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3. Significance of Houses:

The Twelve Houses as different Fields of Activity. Each house
represents a more definite field of activity by which the Ego tries to
gain his experiences and this field of activity is most closely connected
with the sign that is represented by the house. The chief difference
between them is, that the houses denote experiences on the physical
plane and the signs denote the extent of our feelings and emotions,
including the intellect. So we may regard the houses as representing
our body and the signs represents the soul. Both serve as instruments
for the spirit. Taken in this way we must regard the first house as the
lowest plane by which the first zodiacal sign Aries expresses itself, the
second house, in the same way corresponds to Taurus, the third to
Gemini, the fifth to Leo, the eighth to Scorpio etc. The expression of
a planet, either through a sign, or through a house, differs only as to
the plane on which the action is felt; we might compare it to an
emotion expressed in form. The higher an individuality rises in
evolution, the more he rises above the form, the more independent of
it he grows ; from this it follows that a highly developed Ego will
observe the expression of a planet through a house otherwise than a
low developed Ego, and now we can imagine that there is a stage on
which a highly developed Ego can observe the action of a planet
through a house in the same way as a lower developed Ego feels it by
expression through the sign corresponding to that house, so it is a
difference in consciousness. Each sign is a content and each house is a
transparent receptacle. This content when put into the house gives a
special quality to it. The beginning of the house is known as the Cusp
of the house. The house extends from the cusp of the house to the
cusp of the next house. However the Indian tradition to call cusp as
“Bhava Madhya“ is now accepted by Western Astrologers also, that
being the most sensitive point of the House. There are 12 houses

called Bhava.
The significations of the houses are tabulated below for ready
reference.
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