Significance of House Cusps in astrology horoscope chart

First House (Ascendant or Lagna)

This is the most important house in the chart and plays an important role right throughout the life of an individual. It represents the physical stature, complexion, form and shape of an individual. The health, vigor, vitality and natural tendencies are controlled by this house. This also represents personality, jest for life, honor, dignity, well being, upper part of the face, longevity and start in life. To elaborate the house, the areas would be:

Approach to life
Beginning of all enterprises
Early childhood
Facade
Health
How others relate to us
How you achieve
Impulsive actions based on self-image
Individuality: the way you express yourself
Personality: mannerisms, style, disposition
Physical appearance
Self-awareness
The self you let others see
The way you ‘package’ and ‘market’ yourself
What our personality needs to aspire to
Worldly outlook

Second House (Wealth)

All money matters are governed by this house. Fortune, profits and gains, power and resources, security, material achievements, jewellery, shares, security, speech, eyes, vision, stocks and bonds, precious stones, memory, education, tongue, nose teeth, chin and family are governed by this house. This is also a death inflicting house. To elaborate the second house, the areas would be:

Ability to relax
Balance between needs for material and spirituality
Karma involving money
Natural gifts and talents
One’s heredity
One’s personal resources: money, possessions and material attachments
One’s sexual awareness
Personal comforts you allow yourself
Personal resources and how we use them
Personal value of services given/rendered
Self-esteem and self-worth issues
Sense of values
Substance: material and objective goals around the accumulation of money and possessions

Third House (Courage, Siblings, Relatives)

The mental intellect and disposition is governed by this house. Courage and the ability to achieve things and complete tasks are represented by this house. Relationships with brothers and sister’s, assistance or otherwise from them are also studied from this house. Relations with neighbors, velour, short travels, communications & transport, correspondence, writing, change of residence, contracts, agreements, rumors carrying tales, hands, throat, shoulder blade, collar bones arms and nervous system are some things that this house gives information about. To elaborate the third house, the areas would be:

Capacities for adapting
Early education
Expressive and receptive communication
Making connections in my immediate environment
Our need to communicate ideas
Our personalized filter through which we judge our surroundings
Our sensory perceptions
Our vehicles and how we use them
Short trips
Sibling relationships
Taken for granted skills
The awareness of our immediate environment
The concrete mind
The way we move in our day by day lives
The way you think, speak and write

Fourth House (Mother & Happiness)

Mother, native place, residence, domestic environment, grave, private affairs, secret life, luxury vehicles,fields,pastures,farms,orchards,mines,buildings,houses,ancestral property, hidden treasure, academic education, wells, water, milk, ponds, lakes etc, are represented by this house. To elaborate the fourth house, the areas would be:

Early childhood experiences
Emotional undercurrents
Endings
How you guard your privacy or personal matters
Learning self-sufficiency outside of family influence
Mirrors the psychological makeup of your life
Our early environment
Our emotional foundations
Our family: especially mother (primary care giver)
Represents the basic and fundamental side of your nature
The beginning and end of life
The karmic reasons we choose our parents
What home, tradition and family means to you
What our physical home needs to be

Fifth House (Progeny, Romance and Education)

Progeny, whether one will have children or not, of what sex, inclination, recreation, pleasure, artistic talents, entertainment & amusement, sports, excelling in competitive activities likes crosswords, cards, games of chance, gambling or betting, love affairs, ambassadors, good or bad morals, religious mindedness, high learning and wisdom, enormous riches, spiritual practices etc are represented by this house. To elaborate the fifth house, the areas would be:

Creativity and self-expression
Emotional attitude
Enthusiasm and energy toward personal interests
Exercise
Generosity
How we experience joy/create fun
How you mold inner self’s yearning into issues
Mastery of self and self goals
Our birth children
Our inner child
Our social life
Play games
Risk-taking/gambling
Self-expression
The manner in which we create fun
The manner in which we give love
Vacations
Values and lessons you give to others

Sixth House (Disease & Enemies)

Types of diseases, whether they will be curable or not, nursing, food, services, employees, subordinates or servants, debts, cattle, tenants, jealousy, enemies, maternal uncles, mental anguish are represented by this house. To elaborate the sixth house, the areas would be:

