The Houses

Question 1

What are the three types of houses?

Answer 1

Angular, succedent, cadent

Question 2

What houses are cadent and what do they represent?

Answer 2

3rd (Gemini), 6th (Virgo), 9th (Sagittarius), 12th (Pisces)
*connect with mutable signs (end of season)
Fluidity

Question 3

What houses are angular and what do they represent?

Answer 3

1st (Aries), 4th (Cancer), 7th (Libra), 10th (Capricorn)
(*connect with cardinal signs)
Action

Question 4

What houses are succedent and what do they represent?

Answer 4

2nd (Taurus), 5th (Leo), 8th (Scorpio), 11th (Aquarius)
*connect with fixed signs
Grounded

Question 5

What house is ruled by Libra/Venus?

Answer 5

7th House

Question 6

What house is ruled by Virgo/Mercury?

Answer 6

6th

Question 7

What house is ruled by Gemini/Mercury?

Answer 7

3rd

Question 8

What house is ruled by Taurus/Venus?

Answer 8

2nd

Question 9

What house is ruled by Leo/Sun?

Answer 9

5th

Question 10

What house is ruled by Cancer/Moon?

Answer 10

4th

Question 11

What house is ruled by Aries/Mars?

Answer 11

1st

Question 12

What house is ruled by Aquarius/Uranus?

Answer 12

11th

Question 13

What house is ruled by Capricorn/Saturn?

Answer 13

10th

Question 14

What house is ruled by Pisces/Neptune?

Answer 14

12th

Question 15

What house is ruled by Scorpio/Pluto?

Answer 15

8th

Question 16

What house is ruled by Sagittarius/Jupiter?

Answer 16

9th

Question 17

What do astrological houses represent in the birth chart?

Answer 17

Difficult areas of your life that are impacted by planet placements.

Question 18

What house represents the self, appearance, character, and temperament?

Answer 18

1st House

Question 19

What house represents your finances, posessions, income, and security?

Answer 19

2nd House

Question 20

What house represents communication, logic/reason, early education, local neighborhood and trips, siblings, aunts/uncles?

Answer 20

3rd House

Question 21

What house represents your roots, home, famiy, private life, early childhood, fatherly influence?

Answer 21

4th House
(*Fatherly influence but ruled by the moon that represents the mother)

Question 22

What house represents the house of fun and pleasure—hobbies, sports, romance, sex, creativity, and children?

Answer 22

5th House

Question 23

What house represents your daily life—work, illness, injuries, and chores?

Answer 23

6th House

Question 24

What house represents partnerships and marriage—commitments, legal contracts and issues, and socialization?

Answer 24

7th House

Question 25

What house represents transformation, renewal, birth and death, sex, other people’s money, inheritance, taxes, loans, and banking?

Answer 25

8th House

Question 26

What house represents spirituality, philosophy, belief systems, abstract thought, world exploration (travel), and higher education?

Answer 26

9th House

Question 27

What house represents career and social status—reputation, influence, achievement, recognition; also motherly influence?

Answer 27

10th House

Question 28

What house represents humanitarian activities, how we contribute to society, groups and organizations, friends, hopes and wishes?

Answer 28

11th House

Question 29

What house represents karma, the unconscious, and hidden things—mental illnesses, enemies, loss, seclusion, drugs/alcohol, escape, prayer and meditation?

Answer 29

12th House

Question 30

The placement of a chart’s houses is based on what?

Answer 30

The time of day an event occurs

Question 31

How do houses move in the chart?

Answer 31

The houses don’t appear to move in a birth chart. They are fixed and the planets and signs move through them.

But, the position of planets and signs within the houses depend on our Earth’s 24-hour rotation around its own axis (whereas the wheel of the zodiac depends on the sun’s yearly revolution around our Earth, along the ecliptic)

Question 32

How many degrees is each house/sign?

Answer 32

30 degrees