House 10 of 12 · Angular
The 10th house is about your career and public life: your ambitions, your reputation and your relationship with authority.
Meaning
The 10th house begins at the Midheaven, the highest point of the chart. It describes the role you play in public. This includes your career, your achievements and what people know you for.
Planets here are visible to many people. They show the kind of work that gives you status and how you deal with bosses and institutions.
An angular house: one of the four that start each quarter of the chart. Planets here act strongly and visibly.
Planets here
Each planet brings its own theme to this area of life. Choose yours.
Your career and public role are central to who you are. You want to achieve something visible.
Your feelings are linked to your career and public image. You want to be recognised and to care for others in public.
Your career uses your mind and your voice. You are known for your ideas, your words or your skills.
You are liked in your career and public life. Charm, taste or diplomacy help your professional reputation.
You are ambitious and want to lead. You work hard for your career and want visible results.
You can achieve success and respect in your career. People often see you as capable and generous.
You are ambitious and patient. You build your career step by step and want lasting respect.
Your career is unusual or changes suddenly. You need independence at work and you dislike strict authority.
You want a career with meaning. Your public image may be idealised or unclear.
You want power and influence in your career. You may rise high, and your career may change completely.
Career, ambition, reputation, public life and relationships with authority, such as bosses.
In most house systems the Midheaven is the cusp, or starting point, of the 10th house. In whole-sign houses it can fall in the 9th, 10th or 11th.
The 10th house matches Capricorn, the 10th sign of the zodiac. Capricorn is ruled by Saturn. This link describes the house's general character. Your own chart may have any sign on this house.