The Succedent House Meanings in Childhood and Retirement

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we're going to continue looking at the meanings of the houses with specific attention to how the meanings of the houses may shift or change at different times of life. For example, sort of breaking life into three stages in the series, we've got childhood, what the house meanings look like for kids, and then we have the sort of mid-life range, which is what most people are used to when they hear about the meanings of the houses, they're usually being applied to people who are, say, between 20 and 60. I'm just making that up.

But then we have another stage of life, which is, you know, retirement, or let's call it if life were broken into three acts, let's call it the third act, maybe between 60 and 90, something like that. Another often neglected way of talking about houses is in terms of what those places look like at the early stage of life and the later stage of life, and I'm doing this because, in the comments section of a lot of my horoscopes, I get people saying, Hey, I'm retired, could you talk about what this might mean if I'm no longer concerned with, say career and income? Or, you know, maybe I've been married for 40 years. I'm not going to meet someone new at this point, or you never know. But this series is devoted to helping people understand the meanings of the houses and how they may express themselves differently at different stages. I get a lot of parents that ask, what about this house for my seven-year-old?

I started off thinking we would do all 12 houses, but I realized that as I was going through them, it would be better to break it into three sections. So today, we're going to look at the succeeding houses, which would be 2,5,8 and 11. We started off by looking at the angular houses 1,4,7 and 10. So we'll just kind of take this four houses at a time, and we'll do a third part probably next week. So anyway, that is our agenda for today.

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Now let's bring up the I'm going to bring up a chart so that I can walk you through the meanings of houses 2,5,8, and 11. Today, from the standpoint of childhood, and we'll call it retirement. Okay, so, again, the purpose of this series is really to help all of you out there who are students of astrology, or those of you who like to listen to horoscopes regularly, to learn how the meanings of the houses might change, depending on the stage of life you're in, or again if you're a parent, what stage of life your child is in or something like that.

So, let's start with the second house. The second house, all of the succedent houses, are called succedent because they by means of the diurnal rotation that brings the sun in this direction around the wheel clockwise. That's this, the rising of the sun that culminating at high noon, the setting of the sun, going down beneath the earth, anti-culminating and then rising again, that 24-hour motion brings both planets and signs through the 12-whole sign positions, hour after hour.

You can almost imagine that for ancient astrologers, the 12 houses are like 12 positions in a circular Tarot spread, and as the signs move, it's like cards moving through the positions, okay? Position one is, you know, the past, and you know, like in a tarot spread, you might have a three-card spread that has the position, past, present, and future, but the cards will be different depending on which cards you flip over in those positions.

The signs and planets are some sort of like cards rotating through the positions of the houses; from this standpoint, collect, gather, or take one sign at a time; it's called whole sign houses in ancient astrology. When we're considering this movement of signs and planets through the 12 whole sign houses, the general motion that they move in is clockwise. So, every succedent house carries one similar meaning, which is that it is preparing to become the angular position.

Next, house 11 is about to become house 10. It's aiming toward or moving toward the 10th house; house eight is moving toward the angular position of the seventh, house 5 is moving toward the fourth, and house two is moving toward the first. So they're called succedent because they succeed. The angles that come after sometimes are called post-essential houses insofar as they rise into the powerful position of the angle, in time or in sequence next. So, that carried a kind of symbolic meaning for ancient astrologers. This is something we break down in my programs extensively. The basic meaning is that things in these houses take time to develop and cultivate, and they are always related in meaning to the angular house that they're moving into.

So, for example, the second house is related in meaning to the first house, which is the body, the personality, the psychology, and the health of the native or of the birth chart owner, so to speak. So the second house planets are things that have their relation to the body, personhood, wellbeing, health, and vitality of the native, and they are things that the native will cultivate in time, that add to the natives abilities or that add to the natives values are worth or accomplishments or sense of self and so you can think of the second house like a garden, that within which are growing all of these different facets of your selfhood, that in time will yield results.

It is also everything that is growing in your garden that adds to, contributes, or supports your wellbeing. So this is why it has the meaning of money, for example, but also, more broadly speaking, it's a house that has to do with anything that you acquire or possess that can be supportive to who you are.

For this reason, the second house, at different times, has been associated with a wide variety of different topics, all of which basically have to do with things, people, energy skills that support the native in their health, and dignity and sense of self. So the second house is about what we develop and what we cultivate, that is adding to our sense of who we are, or our health or our stability or vitality, and so for this reason, sometimes you hear it as the house of resources, possessions, money, but these are all derived from the basic meaning of that which is cultivated and in time comes into the identity or possession of the native, or acts as a support for the native.

