'Briefly, any person–whether it’s a boss, parent, mentor, lover, friend, relative, or whatever–who has a planet conjunct your Midheaven within about 3-4° is going to have a strong impact on your career. Here are some of the ways they do.'

' The astrological community is prone to tedious debates that go on for decades and never get resolved, since we’re such a bunch of opinionated old Uranian cusses. One ongoing debate poses the question of which parent is signified by the Midheaven (10th house cusp) and which one by the IC (4th house cusp).'

"The Midheaven, or Medium Coeli (MC), represents the highest point in the sky at the time when you were born. Depending on which house system you use, the Midheaven usually corresponds to the angle of the 10th house cusp. The Sun reaches its culmination at the Midheaven and then begins to decline in the sky towards sunset (the Descendant).

"Recently I received an email from Louise, who had just lost her husband of forty-five years. He died suddenly and unexpectedly from what was ruled to be a heart attack, although he had been having shortness of breath for several months and had even been sent to a lung specialist not long before. Louise was beside herself. They had been together since they met in 1961. This was definitely the worst experience of her life and the only thing she saw that might account for Dan’s death in his horoscope was transiting Pluto opposing his natal Sun."