Then again, that’s to be expected from a house that is cadent and under the earth: it’s easy to overlook. Whenever we come to this part of the chart I have to take a beat and figure out how to use words again, because they often fail me.Īre we looking at siblings? Family? Paperwork? A short trip? What if the person doesn’t have siblings? What do we do with the third house then? Or if a concern is about a communication between a person and their relatives: what’s the issue with the third house here-is it communication, or is it relatives?īut in preparing this article I’ve come to a deeper understanding of what the third house is actually about, and if we break it away from the “third house equals Gemini equals communication” model that is prevalent in most of the beginner astrology books out there, it takes on a particular richness that is easily missed if one stays purely at the surface level. It never feels certain which direction to go when interpreting third house matters in the situation that a person presents you with in a nativity or in a horary question. On the surface, it’s such a grab-bag of significations throughout the astrological tradition that doesn’t lend itself well to focused interpretation in the way that, say, the second house does with money matters, or the tenth house does with career. Admittedly, my posture towards the third house has been one of, “…well, we can get to that later.”
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