The Astrological Houses — an Introduction
There are twelve astrological houses, and conceptually they’re close to the twelve signs of the zodiac. But where the signs represent ways in which the planets can function, the houses represent spheres of life in which those planet-functions are most likely to be apparent.
Let’s go through the keyword summaries for each of the astrological houses.
First House
A planet-function in the first house will tend to be particularly apparent in activities and matters which are your own special interest, and through which you seek to determine separateness of being and personality. The planet may also have a significant bearing on your physical characteristics and tendencies to particular illness.
Second House
A planet-function in the second house will tend to be particularly apparent in activities and matters connected with your need for material possessions and the accumulation of money; things you own that are representative of yourself, your resourcefulness and your instinctive need for personal security, comfort and contentment.
Third House
A planet-function in the third house will tend to be particularly apparent in activities and matters connected with your mentality and communications, such as in speech, reading, writing, correspondence, education, study, online communication and short journeys; also activities involving near relatives such as siblings, casual acquaintances and neighbours.
Fourth House
A planet-function in the fourth house will tend to be particularly apparent in activities and matters connected with your home or base; thus your domestic sphere or protective environment; your property owned or rented; your family; also parental influence.
Fifth House
A planet-function in the fifth house will tend to be particularly apparent in activities and matters connected with your expressions of creativeness, happiness and recreation. Thus in games, sports, pleasures and general creativity; in risky ventures such as gambling, speculation and love-making; also in matters to do with your creative offspring, of the mind (ideas) as well as of the body (children).
Sixth House
A planet-function in the sixth house will tend to be particularly apparent in activities and matters connected with your conformity and service to the community, as a necessary and interdependent part of the social whole; in this sense matters conditioned by your fitness and the health and efficiency in your personal life; in matters of health and hygiene generally.
Seventh House
A planet-function in the seventh house will tend to be particularly apparent in activities and matters connected with your need to identify and unite yourself on equal terms with others; in relationships and partnerships, particularly marriage.
Eighth House
A planet-function in the eighth house will tend to be particularly apparent in activities and matters connected with the sharing of fundamental life resources with others, either physically, as in sexual relations and genetic sharing, or in terms of shared money and possessions; in death, bequests, inheritance and legacies.
Ninth House
A planet-function in the ninth house will tend to be particularly apparent in activities and matters connected with your need to experience life beyond immediate horizons; in foreign travel or communication, or in deep and extensive study; also matters to do with relatives, such as in-laws, who are not of your own blood-stock.
Tenth House
A planet-function in the tenth house will tend to be particularly apparent in activities and matters connected with your need and capacity to establish yourself successfully and usefully in the community; in your status and career.
Eleventh House
A planet-function in the eleventh house will tend to be particularly apparent in activities and matters connected with the achieving of objectives for the benefit of a group or community, as distinct from personal aims and ambitions; in social networks and friendships as opposed to personal ties; in communally reformative, scientific or unconventional activities.
Twelfth House
A planet-function in the twelfth house will tend to be particularly apparent in activities and matters connected with self-denial or self-transcendence; in spiritual activities; in escape, withdrawal, confinement or isolation; in secret activities.