Class I – Ch 4 – The Houses of the Archtypical Wheel

4.1 Houses 1-6

1st HOUSE – Who am I? (Fire)

  • Tarot position would be ‘how others see you’
  • Your Identity, what you are using to build your identity
  • What you show to the world
  • “There are certain things the soul puts up with when it enters this world…” like, parents, physical limitations (the body) geography (the place you were born)
  • The energy you run on in the physical world
  • What your ego latches onto to give you importance or make you someone in the world.

2nd HOUSE – What do I have? (Earth)

  • 2nd chakra, gateway to the underworld
  • What do I have that I can offer the world
  • What is “worth” me investing my time. This is why its the money house
  • This house is totally dependent on your self-esteem. Compulsive buying can arise here

3rd HOUSE – What is that? (Air)

  • Where we enter into relationship with the world around us. Engaging with the world outside of the self.
  • How you understand and perceive the world. How you first interpret the world. Your filter.
  • “How I perceive the world and engage it.”
  • “I think, therefor I am” – Descart

4th HOUSE – What is my experience of home? (Water)

  • Family of origin. Part of you personal history. Insecurity.
  • The way you find Home within yourself and in the world.
  • What do I need to experience to feel Home?
  • The archetype here will call you home.
  • Tarot position is “what lies beneath”
  • What archetype will help me feel safe?
  • The house of hidden treasure.

5th HOUSE – Here I am!

  • Where you offer yourself to the world with open arms, creativity, openheartedness
  • Getting dressed up and putting on your make-up, “Wow that was a great day!”
  • Is your ‘light’ out and engaged in what you are doing
  • Your ability to be in love with the world
  • House of children because the easiest thing to love is our own children. When we are unable to, we experience excruciating pain.
  • We do it because it make our heart sing!

6th HOUSE – What needs to be done?

  • What do I need to do to keep things in order.
  • What needs to be done to keep the system going. For you or for someone else.
  • House of service. ‘What do I serve.’ We all serve someone or something.
  • The animals we keep. They take care of us and we take care of them.
  • Taking the needs of the system into account. If not, illness will come into play.
  • Your ‘job’ not your ‘career’

4.2 Houses 7-12

7th House – Who art though?

  • The house of relationships
  • More than “hi, how are you, what’s your name”…
  • Archetype in this house is the one you’re going to look at relationship through
  • “You are the one who will make my world turn around. The one who will save me”
  • How do I lose myself in relationship?
  • We have trouble owning this house because its about yourself, not others.

8th House – What have you got that I want?

  • This is a house of power and is a house where you give your power away.
  • Where you give away something of great value to yourself, in order to get what you think you need, but you in-fact already have!
  • It’s the dark side of relationship
  • Taxes, banker… what you would do to get out of trouble
  • Where you get “seduced”
  • The archetype in this house will lead you into these situations

9th House – Where you meet the Divine

  • The aspiration to that which is highest in yourself
  • You meet the divine… Your relationship with God
  • What do I bring into my relationship with God
  • What is your ethical value

10th House – That which gets you to stand tall

  • I am in touch with “I am here”
  • I am on track… This is what I’m meant to be doing
  • This is not out in the future, it is your highest potential in the moment in order to create the future
  • The “Peak Experience” It’s not negotiable
  • How you emerge into connection with the world around you
  • To whom do I give authority over my life? It is not a person.
  • The archetype in this house will put you in contact with the system or rules in your life
  • This is the top of the mountain!
  • Not “this needs to be done”, but “this is the work that must be done” (to reach my highest potential
  • “Its the only way to become who you are meant to be”

11th House – Where we feel we are not separate from other people

  • Where we don’t do things just for ourselves
  • It adds to the collective
  • For example fighting for civil rights
  • Wanting to share things with other people selflessly
  • House of good Karma

12th House – The house of the collective unconscious

  • The house of self-undoing
  • You cannot understand this house with the rational mind. It is outside of space and time.
  • The dark angel (Michigan! Possibly “the fallen one”…
  • A place of great suffering and loss, but also a place of great miracles.
  • This house is beyond reason
  • The archetype that resides here can lead you to the miraculus.
  • Me – Silence the saboteur and I can get to the Mystic.
  • At its best this is a place of Grace.
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