he Chart Wheel, or Mandala

 

Here are some brief descriptions of the 12 houses and what they mean to astrologers.

 

We will start with the 10th house -- the house of clear, practical vision.

 

Tenth house: Career. Practical talents. Ideals. Where you see most clearly, clairvoyance. Thus your particular management, practical vision, and supervisory skills. Where you can see to do.

 

Eleventh house: Larger goals. Putting ideas to work. Impersonal drive to realize your ideals. Working with others in groups, organization, friends. Planning. Humanitarian, community to improve.

 

Twelfth house: Limits, confines, hidden faults. Therefore confinement, prisons, dues, karma. Attitude, psychology, acceptance, sacrifice, forbearance.

 

First house: News, impulse, start. Live action, what's "happening" or fresh. The way you come across, thus appearance, persona, head, identity.

 

Second house: Possessions, money. How you receive, have, value, or embody things.

 

Third house: Searches, investigations, inquiries, explorations. Communications -- thinking, writing, letters, gossip, media.

 

Fourth house: Home and property. Environment, sensate body, experience, heart of the matter. Prime of life or center of an experience -- body, incarnation. Finding.

 

Fifth house: Awareness, pride, self-discovery. Self-expression, emotions, stepping-out. Offspring, creations, teaching, acting, playing. Sports.

 

Sixth house: Maintenance, salvage, conservation, purity, harvesting, service, repair. Working for others. Analytical skills. Health and sickness. Detailed work, crafts.

 

Seventh house: Your marriage, partner, union, and yoga. Compassion, response. Spirit of cooperation.

 

Eighth house: Obligations, debts and assets, excess, death. Initiation, purification, purgatory. Dross, furnace.

 

Ninth house: Seed essence, bare facts, relics, religion, philosophy. Enduring thoughts, ideas. Long thoughts, long journeys.

 

Text © Copyright Michael Erlewine