Fourth 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 and active. 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 someone needs in order to feel safe and at rest. The sign on the cusp colors how a person builds a home and relates to their past. An empty fourth house still rests on its cusp sign, which describes the private base a person returns to. This house holds the ground everything else grows from. Its work is making peace with where a person comes from and creating a place, inner or outer, that genuinely feels like home.