12th House. The 12th house is even closer to the ascendant
and the sphere of action. The bright idea that we had in
the 10th, and the resolve to do something about it that we
made in the 11th, is coming up against the status quo of
the ascendant in the 12th -- our day-to-day reality. In the
12th house we are faced with a choice. We are about to
cross over from the more impersonal realm of ideas and
planning into our actual day-to-day circumstances. In the
12th, we begin to face the difference between our idea and
our reality. We can either forget the whole thing and let
the idea go, or we can care enough about making the idea
matter in our life to buckle down and accept the way things
are (status quo) and try to overcome them... to bring our
new idea through and get it across the ascendant.
The 1st house marks the division between the upper and
lower houses, between the mind and the body. If the upper
houses show what is going on in our minds, the lower houses
refer to our bodies -- the experience of life.
1st House. The 1st house shows the result of what we
managed to bring across from the world of ideas, plans, and
commitments. It's what remains when our new idea and
impulse meet our reality. It is what overflows the status
quo. It is a direct indication of how much we are able to
accept.
2nd House. The 2nd house is the reaction of our life and
environment to whatever was new in the 1st. It has to do
with how our life changes because of, or in response to,
this new energy. It has to do with how we adapt to,
possess, or have something.
3rd House. The 3rd house continues the drama set forth in
the 1st and 2nd. The 1st is the new start, the 2nd is the
new body or what is drawn forth in response to the 1st, and
the 3rd is how the situation develops to its fullness. It
has to do with the working out and exploring of all the
details and ramifications of what is forming.
4th House. The 4th house marks the extent to which this
body develops its limits. It is also one of the angular
houses and starts a new series of three. The 4th house has
to do with fullness of experience -- the body or meat of
it. Development has reached its physical peak and can go no
further. Instead, we can feel or move within the
experience.
5th House. The 5th house signals the end of the simple
feeling of the experience and the beginning of
consciousness of what it is that we have experienced. We
are pouring forth or leaving the body. Emote, emotions.
Offspring, self-consciousness, pride, and the like.
6th House. The 6th house signals the end of the vitality of
the body and marks attempts to prolong, conserve, and take
care of the experience or body. The experience or "party"
is over.
7th House. The 7th house, another angular house, marks the
beginning of a new series of three houses. Here we cross
over from the personal houses to the impersonal houses. The
personal experience of the first 6 houses is finished. It
falls away from us and we see it as a complete stage in our
development or whole. We leave the body and start into the
mind. A turning away from the attempt for personal
salvation toward a concern for others. Marriage.
8th House. The 8th house results from our fully grasping
the nature of the completed personal experience in the
first six houses... what was right about it and what was
wrong. Here we strip away and can do without what was
wrong. The extra baggage is unloaded.
9th House. The 9th house has to do with what remains when
all extra is stripped away. It is what remains or is
enduring from the entire episode. The seed essence. It
becomes the light for a new idea in the 10th, where the
whole cycle repeats itself.
The Chart Wheel, or Mandala:
Here are some brief descriptions of the 12 houses and what
they mean to astrologers. We will start with the 10th house
-- the house of clear, practical vision.
Tenth house. Career. Practical talents. Ideals. Where you
see most clearly, clairvoyance. Thus your particular
management, practical vision, and supervisory skills. Where
you can see to do.
and the sphere of action. The bright idea that we had in
the 10th, and the resolve to do something about it that we
made in the 11th, is coming up against the status quo of
the ascendant in the 12th -- our day-to-day reality. In the
12th house we are faced with a choice. We are about to
cross over from the more impersonal realm of ideas and
planning into our actual day-to-day circumstances. In the
12th, we begin to face the difference between our idea and
our reality. We can either forget the whole thing and let
the idea go, or we can care enough about making the idea
matter in our life to buckle down and accept the way things
are (status quo) and try to overcome them... to bring our
new idea through and get it across the ascendant.
The 1st house marks the division between the upper and
lower houses, between the mind and the body. If the upper
houses show what is going on in our minds, the lower houses
refer to our bodies -- the experience of life.
1st House. The 1st house shows the result of what we
managed to bring across from the world of ideas, plans, and
commitments. It's what remains when our new idea and
impulse meet our reality. It is what overflows the status
quo. It is a direct indication of how much we are able to
accept.
2nd House. The 2nd house is the reaction of our life and
environment to whatever was new in the 1st. It has to do
with how our life changes because of, or in response to,
this new energy. It has to do with how we adapt to,
possess, or have something.
3rd House. The 3rd house continues the drama set forth in
the 1st and 2nd. The 1st is the new start, the 2nd is the
new body or what is drawn forth in response to the 1st, and
the 3rd is how the situation develops to its fullness. It
has to do with the working out and exploring of all the
details and ramifications of what is forming.
4th House. The 4th house marks the extent to which this
body develops its limits. It is also one of the angular
houses and starts a new series of three. The 4th house has
to do with fullness of experience -- the body or meat of
it. Development has reached its physical peak and can go no
further. Instead, we can feel or move within the
experience.
5th House. The 5th house signals the end of the simple
feeling of the experience and the beginning of
consciousness of what it is that we have experienced. We
are pouring forth or leaving the body. Emote, emotions.
Offspring, self-consciousness, pride, and the like.
6th House. The 6th house signals the end of the vitality of
the body and marks attempts to prolong, conserve, and take
care of the experience or body. The experience or "party"
is over.
7th House. The 7th house, another angular house, marks the
beginning of a new series of three houses. Here we cross
over from the personal houses to the impersonal houses. The
personal experience of the first 6 houses is finished. It
falls away from us and we see it as a complete stage in our
development or whole. We leave the body and start into the
mind. A turning away from the attempt for personal
salvation toward a concern for others. Marriage.
8th House. The 8th house results from our fully grasping
the nature of the completed personal experience in the
first six houses... what was right about it and what was
wrong. Here we strip away and can do without what was
wrong. The extra baggage is unloaded.
9th House. The 9th house has to do with what remains when
all extra is stripped away. It is what remains or is
enduring from the entire episode. The seed essence. It
becomes the light for a new idea in the 10th, where the
whole cycle repeats itself.
The Chart Wheel, or Mandala:
Here are some brief descriptions of the 12 houses and what
they mean to astrologers. We will start with the 10th house
-- the house of clear, practical vision.
Tenth house. Career. Practical talents. Ideals. Where you
see most clearly, clairvoyance. Thus your particular
management, practical vision, and supervisory skills. Where
you can see to do.