HOUSES

The houses are twelve 30 degree sections of the chart that show where a particular sign or planetary influence will be felt for an individual. A brief list of keywords for each house is included below to help you remember, but the most important houses to a person are 1, 7, 4 and 10, also known as the Angular houses, which correspond to the Cardinal signs. They represent you (1) and a partner (2) building a shared future (10) and home (4). The other 8 houses represent how we interact with the world and how the world interacts with us.

Houses 2, 5, 8 and 11 are Succedent houses, which correspond to the fixed signs and represent what should be stable in our lives to help us achieve our Cardinal goals: income (2), love (5), sex drive (8) and friendship (11). Houses 3, 6, 9, and 12 are called Cadent houses and correspond to the mutable signs. These represent the aspects of life that can change in order to achieve our goals: education (3), work/service (6), philosophy (9), and psychology (12).

One of the things I studied with my teacher is the Archetype, sort of the ideal expression of planets and signs through the houses. For example, you should acquire possessions and build your income (2nd house) slowly and steadily so there is permanence (Taurus), or your philosophy (9th house) should be shaped by getting out and exploring the world with optimism and enthusiasm (Sagittarius). Each individual chart is a variation of the Archetype and you can see how the different combinations work for or against this ideal.

Another interesting thing is house derivations. It’s probably better discussed in a future blog post, but it’s a way to see the chart of another you’re close to in your own. For example, how to see your child’s, father-in-law’s or boss’s chart within your own. It also explains some of the less intuitive meanings of a house, such as why the 8th house represents inheritances. It’s the 2nd house (possessions/income) of the 7th (partner/others).

FIRST HOUSE

Personality, your physical appearance, physical constitution, the image you project to the outer world. This house corresponds to Aries in the Archetype.

SECOND HOUSE

Material resources, money, movable possessions. This house corresponds to Taurus in the Archetype.

THIRD HOUSE

Communications, memory and learning, brothers and sisters, the internet, local travel, teachers. This house corresponds to Gemini in the Archetype.

FOURTH HOUSE

Home, family, parents, how you’re rooted to your life. As you get older, your end of life. This house corresponds to Cancer in the Archetype.

FIFTH HOUSE

Hobbies, children, love affairs, pleasures, gambling/speculation. This house corresponds to Leo in the Archetype.

SIXTH HOUSE

Work, the people who work for you, health/hygiene, sickness, domestic animals. This house corresponds to Virgo in the Archetype.

SEVENTH HOUSE

Partners, spouse, lawsuits, the public. This house corresponds to Libra in the Archetype.

EIGHTH HOUSE

Death, sex, regeneration, inheritance, the money of other people. This house corresponds to Scorpio in the Archetype.

NINTH HOUSE

Ideals and philosophy, higher learning, foreign travel, law/government. This house corresponds to Sagittarius in the Archetype.

TENTH HOUSE

Career and undertakings, standing in society, honors, your boss. This house corresponds to Capricorn in the Archetype.

ELEVENTH HOUSE

Friends, hopes and wishes, large corporations, groups and societies. This house corresponds to Aquarius in the Archetype.

TWELFTH HOUSE

Psychology, subconscious, sicknesses, limitations, bondage and servitude, hidden motivations. This house corresponds to Pisces in the Archetype.