House Keywords for Astrological Interpretation

1st house

  • Appearance, Demeanor, & Mannerisms
  • Force of Personality
  • Your Affect on Others
  • What's Right in Front of Your Face
  • How You Take Initiative
  • How You Show Up & the Circumstances of Your Birth
  • Approach
  • First Impressions
  • First Focus & Immediate Pressure
  • Your immediate impact
  • Yourself, leading the charge
  • People who are right up in your face
  • People begging for your attention
  • Immediate environment
  • Right in front of your face
  • Leading
  • Initiating
  • Putting yourself out there
  • Taking the first step on a new path

2nd house

  • Assets & What You Have to Give
  • Bank Balance & Sources of Income
  • Earning Power & Spending Habits
  • How deep are your pockets?
  • Is your collection vast enough to control the market?
  • Grounding & the Extent to Which You Inhabit Your Body
  • Nest egg
  • Personal resources
  • Saving for a rainy day / rainy day funds
  • Self-Esteem & Getting Paid What You're Worth
  • Self-Sustainability & Feeding Yourself
  • Survival Skills
  • Talents & Skills People Are Willing to Pay For
  • Values & Priorities
  • Who has control over your body?
  • What do you actually own and what is it worth?
  • Appraiser
  • B2B - businesses that sell to other businesses
  • Banker
  • Bank-teller
  • Bodybuilder (with Jupiter)
  • Bulk buyer (customers of Costco, Sam's Club, etc.)
  • Cashier
  • Cheap people
  • Collector
  • Coupon clipper
  • Ebenezer Scrooge
  • Gold Digger
  • Hoarder
  • Home Stager (maybe with the 4th)
  • Junkyard proprietors (prob with 8th)
  • Masseur (probably with the 5th or 8th)
  • Rich people
  • Penny-saver
  • Penny-pincher
  • Personal shopper
  • Physical therapist (with the 8th)
  • Physical trainer (with the 5th)
  • People who control entire markets (monopolists)
  • Retail sales
  • Pawnbrokers (prob with 8th)
  • Repo Man (prob with 8th)
  • Secretary of the Treasury
  • Stockists
  • Treasurer of the club (with the 11th)
  • Wealthy
  • Wholesalers
  • Wolf of Wall Street / Gordon Gecko
  • Auction house
  • Bank
  • Bazaar
  • Coin shop
  • Consignment shop
  • Elite shopping experiences
  • Estate
  • Estate sale
  • Flea market
  • Garage sale
  • Mansion
  • Marketplace
  • Online marketplaces (Etsy, Amazon, eBay, FB, Shopify, Gumroad, Big Cartel, etc.)
  • Pawn shop (prob with 8th)
  • Places that are not for the poor
  • Plebian-free locales
  • Private collections / small, curated museums?
  • Stores /shops
  • Tag sale
  • Wall Street
  • Vault?
  • Attending an auction
  • Attending a collectors' convention (Comic Con,for example)
  • Business transactions
  • Buying stuff
  • Checking out estate sales
  • Expensive hobbies
  • Purchasing stock for your shop
  • Shopping
  • Swapping
  • Trading
  • Upgrading financial software

3rd house

  • Classes, Teachers, & Education
  • Connecting & Spreading Information
  • Daily Interactions & Conversations
  • Dexterity & Manual Skills (like playing guitar)
  • Instruments through which you choose to communicate
  • Journaling
  • Local Language & Culture
  • Mental Activity & Daily Processing Power
  • Neighbors & Gossip
  • Observation
  • Reading & Writing
  • Siblings & Adjacent Relationships
  • Speech & Hearing
  • Teaching
  • Adjacent relationships
  • Caddy
  • Courier
  • Diarist
  • Deliverer
  • Driver (Uber, Lyft, truck driver, chauffeur, school bus driver, mail deliverer, FedEx, USPS, etc.)
  • Educator
  • Livery service
  • Locals
  • Mechanic
  • Messenger
  • Neighbor
  • Reporter
  • Sibling
  • The Regulars
  • Tinker (maybe with 6th)
  • Wheeler & Dealer
  • Bar
  • Classroom
  • Downtown
  • Elementary School
  • High School
  • Mail Room
  • Neighborhood
  • On a walk
  • On a hike
  • Shipping department
  • Short journeys
  • The Street
  • Attending the neighbor's barbeque
  • Boots on the ground
  • Car problems
  • Daily excursions - hiking, biking, short road trips
  • Delivering messages / delivering things
  • Developing a viewpoint based on actual experience rather than what you read in a book
  • Exploring your town on foot
  • Finding yourself using public transportation (taxi, bus, shuttle, private car service, etc.)
  • Getting a new car
  • Getting a street-level view of a situation
  • HOA issues (Homeowners Association) - for neighborly concerns
  • Honing your perceptions
  • Hopping back on that bike
  • Making keen observations
  • Mechanical work / machining
  • Packing, mailing, shipping, and tracking packages
  • Right-to-repair movement (with 11th, and maybe 6th)
  • Running errands
  • Seeing it with your own eyes
  • Serving a subpoena (maybe with 7th or 9th)
  • Taking a class or workshop

