Simplest Guide to the House Domains
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To understand the houses, you have to understand how the system works - same as with the signs.
ā¶ We can breakdown houses the same way we can breakdown the signs into elements, modalities, and rounds, but also by rulers and even through the Hero's Journey.
Start with understanding the houses through elements.
ā¶ The fire houses are the 1st, 5th, and 9th, which rule what we do and to what ends. Their keyword is Actions. Here action refers to behavior, mannerisms, and other ways with which we are identified and our lives are performed. This is the native as a Subject.
ā¶ Earth houses (2nd, 6th, 10th) rule what we interact with. Interaction refers to ways in which we handle things which exist separate to us in a way that still represents us. An Object is introduced for our Subject to act upon.
ā¶ Air houses (3rd, 7th, 11th) rule what we connect with.
Connection refers to bonds, relationships, and the ways in which we maintain or forge either. The Subject can now engage with Other Subjects.
ā¶ Water houses (4th, 8th, 12th) rule how we interconnect and to what end. Interconnection refers to what underlies bonds and connections, the meaning of them. Subject and Other Subjects act upon an Object in tandem or separately.
We can sort these elements into rounds of four. I've defined them with base terms below. These terms refer to both proximity to subject and the subject's relationship to the domain in question.
ā¶ The first round of elements is initial and instinctive. Here, initial and instinctive refers to how everything in these domains are rooted in the native themself and the immediate circumstances they were born into.
ā¶ The second round is developed and chosen. Developed and chosen refers to how everything in these domains are rooted in the environment the native encounters and the circumstances they craft therein.
ā¶ The third is greater and aspirational. Greater and aspirational refers to how everything in these domains are rooted in the universal circumstances of the collective and how the native engages with this.
ā¶ How do these principles apply specifically to each house?
The first house rules initial, instinctive actions. This includes our impulses, the first impressions we give off, and our bodies.
The second house rules initial, instinctive interactions. This includes our household, our belongings, and our priorities.
The third house rules initial, instinctive connections. This includes our siblings, our surface communications, and our speech patterns.
The fourth house rules initial, instinctive interconnections. This includes our family, home, the culture we are raised in, our past.
The fifth house rules developed, chosen actions. This includes our preferences, our hobbies, our pursuits, our passions.
The sixth house rules developed, chosen interactions. This includes the habits we form, the routines we keep, and the efforts we make.
The seventh house rules developed, chosen connections. This includes partners of all sorts, and valued one on one relationships.
The eighth house rules developed, chosen interconnections. This includes secret keeping/sharing, intimacy, transactions, rituals.
The ninth house rules greater, aspirational actions. This includes faith, beliefs, philosophy, the principles we follow, our role models.
The tenth house rules greater, aspirational interactions. This includes our honor, the services we perform, the goals we have.
The eleventh house rules greater, aspirational connections. This includes our communities, gains, politics, dreams, fame.
The twelfth house rules greater, aspirational interconnections. This includes our place in the universe, karma, the soul, the divine.
Hope this was helpful! Thanks for reading ā”ā”ā”ā”
