Sep 15, 2019
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The 12 Houses
In Astrology, houses represent a way to make every moment in time personal and brought down to the level of planet Earth according to astrology-zodiac-signs.com. They are a consequence of our planet’s rotation, and come to existence by division of the ecliptic plane into twelve pieces. In Western Astrology, there are several house systems that are still used, while the most common one at the moment is the Placidus system.
How They Come to Be
In one day, an Ascendant (1st house cusp) will move through all of the signs in the zodiacal circle. An Ascendant and a Descendant in each natal chart get defined by dawn and dusk, or moments when the Sun is rising in the East and setting in the West. This is why a person will have the Sun near their Ascendant if they are born at dawn and near their Descendant if they are born at sundown. In general, the Sun will be above the horizon and in one of the upper houses if you were born by daytime, and the Sun below the horizon if you were born at nighttime. Houses are numbered counter-clockwise from the cusp of the first house and always projected on the ecliptic.
Just Imagine
If you imagine yourself in the middle of your natal chart, you will see that above you are the planets above the horizon. If you need to feel a connection to the Universe you can see, look up in the sky at night, and you will see them in the same positions as they stand in the chart of the moment. The only difference here is in their orientation, since the chart drawing differs from our usual concept of the East and the West, putting East on the left and West on the right. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to see the houses since they are fictional lines used to divide the circle into twelve pieces.
Basic House Division
We can use space or time as basis to the division of houses. They are always numbered counter-clockwise from the cusp of the first house, and this cusp (the Ascendant) will be defined by the eastern point at a specific moment. If our division is based on space, the plane is divided into equal arcs of 30° each. If the basis is time, houses are either invariant, and represent 2 hours of the Sun’s apparent movement each, or temporal, when daytime and nighttime are divided into six equal parts.
Whatever their division, we are always aware that an entire chart has 360 degrees. The important thing to remember though lies in the fact that all systems will make sense up to some point. Placidus system has shown to be truly significant, as the leader in its use, but this doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try out other systems too, and see if you get along better with some of the others.
House Systems
Equal House Systems
Sign-house system is one of the most simplified systems of houses still in use. Here, the Ascendant is considered only to define the rising sign and the first house begins at this sign’s zero degrees. Each following sign corresponds to the following house until the circle is complete. This system was the main system in Hellenistic tradition of Astrology and is still in use in Vedic Astrology.
Equal house system also divides the ecliptic in twelve pieces of 30 degrees, but the first house cusp is defined by the Ascendant or the eastern point of sunrise. This system is mainly used today in higher latitudes, especially above 60 degrees, where the Placidean system is quite distorted. In both of these systems, Midheaven or the highest point in the chart (MC) does not represent a 10thhouse cusp. Instead, it moves around any of the houses above the horizon.
Quadrant House Systems
Quadrant house systems divide the houses by four points – Ascendant, Nadir (Imum Coeli), Descendant and Midheaven (Medium Coeli). We call them the angles of each horoscope as they represent strongly accented houses where every planet gets special strength of influence in a person’s life. We will only mention some of them here, relevant for our work here, or commonly used in different astrological approaches today.
Porphyry’s and Regiomontanus
The simplest quadrant house system is Porphyry’s system which divides each quadrant of the ecliptic into three equal parts. It represents the base for all other quadrant house systems although their exact points are calculated differently. If the celestial equator is divided into twelve, and these divisions projected on the ecliptic, we get Regiomontanus system. It is mostly out of use at this time, but it was an important predecessor of the most commonly used system in modern Western Astrology – Placidus system of houses.
Placidus
The Placidus house system is based on each degree of the ecliptic moving from nadir to the horizon, and from the horizon to the Midheaven. The main problem this system has to face is in higher latitudes, because certain degrees never touch the horizon and planets falling in them cannot be assigned into houses without extending the system. If you create a chart for some distant northern city, you will see that the distortion “swallows” the chart and makes is impossible to use houses at all, when all you have are two large houses, and those standing next to them.
Meridian
Although there are other house systems that were important at some moment in history, these are the ones that will be relevant for our work. This list wouldn’t be complete without a truly special entity – Meridian house system, which divides the celestial equator in twelve pieces of 30 degrees and projects them to the ecliptic along the great circles containing the North and the South celestial poles. Although you will probably rarely use it, this house system can truly come in handy in relocation astrology.
House Modalities, Elements And Interpretations
House Modality
Just like signs of the zodiac have their quality/modality and belong to a certain element of Nature, houses have similar ways of expression.
Angular houses are those defined by starting points of quadrants, meaning they are at horoscope’s angles – 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th house. These houses represent activity and the energy to move forward, and are in a way connected to the nature of Mars.
Succedent houses are those that follow angular ones, protected from all the changes and too much movement. They are closely connected to stability, reminding us a lot of the fixed sign quality. These houses are 2nd, 5th, 8th and 11th.
Cadent houses are 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th and they are a bit tricky, for they seem to be predecessors to what comes in the next angular house. These are houses connected primarily to the process of learning, but we shouldn’t neglect their role as a basis for anything created by activities done later on in angular houses.
The Four Elements
Similar to zodiac sings, houses also belong to the four elements of nature. Just like their corresponding signs, each of them carries a story in its element. This practically means that the first house corresponds with the sign of Aries, and as such – belongs to the element of Fire. The same goes for every house that follows – the second house belonging to the element of Earth, the third to Air, the fourth to Water, etc.
Astrological Interpretation
Each house in one’s natal chart, or any chart for that matter, represents the most personal and earthly tool to be used in any analysis. The house itself represents a place or an area in which a planet is located in. For example, the fourth house will speak of many things, but most literally, it will depict a home of a person and what’s in it. With Venus here, for example, we will see beautiful things, jewelry, money or a lover waiting at home.
It is important to remember that in most cases, the planet will speak of a specific person or thing that the energy is focused on, the sign will give a closed description of the planet, and the house will speak of location of life area in which the planet will show up or manifest. The first house is in a way an exception to this rule, since it speaks directly of the physical body of the person in question. However, it still remains tied to the element of Earth in a way, way more personal than anything else, and mostly unemotional and concrete.
The Ruler
Houses have cusps in different signs of the zodiac, and this gives them a stretch of an arm to be additionally interpreted through their ruler. The house is ruled by the planet that rules the sign it falls into. So to clarify, if the third house falls in the sign of Virgo, meaning its cusp is in this sign, the house’s ruler will be the ruler of Virgo - Mercury.
It is not always easy to define the importance of the house ruler comparing to the nature of the planet itself and the nature of the sign it rules. This is why the best thing to do is keep in mind that angular houses manifest strongly and their rulers represent turning points in everyone’s life. Every other interpretation will be, as everything, a moderate and balanced approach that takes all factors into consideration in just the right amount.
The First House
In every personal interpretation, the first house defines an individual, their physical body, strengths and weaknesses, as well as their primal character. It is also named The House of Self, speaking of our main task in life, our outlook into the world, ego, and everything we are here to start. It is our primal energy, connects us to the sign of Aries and our first chakra, and speaks of the potential we possess to endure through any personal battles, or ways in which we can avoid them. Its Latin motto is Vita, making it “the house of Life itself”.
Areas of Life
If we already defined it as the house of Life, than we have to ask ourselves which areas of our lives does it affect? The truth is this house affects them all. Its primary function is to speak of us in the physical world, with its ruler being our main representative in the zodiac. In the practical sense, this means that the planet ruling the sign in which your Ascendant lies, represents you, with all your energy, potential, and relationships seen through the position and aspects it makes.
In general, it will speak of our appearance and instinctive nature, our physical strength, health, shape, body, and energy, giving each and every one of us a special stamp that should always be taken into consideration while we observe the traits of our Sun sign. We will often stumble upon individuals who diminish Astrology on the basis of inability to divide all humans into only 12 categories. If we only add the Ascendant to this equation, the number rises to 144 combinations and categories of division. And this is just the beginning, for the position of its ruler in a sign, in aspects and with its disposition, lifts the personalization and the purpose of Astrology to an entirely different level.
