The midheaven (mc)—or medium coeli—discusses your professional life, public image, and career path. Learn what it means in all the zodiac signs.
Your midheaven can give clues to your natural talents, the best career suited for you, and the way that you appear in public. In order to get our facts straight, we asked astrologer Lauren Ash to help us identify what the Midheaven means in each zodiac sign, how to find it, and what it represents.
What Is Midheaven?
According to Ash, the Midheaven—meaning “middle of the sky”— is one of the four angles of a birth chart: ascendant (rising sign), descendant, imum coeli (IC), and medium coeli (MC). “Each of these four points represent a different part of your sense of sense and together form what’s known at the natal cross or incarnation cross,” she says.
This particular corner of the birth chart is located near the 10th House and is most associated with Capricorn because of its “business-y” nature. “Unlike the ascendant, which is a chart angle associated with our...
