The Houses

The mask that is also a face: your body, your bearing, the first impression that precedes every fact about you. Planets here are visible from across the room.

Money, possessions, and the quieter question under both — what you believe you deserve. Planets here describe how you earn, hold, and lose.

Siblings, neighbors, errands, messages — the daily traffic of the mind. Planets here talk, write, and cannot help noticing.

Home, family, ancestry, the private floor under the public life. Planets here work in the deep background and surface at midnight.

Creation, romance, children, play — everything done for its own sake. Planets here want an audience of at least one.

Work, health, routine, service — the unglamorous hours that decide everything. Planets here show up as habits before they show up as events.

Partnership in every register — marriage, business, the open enemy. Planets here you tend to meet in other people before you recognize them as yours.

Other people's money, intimacy, debt, death, the merged and the taboo. Planets here do their work below the waterline.

Belief, higher learning, long journeys, the law and the meaning of things. Planets here need somewhere to be headed.

Career, reputation, the name spoken when you are not in the room. Planets here are witnessed whether you like it or not.

Friends, allies, movements, the future imagined together. Planets here find their power in numbers.

Solitude, institutions, the unconscious, what is finished but not yet released. Planets here work behind your own back — and reward being met on purpose.