the houses

‘the where’ | the environment | COMPARTMENTS OF LIFE

The house shows us the container, the structure or quality this energy operates through for you, where this is focused on alchemizing into your physical reality. 

one

The House of Self + Identity. How we package and present ourselves, our personality, the image we offer to others including our appearance and how we make a first impression.

  • How we start things.

  • Our defense mechanisms.

  • Our relationship with our immediate environment.

  • Our general outlook on life.

  • Our body, breath + vitality.

  • Personality/disposition

  • General outlook

  • The filter through which we view the world.

  • How we look, physical self expression, style and individuality (the mask we wear)

  • Spirit

  • The Head + Face, upper jaw

  • Mercury has its Joy in this House

  • Natural association: Aries

two

The House of Possessions. This rules what we own and what we place value on as well as how we value ourselves (self-worth).

  • Money and personal finances. How we make it. What we do with it.

  • How we exist in the material world and our needs to feel secure there.

  • What we desire.

  • Sense of self-worth, esteem and basic values.

  • Personal possessions + assets both qualitative and quantitative.

  • Peace of mind.

  • Gains + losses / Have’s and Have Nots / Earnings + spendings.

  • Certainties

  • Ear, nose + throat, lower jaw

  • ‘Gate of Hades’

  • Natural association: Taurus

three

The House of Communication. This is how we process and share our ideas and how we intellectually connect with those around us.

  • The lower/conscious mind, our daily life, what you think.

  • How we relate to our environment + interactions with.

  • Siblings, extended relatives and early environment, attitude toward them.

  • Neighbors + local environment

  • Consciousness, Thoughts + how we formulate them.

  • Short trips - can be fun to look at what SIGN + PLANETS live here for insight into short distance travel/road trips.

  • Writing and speaking. A Message.

  • Language skills, speech, memory, perception.

  • Media and communications.

  • How we connect to friends and lovers on a mental level.

  • Divination

  • School, early education.

  • The skills we often take for granted.

  • Goddesses, Temples of Worship, the Divine Feminine

  • Respiratory system, arms, hands, nerves, speech

  • The Moon has her Joy here also a happy placement for Mercury.

  • Natural association: Gemini

four

The House of Home. Who, what, and where do we call home… this is where we go to lay down roots, our base.

  • Our psychological foundations and roots, the Unconscious, our inner home/Soul.

  • Family/parents (often least prominent parent).

  • Domestic/home life + foundations, whether we stay or go from where we’re raised.

  • Instinctive behaviour.

  • The mother or the more “maternal” parent/caregiver.

  • Ancestry + the past

  • Father

  • Our connection with our past.

  • Our sense of security.

  • Real estate + property.

  • Land

  • Hidden treasures, the private, that which is hidden within our depths.

  • Stomach, breasts, mucous membranes, womb

  • ‘Under the Earth’

  • Natural association: Cancer

five

The House of Pleasure. What brings us pleasure now? What did we LOVE doing as a kid?

  • Creative self-expression, how we stand out and leave our personal stamp on things.

  • Sex, pleasure and entertainment.

  • Romance + Lover Affairs, heart vibes.

  • All forms of “play”.

  • Speculation and gambling.

  • Pastimes + Hobbies

  • Attitude towards romance + romantic relationships.

  • Lovers as opposed to partners.

  • Attitude towards having fun.

  • Drama

  • Adornments and costumes.

  • Children + the Inner Child

  • Good fortune

  • Heart, back, spinal cord

  • Venus has her Joy here.

  • Natural association: Leo

six

The House of Health + Service. This is how we prioritize our well being on a daily basis.

  • Work and job, the day to day (as opposed to career).

  • Grounded, real world manifestations, bringing Heaven to Earth, creature comforts

  • Techniques and methods.

  • Self-improvement, Adjustment + Refinement

  • Health + Illness, the inner conflicts that create dis-ease.

  • How work + health are inextricably linked.

  • Nutrition

  • Attitude towards food.

  • Service

  • Attitude towards service and co-workers, conditions of your workplace if employed.

  • Helpfulness

  • Pets

  • Order, attitude towards routine and organization.

  • Routines

  • The Mundane Details of our Day to Day, Planning

  • How we edit.

  • “Bad” fortune, Mental or physical conflicts resulting from Ego. Typically under our control.

  • Intestines, pancreas, liver, immune system

  • Mars has its Joy here.

