I hope that everyone has understood the idea of "blending" different things in an astrology chart.  If you have not been able to do this, without looking at someone else's interpretation, then please go back and read all previous lessons and threads before going on.  

The ability to reason out, use critical thinking, and think through, these basic "blending" ideas in astrology is very important.  When you can blend the basics together, without help and without someone else's spin on them, then you can successfully start to blend more complex topics in astrology.  Being able to blend the basics yourself is the foundation upon which everything else is built.

The Basics
The Triplicities (The Four Elements)
Angular, Suceedant, Cadent
Cardinal, Fixed, Mutable
And the individual Houses, Planets, and Sun Signs

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We are now going to move from the 5th House, Sun, and Leo into the Moon, Cancer, and 4th House.

Please see the graphic.

Just like the previous lesson about the 5th house, Leo, and Sun...the 4th House, Moon, and Cancer all have similar meanings.  

I am also posting a graphic for the 4th House.  You can print this out for your notebook, or for your index cards.  You will notice that this time, I haven't given you a lot of keywords or information about the 4th House.

**So, I am asking YOU to post information about the 4th House to begin this Lesson.  What does the 4th House mean?  Can you give some examples of activities and things that are represented by the 4th House?  (Just the 4th House, please.  We will talk about Cancer and the Moon in the next sections).  

If you quote someone else's description about the 4th House, always give a link to the website or credit to them in your post.


It would be easy to just give you another list of things about the 4th House.  But, I find that the more you participate, the more I learn, too!  So we all benefit from the things you find, the questions you ask, and the information you post!  It also helps me know "where you are" in your understanding so I can tailor the class to the needs of everyone.  So, please participate!  

There is yet another reason for you to look-up and post information about the 4th House!  Those who study how people "learn" have found that simply reading something is a poor way to retain the knowledge and information!  But, when you actively seek out information, and the very ACT of writing it with typing causes that information to be "stored" more strongly in memory because it uses many different parts of your brain to do the seeking and writing = strong storage in memory and easier retrieval of those things learned later.

This is a time to help everyone find more keywords and information for your notebooks and index cards.  Like the previous lesson, we will soon start to do interpretations on the things we learn about this astrology 4th house!

I will post the next section after there has been participation with this one!  

Fourth house ( Home)

Home is where the heart is. A strong fourth house would represent home, peace, unconditional love, satisfaction , learning, personality development ,instincts, emotions, parents ( father and mother),security, warmth, true *real* relationships, happiness,roots, traditions, religions, bonds, connection and feelings.

A child who knows that he can walk in to his home anytime is the one who is the happiest irrespective of the degrees he acquires .A husband who knows that after gruelling working hours his wife waits for him is the most satisfied irrespective of the job pressures. A woman who works late hours and knows that her children are safe in the house with their father is the one who is satisfied.An aging parent who puts his head on his mother lap is the one who is at peace.

Fourth house  is an angular house and talks about beginings. Beginings at happy homes are one of the best ones and strongest ones and are a blessing.Home is the true place of worship.

SO fourth house even if it is based in the nadir is the root of our total personality and areas that need to be addressed first.

Okay I will go googling now and will update if I find something interesting.

I understand the philosophy behind your post.  The home being a sanctuary from the world, and a place of many activities and feelings.  However, I am going to correct the things you've attributed to the 4th House.  The reason it is important to have the correct "rulership" of Houses is because when doing detailed charts, like horary or progressions, believing that a House "means" something that it does not, would give an inaccurate reading.  That is why I'm going to "nit-pick" here.  

Please do not be discouraged or affronted by these corrections.  Because of this, you have allowed me to illustrate an important thing about the 4th House!  So, I thank you for your effort and willingness to participate!     We are just beginning, so do not worry if everything isn't exactly right...that's what I'm here for...and you're here for!  




Peace is not of the 4th House.  It is of the 7th House.  Peace at home would be found by transits and aspects between planets in the 4th and 7th House and their rulerships.  Alernatively, an unpeaceful home would be indicated in the same way.

Unconditional love is not of the 4th House.  It is of the 12th House.

Learning is not of the 4th House.  If pre-college, it is of the 3rd House.  If higher education, it is of the 9th House.

Security is a 4th House subject, as long as it is one's personal security (as opposed to national security or other kinds of security).

True real relationships might be misunderstood.  The 4th House could indicate relationships with mother and father, in general.  Yet, other Houses would rule whether the father of a female child and another House would rule if a male child.  Also with relationships, the 4th House would not indicate relationships with siblings, friends, spouses, etc.

Warmth is of the Sun, or the 5th House.  Feelings of warmth, caring, would be indicated by planets in the 4th and 5th Houses and their rulerships.  Happiness would be indicated by the same as "warmth."

Religions is not of the 4th House.  In general, religion is of the 9th House.

Bonds would only be of the 4th House with a general "roots" of home.  "Bonds" of investment or money matters would be 2nd House.

It is clear that you have good feelings for the idea of "home."  When someone is sentimental about their home, the "sentimentality" is of the 4th House!    But, you must remember that not all people feel the same way about "home."  Some have had a miserable existence at "home" whether their home as an adult, or their memories of home as a child.  So, the 4th House does not give the kind of feelings about home, but only the feelings in general without saying what those feelings may be, "good" or "bad" ones.  The 4th House "rules" feelings and emotions in general only.



Again, please do not confuse the kind or actual feeling with feelings in general.  A "feeling" can be happiness or sadness.  The 4th House encompasses both kinds of feelings.  I agree that your description is something to be yearned for in a home, but please don't forget that the 4th House represents "feelings" and "emotions" of all kinds.



Something we haven't talked about in very much detail yet is the sequence of different Angular, Suceedant, and Cadent Houses.  The 4th House is the second Angular House.  The first Angular house is the 1st House.  Since it is the second in the series of Angular houses, it is not the true beginning, but only the beginning of the second cycle of beginnings.  (I hope that doesn't sound too confusing!)  So, the 4th House is not the first personality of personality development.  The first personality development is represented by the 1st House, realizing the "I am" concept, the sense of self.  Then, the personality develops by learning his relationship within the home...the 4th House, etc.

Again, thank you soulsearch!  Does anyone else have 4th House subjects?  Please do not worry about being wrong, or appearing foolish (I mention this because that's how I feel sometimes when I make a mistake or mis-state something.)  This is excellent information that soulsearch's post brought out for the class!  Thank you!

House of mother, parent or nurturer
Family, history, traditions, heritage
old age, endings, final resting place

Yes, and isn't it interesting that "final resting place" and "old age" are included in the 4th House!  

In general, one wouldn't group together "home of childhood" and "home as an adult" and a "final resting place!"  Yet, in astrology, they are all ruled by the 4th House.  Does anyone have an idea why this should be so?  Any relationships between these "homes," so to speak?  Could the relationship between all these places be where we spend our time, where our body is "housed" during the respective periods of life?