Ingredients of a Birth Chart
The Houses
The First House
Key Words: Personality, physical traits, early upbringing, approach to life.
The First House governs your personality, disposition and temperament. The manner in which you express yourself and the way you approach other people is shown by this house. It also reveals the way you approach new situations and circumstances and contributes to show how you set about your life's goals. The general state of your health is also shown in this house, as well as early childhood experiences.
The Second House
Key Words: Money, possessions, self-worth, innate resources, desires, security.
The Second House covers the material side of life including money and finances, income and expenditure, and worldly goods. It also covers the areas of innate resources, such as your self-worth, feelings and emotions. This house reveals what you consider as your personal security and what you desire.
The Third House
Key Words: School, communication, siblings, short journeys, neighbours, immediate environment, mental processes.
The Third House covers areas as varied as short journeys, travelling within your own country, your immediate environment, and relationships with your brothers and sisters, neighbours and school friends. Most importantly, this house covers the way your mental processes operate, the manner and style in which you communicate, and your capacity for learning. As such it also reveals much about your schooling and childhood and adolescence.
The Fourth House
Key Words: Home, family, roots, father, second half of your life, private life, physical strength.
The Fourth House reveals the domestic arena and the home. By extension, it also covers houses and land, the influence of the family you were born into, and the parents that raised you, in particular your father, as well as your personal and private life. This house indicates your attitude to the past and traditions, feelings of patriotism, and your physical strength. The Fourth House can also reveal which conditions will apply in the second half of your life.
The Fifth House
Key Words: Children, romance, creativity, self-expression, sex, leisure, gambling, holidays.
The Fifth House indicates creativity and self-expression. This includes children, enterprises and new beginnings, in fact, it includes any way in which your creativity manifests itself. It shows how you are special and stand out. This house also indicates leisure activities and holidays, gambling and speculation, romance and courtship, entertainment, sport, and sex.
The Sixth House
Key Words: Work, health, routine, service to others, servants, pets.
The Sixth House reveals your workplace in respect to your colleagues, and the type of work you do as well as your attitude to it. This is the house of everyday life and routine and the way you handle it. It reveals how you go about being of service to others in a practical way, and the way you adjust to necessities of mundane existence. It also shows how you aspire to refine and better yourself. Just as importantly, health and health-related matters are indicated by placements in the Sixth House.
The Seventh House
Key Words: Marriage partner, business partnerships, relationships, contracts, lawsuits, enemies, rivals.
The Seventh House reveals your attitudes towards partnerships with other people, whether on a personal or on a business level. It can also reveal your marriage partner. It indicates how you deal with other people and how your relationships with others affect you. This house may also refer to law suits and contracts as well as enemies.
The Eighth House
Key Words: Sex, death, rebirth, occult, legacies, business, other people's money, deep personal transformations, psychological complexes.
The Eighth House covers the whole cycle of human life, including birth, sex and death. It also reveals your darker side, and the complexes and emotions that you prefer to keep hidden, even from yourself. This house also covers shared feelings, shared resources and joint assets. As such, it includes business activities, legacies, your partner's financial estate, inheritances, taxes and earned income. On a different level, this house also reveals your ability to undergo deep personal transformations and spiritual regeneration.
The Ninth House
Key Words: Law, religion, beliefs, higher education, long-distance travel, your conscience, foreign connections and travel.
The Ninth House covers travelling, whether physically across the globe, on a mental plane or expanding through study. It denotes the higher mind which is not only concerned with learning facts, but also wants to understand the connections formed between them and the philosophies and concepts they stand for. This house indicates further education, law, religion, philosophy and your conscience, as well as foreign travel, people and places.
The Tenth House
Key Words: Career, public status, ambition, mother.
The Tenth House reveals your ambition in relation to the outside world, the identity you wish to achieve in regard to the community at large, and your career aspirations. It covers all matters outside the home, your public image and reputation. This house shows your attitude to people in authority, and how you view the outside world. The Tenth House also indicates the influence of your mother and your own attitude to her. As a woman, the Tenth House may indicate your husband.
The Eleventh House
Key Words: Career, public status, ambition, reputation, mother, husband.
The Eleventh House reveals your friends and acquaintances, as well as the influence of groups and societies on your life. You general hopes and aspirations reveal themselves through this house, as well as how well you function as part of a system. This can extend to indicating how you manifest your creativity against the background of the community and your political activity. This house also covers global awareness and ecological matters, as well as other humanitarian issues.
The Twelfth House
Key Words: Dreams, the unconscious, need for privacy, seclusion, all hidden and secret affairs, self-sacrifice, hidden weaknesses, addictions and escapism.
The Twelfth House rules the unconscious as well as issues of self-sacrifice, dreams, and the need for seclusion and privacy. Hidden strengths and weaknesses are revealed by placements in this house, as well as private feelings that may never be voiced to anyone else. Your inclination towards escapism, and hidden enemies and problems are also indicated here.
Go to more in-depth information about the ingredients that make up your Birth Chart:
Planets
Ascendant and Descendant
Midheaven and Imum Coeli
Houses
Nodes of the Moon
Arabic Parts
Keywords