Whole Sign houses, explained

A house is an area of life. Your chart has twelve of them, and in Whole Sign — the oldest and simplest system — each one is exactly one zodiac sign.

Whichever sign was rising on the eastern horizon at your birth becomes your entire first house. The next sign in order becomes your second, and so on around the circle. No cusps cutting through the middle of signs, no house that swallows sixty degrees while another gets fifteen.

The twelve topics:

1. Self — body, vitality, character, how you show up 2. Livelihood — money, resources, what you accumulate 3. Kin and errands — siblings, short trips, daily communication 4. Roots — home, family, ancestry, private foundations 5. Delight — children, creativity, pleasure, romance 6. Toil — work, health, routine, obligation 7. Partnership — marriage, contracts, open opponents 8. Shared fate — other people's money, debt, endings 9. The journey — travel, study, belief, teachers 10. The summit — career, reputation, public action 11. Allies — friends, networks, hopes, benefactors 12. The hidden — solitude, rest, what works behind the scenes

Two things to read. First, which planets sit in which house — those are the areas getting direct pressure or support. Second, where each house's ruling planet lives, because that shows how one area of your life feeds another. A tenth-house ruler sitting in the ninth says your career runs through travel, teaching or study.

All of this needs an accurate birth time. If yours is a guess, mark it unknown in Settings and we will hide houses rather than mislead you.