Meghan - 10th House
Here’s the tenth installment of “The Meghan Project”. It’s just a little over the word limit so please let me know what you think is most interesting … (Don’t forget to use the glossary if there are terms that are unfamiliar).
10 Tenth House
The tenth house represents our status and activity in the world. This 10th house is receiving support for prosperity in the form of being aspected by Mercury (which helps with manifestation) and from the houselord being in an angular and trinal house. But there are many more indications for annihilation due to rasi aspects from 4 malefics as well as the houselord being old, asleep and not aspecting his own house.
10.1 Person’s Life Experience
Meghan is well known as an actress and activist (Wikipedia 2020). Her public recognition and status has improved during her life. She married a prince in 2018.
10.2 Sign
The tenth house in this chart is taking place in Aries. Aries is a masculine fire sign. It is a dharmic sign whose places are tracks and trails through rocky climbs. The energy of Aries can be seen in the fact that Meghan has created her own fame and status in her life. Aries sign is cardinal and active enabling the person to initiate and take action in the area of life housed by the sign. Aries imagery of “tracks and trails” indicates that this person will create their own path through life. Meghan has demonstrated this in her work as an actress, solo inspirational speaker and website brand entrepreneur.
10.3 Planet
Mars’s qualities and situation are described in a previous blog post (section 5.3).
Although debilitated, Mars is the strongest planet in Shad bala in the chart. It is also only receiving support by planetary aspect. In the first 9 vargas it is located exclusively in angles or trines. In the D10, Mars is in the 8th house of transformation and unexpected change. This combination creates fame potential in the birth chart as Mars is the 10th lord in the 1st House. The nature of that fame will be transformative, unexpected change in the context of Gemini which represents cinemas, beautiful women and places of entertainment.
The consistent placement of Mars in activating angular and trinal positions in so many vargas explains Mars’s ability to produce status in Meghan’s life.
Meghan is known as an activist and this matches with Mars’s qualities of being a cruel, fiery, masculine Warrior. It is a karaka for courage and energy and Meghan has used these to positively motivate and inspire herself and others into action. Mars also indicates a career involving blades and Meghan is well known as a foodie and avid amateur chef (Harper's Bazaar 2018).
Mars is a karaka for Meghan’s father as it rules the 10th house. At the time of Meghan’s wedding to Prince Harry, Meghan’s father was incapacitated (Mars is debilitated in the birth chart). Mars and Ketu were also transiting Aquarius at the time of the wedding with Mars being within one degree of Meghan’s birth Ketu. This could have contributed the very public separation that occurred between Meghan and her father at that time. (O'Malley 2018).
Meghan and her father have been very close during her life and she lived with him during the weeks of her whole school life. He paid for her private education with a lottery win and took her to the sets of TV shows he worked on when she was a child (Grigoriadis 2018). The complexity of the closeness and separation of this relationship is reflected in the complex indicators that Mars exhibits in the chart being at the same time debilitated and strongest in Shad bala.
10.4 Bhava Yogas
10.4.1 Ascendant Yogas
Mars forms a natural link between the 5th and 10th houses for a Cancer ascendant. This combines an angular and a trinal house. As Mars is in the first house it shows that Meghan could be well known for her creativity, intellect, her status and ability to take action. As Mars is idealistic she will also be recognised for fighting for what she believes to be right.
10.4.2 10th in the 1st
As expected, given Mars’s mixed indicators, there are both positive and negative experiences that Mars creates as the 10th lord in the 1st House. Obviously Mars has created fame and someone who is an independent achiever sharing their vision for a better world in an active way. However in a Moon sign like Cancer, these qualities can be seen to quickly to change when viewed by the masses. The very quality of “not taking no for an answer” (Kurczak 2014, p284) can be seen as an asset or as arrogant egoism. It can also make a person less than successful in team situations and this was perhaps a criticism that was levelled at her during her time as a senior working member of the Royal family. Being part of this unique team meant that Meghan couldn’t operate as a leader and individual … “She’s always relied on her own voice to stand up for others and for herself. So not being able to say anything is a debilitating feeling. She’s always been so independent, her entire life and that’s all been taken away from her” (US Weekly 2018). It is fascinating to see how a cruel planet can give so many wins and losses at the same time.
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