* Houses of the Zodiac - CORE MEANINGS *

FIRST - Personality or outward expression; one's image or physical appearance. Rising House; Relationships; Self image and how it comes across to the Social environment.

SECOND - Attitudes towards possessions; Finances and Money; Wealth; that part of the ego which desires to attach itself to the external.

THIRD - Mentality; That part of the mind which makes consciously learned mental and physical functions operate automatically; Routine mental and social functioning and the people and places that are involved in one's intimate, personal world. Short journeys.

FOURTH - Home Life; Feelings of belonging and one's most supportive and nurturing relationships; the Nurturing Parent; Childhood and adult family; infant experiences and unconscious behavioral consequences.

FIFTH - Pleasures; One's amusement, gambling and speculation; Those aspects of the psyche that wish to express the nature of the self; Self expression and pleasure in relationships; Children.

SIXTH - Health; Aspects of the self that make delayed gratification possible; One's attitude towards necessity and service; Work and activities not pursued for self expression; Relationships formed out of necessity, service, duty and responsibility; Sacrifice.

SEVENTH - One to one encounter; Marriage and partnerships; using relationships with others to define oneself to oneself.

EIGHTH - Inner energies that want to reach out and experience the world; One's ability to use experience as a guide for change; Transformation - breakdown, decay, rebirth; Other people's money, attachments, resources.

NINTH - Energies of the unconscious mind reaching out to experience as much of the world as possible; Consciousness expanding travel; Remote from everyday experience - foreign, Long Journeys; Religion, philosophy and wisdom; the enhancement of the mind.

TENTH - Status, Occupation, Base of Operation in Society; Energies of the Conscious mind reaching out to act in the outer world; One's experience of guide or authority figures.

ELEVENTH - One's need to reach out and establish contacts with others; Shared ideas; One's ability to identify with a group and people to whom one relates; Friends.

TWELFTH - Energies that one has actually put into the world; The projection of hidden aspects of oneself onto intimate relationships; difficult social circumstances or situations; Hospitals; Teachers and Spiritual Undertakings.

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