STEP 1 : FINDING THE MEANING OF THE ASTROLOGICAL HOUSES

Our astrological chart is divided into 12 segments called Houses. 

Each House has a relationship to one of the 12 astrological signs or constellations. 
It is a living example of the old truism: "As above, so below." 

Imagine yourself as a soul sitting in a garden on the other side with a view of the earth. You are getting ready to return to the earth for another
physical incarnation. You are preparing your astrological chart that will serve as a guide and a script throughout your life. With this in mind you
know that the earth is a reflection of the sky and that each constellation has its image on the earth. The earth is a grid that is divided into twelve
equal segments, called Houses, each one reflecting an astrological sign. This grid will become the earthly base of your astrological chart. "As
above, so below." 
Your soul will choose the right time, date and place of birth to create your "perfect" astrological chart. When you are ready, say good-bye to your
heavenly friends and teachers. Imagine yourself being born into the physical world. You have the ability to see a huge circle around you. 
This is your astrological chart and you are at its center. 
Each House is there to provide you with all of the questions that your soul wants you to answer. It is your soul's guidebook. 
Welcome to the journey of a lifetime.

Here is an analogy to help you understand the relationship between the 12 constellations and their attendant Houses: There are 12 Houses in a
neighborhood situated on a circle. Each of the Houses has a skylight, through which the energy of one constellation from above shines through.
For example, the energy of Aries would shine through the skylight in the first House, the energy of Taurus would shine through the skylight in
the second House, the energy of Gemini would shine into the third House, etc. Each of the 12 Houses is ruled by a related energy from a sign

The ten planets and the comet Chiron fall in different Houses in your chart.  
The following information provides you valuable information as to how each planet affects each House.

Astrological Houses and their meaning

When you are born, you symbolically enter the first House of your Astrological Chart and begin your personal earthly journey. 
This position is called the Rising Sign or Ascendant. 
Because of the rotation of the earth each astrological sign moves through the Twelve Houses once a day. 
The Astrological Sign that is on the eastern horizon at the moment of your birth is the Ascendant or Rising Sign and your personal ruler of the
First House. 
Moving counter clockwise the Second House will be ruled by the sign naturally following the sign on the First. 

So You have Aquarius rising the Second House which will be ruled by Pisces and around the wheel through the twelfth. 
The sign on each House is called the Cusp Sign. 
 The cusp is the gateway into each house corresponds to the sign of Aries. 
An issue of Aries and the first house is the essence of Self.  
An important question therefore could be "How does my soul wish me to aspire to be the best Self I can be?" 
For instance, I have Sagittarius on my 10th house. A 10th House question is: "What career would my soul wish for me to pursue?" The answer
would come from Sagittarius words, such as being a teacher, a philosopher and a traveler. 
(Which, of course, I am!)

Take a question from each of the Houses and answer it with the sign that is on the cusp of that House. 
You now have 12 answers to 12 significant questions! 

First House Second House Third House Fourth House

Natural Rulers: Aries Natural Ruler: Taurus  Natural Ruler: Gemini Natural Ruler: Cancer

  Approach to life  Ability to relax  Capacities for adapting  Early childhood

  Beginning of all enterprises  Balance between needs
  Early childhood for material and
  Façade spirituality
  Health  Karma involving
  How others relate to us money
  How you achieve  Natural gifts and talents
  Impulsive actions based on  One’s heredity
self-image     One’s own money and
  Personality:mannerisms, style, possessions
disposition  One’s personal
  Physical appearancance resources  
  Self-awareness  One’s sexual awareness
  The self you let others see  Personal comforts you
  The way you “package” allow yourself
and MARKET ” yourself  Personal resources and
  What our personality needs to how we use them
aspire to  Personal value of
  Worldly outlook services given/rendered
 Self-esteem and self-
worth issues
 Sense of values
 Early education experiences
 Expressive and  Emotional
receptiveCOMMUNICATIO undercurrents
N  Endings
 Making connections in my  How you guard your
immediate environment privacy or personal
 Your need matters
toCOMMUNICATE idea  Learning self-
 Your personalized filter sufficiency outside of
 Your sensory perceptions    family influence
Sibling relationships  Mirrors the
 Taken for granted skills psychological makeup
 The awareness of our of your life
immediate environment  Your early environment
 The concrete mind  Your emotional
 The way we move in our day foundations
by day lives  Your mother (primary
 The way you think, speak care giver)
and write  Represents the basic
and fundamental side of
your nature

