Ascendant and Descendant are the horizontal axis, the line in the middle of the chart, that divides it into upper and lower half. I covered each of them in separate articles. Ascendant is the left point, and Descendant is the right one. There is one other slightly lopsided vertical line that further divides the chart into left and right parts. Together these two lines divide the chart into four quarters or two distinct sets of pairs of halves. Vertical line divides Ascendant side of the chart from descendant one. At the same time horizontal line divides inner hidden world of Immune Coeli from the outer visible world of Midheaven. What these sides mean I will cover in a separate article, when I will start writing about houses.
Medium Coeli is one of the most overrated things in astrology. People often associate it with career or success. They want to know what they or their children will achieve in life and how successful they will be. In actuality Medium Coeli plays much smaller role in success then it gets credit for. Midheaven is even more outer layer of personality than even mask of the Ascendant. If Ascendant is what people assume when they actually get to see you or talk to you a little bit, then Midheaven is what they heard about you from other sources and now think about you.
Most of us will not get to meet any celebrities or politicians in person, but we hear from news and magazines what kind of people they are. More often than not this information is simply fabricated for amusement of the reader and has nothing to do with what a person really is. It's the same on personal level, people just assume things about those they do not know personally and then tell others like it's a real fact. Rumors about you or anyone leave their own, independent from your life and amuse people around you. To get even to the ascendant, one has to talk to you at least a little bit. A lot of people however will have an opinion about you without ever talking to you.
Sure, there is certain pleasing vanity in thinking that people talk about you, but that has little effect on what your actual life around you are like. In certain ways Midheaven have more to do with what people will think of you once your life is over, then with what happens during the life. It is akin to a post-mortem that sometimes gets written on the tombstone. One may say generic pleasantries the person was great father and good husband. Other mention some achievements like won Olympic medals or was great physicist. Other yet will say nothing and be forgotten.
Midheaven is tip of the iceberg that is you, Ascendant is front side of the water line, Descendant is back of the waterline. Most of the iceberg however is below the water line and its bottom most point is Immune Coeli or Nadir, a very important part that remains hidden from sight. Now I will pour some light on it.
To begin with I would like to point out that Nadir is not one's true self. That is Sun and Moon. Nonetheless Nadir is by far the most important of all the angles, including Ascendant.
Nadir is hidden foundation of your outer persona as well as outer layers of your life. If Ascendant is a mask, that one forged to protect themselves from reality, then Immune Coeli is the forge where that mask was created. If Ascendant is One Ring, then Immune Coeli is Mount Doom where it was forged.
Deep below at bottom most point (hence name Nadir) may lie the demons that scarred your soul and made you cynical and jaded. However, instead of demons, there could also be wholesome support that nurtured you towards success. Whether you receive nurture or psychological trauma depends on placement of Immune Coeli: you are in luck if its nurturing Cancer, or wise Libra, in trouble if its toxic Scorpio or harsh Capricorn.
Unfortunately, I cannot bring you a good example, as my Immune Coeli is in Scorpio and there is also Saturn in 4th house. A doom combination. Just to give you an example of what I had to go through. Despite my parents having a lot of money to afford luxury, much less enough food, my childhood was actually characterized by malnutrition. My parents were obsessed with health as well as "healthy eating", mom believed that even ketchup is bad for health, a lot of food was banned or severely limited. To top it all up, despite not working, my mom was too lazy to cook every day and often relied on cooking for a week and then reheating that food in microwave as it needed.
They also had weird "ethical code", that they cited to impose a lot of restrictions on what I could do. My childhood was characterized by fighting against these restrictions or finding and exploiting ways to bypass them.
In general family I grew up in, was very toxic environment. Constant arguments, accusations, criticism, demands - spiders or scorpions in a jar. Parents blamed each other and me for everything. That toxicity however was hidden from outsiders' eyes, parents always made sure to not do it on public or at least pull me away where other cannot hear, before criticizing.
