Midheaven

The Medium Coeli (MC ) or the Midheaven (Latin: medium = middle, coelum = heaven ( Centrum Medii Caeli, medium Caelum, Greek: Mesouranema of mesos " middle " and ouranos "heaven" ) is in astronomy in the function of observation time and place certain intersection of the meridian with the ecliptic. this intersection also represents the climactic at this time point of the ecliptic represents the Midheaven is not to be confused with the zenith. the counter- point is called imum coeli, or heaven depth.

The Midheaven a meaning is ascribed in astrology.

Midheaven in Astrology

General definition

The Midheaven represents the highest point in our horoscope dar. It is the tip of the tenth house. It describes the mission and goals of an individual. It's about all serious events in our lives. Through them, the man feels called to develop skills, energies or qualities. Vocation is a path he needs to go. The tenth house describes the essence of progression. Meaning that certain events or requirements appear to be difficult or fateful, because man is forced by them to the use of the skills he has not yet mastered that are not aware of him or which he has written down.

The MC describes the visualization or awareness of events and facts as well as the success that the "product " of life. It shows the power of shaped thoughts and their effects. It is about the abstract world of ideas to letters of intent, and thus also to the developing therefrom consequences.

Definition of the Hamburg School

Astrology as a symbolic language makes use of astronomical events. In correspondence to the annual course of the sun ( it begins its course in the winter, rises in the spring, reaches its highest point in the summer, going under in the fall and reached its lowest point in the winter) and the daily running of the sun ( it begins its run at midnight goes in the morning in the east, reaches its highest point every day at noon, the evening goes in the west and reaches its lowest point around midnight ) the MC is assigned to the 10th house.

Just as the event " culmination " of a star, so the event is "birth" as a culmination considered. The climax is the end of the pregnancy and the birth of the beginning of one's own, self-contained breathing, the beginning of a new human life. With the birth place the prenatal development of the human being its peak, the follow in the course of life is a additional or more highlights.

The mathematical point MC is attributed great importance. It shows the symbolic (not mathematical- astronomical ) center in the horoscope: Goals and Highlights of a person. The MC refers to the rotation, the rotation of the earth around itself Just as the alternation of day and night before the changing of the seasons is perceived, man first takes itself true. Therefore, the MC in the horoscope symbolizes also the ego, the personality, its own sense of self, for example, my thinking, my actions, my will, my preferences.

Historical development

Around the 4th century, the MC prevailed as the tip of the 10th astrological house. In ancient ( äqualen ) house system, the tip of the 10th house was identified as ( Midheaven ), which was always calculated from the ascendant 90 Ekliptikgrade away as South Point and the entire zodiac into four equal splits large quadrant. In the centuries after Christ, the definition of the Midheaven prevailed as a lunch spot, the entire ecliptic, aufteilte in higher latitudes, depending on the day precisely slate ascension of the ecliptic into four equal sized sections. From the recognition of the Midheaven for the 10th house as the top non- äqualen house systems emerged. Also, the Midheaven, the concept still used Ptolemy is identical to the top of the 10th house of the äqualen house system, which is always 90 ° from the ascendant, although Ptolemy easily calculated the lunch point. For him, as for his predecessors was the highest point of the heavens place of destiny and of a universal nature and significant than the midday point, the "relative" level to the site represented only the south meridian direction. The point of the 10th house defined in äqualen house system is calculated from the ascendant, with the center between the Ascendant and the him exactly opposite the Descendant. This half-distance point on the ecliptic is based on the entire globe - independent of a particular local meridian - always the highest point of the ecliptic over the equator and the horizon of any place of observation. In äqualen house system, the houses circle, starting from the position of the Ascendant, split large 30 ° 12 houses in the same. Whenever the MC in the 0 ° Cancer ( Ascendant then lies in the 0 ° Libra ) and 0 ° Capricorn ( Ascendant then lies in the 0 ° Aries ) are, the position of the MC coincides with the peak of the 10th house. Furthermore, the position of the MC coincides with the peak of the 10th house at about 0 ° to 20 ° latitude, because then the distance between MC and Ascendant 90 °. At higher northern and southern latitudes that is no longer the case. This causes the obliquity of the ecliptic ( the angle at which the ecliptic and the celestial equator intersect, it is around 23 ° 27 ').