The Houses I - Astrology 101
What the houses are, they're defined by their relationship to the horizon. So we went over the signs, which are similar to houses and that like, there are places and they are places that celestial bodies move through. But in the case of the signs of the zodiac, there are divisions of the ecliptic, which is an imaginary path around the whole earth, that, you know, it appears that the sun moves along that path. And so as the sun moves through the signs of the zodiac, it traces out an entire year from beginning to end. Whereas, you know, the houses are also places that the planets go. But the houses represent the sky, both above and below the horizon. So they're just a way of dividing up the sky. And so the sun will move through all 12 of the houses over a 24 hour period. So they're sort of they're a visual representation of a smaller cycle of time. And when you look at a birth chart, you know, you'll see a big circle that that looks like it's divided into 12 slices of pie. And, you know, the houses that are above the ascendant descendant axis are the houses above the horizon. So that's, you know, the visible sky. And then the other ones are, what is invisible that sort of beneath you. And so it divides up this whole big circle of both the sky you can see and the sky beneath your feet.