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.