Our Gift and Our Curse
The first house is the basic connection we have to our body and the incarnation we are in at the moment. This is exactly why it is the most important window into our world of karmic debt and represents the level of ease or hardship we have to go through in order to evolve in this lifetime. If one has a challenge seen through planets set in the first house or its ruler, it becomes obvious that they have a task to resolve and a debt to repay while in this body. Each positive aspect, or a planet in its strong dignity, will speak of gifts we have gathered in previous lifetimes or through our family tree, whatever your chosen perspective
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The important thing to understand here is that there are no bad aspects or positions. Even though certain things can steal a lot of our energy, make us exhausted, depressed or weak, every challenge carries an enormous amount of energy released inside us once it is resolved. Fear of negative aspects simply means we have a lot left to learn, and we are not yet aware of the fact that we have already been living our challenges throughout our entire life.
The Second House
On a personal level, this is the house that represents the value we give to ourselves and everything we do. In it, we are able to materialize our energy into something we can touch, use, or hold in our hands, as if it was a natural consequence of the energy we carry in our body represented through our first house. The second house of our chart is the field of habit, the food we eat, with the purpose to feed our hunger created by the animal we carry in the first house. It is a source of income that strengthens our body, leading to thoughts with quality. It correlates with the sign of Taurus, speaks of one’s wealth, and is also called the house of value. Its Latin motto is lucrum, meaning “wealth.”
Areas of Life
Matters of the second house are matters of personal belongings, possessions we want to have in this lifetime, and the food we love to eat. It represents the point that defines the first, materialistic goal of our existence. Seen through philosophical connections, it represents the influence our choice of eating habits has on our financial situation. Cleansing our body through fasting or a healthy diet will set us free from negative substances that accumulate in it. Consequentially, this will cleanse our mind, leading to clearer financial choices instead of stealing the energy from our first house. This is our personal recipe for empowering our strong financial background.
The second house is a reminder of the energy we focused in the right direction. Every accomplishment we are not satisfied with because it didn’t provide us with what we needed in the material reality, simply means our energy is not well-focused or used on matters in sync with our body and our material existence. As soon as we start making money, we can be sure we are in some kind of correlation with our true selves. However, if we are still not satisfied, we probably haven’t followed our true calling that will someday make us whole. Whatever our situation, the second house speaks of our level of personal fulfillment through material matters, the way we accept them, and the way they satisfy our inner hunger.
The Third House
The third house is also called “The House of Communications” and its motto translates to “brothers” from the Latin term fratres. It relates to the sign of Gemini on a more personal, physical level, and speaks of the insides of our mind. The main thing its positioning describes is the way one thinks and the processes in our heads that lead us in a certain direction. As such, it is extremely important in personal chart analysis, for it gives us the information on a person’s state of mind, just like the first house speaks of the state of one’s body, or the fourth the state of emotions and heart.
Areas of Life
The third house is a place of brothers and sisters and all relatives and family members that our genetic material isn’t in closest connection to. It represents our mind, our way of thinking, writing and reasoning, in a way speaking of our human, rational side that makes us more or less smart for practical or less practical issues in life. This is a house greatly influenced by the element of the sign it falls into, as it strongly relates to emotions when it begins in a Water sign, proactive fiery thoughts when in Fire, practical side in Earth, and social contacts in Air signs.
Other than these, the third house is also a house of transportation and active learning through seminars, short educational courses, or certificated trainings. It represents our early education on the elementary school level, intelligence and closely linked ability for happiness and childish joy. It is a place where our neighbors live, and a house of short travel and local trips, hikes, or walks. Among other things, it is our car with all of its characteristics, color and brand, as well as our hiking outdoor equipment. In addition, it will be in sync with technical equipment we often use in our everyday activities, especially if they are means of communication, such as laptops or mobile phones, or any other gadget that we put our hands on.
