Astrological houses

First House
The first house represents you.  It is named the house of self.  In the chart it is the ascendant / rising sign. It is located on the left hand side of the natal chart and corresponds to the place where the sun rises.

This house represents:

  • The physical body / appearance

  • Your outer self

  • How you project your personality

  • Style of expression

  • Your disposition

  • It shows the your nature and goals that you have.

  • How others view you, their first impression of you on a superficial level.

  • Your early childhood experiences that has shaped your self image and the outlook you have on life.

  • It reveals our challenges and look for obstacles we can overcome them.

  • How you normally project yourself into your immediate environment without / with your awareness of it.

  • Our aggression, motivation, survival modes and self interest.

The planets that are in this house and or the cusp ruling planet will give you information on the individuals life approach.

Sun sign associated with: Aries
Planet associated with: Mars

The Second House

The second house deals with our resources and values.  Finances, money that you earn, debts and our possessions.

This house represents:

  • Your value system in general.

  • Personal feelings of self worth.

  • What you allow yourself to have, based on what you feel that you deserve.

  • Attitudes about money and material things.

  • Personal likes and dislikes

  • Deep emotions

  • Attachments

  • Your material resources

  • Material possessions

  • Vitality

  • Libido

  • Values

  • Money making potentials.  It will show you what material you might acquire and what value you place on them.

  • How you manage your finances.

  • Greed

  • How we secure our existence by creating material or spiritual values.

  • Self esteem

  • Talents

  • Inner strengths

  • Determination

  • Ethics and morals

  • Your priorities

  • What influences your choices in life.

  • What guides your conscious actions.

  • Our security

  • Self confidence

Sun sign associated with: Taurus
Planet associated with:  Venus

Third House
The third house relates to our mind, communication and intellect. It also deals with close relatives in general.

This house represents:

  • All types of learning

  • Communicative processes

  • Writing

  • Editing

  • Speaking

  • Thinking

  • Reading

  • How you learn and bring things into your life.

  • Your neighborhood

  • Short distance trips

  • Transportation

  • Your relationship to your siblings, cousins and neighbors.

  • Your perception of childhood experiences.

  • Individuals that have affected your life by close proximity.

  • Your environment around you. (city, neighborhood etc)

  • How you perceive your environment.

  • Transportation

  • Networking

  • Telephones, radio, letters ~ forms of communication.

  • Teaching

  • Our mentality

  • Variety

  • Duality

  • Adaptability

  • Intellectual pursuits

  • Your style

  • How you communicate with others, through speech or writing.

Sun sign associated with: Gemini
Planet associated with:  Mercury

Fourth House
The fourth house your home; what it looks like, where it is located and who you share it with.  It also deals with your mother. It is also referred to as the Imum Coeli.

This house represents:

  • Who comes to visit your home.

  • Challenges in domestic harmony.

  • Family

  • Property matters; buying, selling, renting etc.

  • Parents and your relationship to them.

  • What type of lifestyle you will have later in life.

  • Your mother

  • Insights into our childhood upbringing and the environment we were raised in.

  • Domestic issues

  • Our sense of security

  • Self protectiveness

  • Instinctive emotional responses

  • Our nurturing ability vs. the need to be nurtured

  • Your early childhood.

  • Ancestors

  • Roots

  • What you feel sentimental about.

  • Your subconscious memories

  • Memories of the past


Sun sign associated with: Cancer
Planet associated with: Moon

The foundation which was laid for our emotional stability and ability to cope with challenges later in life may be revealed by studying the condition of the fourth house.

Fifth House
The fifth house is associated with all things pertaining to the creativity and romance.  It also rules children.

This house represents:

  • Romance

  • Fun

  • Pleasure

  • Children

  • Pregnancy

  • Love and romantic life

  • Leisure activities

  • Creativity

  • New ideas

  • Hobbies

  • Gambling

  • Investing

  • Sports

  • All forms of entertainment.

  • Risk taking

  • Financial speculation

  • Dating

  • False vs. true pride

  • Our will

  • Recognition

  • Hearts desire

  • New adventures

  • How we express ourselves creatively

  • Your personal style on what you do.

Sun sign associated with: Leo
Planet associated with: Sun

Sixth House
The sixth house governs your daily routine and how you get your work done.  It will show you what nature of your work, environment of the workplace.  Which type of people that you employ at home or work. It also governs health issues, diet, fitness and exercise.  Pets are governed in this house.

This house represents:

  • Your work

  • Those that are connected with your work; co workers, bosses etc.

  • Everyday chores and daily routines

  • Service to others

  • Volunteer work

  • Politicians

  • Physical labor

  • Our physical

  • Diet

  • Your attitude towards food

  • Health issues

  • Personal hygiene

  • Discrimination when making decisions about what to put into our bodies.

  • Small animals

  • Clothing

  • Your relationship to older relatives

  • Family karma

  • Your worries and concerns

  • Self improvement

  • Minor obligations

  • Minor illnesses

Sun sign associated with: Virgo
Planet associated with: Chiron

Seventh House
The first house represents you; the seventh house being directly opposite the first is other people in general. The seventh house rules marriage, business, partnerships, any serious contractual agreements between people or any entities.  The agreements are written or verbal.  It can be a possibility of both completion and conflict regarding an agreement.  It would  deal with hiring attorneys, agents, others who collaborate with or represent you.   This also deals with marriage and what you need from another person and how things will be.  As this house deals with the commitment after it is made. It is opposite the ascendant and is located on the right hand side of the natal chart and corresponds to the place where the sun sets.

