Astrological Houses
House 1: Self, Appearances, Body, Beginnings
I feel lysergic, lackadaisical, quantum, terrestrial. I can be dramatic, assertive, and nervous. I am trapped within the cardinal directions. My atoms came from space. My brain is filled with juice. Earth is an experiment. The aliens abducted all my friends. Do we have the choice to exist or don’t we?
House 2: Money and Possessions
Sometimes hobbies, passions, and fear are misdirected energy. Sometimes I can’t tell the difference between any of them. The world is turning sideways now and we all might just fall off. This time-line is going faster, can’t you tell? In the last universe I only had one kidney, in this one I can walk through walls and read minds. What if all the magnetic energy in the sun ceased at once?
House 3: Thinking and Communication
A thousand feathers of disappointment, negativity becomes salient. When thoughts jump around like fleas and bite like bed bugs, an extermination becomes necessary. You can focus on the positive but the negative is still there. You don’t want to abandon your thoughts, or else they will be orphans. They are your children and you must treat them as such. Your thoughts are a part of you, its time to give them a nurturing home.
House 4: Home and Family
Home is where you are. Home is where your family is, where your friends are. Home is where your belongings lie, where you rest and relax. Home is where you sleep, home is security, financial realization. Home is here, right now, on these pages and in between these words. Home is the confines of a cell wall, home is the prison or the zoo. Home is the cranium and all the thoughts trapped inside with you. Sometimes home is where your family isn't, where you can be left alone.
House 5: Romance and Love
Every corner I turn, I am reminded of my insignificance. It is rare that a moment is so illuminating that an unrivaled empowerment shines through. Occasionally I understand some grand pattern that crosses boundaries between every thing in existence, but mostly I am very confused and pondering the world. Beauty and love are so great that they can’t fit in such negligible vessels. As I’m writing the battle within me becomes manifest.
House 6: Health, Fitness, Organization
I know the mind is deceitful, it caters to the ego. It thinks its way out of controversy or responsibility. It justifies all types of actions, it appropriates emotion and nature. The mind gives character to nihilism and animates the myriad distractions present within life. It invents the traps and pitfalls of humanity like war. Even in a world straying from peace, we must know that peace and order are possible; the idealized form is waiting to become real. I cannot escape the intimacy of myself.
House 7: Relationships, Equality, Sharing
Careers, friendship, social rules, they are all very silly little games. A compassionate intention plus positive outcome equals a ‘good’ action. Good becomes subjective by the time that the reverberations of an action causes unintentional consequences. Inhibit the sources of indirect harm you create, and all actions become benevolent.
House 8: Sex, Intimacy, Shared Resources
The drug like rush of infatuation constantly lingers like a wind chime, reminding you of lost time and days gone past. The effervescent glow of catharsis punctuates the limitation of my being. Knowing what not might be lost but will, a curse of wisdom which at times cleavers the dominion of commune and harmony. The rigid boundaries of society which protect our egos at the cost of our souls, we are deprived and depraved beings, we know shame better than most.
House 9: Travel, Wisdom, Philosophy
The way that the world is changing, the way that I am discovering myself; it explodes outward like a firework. Whiplash like a guillotine, my world dissolving every day, my sense of self shifting by the hour. Sometimes I am a really bad and inconvenient person, I can be aggressive and disappointing and intense. I wish my connection to the world was more consistent, I’m throwing myself down in anger to experience what other people might be feeling right now. I’m crying the tears of a million ancestors, I am drinking water from the beginning of life. I thirst for the days of connection and communion, the horizon long felt and steadily waiting. Even when my isolation is dire, I dream of complete freedom and holistic embodiment.
House 10: Career, Long Term Goals, Public Image
A deep and warm force of nature lies below like a geographic eruption in wait. This subtle possibility of gratification animates my spirit even in pain; it grants me respite yet generates all fear. All possible emotions run through me fighting for their chance at outward expression. I’m so hyper-aware of my own faults and limitations while constantly seeing a trend towards unlikely positivity. Anything is possible and I’m tired of the preconceived limitations that we tend to place on endeavor.
House 11: Groups, Friends, Humanitarianism
Memories are the only thing fueling the illusions of short comings related to belonging. Belonging only seems like a dream fragment sometimes, and how I wish I felt this feeling among the atoms and walls and trees. I remember a time when I could finally and truly let go, so fleeting and sparse, I just want to go back. Everything made sense, I had ultimate freedom and autonomy. I loved it. When I woke up, I realized how restricted and alone I felt. There's a strange feeling about the familiarity of your room at night after you’ve awoken from your deepest dreams.
House 12: Endings, Closure, Spirituality, Subconscious
Desire is a concession concealed within the most erroneous actions in a given day. The euphoria I feel finally knowing that I live forever and will have an eternity of recollect my dreams. To visit the places and people that seem forever aloof. I am the gateway to my own being, and I must only walk through to find meaning in the world. There is no other path for me besides experiencing limitation and being okay with it. When life becomes trial, I can mound up my extensive qualities into a pile and call it the present moment. I will weigh myself down in place like water, like an ocean suddenly torrential, like the moon on the precipice of another phase. The wave must always follow the motion of the water.