Planet in House
Where each planet's function shows up in the actual life. The 120 combinations.
The house is the third word in the three-word sentence. Planet is what is acting. Sign is how it behaves. House is where it shows up. Read each entry below as the location of the planetary function in the structure of the life. Combine with the sign reading from the planet-in-sign file for the full placement.
☉ The Sun Through the Houses
Sun in the 1st House. You lead with yourself. Presence is unmistakable, and the Sun close to the Ascendant becomes a defining feature of the whole life. Built to be visible, to head the room, to embody what you came here to express.
Sun in the 2nd House. The self is forged through what you value and what you hold. Self-worth and resources are the school, and the lifelong work is valuing yourself enough to insist on what you genuinely need.
Sun in the 3rd House. You come to know yourself through words, learning and the daily mind. The voice, the local world, the siblings and the school years all shape the self in pronounced ways. You find out who you are by what you say and write.
Sun in the 4th House. The self is built privately, at the foundation. Home and the family of origin sit at the centre of who you become, and public expression often arrives late, because the inner work has to happen first.
Sun in the 5th House. You come alive in what you make. Creativity, play, romance and children are where the self is authored. The house of joy is, for you, the house of identity.
Sun in the 6th House. The self is forged in the practical labour of ordinary days. Work, health, routine and craft are the curriculum, and you know who you are by what you do, and do well.
Sun in the 7th House. You become visible through the mirror of the other. Significant relationships are not optional here. They are the field where the self does its real work.
Sun in the 8th House. The self is forged in the depths. Encounters with intimacy, power, loss and the hidden remake you, and the descent and return becomes the pattern of a lifetime.
Sun in the 9th House. You come alive at the horizon. Meaning, philosophy, travel and the wider world are where identity is found, and the search itself is central to the work.
Sun in the 10th House. The self is most fully expressed in public. Career, reputation and legacy carry your identity, and you tend to be known by what you do in the world. The climb is the path.
Sun in the 11th House. The self emerges in the group. Friendship, community and a shared vision are where you become whole, and contribution to a larger cause shapes who you are.
Sun in the 12th House. Much of the self does its work unseen. Identity is built behind the scenes, in the inner life, and the difficulty is being visible at all. The gift is a profound interiority and spiritual depth.
☽ The Moon Through the Houses
Moon in the 1st House. Feeling shows on the surface. The mood reads on the face and in the body, and you lead with emotion. A sensitive, available presence, sometimes more open than is comfortable.
Moon in the 2nd House. Security is tied to what you have. The body needs to feel held by tangible things, and the relationship with money runs deep and emotional. Comfort and worth are the same instinct.
Moon in the 3rd House. Feeling is processed out loud. You need to talk things through to settle them, and there is a strong emotional thread to siblings and the neighbourhood. The voice carries the mood.
Moon in the 4th House. The Moon is at home here. Emotional life is rooted in the household and the family of origin, the need for sanctuary runs deep, and the bond with the nurturing parent is central.
Moon in the 5th House. Feeling needs to be made into something. The heart settles through creativity, play and romance, children are often central, and what you make carries what you feel.
Moon in the 6th House. Feeling lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.
Moon in the 7th House. Mood is regulated through partnership. The relational mirror shapes how you feel, the need for a partner is strong, and you tend to feel your way through the other.
Moon in the 8th House. Feeling runs intense, private and underground. Strong psychic sensitivity here, often an inheritance of family emotional patterns, and the depths are where you are at home.
Moon in the 9th House. Feeling needs room to breathe. Comfort comes from travel, study and a larger framework, and the emotions expand toward meaning.
Moon in the 10th House. Feeling is on public display. The nurturing parent often plays a visible role, the career may carry the emotional theme, and the mood becomes part of the reputation.
Moon in the 11th House. Feeling is shared in company. Comfort comes from the chosen family, the emotions move through groups, and there is a deep need to belong to something larger.
Moon in the 12th House. Feeling runs hidden and oceanic. Strong unconscious processing here, often carrying emotion that was never consciously yours. The interior is vast, and sometimes overwhelming.
☿ Mercury Through the Houses
Mercury in the 1st House. You think out loud and in motion. Quick on the uptake, expressive in speech and gesture, you lead with the mind and others read the intellect at once.
Mercury in the 2nd House. The mind goes to work on value and resources. You think about money, the voice can become a source of income, and the intellect itself is the asset.
Mercury in the 3rd House. Mercury is at home here. The daily mind is the whole life: a voracious learner, a natural communicator, with strong sibling bonds and the local world as the schoolroom.
Mercury in the 4th House. Thinking turns toward origins. The childhood home shaped how the mind works, you reflect deeply on family and the inner life, and there is often a private study or shelf of books.
