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

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