What this house holds
This house is your near world. Brothers and sisters, neighbours, the street you grew up on, the messages and letters going back and forth, short journeys.
It also shows how your mind works day to day: how quickly you take things in, how you adapt, how you put your thoughts into words.
How it was read before
Older astrology gave this house to Gemini and Mercury and called it the house of relatives. It was read for a person's quickness of mind as well as their family around them.
For a nation it held the ways people and news move about. In the 1920s that meant railways, the post office, the telegraph, the telephone and the radio. It also stood for libraries and public schooling.
Sit with this
Pay attention to the small conversations this week. A text, a word from a neighbour, something your sister said in passing.
Energy often moves through the everyday before it shows up anywhere else.