Sister House Axis

Sister houses in astrology have corresponding ideas that work in balance to each other.

• The first house is who I am, the seventh house is who I enjoy.
• The second house is all my things, the eighth house is all my thoughts.
• The third house is my study notes and texts, the ninth house is my essay and my scrapbook.
• The fourth house is what I bring to the family, the tenth house is what I bring to the world.
• The fifth house is what I bring to myself, the eleventh house is what I bring to my communities.
• The sixth house is my health and how I serve society, the twelfth house is my worries and how I withdraw from it.

Mercury In The Seventh House

Mercury in the Seventh House can find themselves best at communicating in one on one situations rather than within groups. For this reason, official meetings or interviews may be something they are tailored for due to the personal communication needed for them. As well as this, Mercury here can find they adopt language or idiolect from those close to them over time whilst rejecting their more natural tongue. This placement must learn their own processes, language and mentality are to be accepted and not changed to someone else’s.

Angular Houses

When something sits in an Angular House, it is a direct aggregate of who you are or who you wish to become.

First House: How you see the world, what is worn on your sleeve, your initial actions and gut response to something, how you came into the world, your self

Fourth House: Your childhood, the home you grew up in, what you came from in life, your comforts, what home you may make one day, natural comforts and habits

Seventh House: Relationships, what you need in other people, traits you find attractive, the part of you you reject yet require, seeking balance

Tenth House: The image you wish to create for yourself, who you wish to become, what you idolise, your idea of success, your personal brand

• First – Seventh: Who I am and who I must become
• Fourth – Tenth: How I grew and how I’ll prosper

Cheat Sheet: Easy Placements

When you first learn about a placement, the obvious thing to do is look for descriptions, however these can be extremely unhelpful. Why? No description will ever fully encapsulate a placement. It will focus on one idea of it, or go straight to possible conclusions without explaining why those could be true.

Instead, I prefer to take the ‘anti-description’ route. When I start learning, I look to each part of the placement for its ingredients and build them together myself. In this way, you can see all the possible conclusions a placement may take.

With this in mind, I’ve compiled a cheat sheet of possible ingredients of each aggregate: signs, modalities, elements, planets, houses, and aspects!

Transition of Age: Virgo to Libra

Lately, I’ve been thinking about the timeline of age that the zodiac represents. Aries is our star child whilst Pisces is our star elder. You may have seen my older post on this idea and Jupiter here.

In this post, I wanted to talk about transitioning from young to old in the exact middle of the zodiac: the part where Virgo meets Libra.

Most people probably consider Virgo nature to be quite mature, and due to the Mercurial and Earthy nature of it, it usually is. But, using the timeline, Virgo is simply a teenager preparing to be an adult.

Why do I think this? Well…

Attraction In Astrology: Exoteric And Esoteric Attraction Calculations

After receiving a lot of interest in my method of taking three signs and working out which sign they best embody and attract as a whole, I decided to put the workings into a post. But first, we have to understand where we may look within the houses for attraction.

In western astrology, each house shows us a different part of life. The houses in question in this post are:

The First House: This is the house of the self, the ego, and the confidence. It is what we project onto the world and how we navigate it.
The Fifth House: Representing our self expression and talents amongst other things, this is what people may view in us as positive and something to admire.
The Seventh House: This is the traditional house of relationships and our ways with one another. It shows how we are with our relationships.
The Eighth House: The house of shared resources, but also of deeper hidden investigation. It can have links to obsession due to it being Pluto’s home.
The Tenth House: In this case, we are talking about its links to public image. It can show us what people will immediately see of our persona.
The Eleventh House: Communities, groups and society are represented here. This house can show us how we navigate friend groups and communities.

These houses can show us what kind of signs or elements we tend to attract in our lives. For example, someone with Aries Rising (First House) and Leo Fifth House will definitely attract a lot of fire placements. If someone has a Cancer Midheaven (Tenth House) and Leo Eleventh House, whilst they may attract these two signs and elements, it may be not as simple to work out which specific other signs will be attracted. That’s where planetary rulers come in.