Here’s How Your Midheaven Can Help You Find More Joy in Your Business
by Megan Field Moonstone staff astrologer
Sun, Moon, and Rising signs get a lot of attention on social media these days. But if you want to understand your potential as a business owner, look to your Midheaven. Keep reading to find out how this lesser-known astrological placement holds the key to shining your brightest at work and finding more joy along your vocational path.
The Sacred Quest
Often understood nowadays as a “job”, the word vocation stands for something much deeper and more multidimensional than this mundane meaning.
Vocation comes from the Latin word vocare, meaning to call, invoke, or name. Before our fixation on job identification (e.g., “I’m a doctor/lawyer/teacher”), our vocation defined our spiritual calling. A sacred quest to follow our own passion and authentic inner voice. This calling is the reason so many of us start a business in the first place.
Your vocation evolves throughout your life. Turning with you on the karmic wheel, it transforms as you do. New layers of your calling are revealed as your energetic vibration shifts.
Your vocation is a part of you, a unique resonance that whispers from the heart. When you ignore it or label it too hard, silly, or strange, you limit the infinite nature of your being. You stifle your capacity to inspire great change and love through your daily actions.
Carl Jung proposed that following the call of your vocation is to follow the voice of your soul and in doing so, you become more conscious and blaze your own unique trail outside the well-worn path of societal expectations and norms.
Your birth chart holds a variety of clues about your vocation. Your Midheaven is one of the most powerful pieces of the puzzle.
Your Midheaven: What it is and where to find it
Your Midheaven is the point in the sky where the Sun was at its highest on your birthday. It’s light was most visible at this point, glittering and beaming onto Earth.
This point is a symbolic mirror. It represents how you shine brightly in the world. Found at the top of your birth chart, your Midheaven is most often related to your vocation, profession, legacy, and public image. It holds a key to how people know you and the kind of work you do in the world.
Your Midheaven is easy to find with a free natal chart calculator. It’s important that you know your birth time. Once you have your chart, look for the “MC” indicator near the top. (Fun fact: “MC” is short for Medium Coeli, which translates to “middle of the sky” in Latin.)
The sign your Midheaven is placed in shows qualities that support your vocation, ambitions, and contributions in the world.
You can imagine it as:
the highest tower of your cathedral
where the gaze of others is drawn to
the point where you are most visible to the masses
where you are closest to the cosmos themselves
Zodiac Signs On The Midheaven
Once you know the zodiac sign your Midheaven is in, consider the traits and recommendations below. These are innate qualities that want to be expressed through your career path and the way you serve others.
Ask yourself:
How can I tap into these qualities to enhance my unique star quality?
Which qualities have I been neglecting?
How can I lean into these traits to find more joy in my work?
Are any new creative avenues being illuminated that I may not have seen before?
Note: If you don’t know your time of birth, look at your Sun sign. Since your Sun is your essence, its qualities will also be a major part of your vocation. If you know your birth time, you can read both Midheaven and Sun sign qualities to give you a deeper, more blended understanding of your vocation.
So what are your keys to vocational success? Find your Midheaven sign below.
Aries Qualities: entrepreneurial, self-governing, takes action
Create your own career position or business
Embrace new challenges and risks
Showcase your personality, this helps to draw in aligned energy and enhances your sense of self. This Midheaven seeks to explore identity and development of the self through the vocation and career.
Choose a profession where you can act move and act quickly
Seek work involving courage, nerve, and initiating projects
Create deadlines or activities with some kind of risk. This will help you stay on track.
Taurus Qualities: resourceful, creative, straightforward
Utilize your sensual nature and the physical senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch)
Offer tangible goods or create with your hands
Choose professions that embrace physical activity and movement
Master your craft
Find real value in whatever you do
Move at a slower pace as you work best when fully present and are able to lay a solid foundation. Feeling rushed or pressured can overwhelm you and actually slow you down.
Gemini Qualities: flexible, highly perceptive, curious, sensitive
Work in an environment that inspires you
Make space to play with ideas, concepts, and daydreams
Communicate through your creativity—writing, speaking, teaching, design, drawing, body movements, storytelling, or any skills that involve your mind and hands together
Ask questions, share information, and express your ideas
Embrace change and flexibility at work—you may have multiple jobs/projects on the go. (Be careful not to take on too many at once which can create overwhelm.)
Cancer Qualities: compassion, intuition, creating boundaries
Make your work environment feel like home by working with family members, people that feel like family, or simply from the comforts of your own home
Create a feeling of safety in your work to increase emotional security (e.g. steady income, budgeting, supportive team, regular marketing) Bring your caring and compassionate nature into your vocation
Schedule time for self-care and let your imagination wander
Choosing a vocation that nurtures you internally will continue to be a wellspring of youth and inspiration
Feeling emotionally secure in your personal life is foundational to shine in your work— don’t hesitate to ask for help or support from your loved ones and colleague
Leo Qualities: heartfelt expression, warmth, generosity
Use your creativity and talents to excel in your vocation and feel more fulfilled
Spend time with people who appreciate and recognize your contributions. This will support your sense of identity and optimism.
Shine brightly by showcasing your uniqueness, personal brand, or particular way of doing things
Internal security can be enhanced by praise, but a more fulfilling foundation of self is formed by reuniting with the innocent, wild, and free child within
Don’t be afraid to lead, especially in projects you’re passionate about
Be bold, do what you love, and meet the world with joy and wonder, regardless of what others think. This is what draws people to you and your work. You have the ability to become a shining example, allowing others the freedom to be themselves.
