| Astrology is a vast subject that covers the breadth | | | | body as contrasted to the leader or monarch (tenth |
| and depth of human experience. What is most | | | | house), and democracy rather than aristocracy. Look |
| popular is what can be easily and personally related | | | | here for "grass roots" movements as well as the |
| such as Sun-sign astrology or relationships. Some | | | | third house for the grass roots communication |
| subjects are relatively simple and can be enjoyed by | | | | function. Several authorities place weather in the |
| many without a great investment of time or effort. | | | | fourth house. Look at the first sentence of this |
| Some astrological subjects take more work and | | | | description "everything above and below the land" for |
| study and a student is born. Still other astrological | | | | the rationale. Weather would be an additional |
| subjects develop the professional reader, researcher | | | | mundane study topic by itself. |
| or teacher. Whatever level of understanding you are | | | | 5th House All forms of entertainment and national |
| seeking, there are plenty of astrological subjects to | | | | pleasure, general amusement or excitement, theater, |
| satisfy your intellectual itch. | | | | television and radio as entertainment, music and |
| This article is about mundane astrology, which in itself | | | | musicians, arts, fashion, leisure, formal social functions, |
| covers a myriad of subjects. The word "mundane" | | | | high society or the "upper class" of a country, the |
| stems from the Roman word "mundus" or "of the | | | | House of Lords as opposition to the House of |
| world." Mundane astrology is all about the world and | | | | Commons of the eleventh house. Looking back into |
| our place in it such as weather, earth movements, | | | | antiquity many mundane definitions came from English |
| politics, countries, etc. and is more general than | | | | authors so I believe the House of Lords equates to |
| personal. To me mundane is about living in the world | | | | the USA Senate. Sports, heroes and champions, |
| as it affects a collective. My particular application | | | | morals, betting, speculative interests and risk taking; |
| stemmed from research on the USA as a country | | | | relationships as a way of life for a population, children |
| and the 43 presidents that have led and/or served | | | | (collectively) and their education (see also the third |
| this country. This specific use of mundane astrology | | | | house), children of the mind and the body, both |
| is termed judicial or political. | | | | physical and creative children, birth rate. Some |
| To me there are two main topics to study for the | | | | authors place ambassadors in this area as embassies |
| political application of mundane astrology, planets and | | | | also represent the social function between countries. |
| houses. In a previous article I covered the application | | | | 6th House The working classes, servants of or to |
| of planets and in this article I will cover the application | | | | the country such as trade unions, national or civil |
| of houses. In order to adequately understand and | | | | service, armed forces, police, fire, sanitation, |
| apply the principles of mundane/political astrology you | | | | emergency and catastrophic service, employees in |
| must have established solid comprehension of the | | | | general; public health or illness (see also first house, |
| basics of natal astrology. This is true of all applications | | | | plus eighth house for catastrophic illness or accident, |
| of astrology. First you build your base or core | | | | such as pandemics). Ambassadors are civil servants |
| knowledge of planets, signs, houses and aspects and | | | | but they must also be associated with the foreign |
| general reading skills. The rest is adaptation and | | | | countries they represent as well (ninth house), (see |
| application of those core principles. These principles | | | | also fifth house for the social functions of an |
| do not change from technique to technique or | | | | ambassador/embassy). |
| application to application. However, the words chosen | | | | 7th House Alliances, foreign affairs or relations, |
| to describe such application will change. There is a | | | | foreign trade, negotiations, treaties and/or conflicts |
| great difference in the words you would choose to | | | | or international disputes, war and peace, business |
| describe an individual effect, a relational effect, a | | | | relationships and agreements. Think partnerships of a |
| corporate effect, a national effect or a world-view | | | | country with other countries and all the layers of |
| effect. For example, Jupiter and what Jupiter | | | | meaning that would be involved. This is not only the |
| represents has an essential nature that will not | | | | house of partnerships but also of visible enemies, |
| change, but our word description adapts and changes | | | | those who are declared or known to be enemies, no |
| for each application. | | | | secrets. Non-visible or unknown enemies belong with |
| Houses represent the physical arenas of life, our | | | | the twelfth house. Issues that have to do with the |
| down-to-earth physical experiences. In a natal | | | | country's marriage and divorce rules and rates also |
| application houses represent twelve categories of | | | | belong to this seventh house. |
| experience such as your physical body (1st), your | | | | 8th House Financial matters that involve others |
| "stuff" (2nd), your family and home (4th), your job | | | | outside the country or other countries, international |
| (6th and 10th), your spouse or partner (7th), your | | | | finance, multi-national corporations, multi-national or |
| friends (11th), to name a few. Politically the houses | | | | foreign financial aid, loans or gifts; public safety, crime, |
| retain their essence, but the words change to reflect | | | | fraud; deaths, death rate, state funerals, public |
| the collective application. For example, instead of the | | | | mortality, public probate, inheritance, losses; public |
| 1st house being the physical body, image and | | | | indebtedness. Along with the first and sixth houses |
| self-projection of an individual, it becomes the | | | | for health and illness, the eighth house would be |
| collective body, image and self-projection of a | | | | involved with epidemics or catastrophic incidents that |
| country. | | | | involve human life such as 9-11, earthquakes, |
| To me, mundane astrology is a work in process. | | | | hurricanes, tornados, volcanoes, tsunamis. The English |
| Every time I do more research I learn more about | | | | "Privy Council" reference was translated to an |
| the overall principles. That is what fascinates me | | | | American panel of knowledgeable, experienced and |
| about astrology; there is always more to learn. For | | | | successful financial advisors to the president. |
| example, as I worked to make the houses | | | | 9th House Foreign lands or nations, distant neighbors, |
| understandable for this article, I found additional | | | | other cultures and languages; higher education, |
