Ever wondered how the stars affect your daily life? Astrology houses are here to help you understand.
Each of the twelve houses focuses on different parts of your life, like your family, career, and dreams. This guide will walk you through each house in a friendly and easy way, perfect for beginners or anyone curious about astrology.
By the end, you’ll see how these cosmic elements influence who you are and the life you lead. Ready to explore the stars and their secrets? Let’s get started!
What does House mean in Astrology?
The chart below shows your sun sign, which you use to check your horoscope. Each person has an astrological birth chart with zodiac signs, planets, and constellations to assist astrologers in understanding them. [1]
Birth charts are 360-degree wheels with 12 houses or sectors. Each planet and constellation in the zodiac was in a house or part of this wheel during your birth.
Astrologers say knowing these placements can help you understand How astrology affects your health, profession, and relationships.
Interpreting the Houses
In birth chart analysis, houses represent the activity. If Venus, the planet of love and beauty, is in your fourth house of family and home.
For those born with Venus in the ninth house, which governs travel, independence, and education, My advice: “You may find that you need your own space.
You don’t want to live together, have a long-distance relationship, or want to travel and learn together.
12 Astrology Houses
1. Self-house
Self-house is the first house. Aries and Mars dominate this house, and placements in it can reveal your appearance, attributes, qualities, viewpoint, and sense of expression.
This house reveals not just the “visible aspects of your character” that make you who you are, but also how your personality may change in the future.
2. Valued home and possessions
Taurus and Venus dominate the second house, which is about possessions not just material things.
This house can help you understand your money, investments, and material environment, as well as your inner self, needs, wants, and abilities. This house’s name implies financial and internal importance.
3. Communication house
Third is the House of Communication. Astrologers may call it the House of Sharing. Gemini and Mercury rule this house, which controls communication and relationships.
Communication goes beyond talking and texting. Meaning “something imparted, interchanged, or transmitted.”
4. Home/family house
Family, history, customs, and ancestry dominate the fourth house, ruled by Cancer and the Moon. It describes home as “the place in which one’s domestic affairs are centered.”
Astrologers consider this house, the “bottom” of the astrological wheel, essential to a person’s self, life, and beliefs. This home may reflect how you treat your parents and children and nurture yourself and others.
5. House of Pleasure
Since Leos are gregarious, extroverted, and dynamic, the fifth house, ruled by the Sun and Leo, regulates expression and creativity.
In this house, pleasure means “enjoyment or satisfaction derived from what is to one’s liking.” The fifth house suggests you enjoy art, culture, romance, games, hobbies, and family and children.
6. Health house
Pragmatic Mercury and Virgo rule the sixth. All levels of health—“the general condition of the body and mind,”—are addressed in this residence.
It can reveal your mental and emotional health, including how you handle hardship and areas for personal growth, as well as your physical health and relationship with your body.
This residence may also help you find your dream job and opportunities to help others.
7. Partnership House
Your birth chart transitions from personal insights to interpersonal relationships in the seventh through 12th houses. Venus and Libra rule the seventh house, which is about cooperation. This goes beyond romantic relationships.
Astrological placements in this house are thought to regulate business ties, contracts, and negotiations. This house is also called the House of Relationships and Balance.
8. Transformation House
Mysterious and passionate Mars, Pluto, and Scorpio rule the eighth house. This house focuses on relationships, and how they change people rather than how they behave.
Birth, death, sexuality, and karma are revealed. This house regulates transformative joint property such as inheritances, debt, and finances.
9. House of Purpose
Jupiter and Sagittarius rule the House of Purpose, also known as Philosophy. It emphasizes the higher intellect and philosophy, or “the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conducts.”
This house emphasizes faith, morality, ethics, and dreams. Studying the placements in this house may also reveal insights about travel, culture, and our forefathers, which can help us grow and find significance.
10. Social status house
Capricorn is one of the hardest-working signs, so the 10th house, ruled by Saturn and Capricorn, is where you learn about your career, achievements, and social status, or how you “relate to, [are] devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations.”
Astrologers can learn about your career from the midheaven or 10th house cusp. Placements in this house might also help you set professional goals and assess your achievement.
Celebrities commonly have many placements in this house, thus some astrologers call it the “fame” house.
11. House of Friendship
Saturn, Uranus, and Aquarius dominate the 11th house, which governs friendships and harmony. Astrological placements in this house reveal your interests in clubs, social groups, and organizations.
This house explores how communal beliefs and activities promote self-actualization—“the achievement of one’s full potential through creativity, independence, spontaneity, and a grasp of the real world.” [2]
12. Subconscious house
Pisces, Jupiter, and Neptune dominate the 12th house, often known as the House of Unconscious. Pisces is related to emotions and creativity, therefore this house can teach you about your imagination, feelings, and subconscious mind, which “exists or operates beneath or beyond consciousness.”
Placements in the 12th house show personal strengths and weaknesses and how people face and learn from their past. Astrologers also think this can reveal old age and the afterlife.
Source:
Brown, M. (2024, March 3). The 12 Houses of Astrology, explained. InStyle.
The Houses in Astrology and their meaning. (n.d.). Astrology.com.
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Michelle Arbeau is the Chief Executive Officer of Authentic You Media and Eleven Eleven Productions. She is also a trained numerologist and life strategist. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Canada. Her areas of expertise include numerology, mediumship, and business guidance. She has more than twenty years of experience in the field. She was honoured as the Best of West Hollywood Celebrity Numerologist in 2015, and she has also been acclaimed as the #1 Numerologist in the World and the #1 Celebrity Numerologist. Best Businesses have recognized her accomplishments. She has written four books that have been bestsellers, including "The Energy of Words."
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