Your Physical Traits and Personality
This house is also known as the ascendant or the rising sign, and personifies life, longevity, self, nature, complexion, vitality, bodily appearance, character, early childhood, personality and fame. It also depicts your outlook towards your life and the impression that others have about you. This house also indicates your head and face.
Material Values and possessions
The second house signifies finances, material resources and assets and the importance of these assets in your life, making this it the Artha house (wealth). Apart from monetary assets, these could also refer to intangible assets such as your intellect, physique, etc. The parts of the body indicated by this house are the eye sight, memory, nails, tongue, nose, teeth, cheeks and chin.
Learning and Communication
The third house signifies your younger brothers, sisters and your relations with them. Your courage, intelligence, your thought process, mental strength, education up to high school, how you relate with others in your formative years, ambitions, short journeys, ornaments, clothes, heroism, patriotism, health of younger brother and his success and failure. The parts of the body indicated by this house are the right ear, hands, throat, arms, nervous system and shoulders. This is also the house of Kama (desire).
Home Life and the Base of Operation
This house signifies mother, property, conveyances, domestic surroundings, happiness from family, inheritances, agriculture land and its products, permanent possessions, loss or gain of one’s dwelling and hidden treasures. Parts of the body indicated by this house are the chest, lung, stomach, elbow joints, major arteries and ribs. As the base of your actions, this house is associated with your material possessions, your soul, your psychological roots, your family and racial traditions, your home and your security and your real estate and property. This is house of Moksha house or liberation.
Recreation, romance and Creativity
This house signifies children, speculation, love and romance, intellectual status, luck, pleasure, legal or illegal amusements, social inclinations, romance, religious bent and wisdom. This is the house of self-expression and shows your efforts distinguish yourself from the other. The parts of the body indicated by this house are belly, heart, liver, spleen and gall bladder. This is also the house of Dharma or right action.
The Work Environment, Duties, Health
This house signifies the field of service, work, health matters, duties, practical tasks, relations with servants, employees and subordinates, uncles and aunts, debts, obstacles in life, mental worries, theft and calamity, illnesses, mental worries, pets, enemies and efforts. The parts of the body indicated by this house are kidney, large intestines, uterus and anus. This is house Artha or wealth.
Relationships, Partner, Marriage
As the house of relationships, this house signifies matters regarding spouse, partnership, marriage, agreements, conjugal happiness, contracts, business partnerships, public deals, litigations, divorce, honor and reputation in foreign country and social nature. This is also the house of your social consciousness and cooperation or the lack of it. Parts of the body indicated by this house are the private parts of the body, uterus, glands, lumber and vertebrae. This is the house of Kama or desires.
Meeting Needs, Life’s secrets, Joint resources
This house signifies diseases, death, longevity, psychic ability, knowledge of psychology, fear, misfortunes, inheritance, gain from in laws, gain from wife, finances through unfair means, internal sex organs, mental pain, obstacles, mode of death, property of partner, etc. As the house of joint resources, it represents the possessions that are not earned by you but obtained through relationships and inheritance. The parts of the body indicated by this house are the pelvic, bones, testicles, external genitalia, seminal vesicles etc. This is house of Moksha or liberation.
Travel, Higher Learning, Philosophy of Life
This house signifies the father, preceptor, religion, higher education, publicity, learning, faith, wisdom, prosperity, intuitive power, religious institutions, providential help and divine worship, foreign travel, etc. This is very auspicious house in the horoscope and is also known as the house of fate or destiny. It indicates previous karmas, spiritual life and attainments, pilgrimages, temples and religious beliefs. It is also the house of long range goals, planning and long distance travel. The parts of the body indicated by this house are hips, thighs, female arteries and the sacral region. This is house of Dharma or right action.
Career, Prestige and Reputation
This house signifies career or vocation, profession, occupation and business, status, power, achievements including promotion, profits, permanent positions and advancements in career. This is also the house of worldly attainments. It is also connected to the profession, affairs of state or of the large-scale operations. Body parts indicated by this house are knee joints, patellae, bones and joints, hair, nails, and skeleton in general. This is the house of Artha or wealth.
Friendships, Associations, Ideals and Causes
This house indicates friends, groups, profits and gains, goals, hopes, dreams, aspirations, elder brother, elder sister, emotional attachments, love affairs, social success, fulfillments and realization of desires. This is the house of achievements of goals and objectives and is also referred to as the house of hopes and wishes. The parts of the body indicated by this house are legs, left ear, teeth ankle etc. This is the house of Kama or desires.
The Subconscious, psychological issues, secrets
This house signifies enlightenment, expenditure, confinement, law suits, imprisonment, loss, debts, hospitalization, conjugal relations with opposite sex and life in foreign land. It also relates to the subconscious mind, emotional problems, secrets and deceptions. The body parts indicated by this house are the feet, left eye and legs. This is also the house of Moksha or liberation.