Midheaven in Aquarius, as well as occupations related to the future, such as Astrology.

Midheaven in Pisces

Intuitive perception of what people need, and compassion for the pain of others, are strong points in the personality of those with the Midheaven in Pisces. For this reason, activities related to the artistic, such as theater, cinema, music, and poetry, are favored.

It is common to find people with this position in the chart acting as practitioners of non-traditional medicine, such as naturopaths or homeopaths.