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

Joining me today is astrologer Nick, Dick, and Best, and we're going to be talking about the meaning of the first house in astrology,

and especially looking at a bunch of example charts to get an idea of what it means when different planets are placed in the first house in a birth chart.

So hey Nick, thanks for joining me.

Thanks for having me back, Chris.

Yeah, this is a big topic. I've been meaning to do this series for a while. I already did a full series a few years ago on the meaning of each of the planets in astrology, and then I followed that up with a year-long series on the meaning of each of the science of the zodiac.

So now I'm going to be doing this as the first episode in a new series where I do a deep dive into the meaning of each of the 12 houses in astrology and we're going to start here with the very first house which is the first house itself.

So thanks a lot for joining me. This is a big topic, but it's one that's probably one of the most important in

astrology because the houses are so crucial to birth chart interpretation.

Yeah, absolutely. And they are the most confounding part of horoscopic astrology, I'd say, because they're clearly the part of astrology that were designed by, that was designed by people as opposed to, you know, the study of planets, which is just a sort of an observation of nature.

So their origin is mysterious to us.

There's a sort of inherent logic to them, but at the same time, they're

sort of almost out of reach in terms of trying to understand them fully. So that, yeah, they require a lot more

sort of investigation and thought and contemplation,

even I think, for that very reason.

Definitely.

So we're going to talk a little bit conceptually about what the first house means in terms of the

astrological tradition and some of those inherited meanings, but then we're also going to focus

a lot on looking at example charts because it's really when you start looking at a bunch of different charts

of the lives of individuals

and seeing how their life has played out

within the context of the first house

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