Have you ever been asked to describe yourself (i.e., who am I)? The 1st House is the house of the self and identity in its basic form, and the foundation for answering this type of question.
The 1st House is the beginning of the human experience and 1 of the 4 Houses that initiate and develop our personalities. The 1st House is the immediate impulses of the personality that will develop into a concrete and dependable personality. The 1st House is also the place where our awareness of our Ascendent begins to take shape because this House is known as the “gate to the inner life.”
The reason that the 1st House is known as the “gate to the inner life,” is because it is the beginning of the human experience, the time when we are getting to know how we feel about ourselves and what we feel inside. We push boundaries and limits to understand ourselves better and to understand how we impact others. It is the House of awareness and vision and it is the time when we seek to find our potential and truth within our own beings.
The 1st House of the is the house that deals with the conscious self and the development of our basic identities. It creates the spark between how we feel, what we think about, and how we act/react to the world around us. This house is part of our consciousness, and comes to be after ascending from the darkness of the womb into the lightness of being.
At any time in our lives that a new beginning is afoot, the 1st house embodies the qualities we possess to handle new beginnings and the excitement and challenges a new beginning is sure to bring. It is the place where birth occurred and the planetary pattern was captured within us for future use.
We inherit looks, abilities/talents, a temperament, characteristics, and a personality as we make our way into the 1st of the 12 houses of the Zodiac. This house provides us with the context by which we learn to embrace change and new beginning, and who we instinctively know ourselves to be before we are molded by our environments, relationships, beliefs, and educations. Furthermore, the 1st house encompasses how others see us and how we show up.
1st House Signs
Below is a list of planets with generic descriptions that may be positioned in your 1st House. If you would like to learn more about how your 1st house planets relate to all the other signs and planetary positions in your chart, a birth chart reading will offer an incredible wealth of personalized information.