The 10th house is naturally connected with the sign of Capricorn and its ruler Saturn. The beginning, or cusp, of the 10th house is called the Midheaven. This is the degree of the ecliptic that was at the highest point in the sky at the time and place of birth. The Midheaven and the 10th house therefore represents our ambitions, what we aim for and hope to achieve in the world. In this house we attempt to bring the ideals and aspirations of the 9th to practical realisation. This results in a career or a particular position in the social order. The 10th is also connected with our relations with authority figures in general, and with the way we experienced our parents in particular. Extracts of text taken from Soul Scope Report written by Lyn Birkbeck
Sun in the 10th House
Your Sun Profile potentials are most likely to be central to the nature and pursuance of your actual career. In other words, having a professional position is vitally important to you. This can mean that you proceed quite quickly up the career ladder because you know what you want early on.
It could also mean that you get involved with busy professional types who you are either happy to support emotionally, or at some point feel you too should have a place of your own in the world. Rising to a position of prominence is probable, but falling from grace is also a possibility if you ignore your home, family or inner life. Behind all this ambition is your mother who wanted so much to have a successful child. Whether her intentions ultimately coincide with yours is another matter. Get my Soul Scope Report
Moon in the 10th House
All these needs and feelings are most likely to be met through friends, clubs, social movements, or the nurturing of some ideal. All these matters will go through phases, causing your goals and allegiances to fluctuate. Overall, you manage to keep your emotional life fairly light and breezy.
You prefer not to get morbid and heavy in one-to-one relationships and, if things get that way, you will go out with friends or to somewhere impersonal. This can be a good safety valve, but a bad habit if you make your friends or associations into an emotional crutch. It is wise to take a break from them every so often in order to re-establish your own identity, not to mention facing any more intimate emotional commitments.
All the same, you are capable of appealing to the crowd on an emotional level, which means that you have a finger on the pulse of the public's attitude to political, sociological or cultural issues. Get my Soul Scope Report
Mercury in the 10th House
These mental capabilities of yours will actually find a professional outlet in the form of being a writer, journalist, broadcaster, spokesperson, or anything that has to do with communication or manual or mental dexterity: transport, trading, accounting, secretarial, printing, to name a few. You strongly seek recognition for your mental powers but using and regarding the intellect as a superior factor in life has its positive and negative sides. For example, you can be very happy in your work because you have 'learned the ropes'; but the more emotional areas of life can give trouble as your intellectually dominated mind fails to grasp the significance of the feeling nature. Then again, your profession may even cater for this dilemma. How you think was particularly influenced by your mother's mental attitude.Get my Soul Scope Report
Venus in the 10th House
These values and preferences are very important for they greatly determine your reputation and professional standing. Your career itself should involve art, beauty, or social skills of some kind. Your personal appeal can have a lot to do with the success or style of your career. Your mother could have a certain amount to do with how attractive you feel towards the world generally. For example, if she was jealous of your talents or looks she might downgrade your worth and self-esteem; alternatively, her own sense of what appeals could help further your career.
The key to finding your professional niche is that you should simply (or even sensuously) enjoy what you do for a living. In other words, the degree to which you are in touch with your own pleasure principle has everything to do with your amounting to something in the world. Get my Soul Scope Report
Mars in the 10th House
How easily you express these qualities of self-assertion can go sharply in one of two ways. You see the outside world as a battleground; either in which to prove your mettle and push for what you want professionally and materially, or, as somewhere intimidating and aggressive. In the first case, as long as you are prepared for the dog-eat-dog conflicts that you encounter in business and the like, then you feel happy amidst such a cut and thrust, rise and fall scenario.
If however you feel weak in the face of all this, to the point of withdrawal, then some form of assertiveness training is called for. Behind all this was your mother's example of assertiveness. Either you took it on board as suitable to you or it set the scene, somewhat inaccurately, as the unqualified nature of the world out there. If you are female, you possibly hope that some chivalrous knight on a pure white horse will save and protect you - but you really should find your own bulletproof vest and set forth. Generally speaking, your career should be a physically active one, possibly involving the military, force, or sharp instruments. Get my Soul Scope Report
Jupiter in the 10th House
It is very likely that you will become well known for these qualities of faith and enterprise, as well as for other personal talents - possibly concerning law, drama, teaching, religion or the military. Having a prominent and affluent professional position - or being involved with something or someone prestigious - is more or less inevitable.
