The day dawns with the Sun rising in the east, so it’s easy to remember that the beginning of the houses is at the east. (These can be calculated by computer or from a “Table of Houses” for a particular “house system” – see below.) When drawing up a chart wheel, it’s a good practice to draw the zodiac to scale and then draw in the houses according to their degrees of the signs. Think of the zodiac wheel as wrapping around the outside of the chart wheel. This path is called the “ecliptic.” Out beyond the ecliptic is a belt of constellations which we have associated with the ecliptic path. Part of that sphere is the apparent path of the planets and the Sun and Moon. The sky forms a big circle (actually a sphere) around us. We know that there is more out there than we can see, beyond the horizon and far away beyond the opposite side of the earth. When we look out at the sky, we see (basically) a semi-circle, with the lower boundary being the visible horizon. HERE is a handy one-page list of the main circumstances associated with each house. You can also determine temporary effects as the moving planets (“transits”) travel through the chart’s houses or when using chart updating techniques. When you work with houses, you can see what conditions affect these circumstances according to the planets which rule or occupy the houses. Each is associated with a set of circumstances, somewhat like departments of one’s life.
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