House I
First House
The body, the approach, the first thing anyone meets.
- Element
- fire
- Mode
- angular
- Echoes
- Aries
- Keywords
- self · appearance · beginnings
The first house begins at the Ascendant, so it is the house the whole chart is built from. It covers the body you live in, the manner you arrive with, and the reflex you lead with before thinking.
Planets here are unmissable: they are the part of a person that shows immediately, for better and worse. An empty first house means nothing bad; it means the approach is described by the rising sign and its ruler instead.
Where to go next
Its opposite
Every house is answered by the one across the wheel. Here that is the seventh house. What is emphasised in one is usually being answered for in the other.
In your chart
Which planets fall here depends on your birth time to the minute. Cast the chart. It is free, and it will say honestly if the time you have is not enough to place them.