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V · The Fifth House

The fifth lies deep beneath the earth, at the bottom of the sky. Counted fifth from your rising sign.

The Fifth House

The House of Children and Delight

Where fortune smiles and life takes pleasure in itself.

The fifth house is Good Fortune, the joy of Venus, governing children, love freely given, feasts, games, and every pleasure that renews rather than depletes. The tradition reads it as one of the fortunate places of the chart, a house of increase, gifts, and glad occasions.

Classical nameGood Fortune

QualitySuccedent, the houses that follow and hold

The joy Venus rejoices here

Kin by analogy Fifth of twelve, as Leo is fifth of the signs

What the house holds

children and their welfarelove affairs and courtshippleasure, feasts, and celebrationgames, arts, and adornmentgifts and unlooked-for benefit

When a planet stands here

Venus here rejoices, generous in love and in the arts of delight.

Jupiter here multiplies children and glad occasions.

Saturn here can make joy a discipline, or delay the coming of children.

Agathe Tyche in Greek. Its meanings flow from the joy of Venus, the benefic of the night sect placed below the horizon.

A house is personal. It exists only in a birth chart, cast from your own horizon at your own hour; the sky holds no fifth house until someone is born under it. The kinship with Leo is an analogy of order, not an identity.

In the old scheme, Venus rejoices here › Kin by analogy to Leo ›

I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII

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