Houses And Their General Meanings
Your birth chart is divided into twelve "houses," which govern specific areas of your life. At the time of your birth, each planet was located in a particular astrological sign and in one of the twelve houses.
Listed below are the most general meanings for each house:
Listed below are the most general meanings for each house:
First House:
Your self-identity. How you appear to the world and the first impression you make on others. Your external presentation, including physical characteristics (body type, facial features, etc).
Second House:
Your personal resources. Money matters, possessions and your relationship with both.
Third House:
Your immediate environment. Short trips, neighbors, communication with others, learning. Your relationships with siblings.
Fourth House:
Your home and family. Your childhood and ancestral roots. Your mother and maternal influences in general.
Fifth House:
Your creative inspiration and self-expression. Self-investment, risk-taking, love affairs, children and luck.
Sixth House:
Your daily life. Health concerns, work and service. Personal sacrifice.
Seventh House:
Your identity in relationship to others. Dating, marriage, partnerships of all kinds. Contracts.
Eighth House:
Sex and your relationship to the resources of others. Death and inheritance. Transformational release, and our ability to "rebound." Rituals of all types.
Ninth House:
Long-distance travel, higher education, philosophy and mental expansion of all types. Law and publishing.
Tenth House:
Your relationship to authority and power. Reputation, social status and career. Government institutions. Your father and authority figures in general.
Eleventh House:
Your friends and your connection to humanity in general. Group associations. Hopes and aspirations, ideals. Honors received.
Twelfth House:
Your spiritual life and your connection to the cosmos. Dreams and the unconscious. Things that are hidden. Music. Your karmic quest.