Mercury in the 5th House. The mind is the playground. Thought runs to what you might make, wit shows up in romance, and these people often write or teach about creativity and children.
Mercury in the 6th House. The mind is applied to the practical. Analytical, precise and oriented toward useful detail, the work often involves communication or analysis, and perfectionism is the risk.
Mercury in the 7th House. Thinking happens in dialogue. Communication is the medium of relationship, the partner often mirrors your mind, and negotiation sits at the centre.
Mercury in the 8th House. The mind goes after what is buried. An investigator and a researcher, drawn to psychology and the hidden, you speak plainly about what others step around.
Mercury in the 9th House. The mind reaches for the wider world. Philosophical and oriented toward big ideas: the teacher, the writer, the publisher. Long-distance travel often reshapes the thinking.
Mercury in the 10th House. The mind is your public signature. The voice is known, and the work often involves writing, speaking, broadcasting or teaching.
Mercury in the 11th House. Thinking is networked. A strategist who works in systems and possibilities, with an intellectually significant circle of friends and a mind set on the future.
Mercury in the 12th House. The mind works behind the scenes. Quiet, dreamy and intuitive, the intellect operates out of sight, and can become a fine instrument for writing the interior life.
♀ Venus Through the Houses
Venus in the 1st House. Charm is in the body. The face is an asset, personal style carries a strong aesthetic instinct, and love often arrives through how you are seen.
Venus in the 2nd House. Venus is at home here. Pleasure is in what you own and value: ease with money and possessions, well-developed senses, and support that tends to flow from what you cherish.
Venus in the 3rd House. Beauty lives in words and the daily world. A charming communicator, you often connect through conversation, and the local life tends to be pleasant company.
Venus in the 4th House. Love is rooted in belonging. The domestic life is aesthetic, you are often the heart of the family, and the home itself becomes something you love.
Venus in the 5th House. The heart is generous and on display. A strong romantic life, real artistic talent, and joy taken in play and in children. Love is meant to be expressed.
Venus in the 6th House. Affection runs through the everyday. The working environment tends to be pleasant, the body is well-tended, and love can arrive through the workplace.
Venus in the 7th House. Venus is at home here. The committed partnership is central, you tend to pair well, and the relationship itself is treated as something to be made beautiful.
Venus in the 8th House. Love runs deep and entangled. Intimacy is intense, resources often merge or are inherited, and the work is keeping love clear of power.
Venus in the 9th House. Beauty is found abroad. You are often drawn to people and places far from home, you love teaching and learning, and the aesthetic is wide and worldly.
Venus in the 10th House. Charm is part of the public life. Often a recognised or aesthetically known figure, with a Venusian thread running through the career and the reputation.
Venus in the 11th House. Affection flows through friendship. Friends come easily, love sometimes begins inside a group, and an aesthetic vision shapes the future you want.
Venus in the 12th House. Love lives in the hidden places. Private affections, a quiet artistic life and deep compassion, with a shadow of self-sabotage to watch in matters of the heart.
♂ Mars Through the Houses
Mars in the 1st House. Drive is in the body. A strong physical presence, athletic and direct, sometimes moving faster than thought. The fight is visible.
Mars in the 2nd House. Energy goes into building resources. You work hard for money and hold what you earn, sometimes tightly, and the appetites are strong.
Mars in the 3rd House. The drive is in the words. A sharp speaker with strong opinions, often restless and much on the move, and friction with siblings can show up early.
Mars in the 4th House. The fight is at home. A strong instinct to protect what is private, often anger inherited from the family, and an urge to renovate or rebuild the household.
Mars in the 5th House. Desire goes into creation and play. A passionate lover, competitive at games, with a strong creative drive and, sometimes, friction with children.
Mars in the 6th House. Energy is poured into daily work. Hardworking and physically driven, you need real exertion to feel well, and conflict can flare in the workplace.
Mars in the 7th House. The drive plays out in partnership. The partner is often forceful or competitive, conflict can be drawn into relationships, and the work is learning to argue cleanly with intimates.
Mars in the 8th House. Energy goes underground. Sexual intensity, often an inheritance of charged dynamics around money, and a pull toward work that operates beneath the surface.
Mars in the 9th House. The drive is for the wider world. An active traveller with strong convictions, often a teacher with fire, and the occasional clash with foreign cultures or in-laws.
Mars in the 10th House. Ambition is the engine. Driven and competitive, often in a public role built on leadership or direct action, with a clear Mars signature on the career.
Mars in the 11th House. Energy is spent on the cause. You drive a group forward, the friend circle can be contentious, and the future is something to be fought for.
