Astro Dictionary (Astrology Meanings) – Tony Hyland Psychic Services

1st House:

Known as the House of Self. It represents the personality, disposition, health, temperament, and appearance. The 1st House represents how an individual appears to the outside world. It can influence manners and general behaviour. Planets in the 1st House exert a very powerful influence.

The 1st house is naturally associated with Aries and its ruling planet, Mars. The ascendant is the cusp of the 1st house. This house represents the area of life concerned with our sense of self-identity. Signs and planets in this house reflect both who we are and how we meet life. It represents our personal identity, and the need to be a separate and distinct person. The physical body is the material expression of our self-identity, and its strengths and weaknesses are indicated by this house. Another way of viewing the 1st house is as the lens through which we perceive life, and what colours our view of existence.

2nd House:

Known as the House of Possessions. It represents possessions of all kinds and the subject’s attitudes towards them. It can indicate monetary wealth and how a subject may earn a living. It can also indicate general everyday values. It is also concerned with feelings, especially in relationship to a planet appearing in this house.

The 2nd house is naturally associated with the sign of Taurus and its ruling planet, Venus. After establishing our self-identity in the 1st house, we turn, in the 2nd, to our possessions and what we own. This house represents the area of life concerned with the accumulation of wealth and resources as a secure basis from which to act in the world. This can mean the accumulation of money and material possessions, but on a higher level it represents innate or acquired skills and gifts which give us a sense of value, worth and personal security. The 2nd house stabilises the self-identity acquired in the 1st.

3rd House:

Known as the House of Communication. It represents how we communicate particularly between members of family. It can also represent short journeys. The mind, particularly speech is associated with this house, as is the relationship of the subject and his/her environment. Self-expression  is also indicated, as is education and schooling.

The 3rd house is naturally associated with the sign Gemini and its ruling planet, Mercury. After stabilising our self-identity, and acquiring a sense of security in the 2nd, we need, in the 3rd house, to establish our relationship to our immediate environment. This house represents the area of experience concerned with communication, and the exchange of information with our immediate social environment. It represents the activity of learning and the type and direction of intellectual and educational skills. On a more mundane level, the 3rd house is related to short journeys’ immediate relatives (brothers and sisters if any) and their roles in our lives.

4th House:

Known as the House of Home. It represents the home and the influence parents may have on the subject. It also indicates the subjects’ attitude to their responsibilities as a parent. Attitudes towards houses, land, property and private life are also influenced by planets in this house.

The 4th house is naturally associated with the sign of Cancer and its ruling ‘planet’, the Moon. In the 3rd house, we are concerned with communicating with our immediate environment. This leads, in the 4th, to the need to establish a private domain to which we can retreat from the world. The 4th house represents our roots; both psychological and material. In the psychological sense, it is our early family and cultural conditioning, which gives us a sense of belonging, and produces deep inner feelings and habit patterns. The 4th house, together with the opposite house, the 10th, is connected with our experience of our parents. In the material sense, it is our own home, from which we go out to meet the world, and to which we can retreat to rest and recuperate. As well as representing our early home environment, this house is also connected with the conditions surrounding us during the second half of life.

5th House:

Known as the House of Pleasure. It represents creativity, enterprise and new undertakings. Gambling. Romance and instinctive affection for pets, children and lovers. If a planet is seriously afflicted (See Afflicted) It represents looseness of behaviour and over-indulgence.

The 5th house is naturally associated with the sign Leo and its ruler, the Sun. In the 4th house, we establish our material and psychological roots. In the 5th, we seek to express our own creativity. Creativity can be expressed through children as extensions of our physical bodies, or through various art forms as extensions of our inner selves. This house is also associated with leisure activities, sports, gambling, love affairs and the like. In fact, all forms of recreation where we seek to express ourselves freely and without inhibition.

6th House:

Known as the House of Health. It represents attitude towards employees, work and daily routine. It indicates how the subject carries out duties. It does not fully assess the subjects’ health or general well-being . Although physical fitness can be represented.

The 6th house is naturally associated with the sign of Virgo and its ruler, Mercury. Having expressed our creativity in the 5th, the 6th house is where we are confronted with the need to adjust to, and learn from, the demands of the material world. This is the house associated with work and service. The 6th house indicates the nature of, and our attitude towards, our working environment and our relations with co-workers, employees or bosses. It is also connected with health and the interaction of mind and body to maintain the efficient (or inefficient) working of our physical bodies.