First house

The first house and the room chosen for the measurement are the same... 

In addition, before going for help, you should compile a list of individualized questions that account for your own special needs, writing them down so they can be easily remembered and taking notes on how the therapist answers each question. It is important for you to remember how important this decision may be for your health. You wouldn t necessarily buy the first house you see, or have your surgery at the first hospital you pass. Check out several treatment programs or therapists to ensure that you are making the best selection for your needs. 

These are from Formans judgements on the first house, Ashm. 363, fos. 3o -44. For fear and disease see David Gentilcore, The Fear of Disease and the Disease of Fead, in William Naphy and Penny Roberts (eds.), Fear in Early Modern Society (Manchester, 1997), 184-208. 

It makes no difference whether you re a fun-loving Leo or a workaholic Capricorn, you still have to deal with relationships, money, health, career, and so on. Those areas come under the authority of the houses, which divide the sky into 12 parts, beginning with the Ascendant, which marks the start of the first house. The meanings of the houses are summarized in Table 1-4. 

First house Your appearance and surface personality... 

The first house begins at nine o clock and extends counterclockwise to eight o clock, the second house begins at eight o clock and goes to seven o clock, and so on. 

Now take a blank horoscope wheel like the one on the Cheat Sheet and assign Scorpio to the first house, Sagittarius to the second, and so on, as shown in Figure 3-2. Write the symbols for the planets (or their names) in the correct houses. If you re a beginner, you may want to do this in plain English, a process that yields a chart that looks something like Figure 3-3. 

It would make a world of difference. One child, bom with Gemini rising, Mercury on the Ascendant, and the Sun in the first house, is Candy Barr, the platinum-haired stripper who died in 2005. The other, born with Cancer rising, Pluto on the Ascendant, and the Sun in the twelfth house, is the Dalai Lama. This stark difference suggests how crucial the rising sign and house placements can be. They re as important as sign placements. 

I Moon in the first house Don t imagine that your emotions are hidden or disguised in any way. Thanks to your unconscious need to express your feelings and be accepted, they re obvious to all. Your well-being is oddly dependent on your appearance and how people perceive you. 

Those close to the Midheaven (in either the ninth house or the first ten degrees of the tenth house) and those close to the Ascendant (in either the twelfth house or the first ten degrees of the first house). 

Not every successful professional has one of these placements. The absence of an angular planet doesn t in any way doom you to failure. But if, perchance, Mars (or any other planet) happens to occupy the angular Gauquelin zones in your chart, that planet should be considered especially robust. In the case of Mars, it may not bestow you with the ability to outdo Shaquille O Neal (whose Mars is in the first house). But it should at least give you a certain swagger. 

Neptune in the first house You re impressionable, dreamy, and fluid. Your intuition is acute, but you can easily become dependent. You confuse and fascinate people they aren t sure who you are or what you re up to because your identity seems to shift. There s a good chance that you have musical or artistic ability. 

By assuming parallels between the houses and the signs, so that the first house is equivalent to Aries, the second house to Taurus, and so on, you can classify the houses in revealing ways, as in Table 14-4. To consider your chart in this way, count how many planets you have in each trio of houses. 

Say, for example, that you have Leo rising — that is, Leo on the cusp of your first house. When the Moon is in that sign, it s traveling through your first house. Once it swings into Virgo, it enters your second house. And so on. 

Specifically, he had Jupiter (and Chiron) conjunct the Midheaven, Mars in the tenth house, the Sun closely conjunct the Ascendant, and two planets — Venus and Neptune, the planets of art — in the first house. Plus, he had four planets and the Ascendant in Leo. Fame was his birthright. 

The Moon is arguably the most important planet, as the researcher Michel Gauquelin discovered. He found that creative writers are more likely than nonwriters to have the Moon in one of the so-called zones of power either overhead (that is, in the ninth house or conjunct the Midheaven in the tenth) or rising (in the first house conjunct the Ascendant or in the twelfth house of secrets and solitude). 

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