So in childhood, this is really, really interesting. This can be something that, you know, even from the time that kids or little planets in the second house will show up in terms of what they're working to develop within themselves, as you know, it could, and that could be in terms of skills that they're developing, or the very most basic kinds of skills that will lead to more sophisticated or complicated versions of the same skills in adulthood that could end up contributing to their career and their livelihood.

But it's also about innate abilities that we need in order to be stronger or more capable as people, and so, for example, a lot of children with, let's say, Mars in the second house will be developing the resource, the personal resource of courage, perseverance, bravery, they'll have to overcome fear, and you'll see kids working on this from the time that they're little because these are, in a sense, called cultivated qualities that we begin, we start cultivating at a very early age now later, that Mars in the second house could be the sign of someone who does something entrepreneurial, right, or someone who becomes quite muscular, or someone who, in time, you know, ends up doing it and like an extreme sport, like like surfing or something.

But it could mean a lot of different things is the point, and it's never too early to see kids cultivating things in the second house; just think of it as the garden that within which things are growing, that the child will come to us as a resource, whether it's psychological, or it's a skill, or it's some kind of obstacle that they have to overcome. So that's one way of thinking about the second in childhood that's, you know, can be very useful for parents going like, well, my kid is not going to make money, so what's their second house all about?

Now, in retirement, the question is not how am I making money, you know, maybe I'm on like I'm receiving a pension or you know, whatever like my money making days are behind me, I'm not so concerned with like, you know, side hustles or what I mean like I'm on a fixed in retirement income or something. Now, there are always exceptions, like people will very much still have second house things come up that are just straight up about money, resources, possessions, etc., at all stages and ages of life.

In fact, in kids, you can see sometimes that second house transits will be about what's happening to their parents financially and just setting them up for how they're experiencing money in the environment, and then that has an influence on the trajectory of their lives and relationship with money. So, it can always be related to money. But again, getting to this kind of deeper meaning is helpful in retirement; the question might be, what am I still growing and cultivating?

So one of the things that I hear most regularly from those of my clients who are in retirement phase of life when it comes to the, to the overall stage of life is, you know, questions about what does my chart says about what I can do with this stage of life? What do I contribute? What do I make of myself? How do I learn? How do I grow? What am I cultivating within me? It is a question for all ages and stages of life, and it doesn't have to be about money. So you know, retirement, it might be a skill, or it might be a hobby, or it might be, you know, spiritual development.

They just look different, and there's different, you know, kind of getting to deeper layers of the onion. As you get older, you're peeling back the layers, and it looks different to be working on the qualities of the second house in the third act of life looks different than the first act in terms of how those archetypal patterns show up. But it's still very much a question of what I am cultivating within the garden of my psyche. What skills am I developing? How do I add value to my life? What kinds of resources do I have? And what are the ones that I'm in need of personally or materially?

Okay, so let's go to the fifth house next. So, in the fifth house, we have a really interesting dynamic, and again, to start with the meaning of a succeeding house, we are considering that in time, the fifth house planet is moving into the fourth, and so there's the sense of what is supporting, or what is moving to or related to the fourth house topic, which is, remember for that house, my home after a hard day's work, that kind of thing.

The fifth house was called The Joy of Venus and was associated with pregnancy and children, and joy and fun and creativity, and so one of the most, I think, sort of esoteric ways of understanding the fifth house has to remember it was called The Joy of Venus and a house of pleasure, enjoyment, recreation, associated with like sex and romance, but also pregnancy, and creativity.

All of these qualities are closely associated with the need for release from the worldly occupations, a concern with Dharma, or sacred duty and social standing in the 10th House of Artha. Right, we talked about the 10th houses are concerned with mastery and skill and occupation and things like that.

Well, the seventh house, kama, is associated with pleasure, and the fifth house, in many ways, is as well. But this is a pleasure that relates very closely to the topic of Moksha in the fourth house. One of the things that we do to be released from worldly obligations is to seek creative fulfillment. Now seeking creative. Sorry, guys, I have an internet connection issue today that's causing my connection to cut in and out at times while I'm talking. So, hopefully, this comes through, okay.

But at any rate, you have the Fifth house, a place where you can think of as, in time, a feeling. Okay, we're trying this again; I'm not sure how well this has been coming through because it keeps chopping out, and then the recording picks up again. So I've never had this issue before; it's very Mercury retrograde at the moment.