  • Natural association: Virgo

seven

The House of Partnership (long term), the stuff that binds us.

  • Not Self in relationship to your personal self.

  • Companionship

  • The alter ego.

  • Partnerships

  • One-to-one relationships, “we” consciousness.

  • Marriage; The first marriage.

  • The “significant other”.

  • Business partnerships.

  • Competitors + open enemies

  • Our “shadow self” + projections.

  • Lawyers, Mediators, Counselors

  • Contracts

  • Cooperation or lack thereof.

  • The lower courts.

  • Kidneys, pH balance, hormone balance

  • Natural association: Libra

eight

The House of birth, death, other people’s resources + the psyche.

  • Transformation and crisis, the psyche, getting to the ROOT of things

  • Psychology, fears, anxiety, trauma + mental health, Therapy + Therapists

  • Naked humanness.

  • Generation, degeneration, regeneration.

  • Our attitude towards crisis and change.

  • Other peoples resources.

  • Addictions

  • Soul connections + deeper intimacy; learning through intimacy.

  • Debt, paying off debt, taxes, loans, dividends, legacy

  • Divorce/alimony.

  • Inheritance + financial gifts

  • Idleness

  • Urinary tract, genitals + reproductive system, colon/large intestine

  • Natural association: Scorpio

“Every eighth house operation is a celestial messenger in disguise and a challenge to penetrate this disguise and become the recipient of the blessing he bears. In the war of an eighth house storm there is always a rainbow if we but lift our eyes to perceive it”. - Isabel M. Hickey

nine

The House of Luck + Adventure. Inner expansion both mental and spiritual through knowledge and travel.

  • Superconscous mind.

  • Our personal belief system.

  • Our sense of adventure, exploration.

  • Religious beliefs, astrology, and personal philosophy.

  • Higher education, studies, exploration.

  • Long-distance travel - may be fun to look at what SIGN + PLANETS live here in relation to how you travel distances aka by plane.

  • Morals

  • Foreign languages and cultures.

  • Personal truths.

  • Publishing + journalism.

  • Commerce

  • Prophets + Oracles, Intuition + Inspiration

  • Dreams

  • In-laws

  • Higher courts

  • Arteries, sciatic nerve, hips + thighs

  • the ‘House of God’, Faith, the Divine

  • the Sun has its Joy here.

  • Natural association: Sagittarius

ten

The House of Social Status, Authority + Fame. The recognition we will receive but also the positive and negative ways we can wield our power.

  • Career and profession.

  • Contribution to society.

  • Position in society, relationship to the public, prestige (or lack thereof)

  • Social standing.

  • Reputation, Results + public roles.

  • Material success and position.

  • How we carve out an identity for ourselves.

  • Achievement + Responsibility

  • Authority figures + bosses

  • The father or most “paternal”/strongest parent/caregiver.

  • Governments

  • Employer if not self-employed.

  • Attitude towards responsibility.

  • Attitude towards abiding by the law.

  • Desire for achievement.

  • Knees, skin, general both health and mineral content

  • Natural association: Capricorn

eleven

The House of Friends, Groups + Networks. This is how we relate to human kind.

  • Organizations + community

  • Hopes, wishes + good fortune.

  • Aspirations + dreams

  • Personal goals

  • Eccentricities

  • Our sense of our true Inner Purpose.

  • Our sense of the group + Social Alliances.

  • Future Technology

  • Humanity

  • Ruler and planets within tied to happiness.

  • ‘Good Spirit’

  • Circulatory system, blood

  • Jupiter has its Joy here.

  • Natural association: Aquarius

twelve

The House of the Subconscious and the Hidden. This is where our subconscious thoughts, beliefs and fears are born. It is our self growth and our undoing.

  • Karma

  • Hidden strengths.

  • Hidden weaknesses + hidden enemies.

  • The Sub/Unconscious, hangovers from past lives.

  • Magic + Dreams

  • Boundaries/Boundary-less

  • Private affairs + secrets.

  • Lost items/loss.

  • Hospitals, institutions and prisons

  • Spiritual studies.

  • Sorrow.

  • Purifying our suffering choosing service over suffering.

  • Retreat + escape, sacred solitude.

  • Release and where we let go.

  • Past Lives

  • Sensitivity - channel into work or creativity.

  • ‘Evil Daimon Spirit’, House of Karma

  • Feet, lymphatic system, blood

  • Saturn has its Joy here.

  • Natural association: Pisces