The Houses in Astrology

Houses in Astrology

Houses are numeric placements of the astrological or zodiacal wheel or chart from numbers 1 to 12 or I to XII and are placed directly underneath the Astrological or Zodiac Signs that represent the sky overhead or as above. The houses represent human life or what is below. These two interacting components are guides toward what becomes an astrological forecast. There are what may be called individual houses for individual, natal presentation or general houses for broader forms of presentation. In astrology, within a house, there may be planetary bodies on the wheel or chart shown as glyphs or symbols. Due to the visibility of the traditional celestial bodies being seen with the bare eye, among which are the Sun (a star), the Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn, they appear as star-type figures and were given the term wandering stars by the Ancients.

The Houses, Planetary Bodies, and Astrological or Zodiac Sign Associations

First House- Is associated with awareness of self, personality, individual interest, and energetic focus.

Planet- Mars

Astrological or Zodiac Sign Association- Aries

Second House- Is associated with currency, possessions, movable assets, and resources.

Planet- Venus

Astrological or Zodiac Sign Association- Taurus

Third House- Is associated with siblings. The third house is also connected to relatives that aren't immediate family, such as, aunts and cousins... It is relational to acquaintances and neighbors. It's also associated with brief commutes or travel, all forms of communication, and close environmental encounters.

Planet- Mercury

Astrological or Zodiac Sign Association- Gemini

Fourth House- Is associated with parents, family, homes or havens, and realty.

The Moon, a luminary

Astrological or Zodiac Sign Association- Cancer

Fifth House- Is associated with creativeness, love, lovers, enjoyment, entertainment, and traditionally, children.

The Sun, a luminary

Astrological or Zodiac Sign Association- Leo

Sixth House- Is associated with efficiency, concentration of healthfulness, work environments, and the efficiency of work.

Planet- Mercury

Astrological or Zodiac Sign Association- Virgo

Seventh House- Is associated with marriage, romantic or business partners, opponents, any personable interactions, and traditionally, disclosed enemies.

Planet- Venus

Astrological or Zodiac Sign Association- Libra

Eighth House- Is associated with the resources of others, receiving of resources or currency, lending or giving of resources or currency, investments, inheritance, influential desire, impending situations, and traditionally, known as the house of death.

Planet- Pluto and Mars, Traditionally

Astrological or Zodiac Sign Association- Scorpio

Ninth House- Is associated with distant or foreign experiences and travels, afar places, cultural or exotic interactions outside of an individual's likely experiences, philosophy, expansion of knowledge, societal laws, religion, and traditionally, relational to higher education.

Planet- Jupiter

Astrological or Zodiac Sign Association- Sagittarius

Tenth House- Is associated with the becoming of or to become, career, professions, chiefs, heads, directors, administrators, management, and societal status.

Planet- Saturn

Astrological or Zodiac Sign Association- Capricorn

Eleventh House- Is associated with friendship in general, yet more favorable or ideal are long-standing friendships and networks sharing commonalities, mutual supportiveness, associative groups or societies, and social activeness.

Planet- Uranus and Saturn, Traditionally

Astrological or Zodiac Sign Association- Aquarius

Twelfth House- Is associated with all that is hidden, the subconscious, and traditionally, associated with monasteries, hospitals, confinement facilities, places with the function of concealment, concealed enemies, lingering illness, and the probability of self-negation.

Planet- Neptune and Jupiter, Traditionally

Astrological or Zodiac Sign Association- Pisces

Planetary Bodies and Their Traditional Associations

In traditional astrology the energetic influence of planets/planetary bodies, yet note this may be shifted, given other factors:

Jupiter- A benefic planet and is the greater benefic, meaning favorable.

Venus- A benefic planet and is the lesser benefic, meaning favorable.

Saturn- A malefic planet and is the greater malefic, meaning unfavorable.

Mars- A malefic planet and is the lesser malefic, meaning unfavorable.

Mercury- Is energetically mutable and may sometimes be benefic, favorable or malefic, unfavorable.

The Sun and Moon are the celestial luminaries and illuminate the house in which they are present and the area of life relational to the house.