Each House has a particular meaning, so your attribute for that house, rated on a scale of 1 to 5, can apply to more than a few skills. The skills covered are on the House Skill Wheel. However, each House has symbolic meaning as well. Listed below are the more esoteric meanings.
The First House
This is the field of experience in which you are challenged to develop your
own unique identity and present it to the world. Traditionally this house
is associated with personal appearance and first impressions
The Second House
This is the field of experience in which you are challenged to define and
refine your personal sense of values. The things, talents, and qualities that
you treasure, cherish, enjoy, and hold on to for security are here. Traditionally
this house is associated with resources and personal values.
The Third House
This is the field of experience in which you are challenged to organize personal
experiences to form your own unique picture of the world, and then communicate
your perceptions to others. Traditionally this house is associated with brothers
and sisters, basic education, eye-hand coordination and manual dexterity.
The Fourth House
This is the field of experience in which you are challenged to develop your
capacity for emotional closeness; to find a feeling of security; and to face
the effects your early childhood experiences had upon you. Traditionally this
house is associated with nurturing, inherited traits, unconditional love,
and the type of home you establish.
The Fifth House
This is the field of experience in which you are challenged to develop your
creativity and self-esteem, and to find joy in living. Traditionally this
house is associated with children enthusiasm, creativity, and motivation.
The Sixth House
This is the field of experience in which you are challenged to seek competence;
to function efficiently, in your physical body and in your work. Traditionally
this house is associated with work, health, services, habit patterns, food,
diet, and pets.
The Seventh House
This is the field of experience in which you are challenged to develop committed
relationships with others. Traditionally this house is associated with your
attitudes toward spouses and partners, intimate relationships, friends, dealings
with the public, what you look for in others.
The Eighth House
This is the field of experience in which you are challenged to boldly wrest
all the powers of your psyche from the deep, dark underworld; focus all that
power with ruthless intensity on the process of breaking down your reality
structure into little pieces, then reassemble all the pieces into a new whole.
Here is the place where all the taboos of society are addressed; where you
dig into your own "internal garbage" to find the treasure hidden
there. Traditionally this house is associated with other people’s resources
(possessions, money), sex, death, and regeneration.
The Ninth House
This is the field of experience in which you are challenged to broaden your
philosophical perspectives and to realize your highest potentials. Traditionally
this house is associated with the higher mind, higher education, law, and
in-laws and grand children.
The Tenth House
This is the field of experience in which you are challenged to earn respect
and recognition in the world. Traditionally this house is associated with
ambition, status, reputation, career, the parent who set limits for you as
a child.
The Eleventh House
This is the field of experience in which you are challenged to establish a
relationship with group consciousness and contribute your gifts to community.
Traditionally this house is associated with, humanitarian organizations, associations,
friends, hopes, wishes and ambitions, shared ideals.
The Twelfth House
This is the field of experience in which you are challenged to explore your
inner depths in solitude and silence; to discern between illumination and
illusion, between spiritual growth and escapism. Before you can transcend
the definitions of reality that confine you, you must be willing to let go
of them. These definitions often have to become uncomfortable before we want
to let go of them. Disillusionment and the experience of "bad luck"
can create the desire to move through and beyond what is causing the pain.
Traditionally this house is associated with the unconscious, self-undoing,
sacrifice, karma, secrets, secret enemies, hospitals and institutions of confinement.