So, going back to the fifth house, it's a little bit harder to make the connection between the fifth and the fourth, like it's not as intuitive for people. But basically, like, what do you do when you go home at night to your house? One of the things that you do is you seek to deepen your release from the world through creative activities.

So, you know, for example, in the evening, you watch Netflix, or in the evening, you make love, or in the evening, when the sun goes down, your in the privacy of your own home, you can kind of spread out creatively and so there's this just really intimate connection between the pursuit of pleasure and creative fulfillment and even the birthing of children and the need to be connected to things that are of eternal value that sort of liberate you from duty and occupation.

So the fifth house is so intimate it's like pleasure and creativity, as it is related to the need for release from the world and the need for a kind of private sphere, within which there is both a surrender, safety, and a creative flow, and that's why this place is associated with childbirth as well, because there's something about you know, what, what adds to the almost like, they're almost like, think of the fourth house like a hearth fire, and it's the thing at the end of the day, no matter what's happened, you can come back and sit and like, take your shoes off, kick your feet up, sit by that fire and then what do you do to add logs to that fire to make it a warm or more beautiful, safe, satisfying environment?

Those are all the concerns of the fifth house. What are you cultivating that adds to and deepens your experience of release, happiness, creativity, fulfillment, etc.? That's why it's both related to happiness, pleasure, creativity, childbirth, and so forth. Now, that is a need that is perennial. I mean, it doesn't exist more or less at any stage of life; it just looks different at different stages of life.

So often, during the middle stage of life, the fifth house as a place of creative fulfillment has to do with how we offset or balance the obligations that we have socially or professionally or even in different relational contracts that we have with other souls. How do we, how do we kind of balance those social obligations and duties with a feeling of, you know, kind of marching to the beat of our own drum and the need for personal creative expression and fulfillment?

That sort of, you know, that takes us off the hook of all of those obligations? Most of the time, during the middle of life, that looks like, how am I honoring my own creative Genie? How am I honoring my own creative spirit? And sort of following that call and incorporating it into my, all of the other places that I am bound to through sacred contracts? How do I bring that creative part of me into work? How do I bring it into, you know, all the different spheres in which I have to go and show up?

In the middle of life, the Fifth house is like, how do I stay true to myself creatively, which is basically like, how do I feel free from obligation to this world, even though I'm bound up in it and have all of these storylines that have to play out as a matter of fate. In childhood, the fifth house has a lot more to do with planting the seeds of a creative center that I can go to that will serve me that will, protect me that will, guide me that, will keep me true to myself throughout the adult stage.

So much of the time, the fifth house in early life will have to do with the cultivation of a creative sense of identity and the need for a private, individual sense of self that marches to the beat of its own drum, and so in children, the fifth house is so much to do with cultivating individual creative selfhood. In midlife, it has to do with tapping into it to survive all of the other things, and in retirement, it's almost like it returns to childhood in the sense that in retirement, there's, for many people anyway, there's less obligation, socially and professionally.

Think about like in India archetypal, you're going to the woods, you know, you're like checking out of societal obligations, and you're a little less tethered to obligation and responsibility because you've kind of completed that stage, and so you're like a child again, in a way where there's more freedom. So a lot of the things that I also work with, in the retired demographic of clients that I see, is how do I reactivate or awaken that creative part of me that was maybe less like more bound up and had a harder time expressing itself.

There's less room for it because of marriage, family, work, bills, you know, et cetera, during the adult stage. So, you know, in India, the Grihastha Ashram is like family work, responsibilities, and obligations, and your Ashram is basically tending to those things. Well, that doesn't leave as much space for creative fulfillment, and that's a part of, or that adds to, Moksha, which is liberation from the world. So, you know, one of the things ironically that liberates us in the world is kids, right? You have kids, and they help lighten the load later in life; they help take care of you.

So children, in a weird way, are adding to, you know, not only do they add to and give, they bring like a creative dimension to your life because they're literal creations that then, you know, have this way of feeding back to you and being you know, your kids or your teachers, and they keep you true to some kind of core creative. They point you back to certain core creative truths about who you really are that you can't avoid in the mirror of your kids.

So, like, children have this very profound meaning in the fifth house, actually. But in retirement, your children's legacy will also be this very important thing; if you're a grandparent, the fifth house can take on very special meaning not just in terms of what's happening to your grandkids but in what valuable insight you can only receive when you've sort of graduated from midlife, and in the latter stage of life. Now your kids are like this very deep instructive meditation, in addition to all the fun and creative fulfillment that they may provide, through, you know, grandkids and things like that.

