What is the horoscope chart?
A map of the heavens.
From what perspective is the map drawn?
The Earth's p-erspective. It is a map of the heavens as seen from Earth. It is geocentric.
Therefore
Earth is at the CENTER of the horoscope chart. It is GEO - CENTRIC.
If Earth is at the center of the chart, then it cannot be at the Ascendant.
What is AT CENTER in any affair is Most Important. All else revolves around it.
Earth is YOU [It is whatever is the "present center of attention." For example, in a horary chart, it is The Question.]
The map is drawn with YOU AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
Which is an actual fact. See Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe.
If the universe evolved from a Big Bang, a radiation from a singularity, then all parts of the universe are one and all are at the center. You are the center of the universe objectively and subjectively.
If Earth is You, and Earth is at the Center of Heaven....
Then you are smack dab in the middle of Heaven and don't know it.
There is no need to die to go to Heaven; you're already here.
You need not become perfect, nor meet any particular standards of behavior. There are no conditions. You are in Heaven. All you must do is see, become conscious.