Aunts and Uncles
Coping with stress
Health awareness
How we need to prepare ourselves for our debut into relationships and into the world
Interest in food and diet
Our habits and work skills
People who work for us
Personal integration
Physical and psychological health
Self discipline
Self-analysis
Service to others
The care and importance of small animals
The meaning or work in our lives
Unconscious mind

Seventh House (Spouse & Partnership)

Earthly ties and unions, legal bondage, spouse, partners in business, conjugal life, litigation, influence in foreign countries, success and reputation in foreign travels, dangers in life, Relationship with spouse, gains or losses after marriage, type of spouse and his/ her physical and mental disposition. To elaborate the seventh house, the areas would be:

Agreements
Business & professional relationships
Cooperation
Divorce
Face-to-face relationships
Grandparents
Inner attitudes about compromise, harmony and agreement
Interpersonal skills
Lawsuits
Lower courts
Marriage partners
Open enemies
Peers
Projections
The karmic aspects to relating
The public
What relationships symbolize to us
What we see about ourselves in others
What you most lack in self

Eigth House (Death)

Longevity and span of life, inheritance, legacy, wills, insurance, pension, gratuity, accidents, fire or suicide, misery, misfortune, sorrow, strife, worries, disgrace, delay, dejection, disappointment, loss, obstruction, theft and robbery etc are represented by this house. To elaborate the eigth house, the areas would be:

Dealing with other people’s values
Death and other mysteries
Facing the unknown
Facing unknown
Hidden assets
Inheritance
Intense and significant transformational experiences
Legacies and joint assets
Partner’s resources
Phobias based on the events that led to our previous deaths
Secrets
Sexuality
Spiritual regeneration
Support from others
Surgery
Wills

Ninth House (Fortune)

Faith, wisdom, divine worship, pilgrimages, philosophy, fortune, religious disposition, meditation, intuition, sacrifices & charity, father, Preceptor, learning/ teaching, dreams and visions, long journeys, air and sea travel, higher education foreign travels, knees. To elaborate the ninth house, the areas would be:

Dreams (visions)
Expanding your consciousness
Gaining wisdom from our life
Grandchildren
Higher education
Intuition
Law
Long travel
Personal philosophy and belief systems
Philosophic orientation
Religious orientation
The collective mind
Travel and its significance
Understanding different cultures
Understanding of the meaning of life
Vision of life

Tenth House (Profession)

Honour, dignity, public esteem, power and prestige, credit and recognition received for a task completed, success and status, rank and renown, respect and fame, ambition, authority, permanency in job, promotion, advancement in Job, appointments. Government, political power, high posts such as President etc, last rites to parents, honour from Government etc. To elaborate the tenth house, the areas would be:

Achievements
Authority over you
Fame
Honor
How the world sees & evaluates you
How we feel about being in the world
Material & objective goals obtained through profession, reputation & honors
Our career and what it means to us
Our father and what he symbolized
Public visibility
Reputation
Reputation
Road blocks you meet in life & how you work to over come
Status in the community
The government and how we relate to it
Your influence

Eleventh House (Income)

Friends, society, community, favorites, ambitions and wish fulfillment, gain of wealth, success in undertakings, incoming wealth, prosperity, elder brothers, recovery from illness, dawn of fortune, ankles. To elaborate the eleventh house, the areas would be:

Anything new
Attitude towards friends & acquaintances
Capacity for friendship
Causes
Circumstances beyond control
Friendships
Goals
Groups and their importance to us
Helps you focus on the need for togetherness
Hopes & wishes
Humanitarian Interests
Our dreams and ideals
Political trends
Social consciousness
Social movements
Step/foster/adopted Children
The manner in which we receive love
What you most desire in life

Twelfth House (Losses)

Losses and impediments, restraint and limitation, waste and extravagance, expenses whether good or bad, deception, investments & donations, charity, misery and misfortune, sorrow and sin, secret enemies, involvement in scandals, disgrace and insults, secret sorrows. Success through occult affairs, the feet, left eye, left ear, bed pleasures, life and activities in foreign places. To elaborate the twelfth house, the areas would be: