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 The still empty compartments are for locating the various heavenly bodies in the signs which they occupied at the moment of birth. For example, Johnny Doe was born on June 7th, 1970. We find that his moon sign is Cancer. So we put the symbol for the sun in the compartment following the cusp of Taurus, and the moon’s symbol in the compartment following the cusp of Cancer.

Since you already know which signs your birth time sun and moon were in, now do exactly the same with your own natal chart.

 Your natal chart should now have your ascendant sign in the house we have numbered as one, with the remaining signs, in their regular order, following in the houses numbered from two through twelve. And in two of the houses you also have the symbols for the sun and the moon or, if your sun sign and moon sign happen to be the same, both their symbols are in one house. Reading your horoscope at this point is a matter of relating all these several symbols to the houses you have put them into. So, lets find out what the houses themselves signify.

As you have already learned, astrologers say that the signs of the zodiac determine what you are. The twelve houses determine what you do. Each house supposedly represents a different department of your life, like this:

1.The House of Self. This house rules you yourself, your physical appearance, your vital forces, your qualities and defects, virtues and vices. It also determines the general happiness or unhappiness of your life.

 2.The House of Wealth (or of poverty). This house rules your profits and losses, and determines whether your life will be an easy or a difficult one, financially speaking. It also deals with your personal resources and possessions.

 3.The House of Communications. This one governs letters, telephone calls, conversations, your published writings, walking, visiting (everything concerning your communications with other people.) It also deals with short travels, and relations with brothers, sisters and neighbors.

 4.The House of the Home. This house determines your way of life, the way you adapt to your environment, and all your affairs of property, savings and estate planning. It also governs your family ties, especially with your parents.

 5.The House of Romance. This house deals mainly with affairs of the heart, personal joys and pleasures. But it also concerns your creative doings, your children and such possible hobbies as games, speculation and gambling.

 6.The House of Health (or the lack of it.) This house governs your physical constitution and the functioning of your body. It also, according to tradition, deals with your relations with servants, grandparents, uncles, aunts and small animals.

 7. The House of Marriage, and other kinds of partnerships, both social and professional. It governs such affairs as contracts, public dealings and your relations with strangers. It also deals both with your closest friends and with any openly declared enemies you may have.

 8.The House of Change. In olden days, this was known as the House of Death, and was much feared because it supposedly could reveal how and when one would die. However, as astrology tended to become inoffensive, astrologers decided that death is really only a kind of “change.” Now it deals mainly with moves, partings, lawsuits and divorces. It retains its connection with death mainly in its concern with wills and legacies.

 9.The House of Travel. This house deals with travel both in a physical sense (long journeys, foreign lands) and in an intellectual sense (deep studies, higher education, serious writings, religious inclination, etc.)

 10.The House of Career. This house governs your lifework or the part you play in the public world, and the degree of honor, success and glory you’ll attain. It also deals with your relations with your employer and other superiors.

 11.The House of Friends. While your very closest friends come under the Seventh House this one determines your relations with less intimate friends, such as business acquaintances, fellow club members and schoolmates. It also deals with your hopes and fears, your triumphs and frustrations.

 12.The House of Secrets. “This accursed lodging,” as the Twelfth House used to be called, deals with everything hidden, lurking, threatening and bad; serious ill health, secret enemies, imprisonment, misfortune, difficulties and sorrows, plus possibly even worse things that may be concealed in your own subconscious mind.
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