1st House in Astrology – Meaning Explained (YouTube Video Transcript)

(00:00:00) Your YouTube transcript will appear here (00:00:00) all right so welcome to this new segment (00:00:01) we're gonna be doing for the next 12 (00:00:03) days on the houses what are the houses (00:00:05) mean in the astrology chart on that (00:00:08) fundamental foundation (00:00:10) you know what is the fundamental meaning (00:00:11) of these houses this will be important (00:00:13) for when we start to go into (00:00:14) combinations like Sun in the first house (00:00:16) Mars in the second house whatever and (00:00:18) this way we can understand you know (00:00:20) essentially what we're talking about so (00:00:22) first of all houses have to do with the (00:00:24) areas of life it's very important to (00:00:26) draw this distinction because I see it (00:00:28) convoluted a lot not you know there's a (00:00:30) lot of confusion too in terms of what's (00:00:32) the difference between a silence (00:00:33) difference between a house and a planet (00:00:35) it's very important to look at the first (00:00:36) house or any house for that matter as (00:00:38) the area of life then which it takes (00:00:41) place so for example your fourth house (00:00:43) is the area of home a family of your (00:00:44) emotions of your roots these are what (00:00:47) you might consider if you were to look (00:00:48) at your life as a whole the area of life (00:00:51) that's involved with that your first (00:00:52) house has to do with the self has to do (00:00:55) with your self-image it has to do with (00:00:57) your self willed energy what you know (00:00:59) the things in life that you initiate it (00:01:01) also has to do with on an external level (00:01:03) your goals your projects okay the things (00:01:05) that you build or create or start in (00:01:07) life as well as your physical body as (00:01:10) well on that outer level so it's (00:01:13) essentially everything that has to do (00:01:15) with you it's the most personal chart or (00:01:18) the most personal house in that sense (00:01:20) it's in the bottom left quadrant (00:01:22) everything on the left side of the chart (00:01:23) has to do with personal the personal (00:01:26) relationships a personal relationship (00:01:28) with self and then the bottom of the (00:01:30) chart has everything to do with our (00:01:31) intrinsic values which is our personal (00:01:33) values in life so you can see it being (00:01:35) on that first quadrant very much (00:01:37) relating to our own personal values and (00:01:39) our own personal self now it's a very (00:01:41) important house as you might guess it (00:01:43) being the first but it's part of the (00:01:45) four angles of the chart okay you have (00:01:47) your first house your seventh house your (00:01:50) fourth house and your tenth these are (00:01:52) the most important angles essentially (00:01:54) you've got your self which is the first (00:01:56) house you've got your relationships (00:01:58) which is the seventh you've got your (00:02:00) roots which is the fourth and in your (00:02:02) future legacy which is the 10th or (00:02:04) career right as you can imagine you know (00:02:06) these are the foundational aspects of (00:02:08) life once we have a good solid (00:02:11) foundation in these areas we're able to (00:02:13) go off into other areas of life much (00:02:14) easier and much healthfully more (00:02:17) healthier so the key with this with self (00:02:20) is once we understand who we are we (00:02:22) understand what we want and how to will (00:02:25) ourselves and have that momentum and (00:02:28) even confidence by knowing who we are (00:02:30) and what we want then we have that (00:02:32) foundation and that's just one piece of (00:02:34) the puzzle where we can have that (00:02:35) foundation in which the other areas of (00:02:37) life will be that much more you know (00:02:39) fulfilling and healthy so the key with (00:02:42) this is you know look for any planets in (00:02:45) your first house that's going to show (00:02:47) you the experiences planets are the (00:02:49) experiences it's going to show you the (00:02:50) experiences that you have in the area (00:02:53) that relates to self or self-image or (00:02:56) the physical body or any of these other (00:02:58) attributes and characteristics or areas (00:03:01) of life I should say then you've got the (00:03:03) signs now we don't always have planets (00:03:05) in the first house but we are gonna have (00:03:07) some sign at least one in the first (00:03:09) house so you want to look at what signs (00:03:11) are there especially the sign that is at (00:03:14) the beginning of the first house which (00:03:15) is your ascendant sign your rising sign (00:03:17) it's a very important part of the chart (00:03:20) as you would imagine it's the qualities (00:03:22) and characteristics the sign that has to (00:03:24) do with the self