The Fourth House
The fourth house is the house of home and family. It is our deepest emotional core, our roots and our genetic inheritance, as seen through the family tree and our ancestors with all of their relationship issues, conflicts, fears and dreams. It is a mysterious and our most common place, our house of habit and connection to the core of the Earth, just as it is our ability to find infinite, unconditional love, and constant closeness to another human being. This is the house that relates to the sign of Cancer, and its Latin motto genitor translates to “parent”, as if it was on a mission to show the importance of one person that made us feel at home, no matter if it is our actual parent or simply – ourselves.
Areas of Life
When we speak of our personal, emotional basis for satisfaction, we are definitely speaking about our fourth house. Not only does it say everything we need to know about our upbringing and the home we grew up in, but it also points out the most important issues we have built in relation to the parent of opposite sex. It is the house of heritage and all things we hold dear, and we will often see people with accented fourth house as collectors who stick to their routine, and have a certain fear of change deeply rooted in their need to stick to peaceful, homey feelings and choices.
Although it is often mistaken for the house of tradition, we have to understand that fourth house represents closeness. Tradition itself is seen through the sign of Capricorn and the opposing tenth house, as something that gives the ultimate feeling of responsibility, recognized through respect of the elders, and among them – our ancestry. Fourth house in its core can be linked to family traditions that serve only to keep the family together, and only for as long as they don’t bring spasm into one’s world and the feeling of strong responsibility that doesn’t feel good. The best way to understand matters of the fourth house in their most beautiful light is through closeness we have with our mother, and those we laugh with, caress, care for, and those that thaw our hearts in the hardest of times.
This is the house that represents our emotional core and our ability to be satisfied, happy and smile from the heart. It is a house of home, family, motherly feelings, as well as our private business, how clean and innocent we feel, and our ability to open up. It is our final destination as the house that represents our grave, and our starting point seen though genes we chose for this lifetime, there to close the circle of one life from its beginning to end.
The Fifth House
When we are speaking about pleasure, we are speaking about the fifth house. It is that part of everyone’s chart that points to joyous activities, creativity, entertainment and playful nature of the child within. Personal expression hides in this house and anything in good relation to it will give one the ability to evolve, grow, and find real satisfaction in this lifetime through activities that will fill their energy pool and make them feel alive. All colors of the world are set in this house, and this is exactly why we need to find its best symbolism and the strongest point in order to reach true creativity and express through something constructive and beautiful. Its Latin motto Nati translates to “Children”, referring not only to the children we raise, but to our own child within.
Areas of Life
The fifth house of one’s personal horoscope is one of the most important houses for astrological interpretations. It is often cast aside as just a simple regular point in the zodiacal circle, but the truth is, it represents our personal sign of Leo and the place that pulls us strongly with its gravity, as our own individual Sun’s home. Everything that defines our fifth house represents the exact thing that can make us happy and creative, and we should always follow all signals it sends in order to find personal fulfillment and satisfaction. This is exactly why it is so difficult to have Saturn or the sign of Capricorn set in it, for they cool it down, make us mature before our time, and bring spasm into the place of joyful, childish ignorance and the ability to be spontaneous and free.
This is the house of all children, primarily our own, but also our approach to any child in our lives. It is a place filled with innocent love, connecting us to all premarital relationships, our first love experiences, and sexual pleasures that are fun, carefree and filled with joy. It is a house of recreation, sports, theater, and playing, speaking of our ability to creatively express and be social and well-adjusted to leisure opportunities life throws our way. It is a house of romance, everything that brings us joy as well as games and gambling, leading to the ultimate role of it on a personal level, creative self-expression.
