Midheaven (MC) in Cancer, Midheaven (MC) in the 7th 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.

7th House

Keywords: The keywords associated with the 7th house are marriage, partnership, relationships, business partners, friends, social life, balance, legal matters, cooperation, collaboration, compromise, love, and contracts. 

Angular House Type: An Angular house type is ruled by a cardinal sign. Libra is the cardinal air sign overseeing the 7th house. 

The 7th house is associated with partnerships, marriage, and contracts. It is where you start to see yourself expressed through others. Often people do not express the sign on the 7th house very easily but instead live out the themes of this house through their relationships. This house is the area of life where you have made commitments to someone else often in a legal or official capacity. For this reason the 7th house can be seen as your relationship to a business partner, a close friend, or a spouse. 

On a spiritual level the 7th house is bringing awareness to the areas of life you find yourself in opposition to. This is why individuals may end up dating their complete opposite zodiac sign, as the saying goes: “opposite attract.” Having a lot of planets in the 7th house indicates that you will often be searching for yourself in others. How you relate to your own identity and the identity of others is in the themes of this house.