4th house

  • Base of Operation
  • Do You Have Any Ground to Stand On?
  • Foundation
  • Home & Family
  • Private Self & What You're Comfortable With
  • Real Estate & Construction
  • Retirement & End of Life
  • Roots & Country of Origin
  • Seat of Power / Throne
  • Ancestry
  • Blood
  • Bloodline
  • Brood
  • Compatriot
  • Descendent
  • Descent
  • Dominion
  • Dynasty
  • Empire
  • Extraction
  • Family Tree
  • Family
  • Genealogy
  • Heredity
  • House
  • Household
  • Kin
  • Kindred
  • Kinfolk
  • Kith
  • Line
  • Lineage
  • Origin
  • Parentage
  • Parents
  • Pedigree
  • People
  • Race
  • Reign
  • Relatives
  • Stock
  • Strain
  • Succession
  • Tribe
  • Abode
  • Archives?
  • Basecamp
  • Booth
  • Bungalow
  • Bunker
  • Camp
  • Castle
  • Cave
  • Chamber
  • Cottage
  • Crib
  • Crypt? (final resting place)
  • Cubby
  • Cubicle? (ruler of the 6th in the 4th, my cubicle is my home?)
  • Domestic areas
  • Domicile
  • Dwelling
  • Encampment
  • Fortress
  • Hall of records?
  • Harborage
  • Haven
  • Headquarters
  • Home
  • Hovel
  • Hut
  • In my room
  • Interior
  • Inside
  • Lair
  • Lodge
  • Nonpublic spaces
  • Nook
  • Offscreen
  • Offstage
  • Pad
  • Pod
  • Private spaces
  • Quarters
  • Refuge
  • Residence
  • Roost
  • Sanctuary
  • Sentimental places
  • Shack
  • Shanty
  • Shed
  • Shelter
  • Stronghold
  • Tent
  • Throne room
  • Undisclosed locations
  • Vault
  • Within
  • Attention turns to home and family
  • Being a homebody
  • Being domestic
  • Buying a home
  • Buying a security system
  • Construction
  • Enhancing safety
  • Establishing roots
  • Getting a DNA test
  • Getting a Past Lives reading
  • Minding your own business
  • Moving
  • Opening an account on Ancestry.com
  • Renovating
  • Retreating from public view
  • Seeking privacy
  • Self-protection
  • Staying home
  • Tracing your lineage
  • Un-accouncements

5th house

  • Children & Your Inner Child
  • Creativity & Playtime
  • Drama & Personal Self-Expression
  • Entertainment
  • Gambling & Risky Behavior
  • Hobbies & "So, what do you do for fun?"
  • Romance, Flirting, & Affairs of the Heart
  • Sports & Heart-Pounding Activities
  • The Heart's Joy
  • Vacations & Partying
  • Artist
  • Athlete
  • Child
  • DJ
  • Gamer
  • Lover
  • Party people
  • Pregnant person
  • Amusement park
  • Athletic Field
  • Bingo Hall
  • Casino
  • Festival
  • Odeum
  • Party
  • Nightclub
  • Playground
  • Playhouse
  • Theater
  • Vacation
  • Arts & Crafts
  • Creativity
  • Dating
  • Drama
  • Falling in love
  • Games (video games, board games, chess, athletics, racing, etc.)
  • Gambling
  • Hobbies
  • Partying
  • Play
  • Poker Tournament
  • Self-expression
  • Wining & dining
  • Romance
  • Good Times
  • Getting pregnant, and activities that lead to getting pregnant
  • Dealing with children

