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How to Interpret Your Own Fourth House

Summary of the Steps: It’s Easy! In order to help you understand the nature of your Home and Heart karma, we will walk you through a few steps. First you will learn what Sign is your 4th House and how that sign affects your happiness, home, education and cars. Then, we will get more specific in accessing your  4th House by examining the planets placed in that house, and also where the “ruler” of your Fourth House is placed. This will all be very easy to do. Finally, we will test your knowledge with a Quiz using Oprah Winfrey’s chart.

Step1: First, you need to know what your 4th House sign is. To do this: 1. Log Log int into o Ast Astro rove ved d 2. Run Run the the “Cha “Chart rt Repo Report rt”” 3. On the chart, chart, it it will indicate indicate your 2nd House House with the number number 2 in the the box. The The  blue letters in the same box indicate the Sign. For your reference the abbreviated sign names are listed below. Symbol

Sign Name

Ar

Aries

Ta

Taurus

Ge

Gemini

Ca

Cancer

Le

Leo

Vi

Virgo

Li

Libra

Sc

Scorpio

Sg

Sagittarius

Cp

Capricorn

Aq

Aquarius

Pi

Pisces

 

Step2:  Now that you know which sign your 4th House is, read the description for the sign that rules your 4th house of “Home & Heart”. This description offers you general inclinations you will have due to this sign ruling your 4th House. As you read the description, also make note of the Ruling Planet. We will use this in Step 4 to  better understand the specifics of your material possession, mother and heart karma. It is important to keep in mind that there are many factors which influence your chart, your  karma/dharma and your life, including condition of the planet ruling a house, condition of   planets in a house, and what dasha (planetary) period you are currently running. Fourth House

Ruling Planet

“Home & Heart” Nature

Mars

Mars rules both the 4th and the 11th house, making it a malefic  planet for Capricorn rising, this can bring difficulty from the mother. They will have strong desire nature and can acquire wealth and property, possibly from the mother.

Venus

Their home is very esthetically pleasing with an artistic flair. They are very artistic and love to travel, which is displayed in the home. Their parents are highly social and charming. They have a strong desire for knowledge and educational degrees with a love for   beauty.

Mercury

They will favor a partner who is cultured and well educated. They come from a family educationally accomplished (esp. mother and maternal lineage).

Moon

Since the Moon owns Cancer and is the karaka for the 4th house, it  becomes a “double signification”, bolstering the positive values of  the 4th house. This person can be very nurturing and create a very comfortable, nurturing home and home life.

Sun

Emotionally sensitive nature, as well as sensitive siblings (since the Moon owns the 3rd house of siblings). A strong-willed mother  (Sun’s influence) and the potential for good success in real estate if  the Sun is well placed.

Mercury

There is a love of family and a strong connection to the mother, since Mercury owns both the 1st and 4th house (self and mother), and home and material possessions is influenced by the mother. Money can come through mother as well.

Libra

Venus

Venus ruler ship brings love of luxury and beauty in the home. Gains, such as wealth and real estate, can come through the mother  (since Venus also owns the 11th house of gains).

Scorpio

Mars

Aries

Taurus

Gemini

Cancer

Leo

Virgo

A strong pursuit of educational degrees (strong because Mars also rules the 9th house of higher learning). May become property

owners. Sagittarius Jupiter 

Strong interest/connection to the mother’s lineage. Male native will  pursue a partner who resembles his mother.

Capricorn

Saturn

A strong sense of power and purpose, as Saturn also rules the 5th house (making for a Raja Yoga). Able to live simply. Maternal side can be Saturnine – reserved, undemonstrative.

Aquarius

Saturn

Strong emotional nature, desire for truth and higher knowledge (with Moon ruling 9th house of dharma).

Pisces

Jupiter  

Strong connection to the mother and a love for the home – a ‘homebody’. A happy, optimistic heart. Gracious home space.

Step3: Once you have identified which sign is your fourth house, the next step in understanding aspects of your material possessions and heart ho use is to know which planets most directly influence it and modify its nature. To do this, run the “Chart Report” on Astroved. Examine your 4th House and note any planets in that sign. Then read the descriptions for each planet that you have in your 4th House to see how it affects your ability to acquire house and property; as well as the nature of your home life. Planet in the 4th House

General Effect

If 4th House is afflicted…

Sun

Success in foreign countries and after middle age, good reputation, sharp mind

Lack of home comforts, friends, land and home; heart ailments, quarrelsome.

Moon

Happy, well-educated, sensuous, good relations with mother and friends.

