Midheaven in Scorpio ♏︎ in the natal chart
Public Life: If your Midheaven is in the sign of Scorpio in your natal chart then you will often have a very hypnotic energy to your public persona. This placement indicates some potential for notoriety or fame in your chosen field. You are often an expert in the work that you choose approaching your life’s work or “magnum opus” with great reverence, time, and research. Other’s may have trouble trusting you at first when it comes to business or sales but you somehow always find way to win over the crowd. You find the work you do may be in the evening, overnight, or graveyard shifts.
Career Possibilities: Some career possibilities with the Midheaven in Scorpio include: surgeon, butcher, investigator, psychologist, waste manager, undertaker, social worker, psychiatrist, psychiatric technician, sale person, banker, chemist, scientist, lawyer, chef, tattoo artist, piercer, astrologer, tarot reader, sex worker, bartender, hotel night manager, phlebotomist, crisis worker, case manager, hospice worker, emergency room nurse, inventor, or civil engineer.
Ruling Planet: The ruling planet of your Midheaven is Mars and Pluto. Mars is associated with knives and sharp objects which is why you may find yourself in careers involving these tools (butcher, surgeon, piercer). Pluto is often associated with death indicating you are well suited for careers that deal with this subject matter.
4th House
Keywords: Keywords for the 4th house include home, home life, parents, ancestry, relatives, privacy, birth place, nurturing, self-care, self-love, security, and spiritual initiation.
Angular House Type: An Angular house type means it is ruled by a cardinal sign. In this case Cancer is the cardinal water sign ruling the 4th house.
The 4th house in astrology is symbolic of our most private self. It is the part that is the hardest to express, representing things we often keep hidden from others. This house can also be representative of one’s parents, typically one or the other. It can represent what the earliest relationships in one’s life were life and home life environment. The 4th house is representative of one’s relationship with authority, thus the association with a parental figure.
The areas of life the 4th house oversees include the ways in which you create a home for yourself. It looks at how important having a home base is for you. The 4th house is the security blanket of your natal chart. The sign on the 4th house is symbolic of how you take care of your deepest needs, where you need the most nurturing, support, and comfort. If you have an emphasis of planets in the 4th house in your natal chart this may indicate you tend to be shy or keep things to yourself, only revealing your true self to a select few individuals.