Hey there it’s Kelly from Kelly’s astrology here. I recently shared a post about the 12 houses in astrology on social media that got lots of interest and generated a bunch of questions, so I wanted to run through the basic overview of the topics associated with the twelve houses in astrology. This is going to be an ideal resource for you if you’re a beginner to astrology or you’re trying to figure out the birth chart and how it’s put together.
The twelve houses form the backbone or the framework of your birth chart. Every astrology chart has 12 houses in it and all of the topics of each house are the same.
For instance, when you hear people talking about the seventh house and that having to do with relationships, that’s a consistent framework that applies in every astrology chart or every birth chart. However, what you do is you start to layer in the different zodiac signs and the different planets that influence and interact with that seventh house of relationships for you personally. That’s where you start to get the juicy individual interpretive insights that is available through understanding your birth chart.
Today we’re going to start at the very beginning though and just look at that framework of the twelve houses themselves. First up I want to share a resource on the screen, which is a visual diagram of the twelve houses.
This is a resource that you can download free from my website. It’s a picture, if you like, of the twelve houses where they’re located in the chart. Anytime you look at a zodiac birth chart, you will see the first house over here on the left hand side just below what looks like the horizontal line.
In every astrology chart the seventh house is over here on the right-hand side of the chart as you look at it, which does actually correlate to the western part of the sky. That resource if you want to take a screenshot of it, you can tag me on social media whether you’re an Instagram or Facebook or Twitter, feel free to do that.
I’m going to show you now where you can get that resource on my website. If you jump on, we won’t do that now. What I want to do is bring you on to my Instagram page. Here you go. This is the post where I shared the info about the twelve houses that generated a bunch of questions.
I’m actually going to run through some of those questions in the video today. But what I would like to do is bring you in to where you can find this resource on my website. So, let’s do that. I just need to tell the recording program what we’re doing. Okey-Dokey so here you go.
Here’s my website Kellysastrology.com.
Here’s the resource. You come on to the home page, this is what you’ll. There we go, that’s my home page Kelly astrology.
com. Go under the learn astrology tab to eBooks and handouts, click on that, and there’s a bunch of free resources here. You’ll want the astrological houses diagram, and you can add it to your cart it’s got a zero dollar charge you just go through the checkout process, and you can download that as a free resource. Let’s keep that on the screen as we go. I’m just gonna switch back to the slightly cleaner version and I’ll make it a little bit bigger for us.
Now that we’ve got the gist of it. Okay so the topics of the twelve houses. There is a bit of an order or a method to this, even though it might not seem apparent to start with. Some of the origins of the topics of the houses have to do with Egyptian philosophy. There are certain ideas around different parts of the chart being associated with life or with death that go all the way back to ancient Egyptian philosophy.
Then there are also topics connected to certain houses that are connected to something known as the ‘joys of the planets.’ I won’t get into all that backstory today. Instead what I wanted to take you through were the key words associated with each house in the chart. The first house which is where you will always find your ascendant. Your ascendant, or your rising sign, is a sign that you must know about if you want to do personal or individual style astrology.
In ancient traditions of astrology the ascendant was actually more or than your Sun Sign. Make sure if you don’t know your ascendant or your rising sign, get someone to check to calculate your chart for you or use one of the free online calculation services so that you can work out what your ascendant sign is. Your ascendant sign, keep in mind, is also known as your rising sign. The first house is about you. It describes your physical body, your health and your wellness, or any particular concerns that you might have with your body will be described by connections to the first house.
The first house is also about how you begin things. It can describe your initial demeanor or the type of persona that you display when you meet people for the first time. It’s very much about first impressions as well as the outside layer of who you are.
It also describes the core in terms of your underlying health wellness and vitality. The second house is about money, possessions, and common assets.
This is your cash sector. This describes how you earn money, whether you’re good at saving, good at spending, whether you’re a budgeter, whether you like to impulse shop, whether you purchase like a comfort shopper. All of the info about your attitudes and experiences with money come out of the second house in the birth chart. The third house around is to do with communication and it also has a movement connection as well. It can be linked to topics like school and education, short trips, or regular travel like your commute, your general local neighborhood or environment.
Siblings are also connected to the third house which was originally brothers-in-arms and it is one of the major communication sectors. The third house tells us a lot about your communication style, whether you’re comfortable expressing your thoughts and ideas, whether you’re shy about that, all of those types of things can be connected to the third house.
In the fourth house we find the most private part of the chart. This would be the time of day associated with midnight so the middle of the darkness, the middle of the night. It describes our more private personal life, our home and our family life.
The fourth house does tell us information about your childhood and your upbringing. What kinds of experiences, whether that was happy and stable, whether that was traumatic and difficult, we can get some of that information from the fourth house in the chart. It also describes the father in traditional astrology. That was one of the questions I did get via Instagram was ‘isn’t the fourth house about the moon and about mother?’ One distinction in traditional astrology is that we don’t link the signs to the houses in the way modern astrology does.
I don’t teach my students that the fourth house is connected to Cancer, that’s not how we learn in the fourth house. What we instead learn are the topics of the fourth house and then the key words of whatever zodiac sign you have on your fourth house. That’s how we build our interpretative profile. That approach is actually the core of my practical astrology beginners training program and the link to take that course is below. If you want to get a good foundation in these core basics of astrology, the 12 houses and the 12 zodiac signs, as well as how they work together, this is the first layer of interpretive information that you get when you start working with your birth chart.
That training is designed to give you all the skills you need to build that solid foundation in the basics of astrology. You do learn that the fourth house is about father and it will describe your relationship to him, whether it was good or bad.
It describes what you need in your home environment and the fourth house is often connected to this idea of the past in general. From the fourth house we move around to one of the fun houses which is known as the fifth house. This is about pleasure and creativity.
