Midheaven (MC) in Cancer, Midheaven (MC) in the 11th House

Midheaven in Cancer ♋︎ in the natal chart

Public Life: The public life of a person with the Midheaven point in the sign of Cancer has great potential for fame or notoriety. People are very drawn to your energy often expecting you to care for them or solve their problems. You are often very accommodating and tend towards pleasing others. With this placement developing your career may not be your number one priority, however, you find somehow you “fall” into lucky career situations. People with the Midheaven in Cancer are drawn toward careers that require taking care of others, helping people achieve security, or stable housing. 

Career Possibilities: You are drawn to jobs and careers in the public life that allow you to nurture people’s needs. You make a great gardener, shop-keeper, nanny, childcare worker, teacher, preschool administrator, mental health worker, musician, singer, baker, chef, bartender, server, nurse, real estate agent, social worker, hospice aid, psychic, dancer, librarian, priest, priestess, pastor, minister, brewer, politician, or apartment superintendent. 

Ruling Planet: The ruling planet of your Midheaven in Cancer is the Moon. In astrology the Moon is associated with the sphere of the public. This indicates you will naturally find yourself in the public eye or working with the public in some way. Your primary goal will be taking care of others through support and encouragement.

11th House

Keywords: The Keywords associated with the 11th house include tribes, people, groups, social circles, social media, internet, creativity, collaboration, charity, altruism, innovation, the future, brotherhood, sisterhood, secret societies, discovery, congregating, activism, and trends. 

Succedent House Type: The Succedent house type is ruled by a fixed sign. Aquarius is the fixed air sign overseeing the 11th house. 

In astrology the 11th house represents group identity and group belonging. It is also associated with your hopes, dreams, and wishes. The 11th house is the areas of life that bring together your passions and the things you have learned. As an aspect of identity, the 11th house, is where you are start to feel like you belong to a group, nation, people, family, political groups, collectives, and so on. 

Your ambition is able to be realized when you have the cooperation of a group sharing in your vision. Here you get to play out and live your dreams in real life. If you have a heavy emphasis of planets in your 11th house this can symbolize a life full of achievement and luck. People with 11th house planets tend to be very influential. Friends may become a greater focus than family in this case as well.