The first house
The first house tells the astrologer how you appear to others on a personal, one to one basis. It concerns itself with your physical appearance, mannerisms, personality, identity and your sense of self-awareness. Any planet located here will have a profound effect on your mannerisms, personality and appearance. The first house also deals with the early years of your life. If you were to look at a group of people, the image you would have of each of them would closely resemble the sign found on
The Fourth House
The fourth house of a horoscope concerns itself with your home and family. This is the foundation of the horoscope and represents your base of operations, beginnings and endings, roots and heredity. Your domestic life, home, real estate, land and its care, ecology, genealogy and circumstances in the second half of life are all found in the fourth house. One of your parents, usually but not always your mother, is associated with the fourth house while the other parent would be associated with the opposite house - the tenth. Even so, parents, as a unit, are fourth house matters. With the Moon in your fourth house, Taurus on the cusp and the ruler located in your fifth, you want conditions in your home to be more stable than they really are. Your desire is for comfort and even a bit of luxury in your residence and its furnishings. When change does happen it is not always accepted well and can create some havoc in your life. Just when you get used to conditions they up and change. You probably prefer that things stay the way they are although you are always beginning new projects due to the position of the Moon in your fourth house. Your home can easily become a source of financial security and the later part of your life will be lived in comfort. Parents or other family members may be involved with your hobbies or your children and can even accompany you on vacations. You are extremely interested in your family heritage and will very much want to pass your families heritage on to your children. If you had your way you would even name them after other important family members. However, with the Moon in your fourth house, your wife will be in charge of the home and family matters and with your Moons many positive aspects, she will do a great job of being wife, mother and the commander in chief of your castle. Even with all your accomplishments she is now and will always be your better half.
The Fifth House
The fifth house is one of the most important sections of the horoscope and concerns itself with a number of consequential areas of your life including love and romance, children and their education, creativity and financial investments. Your pursuit of pleasure is the primary concern of this house that involves love and romance or the love you give but also includes simple pleasures and enjoyments such as your hobbies and vacations. As already stated, the fifth house concerns itself with your children and their education. It tells the astrologer your attitude toward children and how you will deal with them. This is also the house of personal creativity and as such it rules your appreciation of and potential contribution to the theater and arts. Investments such as the stock market are fifth house matters as are more foolish investments such as gambling. This is a very powerful house that demands your attention. With Gemini on the cusp of your fifth house, the ruler in the sixth house and
Venus located there, you are curious, clever and restless concerning your pursuit of pleasure, children and investments. You prefer variety in romance, could have the ability to balance two or more romantic interests at one time and are attracted to those with an ability to communicate. Hobbies are generally of an intellectual nature and could include chess, cards, reading, writing or solving puzzles.
Sports activities as a
means of recreation are often associated with Gemini on the fifth especially those that involve speed and reflexes such as track, gymnastics, baseball and basketball.
From an artistic point of view Gemini here can give an ability to draw or doodle and you may find you have an aptitude for cartoons or caricatures.
With the ruler located in the sixth, your ability to use your creative self-expression and ability to communicate should greatly enhance your work situation. You treat you job like a hobby and you love what you do so much that others think you are just playing. Your job duties could include a leadership role in working with children, writing or lecturing or an involvement with the arts. I believe that the more fun you are having, the healthier you will be. With Venus in the fifth you are a very loving parent who should produce artistic and beautiful offspring. There is a possibility of twins or two children and they will probably, but not necessarily, be female. One or both could possess more than a little artistic talent and they will lean toward being sweet, intelligent and peacefully oriented. Crude, course or aggressive behavior is simply not in them or in your manner of dealing with them.
The Sixth House
The sixth house tells the astrologer about your job. It describes your working relations, conditions and sense of service. It speaks of your coworkers and employees, attitudes concerning work and work related tools and equipment. This house is also very health oriented and deals with inherited and chronic health conditions, nutrition and hygiene. Two other sixth house issues are pets and clothing. With Cancer on the cusp of the sixth house, the ruler in your fourth and both Mercury and Sun located in the sixth, you are emotional and nurturing concerning your work situation and want to create a "homey" atmosphere. To you coworkers are like family and you may be involved in the family business or employ family in your business. Cancer rules the breasts, stomach and upper digestive organs. You need to avoid stress which can lead to ulcers and keep domestic problems as far from your work place as possible. With the ruler in the fourth, you may prefer to work in your home and could keep yourself busy with home repairs. Your home may become the meeting place for coworkers and you will probably invite them over for dinner, barbecues or the like. Pets, while always important, will probably play an big role in your home. With the Sun and Mercury in the sixth you are a true worker bee who takes great pride in your work and expects recognition for your efforts. If your not doing your job you are either thinking about it or talking about it. The only thing that can interrupt your quest for work is your love of and need for family (Moon in the fourth). You truly understand the concept of “being of service to others” and may be so into your work situation that you lose track of time. Or, you may have so many irons in the fire that there just isn’t enough time in the day to get it all done. But then, I don’t think you mind that as much as most people would as you are a border line workaholic anyway.
The houses of a horoscope are associated with specific areas of your life. Anything you can think of can be assigned to one of the houses of a horoscope by a qualified astrologer. What follows is a Keep It Simple Student look at the essential meaning of the houses of President Barrack Obamas horoscope.
their first house. With the sign Aquarius on the cusp of your first house and no planets located there, your early life was different from the norm. You seem to be an original, independent and unique person. You will march to your own beat and can easily lean toward the arts, sciences, literature and distinctly humanitarian causes. Surprisingly determined, you resist censorship, could be perceived as being rather intelligent and in many ways can seem to be ahead of your contemporaries. With the ruler of the first in the seventh and square the MC, you are essentially a social, people oriented person. Interested in others, forming relationships and partnerships is a primary concern and you were born with the cooperative skills to establish them. Compromise and cooperation are your forte and you have the desire and ability to bring people together. However, your carreer aspirations, status, honor and reputation can change suddenly and unexpectedly and not always for the better.
The Second House
The Third House
The third house is a composite house concerning a number of areas. It is closely associated with your thought process and communications, relatives - especially your brothers and sisters, neighbors, short or routine travels and your means of transportation. As a mental house, the third tells us what you like to think about. It represents your education through high school while college is found in the opposite house, the ninth, which deals with your higher mind.
With Aries on the cusp of your third house and the ruler in the eighth, ideas flow rapidly from a very active mind. By itself it would tell the astrologer that your thought process and ability to communicate is rapid, even impulsive, and probably somewhat assertive. However, your Mercury is in the fixed sign of Leo and therefore you have developed the ability to focus and concentrate which has been your saving grace yielding a quick mind that communicates with style and grace. You can communicate in an self-reliant, pioneering manner with no fear of breaking new ground. Your siblings could be seen as being self reliant individuals. Routine travels tend to be hasty and impulsive. You should slow down, as you have a tendency to have what's called a lead foot. You should obey the speed laws and be sure to take no foolish risks.
Dealings with siblings and neighbors could be assertive and possibly even argumentative.
It is natural for you to collect information and communicate about a wide variety of subjects including the after life and other metaphysical subjects, taxes, wills, joint finance and sex. It also tells us that you have a natural desire and ability to solve mysterys. Siblings or neighbors may share some of these interests and travel may be associated with them. Relatives could be a potential source of inheritance.
