The Houses

Each birth chart has twelve sectors which represent different areas of a person’s life. Below is a brief explanation of the houses.

The 1st house Depicts a person’s appearance, individual personality, temperament, physical attributes, style, quirks, and attitude.

The 2nd house Depicts values, self-worth, earned income, and material possessions.

The 3rd house Represents communication, siblings, relationship with our communities, short journeys, news, memory, speech, and rumors.

The 4th house Represents childhood, youth, the relationship with our family and the home, the core self, the nurturing parent, roots, and origins.

The 5th house Represents love, children, creativity, dating life, fun, sexuality, creative expression, and dramatics.

The 6th house Represents work, routines, behavior towards subordinates, health, hygiene, fitness, pets, service, and self-expression.

The 7th house Represents marriage, partnerships, open enemies, contractors, agreements, negotiations, lawsuits, and conflicts.

The 8th house Rules death, taxes, rebirth, inheritance, rituals, severing of ties, growth, evolution, loss, and metaphysics.

The 9th house Rules travel (literal or travel of the mind), higher learning, philosophy, the field of law, spirituality, and foreign countries.

The 10th house Rules status, public eye, reputation, authority figures, the dominant parent, honors and achievement, and social image.

The 11th house Represents friends, people, groups, social circles, acquaintances, and hopes & wishes.

The 12th house Represents hospitals, prisons, confinement, dreams, subconscious, retreats, secrets, repression, the hidden, unseen realms, betrayal, and karma. Those born with planets here are often intuitive and psychic.