Fifth House
Natural Rulers: Leo
 Creativity and self-
expression
 Emotional attitude
 Enthusiasm and energy
toward personal interests
 Exercise
 Generosity
 How we experience
joy/create fun/Vacations
 How you mold inner self’s
yearning into issues
 Mastery of self and self
goals   
 Our birth children
 Our inner child
 Our social life
 Play games
 Risk-taking/gambling
 Self-expression
 The manner in which we
 Material goals
Sixth House
Natural Ruler: Virgo
 Aunts and Uncles
 Coping with stress
 Health awareness
 How we need to prepare
ourselves for our debut
 Interest in food and diet
 Our habits andWORK   
skills
 People who work for us   courts/divorce
 Personal integration
 Physical and psychological
health
Self discipline
 Self-analysis
 Service to others
 The care and importance
of small animals
 The meaning or work in
our lives
Seventh House
Natural Ruler: Libra
 Business & professional
relationships
 Face-to-face relationships
 Grandparents
 Inner attitudes about
compromise and   harmony
Interpersonal skill
 Lawsuits/lower
 Marriage partners   
 Open enemies
 Peers
 Projections
 The karmic aspects to
relating
 The public
 What relationships
symbolize to us
 What we see about
ourselves in others
 The beginning and end
of life
 The karmic reasons we
choose our parents
 What home, tradition
and family means to
you
 What your physical
home needs to be
Eighth House
Natural Ruler Scorpio
 Dealing with other
people’s values
 Death and other mysteries
 Facing unknown
 Hidden assets
 Wills, inheritance
 Intensely significant
transformational
experiences
Legacies and joint assets  
 Partner’s resources
 Phobias based on the our
previous deaths
 Secrets
 Sexuality
 Spiritual regeneration
 Support from others
 Surgery
 give love  Unconscious mind  What you most lack in self
 Values and lessons you
give to others

Ninth House Tenth House Eleventh House Twelfth House

Natural Ruler Sagittarius  Natural Rulers: Capricorn Natural Rulers: Aquarius Natural Rulers: Pisces

 Dreams (visions)  Achievements  Anything new  Abandonment

 Expanding your  Authority over you  Attitude towards friends &  Chronic illness left from
consciousness  Fame acquaintances karmic memories
 Gaining wisdom from our  Honor  Capacity for friendship  Clandestine affairs
life  How the world sees &  Causes  Difficulties that we refuse
 Grandchildren evaluates you  Circumstances beyond to acknowledge
 Higher education  How we feel about being control  Dreams
 Intuition in the world  Friendships  Hidden/secrets, our hidden
 Law  Material & objective goals  Goals self
 Long travel      Our career and what it  Groups and their  Large animals and our
 Personal philosophy and means to us importance to us   relationship to them
belief systems  Our father and what he  Focus on the need for  Our karmic strengths and
 Philosophic orientation symbolized togetherness weaknesses    
 Religious orientation  Public visibility,  Hopes & wishes, our  Places of confinement
 The collective mind reputation dreams & ideals  Self-undoing, frustration,
 Travel and its significance  Road blocks you meet in  Humanitarian interests and limitations
 Understanding different life  Political trends  Sensitivity to our psychic
cultures  Status in the community  Social consciousness, social environment
 Understanding of the  The government and how movements  Sorrow/suffering
meaning of life we relate to it  Step/foster/adopted children  Spiritual debts to be paid
 Vision of life  Your influence  The manner in which we (karma), subconscious
receive love  Unconscious memories of
 What you most desire in life our past lives
   Where we hide problems
too difficult to face
 STEP 2 : EXPLANATIONS OF THE SIGNS 
There are twelve astrological signs in our universe. 
Each sign has traits, characteristics, energies, colors, emotions, drives, relationships and beliefs. 
Each sign will appear on the doorway to a House (that we call cusps).
 They answer the questions that you have for that particular House. 
Each chart will have different signs on the houses based on your date, time and place of birth. You have your questions, now you want to answer them.
 To do that you will need to understand the astrological signs
There are 12 Constellations in our Solar System. We also refer to them as signs of the Zodiac. The signs are divisions of the ecliptic or the journey of
the Sun around the earth. (This is more symbolic than actual, since the Earth orbits around the Sun.) 

The signs are:

ARIES, TAURUS, GEMINI, CANCER, LEO, VIRGO, LIBRA, 
SCORPIO, SAGITTARIUS, CAPRICORN, AQUARIUS and PISCES
Each astrological sign has a corresponding glyph.
The Houses ask the questions, the astrological sign on the cusp of the House answers them.
Each sign will appear on the doorway to a House (cusps). 
They answer the questions that you have for that particular House. 
Each chart will have different signs on the houses based on your date, time and place of birth.
Take a question from each of the Houses and answer it with the sign that is on the cusp of that House. 

