Aspects
Cybele Opposition Midheaven
Opposite the Midheaven, Cybele sets your fierce public role against your private foundations. The drive to protect and command in the world can crowd out the home it is meant to defend, and the two ends keep tugging. Let your roots feed your ambition rather than competing with it, and the maternal power serves both.
Lean in — Let your private foundations nourish the protective work you do publicly.
Watch for — Do not sacrifice the home base to the hunger for a guarding public role.
- root and crown
- career versus home
- balanced ambition
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Cybele by her myth, the Phrygian Great Mother of the mountains, as a point of elemental, commanding maternal power and fierce protection.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of primal maternal power and the Midheaven, career and public role, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the opposition as a polarity seeking balance, often met through others.