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Midheaven (MC) calculator

Your Midheaven, or MC, is the point of the zodiac highest in the sky when you were born, and the start of your 10th house. It changes sign about every two hours, so you need your date, your exact birth time and your birth city.

Find your Midheaven

Date, exact time and city of birth
The Midheaven needs the exact time and the city: it moves a degree every four minutes.
  • Midheaven sign & degreeThe sign and degree at the top of your chart, for your birth minute.
  • Why the place mattersThe MC depends on your longitude as well as the time, so the city is part of the answer.
  • What it meansA short reading of your Midheaven sign: career, reputation and direction.
  • The rest of the chartYour free birth chart gives the Rising sign, the houses and every planet.

This free calculator finds your Midheaven (MC) from your date, exact birth time and birth city. All three are needed, because the Midheaven changes sign about every two hours, and Lunonis never guesses it without a birth time. It uses the same code as our birth chart and the tropical zodiac.

· How we calculate

How it’s calculated

The Midheaven is where the ecliptic crosses your local meridian, the line running from due south to straight overhead. The sky turns once a day, so each degree of the zodiac passes the meridian about every four minutes.

We turn your local birth time into UTC with the historical time-zone data for your city, find the local sidereal time at your longitude, and compute the point on the ecliptic that culminates then. It uses the same code as our birth chart, and the Midheaven agrees with Swiss Ephemeris to within an arcminute.

Nothing is guessed from your Sun sign. Without a birth time the Midheaven cannot be found, because over one day it passes through all twelve signs.

Midheaven in the twelve signs

A short reading for each sign. Find yours above, or read across for a friend.

Midheaven in Aries

You want to be seen as a pioneer who acts first. A vocation with independence, competition or starting things suits this sign.

Midheaven in Taurus

You want a reputation for being reliable and for making something solid. Work with a lasting product, craft, money or the senses suits it.

Midheaven in Gemini

You want to be known as someone who communicates well. Writing, teaching, sales, media and any work with many contacts suits this sign.

Midheaven in Cancer

You want to be seen as someone who cares and protects. Work with food, homes, families or looking after people suits it.

Midheaven in Leo

You want recognition for what you create and lead. Work in front of an audience or at the head of a team, with room for personal flair, suits this sign.

Midheaven in Virgo

You want to be known for skill and precision. Work in health, craft, analysis, editing or any service done properly suits it.

Midheaven in Libra

You want to be known for fairness and good taste. Law, design, diplomacy, partnership work and the arts suit this sign.

Midheaven in Scorpio

You want to be seen as someone who gets to the truth. Research, finance, psychology, investigation and work that handles crisis suit it.

Midheaven in Sagittarius

You want a calling with meaning and reach. Teaching, publishing, travel, law and work that crosses borders suit this sign.

Midheaven in Capricorn

You want to be seen as capable and to earn a position. Management, structure, long careers and visible responsibility suit it.

Midheaven in Aquarius

You want to be known for new ideas and your own path. Technology, science, networks and work for a cause suit this sign.

Midheaven in Pisces

You want to be known for imagination and compassion. Art, music, healing, care and work with a quiet, inward side suit it.

Questions

Asked often

What is the Midheaven in astrology?

The Midheaven (Medium Coeli, MC) is the highest point of the chart. Astrologers read it as your public face: your calling, reputation and the direction you are heading in the world. It is one of the four angles, with the Ascendant, Descendant and IC.

Is the Midheaven the same as the 10th house?

In Placidus and most quadrant house systems the MC is the cusp of the 10th house. In whole-sign houses the 10th house starts at the beginning of the MC’s sign. Our free chart uses Placidus.

Why do you need my exact birth time?

The MC moves about one degree every four minutes. An hour’s error shifts it by about 15° and half a sign, and a few hours changes the sign. If you only know the time to the hour, treat the result as a range and look at the neighbouring sign too.

What if I do not know my birth time?

Then your Midheaven cannot be calculated. Birth certificates often record the time, and in some countries a family member or the hospital can supply it.

Does my Midheaven sign decide my career?

No. It describes how you want to be seen and the kind of work that feels like a vocation. It does not name a job. Astrologers also look at the sign on the 6th and 10th houses, the planets in them and the ruler of the MC.

Go further

Your career, read from the chart

The career reading looks at your Midheaven, its ruler and the planets in your 10th house. The natal chart book reads the whole chart.

Work reading · $14.99Natal chart book · $24.99

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