General rules: the following interpretations work best and most clearly when the planet is
the only one in the house. This is similar to listening to someone talking. If there is
one person in the room with you, there should be no trouble listening to them. If there
are several people all talking at once, well, you get the idea. In that case, the
influence of the planet closest to the beginning (the cusp) of the house usually
predominates.
In addition, and this cannot be
emphasized too often, a horoscope is a whole unit, not a bunch of disconnected pieces,
just as a person is a whole and not simply a collection arms, legs, and internal organs.
But just as there is no way to describe a whole person all at once, so no one can describe
a chart at one shot. We have to put those little bits and pieces together one at a time.
If you happen to notice Mars, planet of action in one particular house of a horoscope,
don’t simply assume that the person is very active, aggressive, and impulsive in that
area of their life. Saturn, planet of restriction, may be in that same house and slam the
brakes on that Mars. Don’t worry about it at this point. First let’s learn about
the bricks, then we can study the whole building.
Learn more about the functions of
each (12) House and discover how they may impact your life by clicking on the hyperlinks
in the table below.