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What is the Midheaven?

The degree of the zodiac crossing your meridian, the north–south line through the sky, at the moment you were born. It is rarely directly overhead and is not always the zodiac’s highest point. In OrbHeaven’s Placidus charts it is the cusp of the 10th house; where whole-sign houses are used instead, at high latitudes, it falls within a house rather than on a cusp. It is read as your public work, reputation and direction. Like the Ascendant, it needs a birth time.

In the reference library: The Midheaven: the ecliptic on the meridian — not the zenith — and what it means

Where you see this in OrbHeaven

Draw your own chart and this definition stops being abstract: the same term, with your numbers in it. Every placement, house and aspect, with the engine, the house system and the exact universal time printed underneath. No account, no email address, and nothing you type is kept.

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The points

The four angles and the nodes: places in the sky rather than bodies in it.

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