The other thing, of course, is just that in the latter stage of life, you know, again, so many of my retired clients are saying, It's like I've been waiting for this time to activate a creative part of myself that hasn't been as accessible during this last stage of life step becomes a huge question in the latter stage of life because it contributes. That creative essence is part of how we start to shed baggage from this lifetime and lighten the load going into the next lifetime.

It's the creative selfhood and our ability to tap into it in the latter stage of life that, in a sense, completes the mission, which is why the fifth leading into the fourth is also about, you know, the fourth house is about release from the body and death, the fourth house was associated with death, this intimate relationship to creative fulfillment and reflection in the latter stage of life as there is in childhood because we're close to the portal of death, right?

Death and birth are close together when you come out of it, and when you're getting close to going back through that portal, the creative space is very important in what it does, and the feedback it provides us with what it sets us up for in childhood and what it prepares us to move through when we're closer to death.

So those are, you know, the creative questions of the fifth house live on it all stages of life. It's not just like, oh, the fifth house is important for bearing children and, you know, doing creative things with your career in midlife or something.

Anyway, let's go to the eighth house. So with the eighth house, the meaning in childhood is very different from old age, but they share some things in common old age; Sorry that I shouldn't have said that; later life or retirement, I don't mean old. When I think of old age, I personally think of something that I, Although like, I'm not looking forward to, you know, my body getting older, like that scares me a little bit, you know, just in terms of like, not being able to do certain things. But I revere and honor all stages of life.

So when I say old age, I know some people here may hear me say that and feel offended by it. But I just think of all stages is beautiful in their own respect, and I say that humbly as someone who's also, you know, they have a certain trepidation of getting older, like, will I do it? Will I be okay to do it? Well, I don't know. So, but really what I mean is the third act of life and the elder years, I think you could call them the golden years, some people call them or just the, you know that in the latter stage of life, many people are still in spirits super youthful. So I don't know, anyway; I apologize if that wasn't the greatest label.

Well, so the eighth house it takes its meaning from the seventh; it is a house that in time is moving into the seventh, the angular place, which is called the setting place, and so this is a house that is preparing for setting, setting in the west means disappearing, and so this house was associated with death, because it looks upon the inevitable, the inevitable setting, everything rises, and everything sets. So this house has to do with the eventual and the inevitable death or endings or conclusions or resolutions of things.

For that reason, this house has this sort of morbid, meaning, you know, it's like, well, it's a house that was associated with fear and anxiety about the future and with death; it was also associated with taxes, penalties, debts, obligations to other people kind of like karma that you owe other people. Why?

Because it is a house that is preparing for the inevitable conclusion of something or the resolution of something, and it has a little bit of an ominous feeling to it. So because it's a house that's preparing planets to set or resolve, it's about what they are looking at and what they are looking forward to as a kind of like an ending or a conclusion. So it has this kind of anxious looking forward to an inevitable conclusion that's coming.

That, along with the morbid connotation of going into the underworld and the darkness rising in the light disappearing, was associated with assessments karmically that would come and, you know, either give you something as an inheritance or some blessing or benefit that you receive because of good karma. It's like the scales are being balanced; you're going into the underworld next, and so there's the sense of the eighth house in time, bringing rewards and benefits that come karmically through circumstance or other people or debts taxations obligations and penalties that come through other people, both of which are associated with the inevitability of the planet, sort of setting in the west and again, death and fear and worry about the future all also associated with the eighth house.

Now, that looks different in childhood than it does in the latter phase of life or in retirement. But in many ways, the eighth house is pretty consistent throughout all stages of life. You can receive things or owe things at any stage; karmically speaking, there are I have seen many charts of, you know, my clients or students where when they were in the eighth grade, they had an eighth house transit, and a family member passed, or they experienced a great tremendous loss.

People who grow up in families were suddenly the fathers or mothers out of a job, and they lose all their money, and they have to move or, you know, so like, karmic moments of reckoning for good or bad happen at all stages of life. It's a pretty universal house in that regard. It very seldomly has to do with literal death, in my experience.

Sometimes it does, but you know, a lot of the time, you're looking at the eighth house as a place that brings the inevitable that brings things by a matter of fate and karma to pass, and sometimes, like Jupiter's in that house or Venus is in that house, you'll see that sometimes tremendous benefits come to people through just the balancing of the karmic scales.