Unhappy home life, unhappy/unhappiness with mother.

Mars

Brave, courageous heart, good Quarrels in the home, coarse nature. technologies in the home.

Mercury

Very scholarly, wise,  prosperous in physical comforts (vehicles and homes), good friends.

Jupiter

If your 4th House is Aries or  Wisdom, happy, good material Capricorn, Jupiter here could bring comforts and wealth, good losses or debts as it is also Lord of  mother, charitable giver, great your 12th House of Loss (Pisces or  spiritual advancement. Sagittarius).

Venus

Attractive, esthetically

Bookish, likes to play tricks.

Boastful, vain.

 pleasing home, clothes and vehicles, good looking, affectionate, affectionate mother, musical, domestic happiness.

Saturn

Wise, wealthy, favorable for  meditation and spiritual attainment, capability of  austerity, success in foreign  places.

Sickly in early childhood, disconnection or breaks from mother,  phlegm diseases

Rahu

Proficient in foreign languages.

Few friends, fraudulent, errant  behavior.

Ketu

Sudden reversals and changes in life circumstances Live far  Malicious speech, deprived of  from birthplace, propensity for  maternal happiness and properties. deep spiritual practices.

To help you determine whether your money house will tend to have the negative, afflicted influence mentioned above, check in the following chart. If your 4th House sign has an “enemy” planet in it, then you will have more proclivities to the negative effects. Rahu and Ketu are not listed as they are generally considered unfavorable for all signs. For example, let us say that your 4th house is Cancer and you have Venus in your 4th house (Cancer). Then you would look below and see that Venus is generally considered an enemy while in Cancer. Therefore, you would have a greater tendency to manifest the afflicted condition listed above. 4th House Sign

Friend

Neutral

Enemy

Aries

Mercury Saturn Venus

Sun

Mercury Moon Jupiter 

Taurus

Mars Saturn Sun Venus

Mercury

Jupiter Moon

Gemini

Moon Mars

Jupiter  

Sun Mercury Saturn Venus

Cancer

Jupiter Mars Sun

Leo

Mercury Saturn Mars Sun

Venus

Moon Jupiter  

Virgo

Venus

Moon Mercury

Jupiter Mars Sun Saturn

Libra

Moon Mars Jupiter

Sun Saturn

Mercury Venus

Moon Saturn Mercury Venus

Scorpio

Sun Mars

Jupiter Moon Saturn

Mercury Venus

Sagittarius

Venus

Saturn Sun Mercury

Jupiter Moon Mars

Capricorn

Mars Venus Mercury Saturn

Aquarius

Sun Moon Jupiter

Saturn Mars

Mercury Venus

Pisces

Mars Moon

Jupiter Moon

Saturn Venus Mercury

Moon Jupiter Sun

Step4: The final step in understanding your personal 4th house is to examine where your 4th house’s Planetary Ruler is placed in your chart and what that means for you. Remember, the Planetary Ruler can be found in the chart in Step 2.  Now, look again at your Chart Report. What sign is your planetary ruler o f  your 4th House placed? For instance, you may find that you have a Leo 4th House. Leo’s ruling planet is the Sun. The Chart Report would show you in which House your Sun is placed. Perhaps your Sun is in your 12th House. The placement of your 4th House planetary ruler will tell you how your home and emotional karma will be experienced by you in this lifetime. So, in our example, if your ruling 4th House planet is the Sun and it is placed in your 12th House (loss and enlightenment) of  Aquarius, you may experience a loss of home, happiness or mother. If you are on a spiritual  path, it could indicate a heart’s desire for enlightenment. Below are the indications of each House: Planet that rules the How your Heart & Home Karma are shaped 4th House is in your…

1st House

Well-educated, happiness from mother, virtuous

2nd House

Owns good property (could inherit through maternal grandfather), happiness through family, courageous

3rd House

Generous, talented, courageous, possible difficulty with stepfamily

4th House

Prosperous property owner, attachment to spouse, devoted nature, religious heart, happy, serious.

5th House

Enjoys material comforts, mother comes from a good family, good vehicles, loves God, loved and respected by others.

6th House

Loss of mother or maternal comforts (mother sickly), fulfillment through service to others.

7th House

Good karma for land and houses, generally happy.

8th House

Inherited property, obstacles to happiness, loss of properties, low  parental support, desire for transformation or underhandedness.

9th House

Virtuous and well-loved, good home comforts, devoted heart, desire to do good deeds.

10th House

Extroverted personality, happiness in/through career, possible career in real estate, enjoys may material comforts.

