When we speak about our career and our social status, we are speaking about our tenth house. It is a place where all of our ambitions go, and just like Mars is exalted in the tenth sign – Capricorn, our first house ruler naturally focuses on our tenth house to reach its goals. Its Latin motto regnum means "Kingdom" and serves well for us to understand the importance of this house in our personal life. If the eighth house represents one's moment of conception, the tenth house speaks of the way our mother was feeling when she found out she was pregnant. This shines a new light on our ambitious or less ambitious nature, for we will see what we strive for as something directly correlated to our mother's first emotion as she became aware of our physical presence.
AREAS OF LIFE
When we speak about the tenth house, we have to keep in mind that it is our antenna into the world, as a flag we keep on top of our heads to show everyone who we are. This is a house of status and our place in the society, as well as our true calling, or things we wish were our calling but aren't just yet. It hides all of our career choices, our first big job after we graduate from college, our boss and our authority. As something we strive for, trying to become everything it represents, it is logically linked to the parent of the same sex – the one we look up to so we can live a functional life as a woman or a man. Just as the fourth house is closely linked to our genetic inheritance, the tenth house speaks of its extremes and everyone in our family tree we want to become rather than feel we're leaving behind. As such, it seems to be some sort of primary opposition within our family tree, creating a step we can jump on to become what was left to us by our elders.
This house speaks of obligation, planning, and personal responsibility. It sees all and covers all areas of life in a way, also clearly showing the image of the family we create in this lifetime, strongly based on the potential of the fourth house and the family we come from. Together with the seventh house, this one also speaks of public appearances and the way others see us, usually through the status or the name we build for ourselves. This is a point in which we choose our profession and name ourselves lawyers, engineers, technicians, builders, teachers, etc. This is one of the most important places in our personal chart for it speaks of everything we strive to become.
THE TENTH HOUSE IN ARIES
If the tenth house is set in the sign of Aries, there is a natural need of a person to focus their energy on career goals and the material future they can build. This is the position connected to innovators and those who started something new, becoming widely known because of their initiative and their ability to lead the way. On the other hand, this is a signal that some anger, neurosis or hurt was linked to the beginning of the pregnancy that brought us to this world. This can lead to the tendency to manifest masochism, thinking of ourselves as unworthy or unfit to achieve something great, mostly triggered by the relationships Mars has with Venus and Saturn. To reach the point of personal and professional fulfillment, these individuals have to be brave enough to aim high, and start something new when the time is right.
THE TENTH HOUSE IN TAURUS
With the tenth house in Taurus, a person's goal in life seems to be physical, sensual satisfaction. The position of Venus will tell us of the area of life this applies to, but it will always be connected to the search for sexual pleasure and the right, healthy routine. These people have to eat what they want to, make as much money as they want to, and enjoy themselves as much as they want to. Although this position primarily leads to a career in financial waters and banking, it will always be a simple sign that the love of one's job has to be strong in order for the job to get done. All of the energy these individuals focus on activities that don't make them happy, tend to take too much of their energy, making them tired and seemingly lazy. No matter if their calling is art, cooking, or finances, they have to find joy in it so the inertia of love will drive ambition to actually pull them anywhere from a standing point.
