- House type
- Angular
- Natural sign / ruler
- Cancer / Moon
Keywords: Family, origins, home, parents, privacy, the later years
The 4th house is the bottom of the chart (the IC, imum coeli) and represents the sky beneath your feet at the moment of your birth. It is the house of the hidden side of life.
It describes where you come from: family history, the childhood home, your roots and the private space where you truly feel safe. In traditional texts, land and property belong here too.
It forms an axis with the 10th house: the 10th is what is public, the 4th what is private. Astrologically, the tension between career and family is read along this axis.
If the house is empty
If it is empty, its ruler and the position of the Moon are read together.
Other houses
- 1st house · Self and appearance
- 2nd house · Resources and value
- 3rd house · Mind and immediate surroundings
- 5th house · Creation and pleasure
- 6th house · Work and routine
- 7th house · Partnership
- 8th house · Shared resources and transformation
- 9th house · Meaning and distant horizons
- 10th house · Career and visibility
- 11th house · Community and the future
- 12th house · Retreat and the unconscious