The 12th house is the end of an era, though less in the ceremonial ending we associate with death, severance, or irreversible transformation. There is no satisfying door slamming shut here. No dramatic funeral. This house prefers to loosen the...
A shift happens when we move from the 10th house into the 11th house in astrology. Life turns around, looks at everything we’ve worked so desperately to achieve, and asks: Wonderful. You’ve made a name for yourself. You’ve climbed the...
The 10th house sits at the top of the chart. It is exposed. Visible. Public. There is very little hiding up there. Whatever lives in this part of the chart is pulled toward the world beyond the private self, toward...
The 8th house frightens people partly due to the word most closely associated with it: death. It holds the same uneasy reputation as drawing the Death card in Tarot, where the imagination immediately races toward coffins, endings, and ominous music...
The 7th house is traditionally associated with partnership, marriage, and open enemies, which has always felt like astrology slipping in a dark little joke at the end of the sentence. Apparently the same house giving you your spouse also gives Continue reading The 7th House: When Attraction Points Back at You
The 6th house has a quietness to it, and so it makes it easy to underestimate. It is likely to be found in the kitchen at seven in the morning, rinsing yesterday’s coffee cup while privately wondering how exactly a...
The 5th house wants to come alive in full color. It is closely associated with Leo and the Sun, so its territory revolves around radiance, creative expression, pleasure, play, romance, children, artistic instinct, recreation, and the deeply human desire to...
The 4th house sits underneath your life. It is the foundation beneath a house: often unnoticed, yet everything above it depends upon its strength. It needs somewhere inwardly to return to. Home, family, ancestry, memory, emotional safety, belonging, privacy, and...
The 3rd house rules the mind, and this mental sphere wants contact with life. It leans toward the world rather than sitting solemnly waiting for information to arrive. Here, the intellect wants to touch, name, compare, question, overhear, investigate, translate,...
Your 2nd house speaks to one of the quietest yet most influential relationships in your life: the relationship you have with value. Money belongs here, possessions belong here, earning belongs here, yet underneath all of these practical matters sits a...
The 1st house speaks to the intimate moment when a person enters life and, in a psychological sense, keeps entering it over and over again. It is birth as a biological event, but then as an archetypal movement: the instant...
The 12th house has the feeling of life before life has really begun. It belongs to the borderland before the 1st house, before the body arrives loudly into the world with all its lungs and needs and awkward timing. It...