Astrology
The Angular Houses or Action Houses
Houses numbered 1, 4, 7, and 10 are the Action houses. They are the most important houses in any horoscope because they show how you make contact with reality, how you deal with the "here and now".
The First House: Begins with the Rising Sign, the sign that was rising on the eastern horizon when you were born. This is also called the Ascendant or Ascending Sign and is one of the most important points in the horoscope. The Ascendant is the looking glass in which you experienced life and has an affect on your overall appearance. In most cases a person can look more like their Ascendant than their Sun-Sign.
The First House has to do with your "outer personality", the impression you make on people when they first see you. But it goes beyond that. It also shows how you begin anything, your first approach, your first action. For instance, someone with an Aries Ascendant (Aries Rising) will tend to charge right in, while a Taurus Rising person has to take their time and build up momentum. A Leo rising will get someone else to do it for them (probably some poor soul with Virgo Rising). The placement of planets in the First House is also important.
Any planet there, especially if it is in the same signs as the Rising Sign, will give you traits of the Sign that the planet rules. In other words, if you have Mars in the First House, you will tend to be active and aggressive like an Aries Sun-Sign. Saturn will make you cautious and careful at first approach, like a Capricorn Sun-Sign. If there is more than one planet in the First House, the planet that is closest to the cusp (beginning) of the house usually predominates. The only exception is if another planet in the house is stronger by sign.
The number of planets you have in angular houses can be significant. Click here to see what it means when you have A majority of planets in Angular Houses.
The Fourth House: Your upbringing, family heritage, your early childhood, home, family, Mother or Father, or main guardian. Your souls urge and remembrance is through this house.
The Fourth House shows your early life, how you were raised. It is your "home", your foundations, your roots, and as such, it affects you for the rest of your life.
It also shows how you tend to act in the domestic area, what you are like in private.
The Seventh House: On the wheel, the Seventh House is opposite the First. House One is you. House Seven is "other people". Specifically, it rules anyone else that you deal with as an Equal. This includes marriage and business partners of course. But it also shows your "open enemies". Some might think it strange that marriage and enemies are ruled by the same house. Others would find this very appropriate.
The Seventh House rules the First marriage. If there is another marriage, it is shown by the Ninth House. How about a third marriage? A description of your third marriage (if any) is found in your Eleventh House and so on and so forth.
The Tenth House: the Tenth House rules your "career", but that is not all. It indicates the Goals of your life, your purpose.
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Astrology
Angular Houses
The Angular Houses or Action Houses
Houses numbered 1, 4, 7, and 10 are the Action houses. They are the most important houses in any horoscope because they show how you make contact with reality, how you deal with the "here and now".
The First House: Begins with the Rising Sign, the sign that was rising on the eastern horizon when you were born. This is also called the Ascendant or Ascending Sign and is one of the most important points in the horoscope. The Ascendant is the looking glass in which you experienced life and has an affect on your overall appearance. In most cases a person can look more like their Ascendant than their Sun-Sign.
The First House has to do with your "outer personality", the impression you make on people when they first see you. But it goes beyond that. It also shows how you begin anything, your first approach, your first action. For instance, someone with an Aries Ascendant (Aries Rising) will tend to charge right in, while a Taurus Rising person has to take their time and build up momentum. A Leo rising will get someone else to do it for them (probably some poor soul with Virgo Rising). The placement of planets in the First House is also important.
Any planet there, especially if it is in the same signs as the Rising Sign, will give you traits of the Sign that the planet rules. In other words, if you have Mars in the First House, you will tend to be active and aggressive like an Aries Sun-Sign. Saturn will make you cautious and careful at first approach, like a Capricorn Sun-Sign. If there is more than one planet in the First House, the planet that is closest to the cusp (beginning) of the house usually predominates. The only exception is if another planet in the house is stronger by sign.
The number of planets you have in angular houses can be significant. Click here to see what it means when you have A majority of planets in Angular Houses.
The Fourth House: Your upbringing, family heritage, your early childhood, home, family, Mother or Father, or main guardian. Your souls urge and remembrance is through this house.
The Fourth House shows your early life, how you were raised. It is your "home", your foundations, your roots, and as such, it affects you for the rest of your life.
It also shows how you tend to act in the domestic area, what you are like in private.
The Seventh House: On the wheel, the Seventh House is opposite the First. House One is you. House Seven is "other people". Specifically, it rules anyone else that you deal with as an Equal. This includes marriage and business partners of course. But it also shows your "open enemies". Some might think it strange that marriage and enemies are ruled by the same house. Others would find this very appropriate.
The Seventh House rules the First marriage. If there is another marriage, it is shown by the Ninth House. How about a third marriage? A description of your third marriage (if any) is found in your Eleventh House and so on and so forth.
The Tenth House: the Tenth House rules your "career", but that is not all. It indicates the Goals of your life, your purpose.
Next: Succeedent Houses
- Succedent Houses- Develop
Succedent Houses- Our Development Houses numbered 2, 5, 8, and 11 are called the Succedent Houses. This is where you develop administer, and enjoy the things you start in the angular houses. The Second House: Rules money and possessions and values,...
- Beginners: Sun, Moon And Ascendant
Part 2: Beginner Astrology 101 course The Sun Moon and Ascendant and what they represent The Sun Sign ( Your Zodiac Sign) The Sun symbolizes your basic personality. The Zodiac sign it occupies describes your character's essential qualities. ...
- What's Your Angle? Planet Transits In Cardinal Houses
photo by Patricia Herlevi I've encountered by e-mail and in-person people dealing with the Cardinal planet transits in their angular houses and I'm among this group. Now, angular houses include First, Fourth, Seventh and Tenth houses...
- Locational Astrology
It really can make a difference where on the globe you live! A horoscope is like a map, it shows you the planetary placements as they were captured at a particular moment in time. Your natal horoscope is made up of planets in the particular signs and...
- Marriage Rules - Electional Chart
By Marion March, 1998 When calculating the time, remember the marriage starts with the first "I do!" 1. There should be no squares from the Moon and it should not be void of course. A waxing Moon (between the New and Full Moon) is better than a...