Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the astrology

in this episode I'm going to be talking about the first house in astrology and what it means

and looking at some example charts of first house placements involving planets in the first house, the ruler of the first house,

or even transits through the first house in order to get a sense for what the first house actually means and what it's all about. And I'm recording it today with a live audience of patrons of the astrology podcast who signed up to support me through my work, through my page on Patreon Patreon and we're going to do a mixture of I put out a call for examples of first house placements both publicly in terms of like Twitter and Facebook, and also privately in terms of different patrons.

And today, since I have a live audience of patrons, I'm going to be hopefully bringing a few of them on to talk about their first house placements if they have a striking example.

And then I'm also going to be reading and sharing some different examples that were sent in by people online.

All right, so first things first, let's start with some preliminary stuff

about the first house and what it means.

So here is a diagram which shows the significations of each of the 12 houses. So there's only so many significations I can really fit on here because it can only fit like four, three or four core significations.

So the four core significations for the first house that I have is that it represents the self, the body, the character, and the person's appearance.

So the first house is in the whole sign houses, it's the rising sign.

So it's the sign that was rising up over the eastern horizon at the moment that you were born.

So this is the sign that's the most personally relevant to you as the individual who was born at that moment.

And there's different houses in the chart that represent different people in our life or different areas of our life, but the first house is really the primary house that relates to you because the rising sign and the degree of the ascendant, which is where the sun rises up over the eastern horizon each morning,

but especially the morning they were born, and just in the same way that the sun and the other planets and stars rise up over the eastern horizon each day and are born as they emerge from under the earth and move up into the sky and become visible in the same way each of us was born at a specific moment in time and at that time we sort of like emerged into the world and our body emerged into the physical world as separate from the body of our mother.

So that's part of the symbolism with the first house,

and that's part of the reason why it's so intimately connected to you as the person who was born at that moment because of that same symbolism of the planets emerging over the eastern horizon at the rising sign at the same moment as you were born.

So the first house as a result of that is the primary house in the chart that represents you and your sense of self and who you are.

And sometimes that's kind of an abstract signification that doesn't make a lot of sense until you have like a first house transit or you have eclipses going through your first house or something like that and then all of a sudden your sense of self and your sense of who you are becomes much more distinct as like a factor in your life that you're focused on and that you're reflecting on when you're thinking about who am I like what am I doing here in the world and how am I showing up in the world to other people?

Because the first house is also the house that represents the body and the physical

incarnation of the native in addition to their character or in ancient

astrology the spirit of the native.

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