The Quadrants are: 1st Quadrant, 2nd Quadrant, 3rd Quadrant, 4th Quadrant

The chartwheel is separated and interpreted in various ways. These include:

Quadrants: 1st Quadrant, 2nd Quadrant, 3rd Quadrant, 4th Quadrant

Directions: North, South, East West

Angular Houses: 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th

Succedent Houses: 2nd, 5th, 8th, 11th

Cadent Houses: 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th

Ah, the house of love! The seventh house is where we look to find clues to your love life, your sense of romance, your commitment to a relationship and your own wants and needs from a partner. If you’re the cool, distant type, the seventh house will tell us; if you’re a hopeless romantic, that will show up here too. Planets in and transits to the seventh house are linked to your interpersonal relationships in many ways, from how faithful you are to how keen you are to settle down and what you’re prepared to accept from a lover.

It’s no coincidence that the cusp of the seventh house is directly opposite the cusp of the first house, which deals with your identity. The sign on the cusp of this house reveals how you blend with another person, becoming part of something greater than yourself as an individual. It’s not only about love, although that’s what this house is most known for – other partnerships like business partnerships feature here too. The seventh house also reveals how you deal with your enemies – love after all, is just a flip of the coin away from a very different emotion altogether.

The energies of the seventh house can be useful in showing your strengths and weaknesses in dealing with others, and this house also reveals how you cope with heartbreak and with disappointment in love. Whether you’re happily in love or wondering if the right person even exists, your seventh house is where we look for insight.

Time to get organized – the sixth house handles your day to day routines, the mundane realities of life and your relationships with co-workers and colleagues. It also reflects your health and wellbeing, both mental and physical.

There’s a strong sense of service about the sixth house, because here we find out what you need to do, or feel you ought to do, rather than what you necessarily want to do. It covers everyday responsibilities and time management, and it reveals your approach to routines. If life seems to be in a permanent state of chaos, the sixth house may well have something to do with that; if on the other hand you live your life like clockwork, structured to the minute, the sixth house is definitely in the driving seat.

One of the most useful things about the sixth house is the way it reveals your stress levels and suggests solutions for this. It can also shed light on your habits, both good and bad, and on your willpower and ability to change. Pets are a sixth house matter too, being both a responsibility and a healing and de-stressing influence – your rapport with animals is shown by the sign on the cusp of this house.

Planets in or transits to the sixth house show how resilient you are mentally and physically. That’s why the sign on the cusp of this house has a bearing on your health, because ultimately good mental and physical wellbeing is necessary if you’re going to cope with the challenges of day to day life.

The fifth house is about risk, pleasure and fun. This is where you party – and where you take impulsive leaps of faith. The sign on the cusp of the fifth house will show how reckless or risk-averse you feel and how easy it is for you to dare to be different. The fifth house also reveals your flirting and dating style at the beginning of any new relationship.

Essentially, whatever makes you smile, laugh or light up with joy comes under the remit of the fifth house. Here we can tell what hobbies you likely enjoy and what kind of sense of humor you have. Whatever you like to fill your leisure time with, we can find a hint of that within the fifth house.

Think of the fifth house as your inner child. There’s a real sense of fun here, and with that comes a not always sensible disregard for the rules. As well as your own inner kid, the fifth house reveals how you feel about children in general, and it reflects your own youthfulness and maturity.

Creativity is also a fifth house matter, and this house – and any planets within it – will tell us a great deal about what and how you like to create. Artists, dancers, writers, chefs and crafters have their creative talents reflected in their fifth house and so do the rest of us, who are far more creative than we dare to know. Understanding the energies of your fifth house will help you to unlock and shape that creativity.

The third house is about your mind, your thinking processes and your communication style. The sign on the cusp of this house determines whether your head or your heart tends to lead in your decision making. Here we also get to discover whether you like to follow step by step logic or whether you’re more of a make it up as you go along type of person. A creative, imaginative, free-thinker or a studious, scientifically minded analyst – it’s all here, within the third house.

