The Greek term for the 8th House, Epicataphora, meaning 'falling down into the Underworld' represents the Sun's path in the sky as it sinks towards the horizon, which many ancient cultures feared was the death of their solar God; death is still the primary meaning of the 8th House. Any planets in the 4th house affect your home life, your emotions, your subconscious, and possibly your relationship with your parents. The zodiac wheel is based on the sun’s apparent yearly rotation about our Earth, along the ecliptic. What's spelled out, appropriately, after mapping the coordinates indicated by this puzzle's circled letters Crossword Clue The 6th house is the area of health and the kind of work we do out of necessity. It rules plans, habits, schedules, health, eating routines, exercise, support and being of help to others.

The 4th House is the roots of our chart: sitting at the bottom of the wheel, it not only touches the Earth itself but involves everything Earthly, such as land, and everything hidden below terra firma, as in the case of mining, oil, and minerals. Relatedly, the 4th House contains our roots too, in the form of the subconscious emotional landscape of our childhood home, our family dynamics, and particularly the father. Much of astrology takes place in the sky… the planets, Zodiac signs, and aspects are all things happening in the heavens. At its worst, an afflicted 9th House can lead to the shadow side of beliefs in the form of dogma or cult-like devotion to a higher power; some charts may instead demonstrate nihilism and an aversion to these topics. Personal finances, attitudes towards money, wealth, material gains and losses through personal effort, spending habits, areas of earning as well as spending, credit risk. The tenth House is the House of status, honor, community power, prestige, reputation, and professional career. In our society, this includes financial success, but only as it relates to community power and prestige. It's not about gaining "material stuff" as it is in the 2nd house. The 10th house wants success for the sake of honor and social status.

The 12th House of Astrology: The House of Secrets

Many modern Astrologers relate the 8th House as a point of evolution or transformation, perhaps pulling on from the association with death and expanding it to include a subsequent rebirth. While this may be philosophically accurate on some level, given that soul expansions often follow traumatic contractions, there is no way around it: this is not a happy house and rebirth does not always follow death. This house includes social foundations (as opposed to personal home foundations in the 4th), recognition, personal achievements, social responsibilities, sense of duty, authority figures, politicians. This House encompasses the most public areas of one's life, and the career that you grow into, as opposed to daily work and odd jobs ruled by the 6th House. First House: The first house cusp represents your rising sign. (A house cusp is the division point between two houses.) This house represents your body, how you express yourself, and your physical presentation to the world. The first house is particularly important when it comes to health since it represents your physical Will you be working for the government or large corporations? Are you suited to work in an institutional setting like laboratory, hospitals, detective work, espionage, prison or a convent? What major illnesses should you watch out for? Who are your secret enemies? Do you tend to isolate yourself? What are your secret inhibitions?

Lastly, the last 100 years of Astrological study has conflated the zodiacal signs with the houses, whereby Aries rules the 1st House, Taurus the 2nd House, Gemini the 3rd, and so on. There is much evidence to suggest the contrary, and while it's certainly a topic worthy of discussion, it's one I won't be entering into here. For more on this topic, I recommend a thorough reading of Deborah Houlding's must-have work 'Temples of the Sky.' If this all sounds rather extraordinary, well, it is. The Houses are truly what makes astrology so spectacular. Each one signifies a component of life, but none of these subsections exist within a silo: The Twelve Houses also operate as a single unit, a collective that comprises the entire 360-degree wheel. Their geometric rhythm is a symbolic representation of an individual’s complete cosmology. To understand the meaning of the Houses in your own life, calculate your birth chart by simply plugging your time, date, and location of birth into astrology software, like what Astro.com offers, and follow along below. What are the Houses in astrology? The 10th house is at the most open part of the natal chart. The tenth house oversees structures, organizations, traditions, fame, notoriety, respect, accomplishments, grants, limits, rules, training, fathers and parenthood. The cusp, or outskirts of the tenth house is also called the midheaven, and it gives hintsinto your vocation and true calling. Indeed, this house was known as 'Bona Fortuna' (Good Fortune) or 'The House of Pleasure.' Perhaps the only danger to this house is too much of a good thing; a loaded 5th House or strong transit to the 5th can make us carelessly ramp up the good times, leaving us skint and spent. It is, however, a definitively creative and fertile section of the chart, so it's equally able to generate artistic output, as it is fervent escapism. Planets in the 5th can describe one's experience of conception, childbirth, and children.Planets here may be slightly less outwardly expressed than others. Home, after all, is a space where we are hidden away from public life; we are 'behind closed doors.' Accordingly, the 4th House contains the texture of our private lives, both in how it played out in our childhood and how we may wish to cultivate it for ourselves as we mature. A full 4th House may indicate a particularly potent connection to one's family story, ancestral lands, or home. House themes: siblings, friends that feel like siblings, family members outside of the nuclear unit, aunts, uncles, cousins, extended family, one's community or culture, the neighborhood or local vicinity, short-distance travel, our daily commute, transportation, mundane knowledge, lower education (everything up to University), writing, communication, language, contracts, telephones, daily media (newspapers, magazines), rituals. The 4th House - Lowest Heaven Last but not least is the planet, Mercury. He’s the god of all in-between places, also of reason and thought. He chose the First House as the house of his favorite things. As the house of the dawn, it’s the place in between day and night, and thus appropriate to the traveling planet. But it also suggested that reason and mindfulness is the best way to approach life. All joint finances and properties, money that we do not earn through occupation (i.e. legacies, loans, inheritance, scholar­ships, income tax, etc.), insurance, monetary gifts, dealing with others' finances, dead-end projects, second "health house", sex-related problems.

Ruled by Leo, the fifth house is the domain of creation and experience, dealing with all gifts and pleasures which move through us. What do you create? Children? Short stories? Bad tattoo illustrations? Insane yacht parties? This is where your talents are realized, pleasures are cultivated, and gifts unleashed upon the world. Athletic engagement, romance, artistic expression, parenting — all of these (should) make us feel alive and embodied. What is your talent, and how do you bring it to life? THE SIXTH HOUSE Fifth House: This house represents creativity, artistic expression, and children. The fifth house is associated with fun, pleasure, free time, dating, and romance. Since the fifth house represents recreation and the energy of fertility, this portion of your chart contributes to your health by supporting your vitality and creative self-expression.The ancient Babylonian Astrologers were likely the first to use houses in Astrology but our first recorded evidence of the Astrological houses in use dates to 22 B.C.E. and was recorded in Manilius’ work Astronomica. If you're aiming to drink too much, spend too much, shag too much, and regret nothing, welcome home. This is just your kind of place. Of course, it’s not a game, unless we have two teams – let’s call them the Day Team and Night Team. (The traditional word for team is “sect.”)