4th House

The fourth house is the house of home and roots. It governs family, ancestry, the childhood home, and the private inner world a person returns to when the public day is done. It points to one of the parents and to the emotional foundation a person carries through life. It resonates with Cancer, and as an angular house it is strongly formative. Its cusp is the Imum Coeli, the lowest point of the chart. Planets in the fourth house shape a person's sense of belonging and security. They describe the atmosphere of early home life, the relationship with family, and what a person needs in order to feel safe and at rest. The sign on the cusp colors how someone builds a home and relates to their past. This house holds the base that everything else grows from. Its work is making peace with where you come from and creating a place, inner or outer, that genuinely feels like home.