Hugh Crain, father in the Haunting of Hill House, is a quiet, stoic and somewhat mysterious character. He spends a lot of time watching, thinking on how best to mediate his family. For the most part, he is ill framed by his family and accepts this, even if it is unjust.
His character is somewhat complex and misunderstood by the other characters, whilst appearing very calm and minimal on the surface. So, what can we make of him astrologically?
Sister houses in astrology have corresponding ideas that work in balance to each other.
The eighth house is shared resources. It’s the deep bond and trust you can have with someone through sharing and trusting to share. Think joint bank accounts, the shared nature of marriage, and even emotional sharing of grief and the support you can offer.
The eighth house is also intriguing because it’s simultaneously private and public: it’s what we don’t want to share, and yet what we need to.
People with personal planets in the eighth house can be generally quite guarded and secretive people in one way or another, but they ultimately want to create a connection where they feel they can share these things about them. The eighth house is shared resources, after all, and the wisdom of the eighth house is one of those resources which want to be shared, even if it can be a struggle to do so comfortably.
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!
In present day, the term ‘romantic’ connotes love, relationships and affections, but dating back to the middle of the 1800s, the term was picked up to describe an age of art and literature just passed which argued for nature and feelings as opposed to the industrialisation of the world and its people.
Broadly, the Romantic Era in Britain is laid out to be 1800 to 1850, works created in this time coming as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution which began circa 1760. However, the term ‘romanticism’ is known to specifically apply to works created between 1790 and 1820.
The asteroid Eros relates to the god of sex and desire in Greek mythology, and thus in astrology comes to show us our own sexuality (habits and desires, not orientation). However, Eros isn’t just sexual (though this is one of it’s main representations), it is also desire and passion as a whole: Eros can show us what we’d do when consumed with love!
Whilst there is a lot of information out there about Eros in the signs, little is written about Eros in the houses, which is why this article is going to address exactly that. If you wish to learn about Eros in the signs, use the links above! Here is a calculator for your Eros sign, and to insert it into a natal chart, use Astro.com (guide here), simply type ‘433’ into the asteroid selection bar.
Continue reading Eros in the Houses: Sexual Passion and Unmatchable Desire (NSFW)
We all know that Pluto is a generational planet and one of destructive, but that isn’t to say it doesn’t or couldn’t have positive personal meanings. It has deeper, growth-related meanings than just generational destruction. It stands for rebirth and renewal, at its utmost core! It’s what is ever-changing, if a little out of touch, for us. What I’m focusing on today is Pluto’s link to a transforming energy within us.
Scorpio is the sign of which it rules, and so naturally it’s a subconscious force, changing up and rebuilding us beneath what we can immediately relate to. Naturally sitting in the eighth house, it also has links to suffering and trauma, as we may already be aware. That can seem scary, but transformation of the deepest kind will almost inevitably be linked to some form of suffering on our own parts.
When Pluto is in retrograde, the effects are internalised, making outward effects less likely. For example, where someone with Pluto in the 5th may create transformative art and express themselves differently from month to month, someone with this same placement in retrograde can feel unable to do this. They may have the thoughts and want to create themselves over and over again, but outwardly expressing this becomes difficult. It’s likely that transformation of their self is not something they feel they can accomplish on the outside, but on the inside they are expanding into a new, revived version of themselves.
However, Pluto’s positive transformation relies on personal growth. What about when it hasn’t grown? Underdeveloped Pluto or planets under Plutonian aspect will be destructive outwardly. This can mean hurting those around them or things around them. A good example would be underdeveloped Pluto to Mars contacts being harsh, aggressive, or violent.
It stays in any sign from about 14 – 30 years, so obviously the sign it is in has less personal effect, but that doesn’t mean Pluto won’t be felt personally. The house and aspects to other placements is entirely based on the individual chart, and this post will be discussing Pluto within each house!
You can also check the house which your Pluto is currently transiting through, as this will show which area of life you’re undergoing transformation in.
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.
Continue reading Attraction In Astrology: Exoteric And Esoteric Attraction Calculations
Whilst no house is ever truly empty as all have signs in and possibly lesser known asteroids, the term is coined when planets and major asteroids are absent of a house, leaving it seeming empty.
Here, if you were to look to the 1st house (under AC), for example, you can see there is no planets, asteroids or luminaries. This would be a house commonly referred to as an empty house. A house that isn’t empty is like the 12th house (above AC), as you can see two glyphs (for Saturn and Jupiter) in it.
Are empty houses rare?
They’re actually incredibly common, in fact, I’d argue it’s nearing impossible to not have them.
Are empty houses bad?
Empty houses are, in effect, neutral as they mean there is less pull or importance to this area of life for you. However, this doesn’t mean the area of life doesn’t exist altogether as you still have a sign on the house cusp, and thus you still navigate through it in the ways of the sign.
Continue reading Planetless Ponders: What Do Your Empty Houses Mean?
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