It’s about fun and enjoyment. It describes the things you do just because you really enjoy them. It is known as the good fortune house, so there’s a real enjoyment factor that comes out of the fifth house. It is connected to two main topics are that are still relevant in modern astrology today. One of them is children and fertility.
If you’re looking to interpret your birth chart around the topics of fertility specifically, or our topics to do with children, child you want to have, children you do have, all of that information comes out of the fifth house. Because of that, pleasure, it’s also got to do with fun and children. There is a body connection to all the houses that are under the horizon, so the first six houses all speak a little bit more to our body.
That’s why in traditional astrology the fifth house is the part of the chart associated with sex and sexual intimacy. That’s another question I got via Instagram.
People were like ‘isn’t sex supposed to be an eighth house thing.’ In traditional astrology it is actually a fifth house topic. Then we move around to the sixth house, and this is a little bit more of like an effort or necessities place. If the fifth house is fun and pleasure the six houses often stuff that we need to do out of necessity, but not necessarily because we want to. That can include our attitudes to our everyday work, duties, and obligations.
It’s not the main part of the chart to do with career, we see that in the tenth house. But the general day to day routines and schedules you might deal with, that’s all six house.
It is also the part of the chart that traditionally was actually connected to illness, and we often describe that as health in modern astrology. If there’s going to be something that causes your body some concern or irritation, we will usually see a connection to the sixth house there. Because of that day-to-day sort of duty energy, it is part of the chart associated with pets, and small or domestic type animals are connected to the sixth house in general.
You sometimes see that with people who have a passion for animal welfare, they can have strong six house themes too. That’s our first six houses and now we start to move up above the horizon and we’re now in the first house that has to do with relationships, or the main house I should say that has to do with relationships.
That’s the seventh house. This is primarily about marriage one on one partnerships, and how you interact with other people in general. The main energy to do with your love life will be described by the seventh house in the chart.
Then we move to the eighth house which is another part of the chart to do with money. This is money in the context of partnership, it might be money within a relationship, or within your family dynamics.
It’s also money in the context of debt and taxes, they’re very important topics of the 8th house. This is the house traditionally associated with death. The idea of actual someone dying and maybe inheriting.
It’s also associated with some psychological angst. The 8th house is one of those deeper parts of the chart that speaks to some of the stress that can interfere with our spirit or with our mind. There’s a lot going on in this part of the chart and it’s one of those houses that I notice takes students a lot longer to figure out. The ninth house is back into what is about more uplifting sectors. It is associated with divine or revealed wisdom.
It was historically known as the house of God and the third house which is opposite it is known as the house of the goddess. There’s a lot of wisdom that runs through the third and ninth house pair. The ninth house is also connected to anything international global or overseas, so traveling beyond familiar shores into distant or faraway lands are ninth house topics.
This is the house of religion of faith and philosophy. What you believe in and how you approach your belief system all come out of the ninth house, as well as anything academic to do with the law, to do with justice, and to do with the idea of study and learning.
You as a student once you’re outside your school years, or you as a teacher that can lead to things like publishing and teaching, or doing training and development of all kinds, they’re all 9th house topics.
Then we move into the 10th house, which is the main part of the chart to do with career, fame, your public reputation. This would correlate to the middle of the day when the Sun is at its brightest in the sky, and so the 10th house topics are connected to that brightness and that visibility. What are you like when you are seen, when you are out in the world. The 10th house is where we get most of the information about your career, the type of work you want to do, even the types of professions that you might be drawn to all come out of the tenth house in the chart.
Then we move to the eleventh house which is known as the luckiest part of the chart, and this is about hopes and wishes. It’s about aspirations. It’s about ‘I want to reach for more’ or ‘lift my life up’ and how can I do that. It is also connected to friendships, of which the ancient Greeks considered friends to be a gift from the gods. The eleventh house can be where goodness that is kind of magical or out of our control just comes into our life.
There’s a real sense of happiness, of support, of luck and opportunity that is tied to the eleventh house. Depending on what sign or what planets you have in the eleventh house in your chart, that will tell us a little bit about perhaps how lucky you are, what you like as a friend, what experiences you have when you connect with groups or other community networks, they’re all eleventh house topics. Then we come to our final house the 12th house. This is a house that is associated with the Hermit type energy. It’s about stepping away from your normal routines or schedules.
There’s an isolation component where you might retreat voluntarily, or you might need to take time away to recuperate either physically or mentally. There’s a lot of kind of, and so it’s always hard to find words with the 12 hours, I mean the unconscious is sort of a simplified way of describing what’s in the 12th house.
It speaks to those things that are inside us that we’re not always clear or conscious about. It can be a feeling, or a sensation, or a half-formed memory that might be stirring us up and causing us a little bit of anxiety or being unsettled. I’m not saying the 12th house is a bad house, but it is associated with topics that are a little bit more stressful or difficult to deal with.
We do see a lot of people working in service type industries or working in spiritual or even mental health industries when they have strong twelfth house factors.
There are some basic topics of the 12th houses for you. I always say to students, you know learning about something like the twelve houses in astrology, you will continue to improve and expand your understanding of the twelve houses as you study astrology. This keyword guide is just a template to get you started; to give you the basic framework of how the houses operate, and the keywords associated with them.
That will help you build some very simple keyword interpretations of your personal birth chart which is the first step to reading a birth chart itself.
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Even if you’ve studied astrology before you may still have some gaps in your knowledge.
The number of students who’ve taken courses elsewhere and come back and taken this program, really is, the feedback that I get is that they’ve just learned so much more and they feel much more confident about approaching a birth chart in terms of making interpretations. If you want to build your skills, I hope, you’ll join me in my Practical Astrology Beginners Training which you can start today by the link below. Alright thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next video soon.
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