11th House

Generous, self-made, fortunate mother, good for success in bu ying and selling real estate.

12th House

Without own home, loss of mother, desire for enlightenment.

By means of another example, if your Fourth House is Gemini, then your planetary ruler is Mercury. When you look at your chart, you see that Mercury is placed in your 7th House of  Virgo. Therefore, in this lifetime, your primary 4th house k arma will be to gain land and happiness through partnerships.

Summary At this point, you now have an understanding of: 1. 2. 3. 4.

What sign rules your 4th House; What planets, if any, are in your 4th house; What planet rules your 4th house; In which house your ruling 4th house planet is placed in your chart.

This will give you a good basic comprehension of which signs and planets are influencing your home, education, and heart. If you have 2 or more planets in your 4th House, look to which of the planets are weak and causing you difficulties based on the descriptions of the  planets above. Then remedy that planet! When Material Possessions, Land, Heart and Mother Karmas Become Active Accumulation of fixed assets and home life are always present as a strong desire for most of  us. But there are times when the lessons and opportunities for growth in these areas are most  pronounced. To see if you are in a period especially influencing your 4th house issues, run your “Planetary Influence” report in Astroved for free. This report will tell you your “major” and “minor” planetary period, called Dasha (major) and Bukti (minor). If your major or minor   planet is either the Ruler of your Fourth House or in the Fourth House, this will be a time of  increased focus on material possessions and personal values. If the planet is good for you, look for an expansion of personal contentment and home affairs. If it is bad, then there can be, for example, domestic upheaval (e.g. moving) or problems with the mother during this time.

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Remedies

What Can I do About my 4th House Afflictions? There are several options to remedy ill effects of the planets affecting your fourth house. Mantras: There are secret mantras to help appease a planet that is destined to cause you problems. The  powerful and secret mantra to improve your 4th house affairs can be found on the Personal

Transformation Video for Level 4. There are also planetary remedies you can do based upon your newfound analysis. First, to strengthen your fourth house, you can chant the mantra of the planet that rules your fourth house. The mantras for each house can be found on the Astroved site. Astroved is unique in that it also offers “Virtual Poojas” that combine Mantra and Visual depictions of the planets. This is another powerful way to win the grace of a planet that is not in your favor. Click  hereto try a virtual pooja now for free. Alternative Ways to Propriate a Planet You can propitiate a planet on the day of your 4th house ruler. For instance if Mars is the ruler  of your 4th House (i.e. Aries or Scorpio), then on Tuesday, the day ruled by Mars, you can try fasting during daylight hours, but eat before sunrise and after sundown or remain vegetarian the entire day.

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What is the 4th House? In Astrology, we will be speaking in terms of “Houses” and “Signs”. There are 12 Houses in astrology, just as there are 12 signs. Houses are simply categories of all the things that concern us in human life such as money, children, sex, health, longevity, etc. Each House controls a different category. In the House 3 Makeover, we covered siblings, courage and creativity. Now, House 4 covers primarily happiness, material possessions such as home, property, and fixed assets; as well as education and mother.

Signs on the other hand are filters that color how the Houses and planets behave. This newsletter will cover the sign of Cancer, which is considered the natural 4th House of the Zodiac. That means that the sign of Cancer naturally colors things in line with the qualities of the 4th House, i.e. mother, home, happiness, vehicles, education, land and  property. General Characteristics of the 4th House The Fourth House is known as the “House of Home and Heart”. It is one of the moksha houses, a house of spiritual liberation, and holds our private thoughts and feelings. It is the lowest point in the chart, below the horizon, and so is an indicator of those things unseen and on land. Therefore the 4th house is an indicator for land and property, as well as vehicles. A strong 4th house for example, could indicate good home and cars. It is the home of mother, mind and matter, so happiness and relationship with the mother is indicated here. It is also a house of education, though there are different views as to what level of education. Generally, it is viewed as higher education, from high school to college level, as well as spiritual education, since it is a moksha house. It is the most sensitive  point in the chart and so indicates our deeper psychological nature. It also represents the masses and our relationship to the public. Physically, it is the chest and heart regions. The

