House 4 of 12
Home and roots
Family, the home you came from and the one you make. The private base.
What lands here
Any planet falling in the Fourth House expresses its function through home and roots. Mars here pursues in this area; Saturn here meets its limits in this area; an empty house is not a deficiency, only an area without a planet emphasising it.
Where this house sits in the structure
This is angular: the four strongest houses — they sit on the chart’s axes, and a planet here acts most visibly. It pairs with the Tenth House across the chart, and those two are read together — Home and roots against career and reputation. An axis, not two separate topics.
In Cancer right now
Bodies currently transiting this house’s natural sign. In your own chart the house holds whichever sign your ascendant puts there — but the natural sign is what the house means before any chart is cast.