But the eighth house can also have to do with those difficult things that come. Well, again, there's not much difference in, I mean, there might be a difference in the way that people experienced that at eight years old versus 70 years old. You know, but largely, the house remains the same throughout life, in my experience, you know, the more that you're in the latter stage of life, say retirement and beyond, the more that you will see, for example, friends, peers, people that are in your own, like peer group will pass or will start to suffer eighth house consequences that are, you know, more related to disease, suffering, death, etc. because the stage of life is closer to the exit ramp than the on ramp.

So, in the latter stage of life, the eighth house will sometimes bring up death and departures from the world or the body more literally than it will at other stages of life, and that just has to do with the fact that, you know, the older we get, the more death we see, you know because the more for most people that that natural progression of life, you'll see some death along the way, some people more than others, of course.

But in the latter stage of life, death becomes more of a normal real thing; its presence is becoming more the inevitability of our own passage is becoming more real to us, and that is sort of reiterated by the fact that it also happens around us more in that stage of life and I was thinking about talking to a relative of mine who was like, you know, I started becoming much more aware of my mortality and accepting of it post retirement because a lot of my friends started passing or dealing with very serious illnesses.

So, like the stage of life, the seventh house, the setting place was also associated with death. For most people, older age is closer to death, and so the eighth house may be a little bit more literally connected to death in later life. But often, that's not for the native themself but for things and people happening around them.

In childhood, the eighth house can have to do with the fears and anxieties that are sort of like in like this, you know, this kind of dreadful feeling of the inevitable factors in life that we have to confront or face that we can't avoid, and for children, that may be very psychological. For example, lots of kids that, you know, that Mercury in the eighth house or so, they might deal with social anxiety, and there's this feeling of like, I m, it's inevitable that I will face people, and that I have to deal with and work with the reality of, you know, my nervous system and other people, some of which are safe, some of whom are safe, some of whom are not safe, and so on, and so forth.

So what shows up as an inevitability psychologically or, you know, literally looks different in childhood, then it does in midlife than it does in later life, and we experience the inevitable obstacles and challenges differently in early stages and later stages. One thing I will say is that when, you know, things come to us as a matter of fate that are very positive in the early stage of life, it often takes us until later in life to really recognize what gifts we've received, and we have to be careful of the eighth house.

Kids who grow up with a bunch of eighth house planets that really indicate things like prosperity, wealth, and abundance they may have to deal with entitlement, right, or they may have to slowly come to recognize that what's been given won't always be there, right, there may come, the eighth house gives, and it takes away.

So you know, sometimes there are the early things that are given, it's harder to recognize their value or how supported we've been in sometimes the journey for, you know, eighth house, children who have had the kind of enriching eighth house will be to recognize that some things have to be earned on one's own and some things have been given, right? Like, there's this kind of dichotomy between the two. Anyway, I hope that's useful. So those are some differences between the eighth house in, say, childhood and the latter stage of life in retirement.

Let's go finally to the 11th house. So the 11th house is a succedent house again, so its meaning is derived from the fact that the planet is moving into the 10th, which is the place of the career of public reputation and image, mastery, rank, maybe your professional title, bosses and powerful people. So because the planet is moving and the sign is moving into that house in time, this house has to do quite literally with everything that supports the development of our name, rank, fame, position, title, occupation, that develops our status recognition that develops our career.

So for that reason, the 11th house was called The Joy of Jupiter, and it was called the house of allies, benefactors, blessings from heaven, and basically, also a place where we find the assets of powerful people or of beneficial influences that somehow aid us in developing all of the 10th house qualities.

Now, in modern astrology, the 11th house is generally understood as that place of community, but that's not really what it's meant; traditionally, the 11th house has been associated with community insofar as you find communities or groups of people that sort of aid or support in the development of your aspirations, wishes, goals, social, or professional agenda in life, or even on some level, your ideologies and how they shape your aspirations.

So there can be like a, a sense of commonly held visions, dreams, goals, and aspirations that create communities or networks of people that you associate with, but it's not primarily a house of community, and so, the really, the difference is, like, you know, in a child's chart, the 11th house will often have to do with figuring out who and what are advantageous people, places, energies, types of activities, that support and help you develop those things that you like or love or want to see amplified, that helped develop your sense of being strong, capable, that help you feel like you're achieving things and that that is so the 11th house has a lot to do in childhood with like a social selection process.

