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Mercury Trine or Sextile Midheaven: Your mind is full of practical ideas, especially related to

your job or skills. Always coming up with new ideas to manage things better, make things

work—practical thoughts.

Mercury Square Midheaven: Your love of talk, ideas, and expressing yourself to others may

mean that your family and even your job may suffer. Your mind is often on your appearance,

how you come across and relate to the crowd, to those around you.

Venus Conjunct Midheaven: You love to take charge, organize, and manage, whether this be

in big business or small. You value practical vision and are not above manipulating a situation

to the advantage of everyone involved. You love being the boss.

Venus Opposite Midheaven: Your love of family and home and lack of interest in external

affairs (be they friends or work-related) need to be noted and kept in balance.

Venus Trine or Sextile Midheaven: Your love of job and practical skills makes you a fine man-

ager and business person. You bring a great deal of love to your work.

Venus Square Midheaven: You love other people, large and small groups, and relationships in

general. Your social life could be at the expense of your personal interests and even of your

family or job.

Mars Conjunct Midheaven: You are very objective and practical when it comes to your feel-

ings and emotions. You seem always to know what things mean and that they are pointing to.

You can read feelings the way others read books.

Mars Opposite Midheaven: You are moved to secure yourself, always digging in. Home and fam-

ily are your main focus, even at the expense of career. It would be good if you could work out of

your home. Your emotions conflict with the public. You prefer one-on-one.

Mars Trine or Sextile Midheaven: You put forth a lot of effort, in particular regarding your

career. Your drive and ambitions work well with whatever management skills and practical

ability you have, producing a harmonious work environment.

Mars Square Midheaven: You are very competitive—even pushy—when it comes to partners

and other people. You have a great social drive and love to work in a group or with close

friends.

Jupiter Conjunct Midheaven: Career is very important, and you have superb management

abilities. You are expert at manipulating a situation to the benefit of all concerned.

Jupiter Opposite Midheaven: You do best sticking close to home and family, and you enjoy all

things domestic and security-based. You would do well working out of you own home, having a

home business.

Jupiter Trine or Sextile Midheaven: You are gifted and even “lucky” when it comes to career

decisions. Things almost always manage to work out for you.

Appendix A: Reading Your Own Astrology Chart

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