Mars in the 12th House. Anger goes hidden. The fight happens invisibly, sometimes turned against the self without notice, and the work suits hospitals, prisons and behind-the-scenes roles.
♃ Jupiter Through the Houses
Jupiter in the 1st House. Growth comes through the self. A generous, confident presence, often physically large or expansive, and a person tends to be lucky simply in how they arrive.
Jupiter in the 2nd House. Fortune gathers around resources. Generally lucky with money, large in values and strong in self-worth, with a standing risk of over-indulging the physical.
Jupiter in the 3rd House. Growth is in the mind. A lifelong learner, often a teacher or a writer, surrounded by ideas, books and a generous local life.
Jupiter in the 4th House. Abundance is at the foundation. Often a large family or a generous home, fortunate in origins, or able to find fortune by way of them.
Jupiter in the 5th House. The heart grows large. Generous in love and strong in creative output, with joy taken in romance and in children. Self-expression is where the luck lives.
Jupiter in the 6th House. Growth comes through the work. The job tends to expand you, service becomes the path of fortune, and the body benefits from disciplined attention.
Jupiter in the 7th House. Fortune arrives through partnership. Often a significant or fortunate marriage, with the other person genuinely enlarging the self.
Jupiter in the 8th House. Increase comes through what is shared. Often money received through others, profound transformations, and strong intuition. The underworld is a teacher here.
Jupiter in the 9th House. Jupiter is at home here. The wider world is the path of fortune: travel, higher study, publishing and the foreign, carried by a strong sense of faith.
Jupiter in the 10th House. Growth is in public life. Fortunate in the public sphere and often a leader, with a reputation that widens over time. The summit tends to be reached.
Jupiter in the 11th House. Abundance flows through community. Many friends, strong group affiliations, a wide chosen family and a generous sense of the future.
Jupiter in the 12th House. Luck lives in the unseen. A rich inner life, often a quiet benefactor, with mystical leanings and good fortune that comes through retreat.
♄ Saturn Through the Houses
Saturn in the 1st House. Weight is carried in the self. Often a serious or grave presence, an early life that asked a great deal, and a slow but deep maturing into eventual authority.
Saturn in the 2nd House. Resources are the hard lesson. Often early financial restriction, with the work being to build genuine, durable worth and, in time, real mastery of money.
Saturn in the 3rd House. The mind is built the hard way. Early difficulty with speech or learning gives way to depth of thought, and the voice carries weight once it is fully developed.
Saturn in the 4th House. The foundation must be earned. Often difficult origins, with the lifelong task of building a home and an inner base that genuinely holds.
Saturn in the 5th House. Joy has to be earned. Self-expression is often inhibited early on, and the work is to keep at the craft until it ripens into real creative mastery.
Saturn in the 6th House. The body teaches through limitation. Often a demanding job or a chronic health issue, with mastery of the practice arriving through sheer accumulated effort.
Saturn in the 7th House. Saturn is strong here, exalted in Libra. Commitment is the curriculum: partnership is often serious or late, and it matures into real authority.
Saturn in the 8th House. The deep places ask for discipline. Often complex dynamics around shared resources or sexuality, with the work being to handle power well and earn mastery of the underworld.
Saturn in the 9th House. Belief must be built, not inherited. Often sceptical of received wisdom, you have to construct your own philosophy, and it becomes a deep, hard-won mastery.
Saturn in the 10th House. Saturn is at home here. Ambition is structural, and the climb is steep but real, ending in genuine, earned authority.
Saturn in the 11th House. Community is built slowly. Often restricted friendships or a thin social life early on, with the work being to build a chosen family and, eventually, to lead one.
Saturn in the 12th House. The hidden asks for the discipline. Often deep loneliness or solitary inner work, the unconscious must be made conscious, and a strong spiritual practice can be the reward.
♅ Uranus Through the Houses
Uranus in the 1st House. The self is the rebellion. An unconventional appearance or presence, and a noticeably unique angle of arrival.
Uranus in the 2nd House. Resources refuse to settle. Income can be unstable, the relationship with money is innovative, and the values run unconventional.
Uranus in the 3rd House. The mind goes its own way. An original thinker, often the genius or the outsider at school, prone to sudden insight and a striking voice.
Uranus in the 4th House. The foundation will not stay still. Unconventional origins, often frequent moves in childhood, and a home that becomes a laboratory for the new.
Uranus in the 5th House. The heart breaks the script. Unconventional creative output and unusual romantic patterns, with self-expression that simply goes its own way.
Uranus in the 6th House. The daily routine resists the norm. An unconventional working life, sudden changes of rhythm, and a body that operates on its own terms.
