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A simple layout of the Astrology Houses including what The First House – The Ego Box Your body type Childhood experiences Leadership qualities Your view of the world The impression you make on others at first meeting Defense mechanisms The ‘persona’ Your ego The way you feel about your face, body, and, to an extent, yourself The Second House – The Stuff Box Money Safety Security Possessions Your attitude towards food Questions of self-worth Your noble or sleazy values Your personal form of greed and generosity The Third House – The Learning and Teaching Box School up until college The outside world Short trips Letters Cars, buses, and trains Your ability to learn The way your mind works, positive and negative thinking Writing and reading and talking and teaching Magazines, newspapers, and cheap paperbacks Brothers and sisters, near relatives Neighbors and your neighborhood Radios, televisions, I-pods The Fourth House – The Roots Box Conditions in your old age Your home Your attitudes toward family The ability to nurture people emotionally Integrity Real estate, land, agriculture, and gardening The father The country of your birth Mines, graves, underground places Possibly research may link this house with genetics The Fifth House – The Fun Box Love affairs Children Drama, theaters, show biz, art Your ability to be creative Risk taking How you have fun Some gambling and some functions of investing Schools Resorts Games and sports Your ability to receive love and to give it Your perception of the love you got as a child Childlike or childish qualities The ability to be romantic The Sixth House – The Everyday Work & Duty Box Little animals and pets Health and diets Food Your attitudes toward cleanliness and order Old relatives Obligations People who work for you or in lesser rank at work The way you approach work The ability to be inventive Your taste in clothes Daddy’s brothers and sisters Community needs The weather as it affects your health The Seventh House – The Partner Box Marriage Business partners and clients Best friends and peers Mentors Live-in or steady relationships Bitter enemies in the open Dealings with the public Contracts Art Diplomacy Social urges Opponents in games or debate Grandparents What you think you lack, so you look for it in other people The Eighth House – The Deep Merging Box Secrets Psychology, therapy, and psychiatry The deep one-to-one emotional relationship; soul mates The occult Detective work Psychic powers Sex Great changes brought about by crisis Death and taxes Your partner’s money Legacies and wills Your response to crisis Emotional truth Hidden talents The ability to be reborn and the ability to be alone What you think of other people’s values Tycoonery The Ninth House – The Mind Expansion Box Gurus Religions Your philosophy Foreign countries Import-Export businesses Publishing Fancy hard-cover books and mass-circulation magazines International anything Travel Large enterprises College and beyond Spiritual occurrences In-laws Lawyers, judges, lawsuits, The Law Your ability to perceive right and wrong Faith Fame for the sake of mind expansion The Tenth House – The Public Image Box This is where the M.C. or Midheaven is Your reputation Your mother, usually Your profession Honor, rank, and credit, or lack thereof What you are striving to be like People with power over you Your attitude toward authority figures Your sense of responsibility Fame for the sake of power The public eye A gold mine of hang-ups for psychiatrists to dig through Homosexuality Promotions The Eleventh House – The Idealism Box Friends Associates Your income from your main profession Peer group pressure The advice you get—for good or ill Advisers The social circles you move in The boss’s money Your hopes Your wildest dreams How you do or don’t make the world a better place Groups and how you relate to being in them Clubs Other people’s children The Twelveth House – The God Box Prison, bondage, confinement, hospitals Large institutions Secret enemies Everyday saints Hidden ways you screw yourself up, hence psychiatry and psychology Large animals Your Mummy’s relatives Escapist tendencies The Unconscious Your response when your back is to the wall Psychic gifts, especially healing Emotional service to others That which you give with no strings attached Karma and past lives Hidden power, behind the throne The past The old soybean “serve or suffer” is the best way to approach matters of the twelfth house
Reference: Smith, Debbi Kempton. Secrets From a Stargazer's Notebook.
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