The Fifth House in Astrology: Significations

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Spirituality, Religion

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 144 minutes

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In episode 506 of The Astrology Podcast astrologers Chris Brennan and Leisa Schaim do a deep dive into the meaning and significations of the fifth house in astrology. This is the fifth installment in our ongoing series on the significations of the 12 houses, where we explore the meanings of each house in detail, going back to the earliest sources and conceptualizations in the astrological tradition. Our discussion on the fifth house will be broken into three parts, and in this initial episode, we focus on providing a comprehensive overview of its core significations and meanings. We begin by establishing the conceptual foundations for the meaning of the fifth house, which was known in ancient astrology as the Place of Good Fortune. Some of the principles we use to derive its meaning are the fact that it is a succedent house that follows the fourth, its positive trine aspect to the Ascendant, and the fact that Venus has her joy there. These concepts establish the fifth house as a place of bodily pleasures, the continuation of the family lineage, and generally positive and fortunate circumstances. The core significations of the fifth house that we explore in detail include: children, good fortune, pleasure and enjoyment, sex and sexuality, and creativity. This episode provides a detailed survey of the topics associated with the fifth house, drawing on both the traditional textual sources as well as our extensive research of hundreds of birth charts. In part two of this series, we will begin looking at some of these example charts in detail, starting with the ruler of the Ascendant in the fifth house. Then in part three, we will look at the ruler of the fifth house in each of the 12 houses. Patreon for Early Access The followup episodes on the 5th house are being released for early access through our page on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/astrologypodcast Timestamps 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:07 5th House Overview 00:17:22 Vettius Valens on Venus 00:25:53 Significations section 00:26:49 Children 01:19:12 Sex and Sexuality 01:46:10 Pleasure and Enjoyment 01:55:58 Creativity 02:03:57 Good Fortune 02:12:07 Professions 02:15:39 Concluding Remarks 02:20:37 Credits Watch the Video Version of This Episode Watch the video version of this episode on the 5th house on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIBIU7gr3Io - Listen to the Audio Version of This Episode Listen to the audio version of this episode or download it as an MP3:

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0:00.0	Hey, my name is Chris Brennan and you're listening to the Astrology podcast. In this episode,
0:03.8	Lisa Scheim is joining me and we're going to be talking about the meaning and the significations
0:08.0	of the fifth house in astrology. So, hey, Lisa, thanks for joining me.
0:12.3	Hey, Chris. Happy to be here. All right. So we've done a whole research project over the past few weeks
0:18.1	and really going back to late last year on the significations of the fifth house. And this is a continuation of my series where I do a deep dive
0:26.1	into the meaning of each of the 12 houses. And we've done four of these installments so far.
0:31.0	And this will be the fifth installment. So the last one you joined me for was I think the third
0:35.9	house, right?
0:37.3	I was the last main one. And then I did a little like hour long section, for was I think the third house, right? The last main one.
0:38.3	And then I did a little like hour long section, I think, in the fourth house.
0:42.3	It was a special guest cameo.
0:44.3	Yeah, you cameoed in the fourth house episode with me and Nick.
0:48.3	Mm-hmm.
0:49.3	Nice. All right.
0:50.3	Well, this one in order to make things a little bit more digestible, the current plan is to break it up into three parts.
0:58.4	So in this first part, we're going to do a detailed discussion and overview of the significations of the fifth house from a traditional standpoint, but also talking about and incorporating some of the things that we've learned from doing a lot of empirical chart research and looking at hundreds of charts over the past several months.
1:17.8	And then in part two of this series, the next episode will be looking at the ruler of the ascendant in the fifth house, really getting into a bunch of example charts and starting to demonstrate
1:29.0	the technique and practice and an empirical understanding of the fifth house. And then finally in
1:34.5	part three, we're going to look at the ruler of the fifth house in each of the 12 houses.
1:39.1	But I thought it would be good to start off this first part with an extended discussion about the different meanings
1:45.8	and significations to give kind of a broad overview of that house to start with?
1:50.8	So we'll be talking about the topics today that are contained in the fifth house and are
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