Reference Guide to the Houses
The chart is divided into twelve sections based on the location of a person's birth. If the planets are actors and the signs are characters, then the houses are where things happen. The houses rules areas of life.
Some houses, the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th, are more significant and referred to as angular houses. They rule the areas elements in the hierarchy of needs.
First house: (Rising/AC/Ascendant) - Self-discovery, personal identity, physical body, growth, and becoming
Second house: Money, resources, values, self-worth, material possessions
Third house: Local community, short travel, research, writing, sharing information, connection, siblings, learning
Fourth house: (IC) - Most personal part of the chart, home, lineage, past, roots, comfort zone, family
Fifth house: Pleasure, recreation, creation, art, children, luck, nightlife, gambling, sex, romance, pets
Sixth house: Habits, health, job, coworkers, gigs, daily routines, obligations, and responsibilities
Seventh house: (DC/Descendant) - Romantic relationships, business partnerships, best friends, things you outsource to others
Eighth house: Other people's resources, inheritance, taboos, taxes, death, kinks, shadow work
Ninth house: Higher learning, long-distance travel, new experiences, spirituality, religion, beliefs
Tenth house: MC/Midheaven - most public part of the chart, life purpose, career, impact on the world
Eleventh house: Friends, acquaintances, broad community, social groups, important causes, humanity
Twelfth house: Endings, solitude, connection to the divine source, loneliness, transcendence