The Sixth House
The Sixth house of each horoscope represents the carrier of health and physiological issues and conditions in this lifetime. It is the state of our body with its energy and stamina defined by the first house. Whatever the situation presented through our sixth house, our presumptions need to find confirmation through the intensity of problems or qualities of the Ascendant and its ruler, for they give out the first physical image and our primal, animalistic strengths and weaknesses. In its core, the sixth house of a natal chart is a place of routine that provides us with good nutrition, health, and satisfaction, corresponding to the sign of Virgo and speaking of our practical, everyday life. Its Latin motto is Valetudo, meaning “health”, defining this as its primary role in our chart.
Areas of Life
When it comes to matters of the sixth house, we will see a place of work and our daily organization, including our food intake, sleep pattern, schedules, lists, cleanliness, and our overall readiness to take on daily responsibility. It is important to understand that similar to the sign of Virgo, it is a house of modesty and accomplishments that are reached only for the wellbeing of others. This is the exact spot that teaches us where to find our limits and our balance in what we give and what we receive, and one of the most challenging positions for the seventh house ruler, making our partners fixable, incomplete, and often immature.
The sixth house is a house of routine, tasks and duties that we take care of every day, our job and our ability to value our work, especially in connection to the second house. It speaks of caretaking, but primarily the care we show for ourselves, and all manifestations through help for other people only speak about our tendency to fix ourselves, our own state of heart and mind, and the flow of our lives. It connects us to the Earth in those practical ways, through small things in life that need to satisfy us and help us support ourselves without anybody’s help. As such, it represents all helpers that come into our lives, starting from our employees, cleaners, babysitters and cooks, to all of our pets who help us hang on to our healthy routine and ground us with their inability to wonder off into mental spheres.
The Seventh House
Matters of the seventh house are always set in the outside world and relationships we tend to create. Its Latin motto is Uxor and this translates to “spouse” with its specific role as a mirror to our own Self found in other people. Although it is often referred to as the house of marriage, it rules all of our relationships, partnerships and things we recognize in other people as a reflection of us. It correlates to the sign of Libra representing our primal balance and our ability to connect with others in the closest possible way. This incarnation provides us with a task to find peace in relation to something specific, and this is seen through the sign on the seventh house cusp, planets inside this house, and its ruler.
Areas of Life
All areas of life that fall under the scope of the seventh house are in a way a reflection of the first house of a personal chart. Just as the first house is who we are, seventh house is who everyone else is, best seen through a relation between our physical body and the outer body of circumstances. It is a house of our partners, and speaks of our attitude towards everyone we meet and get in touch with. Also, it is a house of marriage and partnerships of any kind, including business partners, and all positive things seen in it show our attraction to qualities we admire in others, especially those we come in close, intimate relationships with.
This house is also our out into the public and very often we will see the Sun or the Ascendant ruler of famous people set in their seventh house. As our final judgment, it speaks of legal matters and law in general, just like it was touched by Astraea or Iustitia, ladies of justice among deities of ancient times. This is our touch with tact, represents diplomatic relationships of all kinds, and speaks of intense, obvious bonds with those who openly disagree with our personality, methods or choices. As such, it connects us to all known enemies and those we come into conflict with.
The Eighth House
When we speak of the eighth house of a personal horoscope, we can say with full confidence that this is the most hated of all houses. The strange thing hides in the fact that there is really nothing to hate here except ourselves and our own limitations, fears, and taboos. This is a house that hides all things that are dirty, our trash and our anger, our emotions, relationships and things that we need to set free from, as well as everything we push under the rug, refusing to deal. In its final manifestation, this is the house of death, coming as the end of the road after too many things have been dismissed for our body to handle, but also as an inevitable part of life. It is also called the House of Reincarnation, while its Latin motto mors literally means “death.”
Areas of Life
Eighth house relates to the sign of Scorpio and always speaks of hate and revenge, in whatever shape, color or manifestation we see it in our lives. It rules all things that are dead, buried and gone. The key mystery of it is in the fact that it also magically speaks of our conception. To truly understand rivers of our eighth house, we have to fully accept that there is no beginning without an end and vice versa. Any planet set in our eighth house is a planet we fail to see in all its glory. Even when Mars or Pluto are here, given their strong dignity due to the connection this house has with Scorpio, they still tend to be dismissed and thrown into trash, one way or the other. What’s one man’s gain is another man’s loss, and this is best seen though the symbolism of the eighth house, for it represents someone else’s possessions and everything we get from those who left us behind.
