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The DK Foundation Ten The
Tenth House House of
Capricorn Element: Earth Ruling
Planet: Saturn Area of Consciousness Universal Awareness
through the experience of recognition and authority
Sun
in House 10 When
the Sun is in the 10th House, consciousness is gaining experience of
having status and recognition and the responsibilities connected with
this. A 10th House person is accountable to those who are able to confer
authority and give him the recognition, which he craves. The cusp of H10 -
the Midheaven - is the highest point of the chart: all that a 10th House
person does publicly, if not privately, needs to be able to bear the
scrutiny which he will be exposed to as a result of occupying this
elevated position. In the 10th House a person has to abide by whatever
rules he has chosen to live by or be broken by them. Unless the Sun is
afflicted by Uranus or Pluto, this placement produces a pragmatic attitude
to conformity. What matters to a person with the Sun in H10 are status,
recognition and the leverage that comes from having a platform from which
to work; in return for these he is usually prepared to play the game. For
a 10th House person a career is the customary route to recognition. On the
ladder of his profession he expects to rise by dint of hard work. The
prospect of promotion is his motivation. In the House of Saturn the
rewards often come late and only as a result of considerable effort. A
10th House person who does not expect to work hard for recognition, has
failed to understand something very fundamental about the nature of the
success that comes through the 10th House. For
10th House women, the yearning for recognition is every bit as strong,
even if the opportunities are not so numerous. Societies the world over
have been slow to extend approval to a woman with ambition. It has been
said of the 10th House, that, if a person cannot have recognition he will
settle for notoriety - and this, many women have had to do, although the
fruits of this kind of fame tend to be rather bitter because there is
something inherently conservative about the house of Saturn and a H10
person would rather be with the Establishment than against it. Tenth House
women who have gained status through marriage also tend to feel that this
is an ersatz commodity and may be deeply envious of their husbands. Women
with the Sun in H10 who do have careers are likely to fit motherhood
around them. They are rarely content with domesticity over a long period. There
does not appear to be any one profession, which attracts 10th House
people. They will be found wherever there is a career structure and the
promise of stability and promotion. They are more likely to make employees
than entrepreneurs. Mercury Mercury
in the 10th House gives a liking for structure order and hierarchy. Unless
the Sun is in the 9th House or Mercury receives an aspect from Uranus or
Neptune, there tends to be a marked preference for ‘hard fact’ over
abstractions. When Mercury is in H10 with the Sun it reinforces the
ambitiousness and pragmatism conferred by this placement. A person with
this combination makes self-advancement his priority and the benchmark of
success. When
Mercury is in H10 and the Sun in H9 then a person, tends to adapt the
famous Sufi description, "bows in the next world but stands in
this". Although this combination confers much interest in
philosophical and spiritual ideas, and in remote places, a person’s
allegiance remains with his own society and he is usually ambitious for a
position within it. This combination is common in the charts of clergymen
and lawyers who draw on universally applicable principles to sanction law
and order and earn themselves status in the process. When
Mercury is in H10 and the Sun in H11 then a person is likely to make his
career in an
organisation, which
serves the public, good. This combination tends to reduce the radicalism
of the Sun in the house of Aquarius and makes a person more inclined to
work to preserve the status quo than to change it. This combination
produces members of the armed forces, the police force and career civil
servants. Venus In
the 10th House Venus, unless afflicted, facilitates the process of
self-advancement. This placement augurs well for a successful and
enjoyable career in which lucky breaks reduce the need to strive. Venus
in H10 may also bring an advantageous marriage, most likely to a person
older and more established. If a man is bringing the Capricornian
experience into his life through the marriage partner, the wife almost
certainly will be more mature. In the charts of either sex an unafflicted
Venus in H10 suggests that the Father was much admired and there remains
throughout life, a respect for authority figures. Mars With
Mars in H10 a person projects himself through his career and is likely to
bring a competitive attitude to this area of his life. A person with Mars
in H10 has to do things in his own way and is confident of his own
abilities. He is happier therefore wielding authority than submitting to
it, which probably accounts for the tense relationship a person with this
placement so commonly has with both colleagues and superiors. Mars in H10
is frequently insubordinate. A person with this placement is likely to
have experienced his Father as a forceful personality and learnt his own
assertiveness, as much through resisting the Father’s regime, as by
copying his example. Jupiter Jupiter
in H10 bodes well for advancement in life. In the house of Saturn, Jupiter
is given discipline and staying power and so, provided the content of his
work is perceived to be worthwhile, a person with this placement is
usually happy to build a career. Like Venus, Jupiter in H10 gives lucky
breaks and ease, both in dealing with and wielding authority. Unless
Jupiter is afflicted, this planet in H10 indicates that the relationship
with the Father was characterised by mutual trust and respect, and was a
source of encouragement to the child. Saturn
in the 10th House is the planet of Karma in its Own House. Unsurprisingly
its effect on a person’s life is very pronounced. The sign and position
of the Moon will shed light on why there should be such a need to have to
struggle against an undertow which threatens to pull down all-a-person
builds in his life, and which is resisted only by constant effort,
self-discipline and sound judgment. Saturn in the 10th House, as the lives
of Hitler and Napoleon demonstrate, does not rule out eminence and acclaim
but it means that a person will face the consequences of all he has put
into motion during his lifetime. A
person with Saturn in H10 frequently starts life with obstacles blocking
his way, including a father with a negative and critical attitude to the
child or the marked absence of a father figure during the formative years.
