House X
Tenth House
The top of the chart: vocation, reputation, and public standing.
- Element
- earth
- Mode
- angular
- Echoes
- Capricorn
- Keywords
- career · reputation · authority
The tenth house begins at the Midheaven and is the most visible part of the chart: the work you become known for, your relationship with authority, and what you look like from a distance.
It is traditionally read for one parent as well: the one who set the terms of achievement. Planets here rarely stay private for long.
Where to go next
Its opposite
Every house is answered by the one across the wheel. Here that is the fourth house. What is emphasised in one is usually being answered for in the other.
In your chart
Which planets fall here depends on your birth time to the minute. Cast the chart. It is free, and it will say honestly if the time you have is not enough to place them.