This is a house of change, all curves and bumps in the road, and everything our unconscious has to send our way to protect us from life-threatening situations or throw us into them. This is the place of danger and fear as much as it is a place of liberation. Its seed thrown from its preceding seventh house is strangely connected to relationships. We can see that all people we shoved aside accumulate here and create spasms, dissatisfactions, and more fears since we didn’t allow change and acceptance. As all things that are taboo, this is a place where all intimate sexual relationships go and one where we can find all kinky preferences, choices hard to understand by others, and things we are ashamed of. In another extreme, this is a house of committed and deep relationships, those that shine beyond vows of marriage, giving promise for lives that are yet to come.
The beauty of the eighth house is seen through our ability to transform, break our cocoons and become colorful, flying butterflies. It is a place of regeneration and one we turn to when we are wounded and lost, so carefully estimate the position of all that is hidden there. It will show us a path of our shadows and what we have to face in order to grow, as well as all we need to turn to when we aren’t happy, or when we have something that needs to be forgiven, changed, or simply accepted as it is. This is a place that transforms us into better people, so it is really not a house to hate but rather to worship.
The Ninth House
The ninth house is the house of philosophy, perspective and travel. Its Latin motto iter translates to “journeys” and this is exactly what this house speaks about. It is a place of higher mind and understanding beyond everything found in our material world, beyond our boundaries and limits of our body. One whole ends in the eighth house of a horoscope, and the ninth comes as a natural consequence, sparking all sorts of questions about the afterlife and everything that will come after something is dead and gone. It hides our ability to move on from a dead point and very often we will see that people stuck in a moment, unable to move on from certain events and traumas, have some sort of difficulty in connection to their ninth house.
Areas of Life
In its primary role, this is the house of education and travel. It carries all of our teachers and gurus within, shown in our lives through different people, circumstances, spaces and cultures. Everything that widens our perspective, teaches us something new, and helps us move forwards is in our ninth house. It carries our life philosophy and religion, as well as matters of law and ethics. It allows expansion and growth in our lives, showing us our personal direction, highways we have to take, and setting us free from any fear of change we carry in our eighth house while showing us the image of all things that will come after it.
Every time we look at our ninth house, we have to search for its true potential in the house preceding it. We cannot have a wide perspective, gain knowledge and show true dignity and our noble selves if we are afraid. Fears damage the quality and width of our lives given by the ninth house. Even if it is positioned very good, with its ruler extremely well set, we will still fail to find the right approach to religion and have narrow perspectives if our eighth house is tainted with fear, dismissal and avoiding change. Each fear we shake off will lead us to new knowledge, higher education, country, or relationship. This is exactly why the ninth house is the house of second marriage, for it comes after a change we made because the first one failed.
The Tenth House
When we speak about our career and our social status, we are speaking about our tenth house. It is a place where all of our ambitions go, and just like Mars is exalted in the tenth sign – Capricorn, our first house ruler naturally focuses on our tenth house to reach its goals. Its Latin motto regnum means “Kingdom” and serves well for us to understand the importance of this house in our personal life. If the eighth house represents one’s moment of conception, the tenth house speaks of the way our mother was feeling when she found out she was pregnant. This shines a new light on our ambitious or less ambitious nature, for we will see what we strive for as something directly correlated to our mother’s first emotion as she became aware of our physical presence.
