Category Archives: Astrological Houses

You often feel life through thinner skin than most people realize. Some people think your skin needs to be scolded into toughness. But it is simply porous. Sensitive. Open to atmospheres, moods, silences, undercurrents, griefs that aren’t officially yours but...

A planet in a house suggests where a particular part of the soul goes looking for a room of its own. It shows the field of life where a certain drive, hunger, talent, wound, instinct, or mythic little troublemaker inside...

Water remembers before we know we are remembering. Here we have left the clean, bright realm of thought, where things can be named, organized, debated, and made to sit politely in chairs. Water lives beneath this. It is the basement...

Earth is where spirit stops being a beautiful idea and starts having weight, texture, cost, appetite, and consequences. It is the element of incarnation, the place where invisible life condenses into form. A desire becomes a possession. A value becomes...

The cadent houses are where life starts moving again after becoming too solid, too certain, too attached. If the angular houses are the great beginnings and the succedent houses are the places where those beginnings gather weight, the cadent houses...

The angular houses are where life kicks the door open. They are beginnings, confrontations, declarations, entrances. They are the places where something immediate happens: identity rises, relationship appears, home roots itself, vocation calls. But beginnings, dramatic as they are, are...

According to Tracy Marks, when planets are in the 12th house, there can be something about you that speaks before you do – in a subtler, stranger, more atmospheric way. You may walk into a room and unconsciously broadcast a...