Your childhood education is also reflected in the third house and so is your relationship with your siblings, if any – here we can learn how you grew and developed as a child and how that has a bearing on the person you are now. Of course, one of the key things you learned to do as a child was to communicate, and the third house illuminates your skills in writing, talking, listening and getting others to listen. If you’re talkative and gregarious, your third house will show so; if you’re more of the silent type, that’s here too. Your learning style is also represented here, so it’s useful in understanding how you best absorb, process and today’s levels of information overload.

As adults who have left home, our neighborhoods often take the place of the family home and childhood friends, so this house also reflects how you interact with neighbors and your local community. Short, local journeys are also a topic for the third house.

How you express yourself, how you come across and how you react to your world – these are all first house issues, because the first house represents your outward identity. The cusp of the first house is your Ascendant or rising sign, and this tells us a great deal about the impression you make on others and about how you behave overall.

How you choose to dress and how you style your personal appearance are also first house matters, because this is how you present yourself to the world. Planets within the first house can also have some bearing on your physical health, highlighting particular strengths or weaknesses within your body.

Think of the first house as showing how you put your best foot forward. This house shows us how you act and react to life, and how you play the role you find yourself in, wherever you are in life. It’s not quite the same as who you truly are: your inner self is reflected in the position of your Sun, which could lie in any of the astrological houses. But your Ascendant, the first house and any planets within it show your style of being and your way of handling life’s issues.

Because it’s about your outward expression, your first house is typically the first thing that other people pick up upon, and how they may label you. If you’re “the chatty one”, “the moody one” or “the quirky one”, you probably have your first house to thank for that.

Angles include the ascendant, descendant, midheaven/MC, Imum Coeli/IC. These are the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th houses and are the cardinal points.

The second house is where we look in your chart to find your resources – your money and finances, but also your emotional resources, your self-esteem and your natural skills. We also look here for your personal values – the second house sheds light on what you value in life, and why.

For most of us, the one key thing that money can buy is security, so it’s no surprise that the second house also talks about your levels of emotional security – how secure – or not! – you like to feel, how you go about getting that security, and how you react when your emotional security is threatened.

The sign on the cusp of the second house, and any planets within it, tell us a great deal about your attitude towards what you have and what you’d like to have. If you spend like there’s no tomorrow, this is where that will show up. If you’re an expert money manager and a prudent investor, the second house will tell us that too. If debt leaves you lying awake at night, this house will let us know, and it will also offer some insight as to how you can get out of financial trouble.

As the planets move and transits hit your second house, we can learn when your most materially successful periods are likely to be, and when you may need to tighten your belt. We can track your levels of self-confidence too and see opportunities for you to pick up new skills – new resources, remember, going back to this house’s key theme.

As the house of friendships, hope and manifestation, the eleventh house talks of your connection to the wider world; it tells us what you wish for and how you can work with others to make those wishes come true. This is where we look to see how sociable you are, as well as how idealistic your goals are. If you want to change the world, that’s an eleventh house matter. If you’d rather stay home and hug the cat, that’s an eleventh house matter too.

This house rules anything which you’re a member of, so that’s clubs, societies, groups, social media communities and informal causes. The sign on the cusp of the eleventh house, and any planets in it, tell us about how you work within those groups – how much you enjoy them, whether you lead them or follow them, how you manifest change through them and where that change is aimed.

The eleventh house also rules freedom and individuality, so this is where we look for evidence of your inner rebel. Your political views are sometimes reflected here, and your humanitarian ideals certainly are. Here we also discover whether you pursue your goals through conventional or unconventional means, and we can find clues about your attitude towards technology and innovation. If you’re a social media expert, a gadget geek or an outright technophobe, it’s the eleventh house which will reveal this in your chart. This house also covers your leadership potential and your ability to inspire others.