Areas of Life
When we speak about the tenth house, we have to keep in mind that it is our antenna into the world, as a flag we keep on top of our heads to show everyone who we are. This is a house of status and our place in the society, as well as our true calling, or things we wish were our calling but aren’t just yet. It hides all of our career choices, our first big job after we graduate from college, our boss and our authority. As something we strive for, trying to become everything it represents, it is logically linked to the parent of the same sex – the one we look up to so we can live a functional life as a woman or a man. Just as the fourth house is closely linked to our genetic inheritance, the tenth house speaks of its extremes and everyone in our family tree we want to become rather than feel we’re leaving behind. As such, it seems to be some sort of primary opposition within our family tree, creating a step we can jump on to become what was left to us by our elders.
This house speaks of obligation, planning, and personal responsibility. It sees all and covers all areas of life in a way, also clearly showing the image of the family we create in this lifetime, strongly based on the potential of the fourth house and the family we come from. Together with the seventh house, this one also speaks of public appearances and the way others see us, usually through the status or the name we build for ourselves. This is a point in which we choose our profession and name ourselves lawyers, engineers, technicians, builders, teachers, etc. This is one of the most important places in our personal chart for it speaks of everything we strive to become.
The Eleventh House
The eleventh house in a chart is analogous to the sign of Aquarius on a personal level. This is a house of friendship, but also this strange point in a horoscope in which we find ways to communicate with our inner personality and the outer Universe. It is the third house from the ninth house, the one ruling deities and religion, so the eleventh house basically represents the way God speaks to us. This is our perception of faith, beliefs, religion, and everything that gives purpose to our existence. It will push us towards humane activities and choices made for the wellbeing of entire mankind. Its Latin name benefacta translates to “friendship” and this is, without a doubt, its primary role.
Areas of Life
Apart from ruling friendships in our lives, this is the house of our personal liberation. It is a place where we set free from obligations, make turns, recognize our wishes, and realize how great our minds are. This is a house that represents all non-profit organizations, different groups, clubs and societies, as well as higher associations and acquaintances of like-minded attitudes. This house is here to support us and blow wind in our sails, as a place where we find people who approve of our personality without judgment.
The nature of this house is strangely linked to matters of the third house, and it will present speeding, older siblings, and everyone in our lives we will talk to in a spontaneous, liberated manner. It is a place where our work gives benefits, the house of our pension and the money we put aside after we’re done with all regular responsibilities. It is the house that rewards all of our career efforts and everything that was done with a goal to truly evolve and become a better person. This is a place of all wishes and desires, and a house we all have to visit often enough to understand the collective a little better.
The Twelfth House
There is always something strange about the twelfth house and however hard we try to define it, we can be sure its meaning will slip through our fingers as soon as we start thinking we caught it. This is a house with the Latin name carcer, meaning “prison” and it can quite literally turn your life into prison in any imaginable way. It is also called The House of Self-Undoing. The natural progress of our Self goes through that logical row of houses, the second after the first, the third after the second, etc. If we realize that the twelfth house speaks of something entirely different, moving backwards from our first house to the twelfth, and right there behind our back, we have to ask ourselves how special it actually is and which way does it help us evolve. Or does it help at all?
Areas of Life
This is the house of dreams, of our subconscious and everything mysterious and hidden from plain sight. It speaks of imprisonment, no matter if it is actual prison sentence or any ties we are held back by in this lifetime. In general, this is the house that represents all things behind our back, all things left behind, and as such speaks most vividly of our past life experience. Things it hides can be clearly seen by people around us, and our friends might see its secrets as a normal part of their everyday routine, for this is the second, “logical” house from the eleventh. This is the field of greatest knowledge we can find in close friends and social contacts, and while some of us will get its best through gossip, others will get it through spiritual guidance and support.
Apart from its rule of prisons, the twelfth house also speaks of all places of seclusions, such as hospitals and mental institutions. It is elusive and secretive, we cannot see what’s inside it before we close our eyes, and even then it is a dreamland that has yet to be deciphered. It is our place of solitude and reflection, retreat and self-sacrifice, while at the same time being our comfortable bed and our most beautiful land of desires, talents and imagination. This house speaks of all those things we do not know and there for don’t understand, and we have to be very careful not to disturb its waters in order to see things clearly to the bottom.
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