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Planets in houses
Every planet in every house
A planet's sign is its manner; its house is its address. Mars in Aries acts the same way wherever it sits, but Mars in the sixth house spends that energy on work and health, and Mars in the seventh spends it on other people. These pages give a keynote for each of the 216 placements and the facts behind it.
In plain words
A planet's house is where in your life it does its work. Mars in the house of work spends its energy there; Mars in the house of partners spends it on people. Pick a planet below to see it in every house.
- Sun through the housesidentity, vitality, purpose
- Moon through the housesfeeling, need, habit
- Mercury through the housesthinking, speech, learning
- Venus through the houseslove, value, pleasure
- Mars through the housesdrive, desire, conflict
- Jupiter through the housesgrowth, faith, generosity
- Saturn through the houseslimits, discipline, time
- Uranus through the housesdisruption, freedom, insight
- Neptune through the houseslonging, imagination, dissolution
- Pluto through the housespower, depth, regeneration
- Chiron through the housesthe wound that teaches
- North Node through the housesappetite, growth, direction
- South Node through the housesthe familiar, what is released
- Lilith through the housesthe untamed and the refused
- Ceres through the housesnurture and the cycle of loss and return
- Pallas through the housespattern recognition and strategy
- Juno through the housescommitment and its terms
- Vesta through the housesdevotion and focus
Why the house needs a birth time
Signs move slowly: the Sun stays in one for a month. Houses turn with the earth, a full circuit every day, so the Ascendant advances about a degree every four minutes. A chart cast for the wrong hour keeps the right signs and gets every house wrong, which is the single most common reason two readings of the same person disagree.
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Every page here is computed from the same Swiss Ephemeris that powers the Natal Wheel app — a precise tropical natal chart with transits, progressions, returns, synastry and the traditional techniques, free.