Virgo Qualities: efficient, masterful, devoted
You have the ability to recognize the big picture as well as the details. You understand what to adjust and tinker with to make something better.
Create efficient and practical systems
Striving for perfection in your work is a mirror for a deeper calling to serve the self in the journey to wholeness. Self-understanding and acceptance is a key for you to thrive personally and professionally
Be service to others by listening and taking the next best step. This creates the greatest impact. Have small yet consistent daily routines to create security and consistency. Disorder in your environment can be distressing.
Counselling, journaling, and talking with a loved one are all valuable tools to calm nervous tendencies. Have a mental hygiene practice such as daily meditation to balance the body, mind, and emotions.
Libra Qualities: relating to others, aesthetic insight, charming
Gifted in the arts, enhancing and appreciating beauty, and demonstrating composure
The ability to weigh options diplomatically, resolve uncomfortable situations, and invite open communication
Find and appreciate simple pleasures of the eye (a sunset, nicely decorated room, great outfit) and of the mind (a peaceful moment sipping your morning tea)
Your perception (of others, the world, art) is highly valuable and your vocation thrives when you continuously practice finding mental clarity
Reflect back the moods, feelings, and thoughts of others. This is a natural gift and your strong listening skills are valued.
The natural balancer amongst friends and colleagues. You may overlook conflict and negativity for the sake of pleasantry, so know your value and when to leave toxic situations.
Scorpio Qualities: penetrating, passionate, self-renewal
Choose work and projects that feel important, compelling, and fully immersive. Your intense nature thrives here.
Seek to know the unknown, uncover mysteries, and embrace various forms of investigation
Transformation is key—therapy, trauma counselling, healing, research, examination, birth & death work. The more you embrace vulnerability, the more fulfilling your work and life become.
You may be drawn to subjects of the underworld, the paranormal, and can learn to withstand what many find challenging or taboo.
Solitude helps you complete deep work while others are catalysts for transformation. Balancing togetherness and alone time is important for growth.
Struggles around power and powerlessness can come up. Negative power dynamics may become an issue in your professional or personal life if you’re feeling disempowered within yourself. Remember that all true power comes from within.
Sagittarius Qualities: freedom loving, enthusiasm, intuitive insights
Focus on the long-term perspective of your vision. Continual growth supports you more than fixating on short term gains.
Maintain your personal ethics in your profession or business. Act on principles and ideals that support a higher perspective.
You have a natural ability to guide and inspire others through your spiritual, philosophical, or reflective viewpoints
Nature, travel, and exploring the unknown (physically, mentally, or spiritually) can boost your creativity and ambitions. Experiences that help open your mind and enhance personal growth are supportive to your spirit.
Too much repetition and predictability is not ideal. Feelings of depression, constriction, and overall fatigue may set in without changing things up.
Move beyond the boundaries and limitations of the old as you help create a new standard of quality and joyful living. The possibilities are endless and you expand with every move towards greater bliss.
Capricorn Qualities: tenacity, honour, respect for yourself and others
Lay a strong foundation with well-defined boundaries to build your empire upon
Authority is a key—you can either give your authority away to others or create unwavering inner authority that cannot be knocked.
When pressure arises, look to where you’ve followed the expectations of others. Follow your internal compass first and foremost.
With an innate sense of duty, you may take work and life too seriously. A tendency to rest the burden of the world upon your shoulders only weighs you down and restricts the skills and abilities you’ve worked so hard to master. Release the weight and set yourself free, even if it’s only within the mind.
Celebrate completed tasks regularly and allow yourself to take pride and reflect on how far you’ve come in your journey. The tendency to be hard on yourself and continuously strive for more can lead to burnout.
When insecurity, anxiety, or feelings of not-doing-enough come up, take time alone, reflect, and go into nature. Find where these old friends live within you and send them love. Eventually, you’ll acquire a quiet, unshakeable confidence.
Aquarius Qualities: free spirit, ingenuity, care for all living beings
Support and give to humanity in a way that feels aligned for you—whether one-on-one, in a group or throughout time with new inventions or ideas
Express your finely-tuned intuition, open-mindedness, and philanthropic nature
Your soul call is to assist the upliftment of the future through your unique perspective and innate creativity. Showcase your individuality and stand for the equality of all (both can be done at the same time).
Create more freedom in your work by starting your own business, working remotely, or choosing jobs with a flexible schedules.
Enjoy social time but carve out lots of space for solitude. The more freedom and space you have to do your work, the better you function and the higher quality your results are
Trust your unique way of working and living, despite what others are doing. You’re meant to break the mold and create waves of change!
Pisces Qualities: sensitive, artistic, compassionate
Cultivate boundaries. Your high sensitivity and compassion make it easier to absorb the energies around you. Being receptive in nature, you’re inclined to take on more than necessary.
Plan for lots of alone time. Consistently replenish your energy or you may end up fatigued, burnt out, sad, anxious, confused, or directionless.
Embrace activities that allow your artistic, charitable, and reverent nature to flourish
You’re easily moved by a moment in nature, a touching story, or a rich painting. Whether or not this sensitivity and connection to spirit are utilized in your career, it will call you to work with it on some level.
Create a regular ritual for connecting with your inner self. This is extremely helpful for restoration.
Restorative practices may include meditation, visualization, prayer, contemplation, daydreaming, or anything of a simple nature that allows the mind and body to relax
