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.
2nd House:
Keywords: The keywords associated with the 2nd house are values, self-worth, resources, finances, material possessions, sensuality, physical body, belongings, beliefs, and ownership.
Succedent House Type: A Succedent house type is ruled by a fixed sign. Taurus is the fixed earth sign ruling the 2nd house.
The 2nd house in astrology is the area of life where we develop a relationship with our resources and belongings. In this area of the chart you are called to evaluate your attachments to the material world. In addition, the 2nd house is the place where you learn the value of self-worth, pleasure, satisfaction, and delight. Planets placed in this part of the chart will partially represent your capacity to generate wealth, resources, and income. Planets here need to experience life “hands on.”
The 2nd house symbolizes your relationship with possessions and values. This can relate on a spiritual, physical, or emotional level. How you define yourself based on what your belongings are, your beliefs, the money you have, the relationships you are in, or anything else you can use as a physical definer of who you are can be experienced through the 2nd house. Deciding what you own or if your possessions “own” you is a core lesson of this area of the astrological chart.