| concepts for the planets in a political application. That | | | | intellectuals, universities, professors, science, scientific |
| is exciting. I get to do more research and I grow. As | | | | institutions and publications;law, justice, legal |
| I study and apply the principles, I also run into | | | | professions, lawyers, judges, courts; philosophy, |
| questions or issues that are not quite clear. | | | | religions and religious affairs, church, ecclesiastical |
| Clarification of such conundrums usually takes time | | | | professions, clergy, philosophical institutions; shipping, |
| and multiple examples. And I grow. At the moment I | | | | sea traffic, long distance traffic or transportation in |
| am puzzled about where to place the elderly in the | | | | general whether connected with passengers or |
| mundane house system so I am researching that. | | | | commerce; communication and media that operates |
| Here are the mundane houses from my current best | | | | out of the country and around or beyond the world |
| effort. | | | | such as the world-wide web, space exploration and |
| 1st House The nation as a whole - the citizenry, self | | | | travel. |
| projection of the collective, how the rest of the | | | | 10th House The government as a governing entity, |
| world sees the country - the image of the nation, | | | | the sovereign and their government, monarch or |
| the general condition of the nation, public attention or | | | | president, those in authority, ruling party and powers, |
| focus, how the nation responds to provocation or | | | | royalty, aristocracy or nobility, the "upper crust," |
| stimulus - the coping skill of a nation. The first and | | | | eminent and famous persons of state; national |
| sixth houses also represent health and illness issues | | | | prestige and reputation, national goals and stature, |
| for the country with catastrophic illness, pandemic or | | | | national power. Some of these definitions of people |
| accident also incorporating eighth house involvement. | | | | show up in the fifth house as well (social function). |
| 2nd House Everything that has to do with money | | | | 11th House Congress, parliament especially the House |
| and the economy of that country, national wealth or | | | | of Commons in England. Again, many mundane |
| lack of it, revenue, taxation, all activities and locations | | | | definitions came from a long line of English authors so |
| of money-making and banking including stocks, bonds | | | | I believe the House of Commons in England would |
| trades, minting, commercial affairs, money markets, | | | | equate to the USA House of Representatives. It also |
| exchange markets, the assets of the nation. All | | | | is political representation in general, local government |
| national financial programs such as Social Security or | | | | such as town and country councils, friends of the |
| Medicare as well as entitlement programs such as | | | | nation, legislation in general (see also third house for |
| welfare, emergency funding and federal aid, There is | | | | the written function of legislation). |
| controversy in some of these choices depending on | | | | 12th House All institutions or detention facilities, places |
| which author's rules you choose. Just know that this | | | | of confinement such as prisons, reformatories, |
| group is the financial core of the country itself but is | | | | criminals; plots, fraud, illicit activities; workhouses; |
| related to within-the-country financial dealings, To go | | | | hospitals, institutional homes for the aged or children, |
| outside the country and involve other countries is | | | | asylums; secret societies, monasteries, mystical or |
| eighth house issues. | | | | occult religions, institutional religion, philanthropic |
| 3rd House Education in general as an intellectual and | | | | societies, charities; enemies within (hidden enemies), |
| informational activity, language, communication and | | | | spies, secret (not known or visible) enemies of the |
| media in general, transportation in general. In | | | | country wherever and whomever they are, |
| particular: disseminating news and information such as | | | | Please know there is controversy in many of these |
| magazines, publications, newspapers, literature, | | | | descriptive choices depending on which author's rules |
| periodicals, authors, writing, legislation as written | | | | you choose. For myself, I prefer the older, |
| documents or contracts, the postal service, libraries; | | | | well-established and researched definitions as a |
| within the country communication such as telegraphs | | | | beginning point, adding my own interpretation and |
| and telephones, media including radio, television, the | | | | experience from the charts and research that I |
| use of computers, grass roots communication; within | | | | develop. This is and will always be a work in progress |
| the country transportation such as automobiles and | | | | for me. I do not always agree with those old rules, |
| trucks, roads and bridges, railways; close neighbors | | | | but I do trust them to provide me with a beginning |
| such as nations with common borders; siblings as in | | | | point. As mentioned, many mundane definitions came |
| inter-related nations such as England and her colonies. | | | | from the work of English authors so descriptive |
| There are serious questions as to whether water | | | | translation is necessary as you have seen in my |
| travel and/or aviation belong to the third house as | | | | mundane house descriptions. Please consider my |
| well. All transportation belongs here in general, | | | | work as a place to begin, subject to your own |
| however, it is naturally limited to local or within the | | | | experience and choice. You can start here but |
| country transportation. Transportation issues at a | | | | eventually you should make your whole body of |
| great distance or outside the country falls into the | | | | work your own conclusion. |
| ninth house. | | | | Oh before I finish... those two items I found regarding |
| 4th House The land of the country itself, bedrock, | | | | mundane planet concepts were both political and |
| small to large parcels and everything in between, | | | | apropros to politics as we are experiencing it today in |
| everything above and below the land that is related | | | | the USA. They are offered as a stimulus to your |
| to the land, the buildings and use of the land such as | | | | thought and research, not as a standing mundane |
| agriculture, all forms of farming, crops and produce, | | | | rule. |
| mining, quarries, coal pits, minerals, even oil reserves, | | | | · Uranus would represent strongly individualistic |
| public buildings and housing in general, the owners of | | | | right-wing ideology, possibly with tension and stress |
| such land, reserved land for parks and preservation, | | | | such as demonstration and rioting. |
| the roots and physical base to the country. This also | | | | · Neptune would represent left-wing ideology more |
| is the position for the political party in opposition to | | | | socialistic or people-oriented, and negatively as |
| the party in power (tenth house), the people as a | | | | delusion, fraud, and deceit. |