If planets are the cast and signs are their costumes, the houses are the stage: twelve sets where the action actually plays out.
The houses are twelve slices inside the wheel, and they don’t turn with the zodiac; they’re pinned to the horizon at your birth. Each rules an area of life. Tap around the wheel above to walk through them.
- 1st: self, body, how you show up.
- 2nd: money, values, self-worth.
- 3rd: communication, siblings, the daily mind.
- 4th: home, family, roots.
- 5th: romance, creativity, play.
- 6th: work, health, routine.
- 7th: partnership and one-to-one relationships.
- 8th: intimacy, shared resources, depth.
- 9th: belief, travel, study, meaning.
- 10th: career, public role, reputation.
- 11th: friends, community, hopes.
- 12th: solitude, rest, the unconscious.
Where a planet ‘lives’
A planet’s house tells you where in life it shows up. Venus (love) in the 10th house? Affection that plays out in public, woven into your career. The same Venus in the 4th? Love centred on home and family.
Two skies, one chart: Western and Vedic
Here’s where it gets interesting. There are two great traditions, and they divide the very same sky differently. Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, anchored to the seasons; Vedic (Indian) astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, anchored to the actual stars. Over the centuries the two have drifted about 24° apart.
That gap is enough to slide a planet a whole sign. Flip between the two below:
Neither is ‘wrong’; they’re two lenses on one moment. minmini reads your chart through both, side by side, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.