Moon, as ruler of the natural 4th house of Cancer, is the karaka, or indicator of the 4th house. Moon as Indicator for the 4th House The Moon is associated with manas, the mind and emotions. This watery planet represents the sensitivity of the human mind as well as Mother and motherhood. The Moon therefore influences fertility, conception and childbirth. As with all the planets, the Moon’s influence and characteristics can be understood on both the material and spiritual planes of existence. So physical fertility as well as spiritual fertility can be understood from the 4th house and Moon. Even though it rules Cancer, the Moon is exalted in Taurus, i.e. the most positive, beneficial aspects of the Moon co me forth the more. Characteristics of Cancer, the Natural 4th House Cancer is the 4th sign in the zodiac and therefore the natural 4th house. The Moon, Cancer’s ruler, gives its qualities to Cancer natives. Cancers enjoy people, are friendly, caring, nurturing and enjoy traditions. They tend to foreign travel and enjoy the water. Like the Moon, they can be highly sensitive, changeable and moody. They value relationships and enjoy caring for, feeding and entertaining loved ones. Planets Placed in Cancer Jupiter, the planet of higher knowledge and luck, is “Exalted” in Cancer. This means that whenever you see Jupiter in the sign of Cancer, more likely than not, the native will be wise, generous, spiritual and luck; all the better characteristics of Jupiter. Conversely, Mars becomes “Debilitated” in Cancer. This placement will bring out the worst traits in Mars, making the native temperamental, argumentative and/or overly aggressive. It is important to remember that when assessing a chart, multiple factors must be taken into consideration. No one effect, such as planetary position in a sign or house, will be the sole indicator of fortunes and influences. In general, one must assess the strength of the house, its indicator, and its lord and occupants, as well as other planetary influences. The following are general indications for when a particular planet is posited in the sign of  Cancer. Sun in Cancer The individual will be attractive and enjoy fine foods and wine. Hard worker with many family responsibilities. Can have difficulty with father and other relatives. Moon in Cancer The Moon is “in its own sign” in Cancer, strengthening its effect for favorable fortune in  property, vehicles and friendships. Can have fluctuating wealth. Enjoys physical pleasures Mercury in Cancer Mercury here brings a quick, alert mind, able to comprehend a wide view, enjoying music and poetry. Income can be gained through land (real estate) and through siblings, cousins and partnerships. Great talker with inclination to travel to foreign countries. Venus in Cancer With Venus in Cancer, one is inclined to be affectionate, good-willed, kind-hearted, very attractive and devoted to good causes. Marriage can be delayed and may be a significant difference in age and/or position with the marriage partner. Occupation can be through water elements or with property.

Mars in Cancer As mentioned, Mars becomes debilitated in, this fiery planet ‘cooling its heels’ in watery Cancer. There can be a separation from the mother, changing abodes frequently or other  types of difficulty with home and property. A person with Mars here is very independent and goes against the grain. Jupiter in Cancer Jupiter, exalted here, brings good humor, benevolence and graciousness. While religious or spiritual views may change, they will be held with sincerity and devotion. There is a special bond with the mother and an inclination to the mystical. Inclines the individual to truthfulness, wealth and a strong, beautiful body. Saturn in Cancer Saturn brings greater austerity to worldly possessions and wealth. May indicate early loss or estrangement from the father. Learnedness and renown. Rahu in Cancer Rahu is favorable in the sign of Cancer and will bring great help from friends, successful foreign travels and an increase in wealth, as well as spiritual inclinations. Ketu in Cancer Ketu, like Rahu, will take on the qualities of its ruler, in this case the Moon. Can bring an austerity to emotions, or deservedness.

What does the Fourth house stand for in Vedic Astrology? Cancer, the fourth house of the Z odiac, relates to home and home related issues. Materially, you could associate pleasure and possessions like car, house etc., to the fourth house. Be it the Mother Earth or your own mother, the fourth house indicates your level of bonding towards her. At a deeper level, it spells out the need to discover ourselves, and to feel really at “home”. It also reflects your life in the first few years, and the final few years. How can you strengthen your fourth house? While Cancer represents the fourth house in general, your personal house could vary. However, you could strengthen your fourth house by performing appropriate remedies. Remedying the Lord of the fourth house is a general way, recommended to strengthen your  fourth house. For instance, if your fourth house is Capricorn, the Lord is Saturn. If you have one or more planets in your fourth House, these planets, especially if debilitated, will need strengthening and remedying. Recitation of planetary mantras and wearing corrective gemstones, are the two ways to mitigate the negative effects of an afflicted house. Poojas and Fire Rituals are the two other  most powerful ways to influence celestial energies. Above all, there are other secretive mantras to enhance your emotional well being and home comforts. The fourth House issues can be dealt using the mantra ‘Shreem Shreeng Siriyum Siriyung’. This mantra enables you to balance your emotional nature, and home karma in your aura. The remedies for the planets will halt your current psychological and material karma, so that a change will be possible. Click here to Listen.

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