6th house

  • Work, Labor, Production, & Manufacturing
  • Service, Private Servants & Public Servants
  • Employees & Co-Workers
  • The Daily Grind & Mundane Routine
  • Chores & Practice
  • Small Pets & Small Responsibilities
  • Animal rescue
  • The regulation of work v. energy v. time
  • Systems That *Should* Be Running Efficiently & Without Interference
  • Health, Wellness, & Mind-Body Integration
  • Diet & Exercise
  • Making Lifestyle Choices & Creating a Lifestyle
  • Being "in the trenches," shoulder-to-shoulder with people who are like you
  • Working in the "guts" of an enterprise
  • Un-glamorous work
  • Behavior and Training (do you train your cat, or does your cat train you?)
  • Animal rescue
  • Coworkers (including AI & computers, especially with Uranus or Aquarius)
  • Doctor
  • Dog walker
  • EMT (with Aries, Scorpio, Mars, Pluto)
  • Engineers? (maybe with 3rd)
  • Maintenance workers of all kinds
  • Nurse
  • Pet sitter
  • Production partners
  • Union members? (with the 11th)
  • Amazon warehouse
  • Factory
  • Office
  • Production line
  • The "trenches," or the real trenches
  • Work environment
  • Chores
  • Domestic animal interactions (getting a pet, getting bit, taking in a stray, caring for the wounded, working at the shelter, getting a job at a pet shop, shots, going to the park, training, etc.)
  • Health-maintenance activities
  • Intensified daily activities and consequent stress management techniques
  • Joining a union (maybe with 11th)
  • Labor
  • Making lifestyle changes / choices
  • Manufacturing
  • Production
  • Rolling your sleeves up, and putting in an "honest day's work"
  • Routines
  • Streamlining processes and systems
  • Unglamorous work

7th house

  • Marriage & Committed Relationships
  • Equal Partnerships & Seeing Eye-to-Eye
  • Your Best Friends & Direct Competition (But, we're so much alike!)
  • Business & Contractual Relationships
  • Open Enemies, Nemeses, & Lawsuits
  • Negotiations & Face-to-Face Meetings
  • Cooperation v. Competition
  • Your Ability to Meet Someone Halfway
  • Putting Yourself in the Other Person's Shoes
  • Your Willingness to Let Someone Else Take the Lead
  • How Much You Let Your Partner Influence You
  • Meeting your match
  • Committed Partner
  • Marriage Partner
  • Husband
  • Wife
  • Business Partner
  • Lawyer
  • Negotiator
  • Open Enemies
  • Best Friends
  • The Other
  • Clients
  • Zoom
  • Law Office
  • Consult room
  • Couples' events
  • Marriage
  • Starting a significant relationship
  • Ending a significant relationship
  • Entering a business partnership
  • Lawsuits
  • Taking on clients
  • Starting your own business
  • Consulting
  • Making a scene as a couple

8th house

  • Atonement
  • Death & Funerary
  • Debts, Credits, & Taxes
  • Fundraising, Financial Support, & Insurance
  • Intrusive interactions
  • Joint Assets
  • Legacies, Inheritances, Trusts, & Estates
  • Nosiness
  • Personal Trust & Privacy
  • Psychology & Psychological Assets
  • Sex, Intimacy, and Deep Sharing
  • Salacious things
  • Scandalous things
  • Sharing what you have
  • The Occult, Forbidden, & Taboo
  • What you have (2nd house) versus what you want or desire (8th house)
  • Your Partner’s Assets & the Results of Marriage
  • Busybody
  • Debt Collector
  • Detective
  • Insurance Agent
  • IRS Agent
  • Loan Shark
  • Nosy, intrusive, prying people
  • Paparazzi? (probably with 5th and Neptune)
  • Psychic
  • Researcher
  • Repo Man (with 2nd house)
  • Snoops
  • Tell-all memoir writers (probably with 3rd)
  • Auction house
  • Confessional (with 9th house)
  • Estate Sale (with 2nd house)
  • Flea Market (with 2nd house)
  • Funeral home
  • IRS
  • Loan office
  • ObGyn
  • Playboy Mansion (maybe with 5th)
  • Strip Club (maybe with 5th)
  • Surgery
  • Therapist's Office
  • Thrift Store (with 2nd house)

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9th house

  • Abstract Thinking & Metaphysics
  • Foreign Places & Cultures
  • Gurus & Professors
  • Higher Education & Academics
  • Long Journeys
  • Opinions & Schools of Thought
  • Philosophy, Ethics, & Morality
  • Publishing & Spreading 'The Word'
  • Religion, Dogma, & Codefied Spirituality
  • Anthropologist? (maybe with 4th house)
  • Archaeologist? (also maybe with 4th house)
  • Cleric
  • Cultural elite
  • Guru
  • Hierophant
  • Journalist
  • Locations Scout?
  • Philanthropist
  • Philosopher
  • Physicist / Mathematician (careers that require abstract thinking)
  • Priestess / Priest
  • Prophet
  • Professor
  • Publisher
  • Travel agent
  • World traveler
  • College
  • Global
  • Religious Buildings (Church, Mosque, Synagogue, Cathedral)
  • The Higher Mind
  • University
  • Getting Your Masters Degree
  • Getting Your Ph.D.
  • Philosophizing
  • Thinking abstractly
  • Traveling the World

