It makes no difference whether you're a fun-loving Leo or a workaholic Capricorn, you still have to deal with relationships, money, health, career, and so on. Those areas come under the authority of the houses, which divide the sky into 12 parts, beginning with the Ascendant, which marks the start of the first house. The meanings of the houses are summarized in Table 1-4.
Table 1-4 Houses and Their Significance
| House | Areas of Concern |
| First house | Your appearance and surface personality |
| Second house | Money, possessions, values |
| Third house | Communication, short journeys, brothers and sisters |
| Fourth house | Home, roots, one parent, circumstances at the end of life |
| Fifth house | Romance, children, creativity |
| Sixth house | Work and health |
| Seventh house | Marriage and other partnerships |
| Eighth house | Sex, death, regeneration, other peopleís money |
| Ninth house | Higher education, long journeys, religion, philosophy |
| Tenth house | Career, status, reputation, the other parent |
| Eleventh house | Friends and aspirations |
| Twelfth house | Enemies, seclusion, secrets |
Just as every birth chart includes all the planets, every horoscope has all 12 houses. The sign on the cusp, or beginning of the house, describes your approach to it. For instance, if the sign of the bull is on the cusp of your house of work, your attitude toward your job is Taurean, making you dependable, productive, and a bit of a plodder, regardless of whether that house is crammed full of planets or empty.
The word cusp is used in two ways in astrology. When people say they were born "on the cusp," they mean that their birthday falls at the end of one sign and the beginning of another. They usually think that they have qualities belonging to both signs. (I discuss this issue in Chapter 3.) When astrologers refer to the cusp of a house, they mean the houseís starting point.
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