This house represents:

  • Committed relationships

  • Contracts and legal obligations

  • Marriage and business partnerships

  • Lawsuits

  • Giving and receiving

  • Balance of power issues

  • One on one relationships

  • This House may tell you about your present or future spouse and the relationship you will have.

  • Relationships which require cooperation with other people.

  • How you relate to those that are openly opposed to you.

  • Marriage

  • Business

  • Partnerships

  • Agreements

Sun sign associated with: Libra
Planet associated with: Venus

Eighth House
The eight house deals with rebirth, sex, regeneration and the transformation of energy.  

This house represents:

  • Financial matters of loaning money or owing money

  • Prizes

  • Gifts

  • Inheritances

  • Mortgages

  • Credit

  • Loans

  • Venture capital

  • Chances of success

  • State of your partners prosperity.

  • Spiritual, highly intuitive or even psychic experiences.  

  • It deals with endings.

  • Things that need to be discarded

  • Surgery

  • Sex and sexual intimacy

  • May reveal the persons ability to share deep and intimate bonding with another person.

  • Meeting your soul mate.

  • Major lifestyle changes

  • Death and all matters pertaining to death

  • Inheritances

  • Other people’s money

  • Spouses money

  • Support from others both financially and morally.  

  • Value system of others around you.

  • The occult ~ refers to the manipulation of natural or psychic forces in order to produce desired outcomes.

  • Extreme conditions

  • Drastic changes

  • Control and power issues

  • Hidden areas of life

  • Taxes

  • Death

  • Transformation

  • Basic human instincts

  • How we deal with death, divorce, separation and or loss.

Sun sign associated with: Scorpio
Planet associated with: Pluto

Whatever planets fall into this house will be completely transformed in some way and the individual's approach to the things represented by that planet emerge drastically altered.

Ninth House
The Ninth house represents the development of the mind.

This house represents:

  • Manifesting

  • The future

  • Long distance travel

  • Relationships with foreigners

  • Distant relatives

  • In laws

  • Our attitudes and viewpoints including morals and ethics.

  • Discussions on philosophy and religion

  • Publishing

  • Legal

  • Academic matters

  • Higher learning

  • Continued education

  • Spiritual experiences

  • Religious matters, orthodox and dogmatic

  • Foreign places

  • Your idea about Divine and belief systems

  • Courts of law, judges and the judicial system in general

  • Expansion of anything

  • Wanting freedom

  • Morals and ethics

  • Abstract and higher concepts, spirituality

Sun sign associated with: Sagittarius
Planet associated with: Jupiter

Tenth House
The tenth house deals with fame, promotions, honors, career awards, goals and professional opportunities and our status.   The father. It is also referred to as the Midheaven.

This house represents:

  • Judges, high level individuals and government officials that would help you.

  • Career goals

  • One’s fame

  • Reputation

  • Honor

  • Highest achievement

  • Your boss

  • Your attitude towards the authority of others

  • You as the authoritarian

  • Traditional institutions

  • Government and political

  • The father

  • Taking responsibility

  • Rewards of resolving karma

  • Public image

  • Social standing

  • Develop our individuality

Sun sign associated with: Capricorn
Planet associated with: Saturn

Eleventh House
The eleventh house deals with friendship and platonic relationships.  Also groups and clubs you belong to.  It governs humanitarian causes and efforts in correct social problems and injustices.  It is the house of hopes, wishes, higher aspirations and dreams.

This house represents:

  • Friendships and acquaintances

  • Karmic alliance with people

  • Hopes and wishes

  • Groups of people

  • Humanitarian causes, clubs and social organizations of any kind

  • Ideas and new inventions

  • Bizarre circumstances

  • Being or feeling different from the norm

  • Rebellious

  • Unexpected events

  • Long term goals

  • Harmonious relationships with others.

  • Collective projects

  • Describes the nature of the persons friends, group activities and places he occupies within the group.

Sun sign associated with: Aquarius
Planet associated with: Uranus

Twelfth House
This house rules the subconscious mind, dreams, intuition, instinct and secrets. Psychotherapy and psychic phenomena are dealt in this house.  All self defeating actions and under minding is here. It deals with healing our self, self sacrifices, inner suffering, limitations and secret enemies and charity.

This house represents:

  • Large public institutions

  • Monasteries

  • Self imposed isolation

  • Things going on behind the scenes

  • Acts of helpfulness and kindness

  • Addictive substances

  • Self indulgent habits

  • Escapism

  • Suffering and self undoing

  • Spiritual inspiration, cosmic consciousness and enlightenment.

  • Universal consciousness

  • Psychic channeling and miraculous healing

  • Past lives

  • Forgiveness

  • Atonement

  • Mysterious disappearances

  • The unconscious

  • Hidden aspects

  • Represents parts of yourself, dreams, mental health, innate talents.

  • Mishaps

  • Disappointments

  • Trouble

  • Your own personal demons

  • Dark secrets

  • Mental illness

  • Major inner crises

  • Inner peace and centering

  • Mystical state of consciousness

  • How you keep secrets

Sun sign associated with: Pisces
Planet associated with: Neptune

Any planets in this house may represent something that the individual either doesn't have a clear view of or doesn't want a clear view of.