It is also quite possible that you could put too much store by your public or professional position and neglect your inner or home life. Generally speaking you have an enthusiasm for publicity, fame and fortune, but sooner or later you'd need to develop honesty and integrity in performing your duties - or disgrace could result and then you'd heartily denigrate success. Your mother's influence was (or still is) great concerning this inclination to excel and cut a dash in the outside world. Get my Soul Scope Report
Saturn in the 10th House
These lessons and necessities make themselves known in an obvious way. This is because you either feel that you must definitely amount to something in life and therefore set about pursuing your goals and dealing with the challenges of the material world, or, you feel rather weak in the face of the world at large and settle for being nobody in particular. A lot depends upon your Saturn Profile as a whole and upon your mother's influence in particular because her ambitions or fears, her confidence or doubts, got readily passed on to you.
Ultimately (and in truth) you must attempt to amount to something in this world because that is the test-bed of your life. Worldly success is supposed to be yours and could well be so - but if your ambitions are someone else's, or they've been suppressed by self-doubt, you'll have to fall or sink very low first before you understand the true meaning and importance of 'amounting to something'. Get my Soul Scope Report
Uranus in the 10th House
These changes and advancement through technology or alternative disciplines are likely to find their way into your life via your profession or reputation so your career could involve electricity, science, mass media, aeronautics, or anything that is innovative or future orientated. However, you may at some stage have to 'invent' your position in life as ordinary methods and channels either fail or bore. In the process of discovering your unique professional niche, many avenues of expression may be experimented with - so a chequered career is likely.
Advancement can be quick, sudden or erratic - and friends or teamwork could play a significant part. Freedom and rights may well be a professional issue - for instance, trade unionist, freedom fighter, social activist, consumer watchdog, etc. The occult may also figure in your career, pointing the way with astrology, magic, or psychology. Your mother figures strongly in how you see yourself in the world, because she either left you very much to your own devices, or caused you to react against her and take a rebellious public stance. Get my Soul Scope Report
Neptune in the 10th House
For you, such sensitivity and spirituality has to manifest itself in your public or professional life. Initially, this may mean that you are somewhat reluctant to bare your soul to the world - for effectively, this is what you have to do - and so professional status would then be minimal or non-existent.
However when you have found a way to express your ideals, visions or finer feelings to the world you may excel in the arts - especially painting, music and dancing - or in some role that furthers, or caters for, the welfare of the public which can include anything from nursing to politics. If you continue to keep your shy and subtle side too much to yourself, it's quite possible that it will be dragged into the light in the form of some scandal because there is something about the emotional truth of your being that has to be openly expressed, whether you are aware of it or not.
Still another way in which your sensitivity can show itself in a negative way is through some form of escapism. This could range from being away from home (and its emotional responsibilities) a great deal of the time, to being involved in something a bit shady or criminal, or to being in some glamorous profession which hides your real identity.
All in all, your mother influenced you a lot with regard to how you express your finer feelings to the world at large. Her vagueness or selflessness, her imaginativeness or mental instability, her propensity to inspire or confuse - would have deeply affected how you see the world and a place in it for your own sensitivity.
Power and transformation occurs for you in the field of your professional life or public position. This means that power can either be bestowed upon you or taken away, or both. The reason for this is that there's a hidden agenda here that says that any such great influence as you might have is ultimately only maintained when used for the common good. (Ex-President Nixon is a notorious example). However, this Plutonian condition can strike before you have even grown up and achieved any ambitions at all.
This happens as the result of a parent or other figure of authority - but usually your mother - being an overshadowing force imposing their ambitions or agenda upon your own. If this is the case, sooner or later, there will occur some kind of catharsis in respect of what worldly position means to you.
Alternatively, such a figure, be it your mother or someone else, implants in you a pronounced sense of your own destiny. As far as the nature of your career itself is concerned, this will most probably have something to do with what is powerful or hidden - like big business, detective, research or undercover work, crime, psychology, astrophysics or anything concerned with delving or dealing. Get my Soul Scope Report
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Each Planet is located in one of the 12 Houses of the Chart.