the self image how you (00:03:26) will yourself how you see yourself and (00:03:28) even what you're you know what you (00:03:30) desire in life generally speaking what's (00:03:33) important to you so very important there (00:03:35) now you can almost you can also go one (00:03:37) step further and you can look at the (00:03:39) ruler of the ascendant which is going to (00:03:42) essentially represent you and the charts (00:03:44) considered your chart ruler so for (00:03:46) example if your ascendant is Gemini you (00:03:48) would look for mercury and I'll put a (00:03:50) list down in the description below for (00:03:52) ruler ships so you can see this for (00:03:55) yourself but you can look at the ruler (00:03:56) of the first house which is gonna (00:03:58) represent essentially you in the natal (00:03:59) chart very important you know arguably (00:04:02) more important than the Sun and Moon in (00:04:04) your chart okay so what house is that (00:04:06) planet in in this example mercury what (00:04:09) sign is mercury in and this is going to (00:04:11) show you even more specifically the area (00:04:14) of life that might be important to you (00:04:16) or that you will yourself through as (00:04:17) well as those qualities and (00:04:19) characteristics that are developing (00:04:20) through the sign and that's a big part (00:04:23) of it too is you know the first house is (00:04:24) what we're continuously developing it's (00:04:27) a most like that beginning of the (00:04:29) journey right where we first take that (00:04:31) first step but we're always taking that (00:04:33) first step so it's in that way and so we (00:04:35) naturally develop more of those (00:04:36) qualities so if it's Gemini more of the (00:04:38) mercurial qualities of writing sharing (00:04:40) communicating socializing things like (00:04:43) that okay so that's one thing you can go (00:04:46) you can look at to go deeper the other (00:04:48) thing you can do is you can look at the (00:04:49) significant of the first house all (00:04:51) significative the first house are Mars (00:04:54) okay Mars is associated with that first (00:04:56) so you can look at where Mars is in the (00:04:57) natal chart and this will represent a (00:04:59) sort of other view of you in the chart (00:05:02) okay in terms of what motivates you what (00:05:04) are you driven towards and in many ways (00:05:06) what is your self-image so house inside (00:05:08) placement of Mars can be very important (00:05:10) with that so first (00:05:13) house angular house foundational part of (00:05:16) the charts also considered a firehouse (00:05:17) as you would imagine it's being (00:05:20) associated with Mars it's also (00:05:21) associated with Ares so again it's (00:05:23) willing its self-expression its (00:05:25) asserting herself into the world okay (00:05:28) again not qualities but it's the area of (00:05:30) life that is associated with those (00:05:32) things again it could be projects it (00:05:34) could be self-image it could be our (00:05:36) physical body okay etc they'll also be a (00:05:39) list down below for more specific (00:05:41) keywords to help you understand this but (00:05:44) Firehouse right so it has to do with (00:05:46) wouldn't you know what areas of life (00:05:48) inspire us and that sort of thing so the (00:05:51) other thing too you can look at is the (00:05:52) angular relationship you look at the (00:05:54) first and seventh house if there's ever (00:05:56) an imbalance with the first house (00:05:57) especially if you've got a node in the (00:06:00) first house the north or south node it's (00:06:01) very important to bring in that seventh (00:06:04) house energy okay if you forget a lot of (00:06:06) planets in your first house sometimes we (00:06:08) can go too much self-oriented too much (00:06:10) self-interested so in this example if (00:06:13) that's the case bringing in more of the (00:06:15) other oriented perspective you know the (00:06:17) seventh house is about relationships (00:06:18) it's about cooperation it's about mutual (00:06:20) understanding mutual respect so bringing (00:06:23) in those areas of life which is (00:06:25) essentially you know bringing in (00:06:27) relationships into our life and focusing (00:06:29) on them and having those kinds of (00:06:30) experiences will help balance out the (00:06:33) first house areas of life all right so (00:06:36) hopefully this gives you guys a general (00:06:38) look at what the first house (00:06:39) like I said there'll be some links down (00:06:42) below to help supplement some of this (00:06:43) but it's the area of life essentially (00:06:46) that has to do with self self-image the (00:06:48) physical body our goals our ambitions (00:06:50) and the things that motivate us in life (00:06:52) all right so have a good one I'll see (00:06:54) you guys all tomorrow for the second (00:06:55) house take care (00:07:03) you