Uranus in the 7th House. Partnership breaks the mould. Unconventional relationships, sudden marriages or sudden endings, and a real need for freedom inside intimacy.
Uranus in the 8th House. The depths arrive suddenly. Abrupt encounters with intimacy, loss or money, and an unconventional, often technological or occult, approach to the hidden.
Uranus in the 9th House. Belief is overturned. An unconventional philosophy, the teacher who breaks the tradition, and sudden travel or shifts of worldview.
Uranus in the 10th House. The public path is irregular. An unconventional career marked by sudden rises and falls, with innovation in the field at the centre of the reputation.
Uranus in the 11th House. Uranus is at home here. Unusual friends and a collective vision become the calling, often as the leader of an unconventional group.
Uranus in the 12th House. The unconscious rewires itself. Sudden spiritual awakenings, hidden material breaking through unexpectedly, and a periodically reshaped inner life.
♆ Neptune Through the Houses
Neptune in the 1st House. The self is permeable. A fluid, hard-to-pin presence, often physically lovely, and sometimes a genuine uncertainty about identity.
Neptune in the 2nd House. Resources blur. Confusion or idealism around money, sometimes loss, sometimes an almost mystical relationship with wealth, and values that are spiritualised.
Neptune in the 3rd House. Thinking turns poetic. A strong imagination, speech that can be imprecise or dreamy, and some difficulty with strictly linear logic.
Neptune in the 4th House. The origins are uncertain. The childhood home is somehow hard to define, with a strong psychic link to ancestry, and sometimes absence or addiction in the family.
Neptune in the 5th House. The heart is wide open. Strong artistic gifts and idealised love, with the creative life, and even the children, sometimes hard to see clearly.
Neptune in the 6th House. The body absorbs the field. The work often involves healing, art or service, the health is sensitive, and there can be a vulnerability to addiction.
Neptune in the 7th House. The partner is idealised. Compassionate marriages, sometimes an elusive other, and the work is learning to see the real person rather than the dream.
Neptune in the 8th House. The depths dissolve into one another. Profound psychic merging, strong intuition about the unseen, and sometimes a haze around shared resources.
Neptune in the 9th House. Belief becomes mystical. Strong religious or spiritual experience, a poetic philosophy, and travel taken as a spiritual practice.
Neptune in the 10th House. The public image is fluid. A reputation that is hard to pin down, often a career in art, healing or vision.
Neptune in the 11th House. Idealism flows into community. A romantic view of friends and groups, a strong vision for the future, and some confusion over which causes deserve the energy.
Neptune in the 12th House. Neptune is at home here. A profound spiritual life and strong psychic sensitivity, often a mystic or a behind-the-scenes healer. The inner ocean is vast.
♇ Pluto Through the Houses
Pluto in the 1st House. The self has already been rebuilt. An intense, magnetic presence, remade from the ground up at least once, and people feel the depth before they understand it.
Pluto in the 2nd House. Resources go through the underworld. Profound shifts in money and self-worth across the life, often losing everything and rebuilding, until value itself is mastered.
Pluto in the 3rd House. Words carry power. Speech that can wound or heal, profound shifts in thinking over time, and a mind built for investigation.
Pluto in the 4th House. The roots hold the family shadow. Deep secrets at the origin, an intense home life, and often the task of carrying what the family buried.
Pluto in the 5th House. The heart is forged in fire. Intense love affairs and powerful creative output, sometimes with complex dynamics around children.
Pluto in the 6th House. The body and the work transform. Profound physical shifts across the life, often work involving healing, death or hidden labour, and an intense daily routine.
Pluto in the 7th House. Partnership is the underworld journey. The partner is often a Plutonian figure, and an intense relationship can become the central transformation of the lifetime.
Pluto in the 8th House. Pluto is at home here. Profound encounters with intimacy, loss and power, strong investigative gifts, and often an inheritance of intensity. This is the deepest work.
Pluto in the 9th House. Belief is rebuilt repeatedly. Intense encounters with foreign cultures, and often a powerful, revolutionary force in matters of philosophy.
Pluto in the 10th House. The career is the descent. Often a rise through real difficulty, with a powerful and sometimes feared reputation. This is public power.
Pluto in the 11th House. The group is the crucible. Intense friendships and powerful group dynamics, often as the leader of a movement, with the future as the field of transformation.
Pluto in the 12th House. Transformation works in the dark. Profound unconscious labour, often carrying collective shadow material, with strong spiritual gifts. The inner underworld is home.
Planet plus sign plus house is the full sentence. The three together describe what a planetary function is doing, how it is behaving, and where in the life it shows up. The aspects then describe how that placement is talking to the rest of the chart.