For example, one of the issues of the 10th House is career.  A question could be 'What career would be best for me?" Find the sign on the cusp of the
10th and find the answer.. 
You will have 12 answers to 12 significant questions!
 STEP 3 : PLANETS IN HOUSES
The 10 PLANETS and the COMET CHIRON fall in different HOUSES in your chart. 
Here are some characteristics of each of the planets, providing valuable information as to how each planet affects each House. 
Each planet lives in an astrological sign that shows the energy  of how that planet manifests itself. 
Most of us know our Sun Sign. 
The Sun is placed in one of 12 signs and expresses its energy through them. 
If the Sun was moving through the constellation of Aries, we could see that the ego (characteristic of Sun) is manifested through
assertion, action and physical vitality (characteristic of Aries). 
A 10th House question is: "What career does my soul want me to pursue?" The answer would come from Sagittarius on the cusp.
Sagittarius words are teacher, philosopher and traveler. Since I have a planet in that house (Venus in Sagittarius in the 10th House), I
can add more information to my original statement. Because Venus is there asking the question: "What do I love?" it is important for
me to love my career as a teacher, philosopher and traveler.
 This chart provides a sample analysis of PLANETS IN SIGNS-
Sun
 Signifies power and talent as well as
creative self-expression.
 Defines the key to manifesting your
personal power.
 Conveys inspired self-expression
 Shows where talents can be
spontaneously expressed.
 Area of instinctive warmth and
enthusiasm.
 Indicates where personal vitality is
maintained.
 Discloses your area of radiance.
Moon
 Describes essential self and creativity
 Defines the area of our deepest personal
needs.
 Indicates the process that separate us
emotionally from others.
 Discloses the unconscious process by
which you attempt to manipulate others
through dependency  Uranus
 Shows the path to gaining inner
fulfillment and illuminates your ability
to integrate change.
 Pinpoints where the lessons of emotional
dependency and personal insecurity arise
. 
Mercury Venus
 Signifies your talent for  Shows where social harmony is
verbalCOMMUNICATION  with important.
others.   Indicates where you may lose
 Indicates your talent for verbal confidence and self-esteem in social
communication with others.  situations.
 Indicates the fear that may  Reveals where you need to be socially
unconsciously keep you from being expressive.
yourself verbally.   Shows your natural talent for
 Displays the process by which you may experiencing pleasure.
create endless mental worries and  Describes what attracts you as beautiful
negative expectations   and gratifying.
 Shows the way toCOMMUNICATE  in  Defines how you might put other’s
a manner that inspires a sense of affinity values in front of your own.
and mutual sharing with other people.   Shows where “luck” may easily come to
 Reveals the type of mental connection you.
with others resulting in mutual  Defines where money may be gained or
understanding and expansion.  spent.
 Defines the nature of your mental talents  Describes where over-indulgence may
and intellectual approach.  cause difficulty.
 Signifies the area upon which you can
focus mental attention to being  
understood by others. Pluto
 Reveals where you resist change.
 Shows where change will create the
 Illuminates the circumstances through biggest impact on your life.
which an intuitive perception can be  Depicts your shadow self.
achieved.  Symbolizes your path to personal power
Indicates how eccentricity and and self-mastery.
  Reveals that area of life in which you disruptiveness can make you unreliable
need to nourish and be nourished. and unpredictable. Shows the areas of
 Describes your ability to adjust life where you must be personally free
emotionally to the changing  Pinpoints where you need to experience
circumstances of life. excitement, adventure and change.
 Represents habits of survival  Reveals the areas of life where you can
dependency from childhood  expect the unexpected.
 Shows where the need for emotional  Indicates where your willfulness and
nurturing  satisfies your sense of rebelliousness can create emotional
emotional survival. alienation and separation.
 Describes an area of your life where  Denotes where you have the potential to
your Inner Child is unconsciously express innovative ideas .
powerful.  Shows where you are individuated and
will be the inventor and reformer of your
life.
Chiron
Neptune
 Points to the area in a chart where you
remember being deeply wounded.    Removes the illusion and reveals the
 Symbolizes karmic wounds. truth, thereby showing the way to
 Shows you the issues that will bring actualizing ideals.
forth these old wounds.   Depicts where your expectations can be
 Points you to the way that you can heal at their highest causing longing and
these karmic wounds. disappointme
 Defines our path to redemption that
Jupiter needs to be brought to consciousness
and altered.
 Shows your trickster and your self-
 Defines the means through which trust deception patterns.
and faith in self is developed.  Indicates the area of life where true faith
 Represents the understanding aiding in in your soul can create joy.
creating personal growth.  Shows where you can actualize the
 Reveals the natural attitudes of faith and “Victim/Redeemer.”
vision.  Signifies where delusions of grandeur
 Shows how trust can be cultivated may manifest.
 Represents the area of greatest challenge
to using power.
 Indicates the area we must be willing to
die psychologically, to be reborn.
 Reveals past life karmic experiences that
need to be healed.
 Shows where you must investigate your
unconscious motivations.
 Represents the area that old toxins have
been stored and need to be released.
 Shows where anger, rage, jealousy and
possessiveness create destructive
behavior.
 Reveals your passions and intensity, and
what is essential to you.
Saturn
 Shows the process by which you fulfill
your social obligations.
 Indicates the fears interfering with your
fulfilling your ambitions.
 Pinpoints the area of your greatest fear
and greatest desire.
 Represents the area where you need to
learn self-discipline, endurance and
physical responsibility.
 Illuminates the area where purpose,
direction and social responsibility will
bring respect.
 Shows the road to your soul mission.
 Pinpoints the area where you must apply
repeated effort to gain self-mastery.
 Reveals the area of personal commitme
 through a philosophical approach.  Symbolizes your personal “Garden of
 Pinpoints the area of freedom towards Eden” and your fall from grace.
personal vision.
 Denotes natural expansive energy and
possible good fortune.
 Illuminates the area of life where faith in
an ordered universe can become a
reality.
 Shows the area where higher learning
can be the most beneficial.
 Reveals how travel and learning other
cultures creates more philosophical
understanding.