Shows how you appear at first meeting, your outer personality, how you project yourself, the ways you relate to your environment and how you interact with the world. It is the first factor that others notice about you and is the filter through which you perceive everything.
Rules marriage, partnerships and one-to-one relationships of all descriptions, whether on an emotional, professional or social basis and for better or much less so. This house rules your adversaries, enemies and competitors, since these are often important influences too.
Shows your financial and material affairs, your earning potential and the work you enjoy. Governs possessions of all kinds, worldly resources and your attitude to these. This house shows what you value the most and what makes you truly feel safe and secure.
Governs shared resources of all descriptions, including finances, possessions and values. Ruling business affairs, inheritance, taxation and loans, this house is very complex. It also links to spirituality, birth, death and rebirth and to major endings and beginnings of every kind.
Relates to your mind, to rational thought, to your intelligence and your communication skills. This house governs early schooling and essential education and rules the written and the spoken word. It also covers your siblings, your community and short, regular journeys.
Indicates your religious and philosophical belief system. Governs further and higher education, mental exploration, long-distance travel, and "foreigners" - those different from you in their beliefs, nationality, race, age, or who come from a very different background.
Governs your private and your personal life, your immediate family and your parents, your mother or a substitute maternal influence, your early childhood environment, your current domestic situation and your deepest emotional needs, often reflected through your home life.
Relates to the public sphere and so often connected with your career and professional ambitions, this house also indicates your aims, ambitions and aspirations generally. Public success or failure is traditionally shown here, as is the lasting impact of your father figure.
This is definitely the house of fun. It covers everything you do for pleasure and not just because you have to. It therefore rules romance, recreation, hobbies, children, gambling, speculation, sport, holidays and your pets. Creativity itself, also shows here.
Rules your friends and acquaintances, the groups you belong to, and also your hopes and wishes. The latter are distinct from the aims and ambitions of the tenth house. For example, you might aim to be rich but hope to be happy. Subtle, but an important difference!
Governs health, work and the concept of service, defined as those things you must do to help others. It also rules your day-to-day routines, your responsibilities, obligations and duties, both in your formal employment and otherwise in the everyday running of your life.
Reveals your subconscious and all things hidden and hard to explain logically, like your dreams, intuition, time spent in meditation and many spiritual concepts. Look out for hidden drives, withdrawal, secret desires, escapism and for unconsciously motivated behaviour.