What do I like to do, you know? Who are the right people to do things with? What are the places and environments that helped me feel supported and, strong, and capable, and where do I thrive, and that will include social circles of people. But there's a question within those circles that not just like, am I having fun? Do I get along? Do I like these people, but also, you know, do they share a common vision of themselves and where they're going with their life, and kids are shaping that, at school early on, they're experimenting and exploring with those things, and a lot of the lessons of, of who and where our, our best fits socially, for where we want to go.

Those things are being shaped and explored and experimented with a lot of life lessons come for kids along those lines early on. It is not primarily like the 11th house will just be about what groups your kids belong to; it's more sophisticated than that, and so, transits of malefics or benefics, or different kinds of outer planets transiting that house will result in different kinds of social exploration for children, but often have, you know, the type of social exploration that is, essentially about their development socially and in terms of status, recognition, ability, kind of calling and occupation, eventually, even.

So, you know, that's the best way I can describe how kids are going to be accessing the 11th house, and then you could say, like, I always think of how interesting it is that you know, if you look at Steve Jobs chart, you know, he had an exalted Jupiter in the 11th house and early on in life, like when he was quite young, he and Steve Wozniak started working together, that's a Jupiter in Cancer, an exalted Jupiter kind of allied connection to make that's quite typical for very powerful planets in the 11th house that early on, the child will have great mentors or allies or connections that help them foster and develop their social professional, you know, status-seeking part of themselves, which is natural for all of us to do.

Okay, and then if you have like Uranus in that house, you know, it's about defiance, and originality and rebellion, and you'll see those qualities being developed and sought out and in different ways and in children, and so it just depends on which planets are there and which sign is occupying the house where its ruler is at. Now, later in life, in the mid part of life, it's pretty straightforward. Everything I've described about the 11th house shows up in pretty straightforward ways that I've already described.

But in, say, retirement, the question usually is, what, if any, social goals do I have now? They may be more religious in, like, the communities and people that you spend time with in retirement may have more to do with spiritual development, for example, and so the allies may shift in a more spiritual direction because there's less investment in a career, but there's more investment in spiritual aspirations and communities, right.

So it's almost like the 11th and ninth start working together a little bit more. You could also see in retirement that the aspirations a lot of people end up doing different kinds of volunteer work in retirement, or they get involved in things that still give them a sense of being productive and valuable and that there's something to do that they really care about. But maybe it's not so important that they're making money doing it, but still, the people, allies, and connections that are important to your overall aspirations that are keeping you involved in the society you live in will be found in the 11th house.

Now, in retirement, that might also look like the 11th house, remember, is also opposite the fifth place of creative fulfillment. It is very possible that there's more of a synthesis between the fifth and the 11th in retirement, where I'm seeking creative connections that aid in Moksha and liberation from the world, which might be like I'm looking for people to play, like my grandmother you know, who like loved to play pinochle in retirement, you know what I mean? Like, and I'm not trying to stereotype that was my grandma. So you get the idea.

So, the same house with the same topics can mean different things at different stages, and I hope that this talk is illustrated even briefly or sort of topically so that you have a feeling that the underlying meanings of the houses are more than just a set of topical keywords. There's a kind of Phyllis philosophical and conceptual template that is very broad and can encompass all stages of life and can show up at different times in different ways, as well as staying true to the underlying archetypal meaning that the house comes from.

In my classes, we, you know, it takes us 12 hours to go through all of these things. So, if you like this kind of stuff, I couldn't recommend more highly that you check out the first-year program because it's this kind of understanding of the houses and the planets and the signs and aspects and dignities that will take your ability to read and hear the language of astrology, you know, at a much deeper level, it just takes it to the next level, and then your ability to use the tool yourself or for other people is suddenly there for you.

Then, your understanding of your own chart, your own transits, or the people close to you. It goes into a totally much more elevated space as your understanding becomes, you start to become really fluent and alike. Most people don't realize that when they love astrology, they love a language. If you love it, learn to speak it more and more fluently. Learn the etymologies, learn about the language at a deeper level, and you'll find that you're more profoundly satisfied with the thing you love.

So that's why I recommend studying to everyone because it's a process that, for most people, is spiritually healthy and transformative, and it adds to something you already love. You didn't you don't realize that you can love it about ten times more, and most people don't even realize that.

So anyway, that's it for today. I hope this was useful. We will return to look at the cadent houses in the final part of this series probably next week at this point, and again, a heartfelt apology for all my retired community who listens who feels like, you know, I got some number of messages over the summer being like, hey, could we talk about some of the houses in these horoscopes for people who are past career stage you know, for example, so hopefully this is a step in the right direction. All right. Much love to all of you. We will see you again soon. Bye.