10th house

  • Authorities
  • Career & Vocation
  • Honors & Awards
  • Public Exposure (including humiliation and infamy)
  • Public Life & Public Office
  • Reputation
  • Status & Social Position
  • The Authoritative Parent
  • What kinds of people you look up to
  • Why People Look Up to You (aka Role Model Potential)
  • Your Influence (aka the Shadow You Cast)
  • Your life, on public display
  • Boss
  • People in a position of authority
  • People who can help you up the career ladder
  • Role Models (that's what I want to do when I grow up!)
  • At the podium, accepting an award
  • At the Top
  • Boardroom
  • Broad daylight
  • Penthouse
  • Pinnacle
  • Skyscraper
  • Zenith
  • Becoming a parent
  • Becoming an authority figure
  • Becoming notorious
  • Being laid off
  • Building your reputation
  • Destroying your reputation (Humpty Dumpty had a great fall)
  • Getting a raise
  • Getting famous
  • Getting fired
  • Reaching a career milestone
  • Receiving a Lifetime Recognition Award
  • Tangling with authority figures

11th house

  • Dreams of the Future, Progress, and Reform
  • Followers & Fans (Your Audience)
  • Groups, Clubs, Gangs, Alliances, & Community
  • Humanitarian Longings & Endeavors
  • Popularity & Likeability
  • Results of your profession (2nd house from the 10th)
  • Shared Interests & Creativity
  • Surrounded
  • Affiliate
  • Alliance
  • Assembly
  • Association
  • Audience
  • Band
  • Batch
  • Board
  • Brigade
  • Brotherhood
  • Bunch
  • Cabal
  • Cabinet
  • Camp
  • Caravan
  • Cartel
  • Caucus
  • Circle
  • Clan
  • Clique
  • Clinic
  • Club
  • Cluster
  • Cohort
  • Collective
  • College
  • Committee
  • Commune
  • Community
  • Comrade
  • Conclave
  • Confederation
  • Conference
  • Congregation
  • Congress
  • Convention
  • Cooperative
  • Coterie
  • Council
  • Coven
  • Crew
  • Crowd
  • Cult
  • Faction
  • Fans
  • Federation
  • Fellowship
  • Followers
  • Fraternity
  • Friends
  • Gang
  • Gathering
  • Group
  • Guild
  • Herd
  • Horde
  • La Banda
  • League
  • Legion
  • Lot
  • Members
  • Mob
  • Network
  • Orchestra
  • Order
  • Organization
  • Pack
  • Party
  • Platoon
  • Posse
  • Rally
  • Ring
  • School
  • Sect
  • Seminar
  • Senate
  • Set
  • Sisterhood
  • Society
  • Sorority
  • Squad
  • Squadron
  • Stable
  • Summit
  • Swarm
  • Symposium
  • Syndicate
  • Team
  • Throng
  • Troupe
  • Union
  • Among the people
  • Ampitheater
  • Arena
  • Auditorium
  • Cafeteria?
  • Civic center
  • Clubhouse
  • Coliseum
  • Concert hall
  • Convention center
  • Den
  • Dome
  • Exhibit
  • Expo
  • In a crowd
  • Large venue
  • Meeting room
  • Protest
  • Rally
  • Stadium
  • Thunder Dome
  • Tradeshow
  • Becoming involved with an organization
  • Camaraderie
  • Discovering common interests
  • Fulfilling your civic duty
  • Getting involved with more people, in a bigger context
  • Joining a group
  • Longterm planning
  • Protesting
  • Taking on a role within a group (look to 11th house planets for the role)
  • Working with human resources

12th house

  • Ancestral or Past Life Vocational Lineage (I'm experimenting with this idea)
  • Blind Spots & Self-Sabotage
  • Confinement, Release, & Escape
  • Fears & Phobias
  • Hermit
  • Institutions, Hospitals, & Prisons
  • Large animals
  • Recluse
  • Remote
  • Retreat, Meditation, & Sleep
  • Secret Enemies & Skeletons in the Family Closet
  • Spiritual Development & the Vast Unknown
  • Supernatural Phenomena
  • Surrender
  • The Results of Groups & Alliances (2nd house from the 11th)
  • Time Spent Alone
  • Wilderness
  • Withdrawal

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  • A Container
  • Confinement
  • Convalescent home
  • Displaced
  • Hospital
  • Institution
  • Into the Wild
  • Lost
  • Missing
  • Monastery
  • Museum
  • Prison
  • Retreat
  • The Closet
  • Vast Unknown
  • Wilderness
  • Getting Lost
  • Inner Journey
  • Respite
  • Rest
  • Retreat
  • Sabbatical

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