My parents' fondness for nature and old things, made them by a 19th century house in the middle of a swamp and spend "vacations" there, taking us with them. There was no running water or sewage. Toilet was a wooder box over the pit of shit, that stink like no tomorrow.
Best and most nurturing things in my life came not from parents but from relatives and friends, both mine and theirs. Parents' friends enjoyed spending on luxury and fine things in life, took vacations in proper resorts; my parents and I will join them, and these were best moments of my childhood. To fit their friends' cycle, my parents moderated their insane ascetic ways, at least when they are around. Alas later in life they somehow broke contact with them and took away the things I liked most.
Later in my teens, my own friends will help me with dodging some of my parents as well as school rules to have fun and be free. When I needed money, some of my friends just give me some; my mom instead asked me "why have I became beggar". Outside help is much more valuable than a family like that.
Immune Coeli and Medium Coeli are part of the same axis, one always opposite another. That means your success or lack of thereof is dependent on upbringings and nurture you received in life. Thus, if you fail in life, it's only natural to blame parents for lack of nurture and support.
Any house needs an underground foundation to withstand winds. Even tents are held in place with wedges driven into ground. Giant skyscrapers need solid underground foundation to avoid falling down. The bigger the skyscraper, the larger foundation should be, not smaller.
Plants, need water, fertile soil and fertilizer to grow. The more sophisticated the plant is the more care and nutrients it needs to grow. Orange tree will not grow on cold barren soil, only weed will. It's the same with animals, lions and tigers need a lot of meat. Only rats and cockroaches survive on leftovers.
Yet when it comes to humans, this commonsense answer is somehow forgotten, and we instead get some useless mumbo-jumbo like "hard work" or "sacrifice". All too often people expect some "great results" from nothing more than, nagging, preaching, lecturing and "toughness". Various Hymns of Tiger Moms or Dr Spoke book my parents had, preach toughness and austerity as route to success. I say for every "success" such approach could generate; it will create at least a dozen of Columbine style massacres and tens of thousands of suicides. However, these deaths will not be traced back or blamed on harsh parenting, while any off-chance success will likely be attributed to this method even if it was not the reason. Ban Battle Hymn of Tiger Mom before more people die.
Facts are there are many suicides in Japan and the rest of Asia, massacres and suicides only increased since publishing of Battle Hymn of Tiger Mom and Financial Crisis of 2008 made it worse. Facts clearly show that hardships cause not success but, death, murders, suicides and the like. Yet "hard work" zealots will not shut up.
I can also add some from my own experience. My parents liked to talk about value of hard work while themselves doing nothing and often when they themselves were sitting in a chair with legs on the table. I grew up twitting on X on how government not doing enough to implement UBI. The upbringing experience does reflect on the future life in such a way.
At the same time, I went to oppose and refute my parents' views on nature, women and number of many other things. On many things I do the opposite of what they told me. Midheaven is opposite of Nadir and in certain ways aims to compensate for that.
There is another meaning to Immune Coeli, that does not point towards the past. Immune Coeli points towards things that can nurture you in your life. Immune Coeli and 4th house is associated with home, in a sense that it's a place where you can retreat to relax and recuperate from troubles of your life. Such a place is essential for your continued wellbeing and survival.
That said it's your Moon that indicates what you find nurturing and supportive. Immune Coeli only points out where you can find such qualities in real life.
If your childhood and parents were nurturing and supportive enough, then it is simple enough to interpret it this way. Simply do what they did, and you will get better. You can even come back to them and get them help you.
If, however, your parents were like mine, then coping them or coming back to them will only make things worse. Instead, you should look for bits and pieces of your past, that actually made you happy back then and try to get something similar in your adult life to support you.
Medium Coeli is tip of the iceberg or one's outer personality, Immune Coeli is its bottom most part and a foundation. It is Immune Coeli that determines one's prospects in life through the nurture and support that one gets or does not get from the world around them. Medium Coeli is merely a spire or filial, sometimes with a flag, that tops the complex structure, it's what people notice, but it has little importance in the structure.
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