Either way the child’s self-confidence is seriously undermined. If the
father is absent the child frequently feels a sense of shame and unworthiness
for which he may attempt to compensate by achievement. Alternatively
there may be insufficient self-confidence for him to make anything other
than the most hesitant of progress in a career. Amongst those who do
strive to succeed, it is notable that they commonly become disillusioned
with their choice of career at the point when they are in sight of the
glittering prizes, or suffer professional disgrace. Either way they are
perceived by others as having ‘blown it’. Unless
Saturn is aspected by Uranus or Pluto a person with this placement, never
having known an easy exchange with his father, tends to be awed, if not
overwhelmed by authority figures. If Uranus or Pluto make stressful
aspects then there is likely to be a negative and defensive attitude to
authority. Uranus Uranus
in the 10th House indicates that there is a developmental need to be freed
up from reliance upon authority figures and externally imposed discipline.
This placement can produce profoundly anti-establishment people and is
common amongst exiles, who have left the fatherland because of what was
perceived to be too stifling a regime. In such cases, the father is
normally seen as embodying the values, which the child rejects in the name
of individual freedom. If Uranus is retrograde the anti-authority stance
tends to be less overt but there is, nonetheless, a resistance to all
externally imposed authority, which in turn makes for a chequered career.
Whether retrograde or direct, Uranus in H10 makes a person critical of
procedures and reluctant to conform to any system. He is usually far
better off working for himself than trying to be a company man. Neptune With
Neptune in the 10th House a person has difficulty in settling for anything
which is ordinary: this placement has the effect of making conventional
achievement seem trivial and unworthy to the Neptunian, who may either try
to live out a fantasy in which he seeks to elevate himself by claiming
special powers - usually psychic or spiritual - or seek some kind of
idealistic work. Should he make such a connection then he will be prepared
to sacrifice much in the way of material reward and social standing for
his cause. Neptune in Capricorn is capable of giving a very practical and
effective expression. Pluto With
Pluto in the 10th House the soul is learning about power, as something
external to himself. Through the many lifetimes in which Pluto is in H10,
the soul will come to know all the permutations of the relationship
between an individual and authority: there will be lifetimes in which
the personality craves power which he does not have, others in which he
has authority and recognition, and others again in which the personality
rejects all externally imposed authority in order to develop a power base
within himself. Whatever the nature of the lesson about power which is
being learned, a person with Pluto in H10 is never indifferent to
authority figures, including his father or the most dominant parent. If
the child reveres the parent then he is likely to be learning to work with
power; if the child rejects the parent or is rejected by him, then he is
likely to be learning to be his own authority source, themes which will be
born out only by the pattern of the chart as a whole. Moon The
Moon in the 10th House indicates that the past life experience has
involved exposure to lifestyles, which gave direct experience of status
and externally imposed authority, both of which continue to hold great
fascination for the Moon person. This placement confers either a longing
for personal recognition or an attraction and deference towards powerful
people, especially powerful women. A
child with this placement of the Moon is commonly born to parents, one of
whom at least, either occupies a position of authority on some scale or
craves recognition, which is felt to be lacking. Mostly that parent will
be the mother who places great emphasis on achievement and measures
success according
to conventional
criteria. The child himself tends to comply with those ambitions of the
parent, which extend to himself and allows himself to be directed.
Throughout his life the person with the Moon in H10 tends to be impressed,
both by people with status and seniority and those who have power over him
by dint of the hold they have on his emotions. Far from resisting people
who use this kind of control, a person with the Moon in H10 is likely to
encourage their involvement in his life and is happy to defer to their
perceived superiority. The point here is that a person with the Moon in
H10 tends to give over control of his life to those to whom he becomes
emotionally attached. Where the past life experience has been one of
holding a position of authority, a person may be haunted by the memory all
his life if the present incarnation does not give him scope to repeat the
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