the twelve rooms
The Houses
If the signs are how and the planets are what, the houses are where, the twelve arenas of a life a planet can land in. They turn with the hour of your birth, not the season, which is why two people born the same day can live such different chapters.
1st house, Self
Body, presence, appearance. The room you enter first.
2nd house, Resources
Money, possessions, the assets you carry.
3rd house, Speech & siblings
Daily communication, short journeys, the people you grew up beside.
4th house, Home & ancestors
Roots, the family of origin, the inside of the house.
5th house, Pleasure & creation
Art, lovers, children. What you make for the joy of it.
6th house, Work & wellness
Routines, service, illness and its mending.
7th house, Partnership
The other. Marriage, contracts, open enemies.
8th house, Death & shared resources
Inheritance, taxes, the underworld.
9th house, Pilgrimage & belief
Long journeys, philosophy, the higher mind.
10th house, Vocation
Career, reputation, public face.
11th house, Friends & community
Allies, hopes, the chosen people.
12th house, Hidden things
Sorrow, the unseen, the long quiet.