The fourth house is the house of home and family. It is our deepest emotional core, our roots and our genetic inheritance, as seen through the family tree and our ancestors with all of their relationship issues, conflicts, fears and dreams. It is a mysterious and our most common place, our house of habit and connection to the core of the Earth, just as it is our ability to find infinite, unconditional love, and constant closeness to another human being. This is the house that relates to the sign of Cancer, and its Latin motto genitor translates to "parent", as if it was on a mission to show the importance of one person that made us feel at home, no matter if it is our actual parent or simply – ourselves.
AREAS OF LIFE
When we speak of our personal, emotional basis for satisfaction, we are definitely speaking about our fourth house. Not only does it say everything we need to know about our upbringing and the home we grew up in, but it also points out the most important issues we have built in relation to the parent of opposite sex. It is the house of heritage and all things we hold dear, and we will often see people with accented fourth house as collectors who stick to their routine, and have a certain fear of change deeply rooted in their need to stick to peaceful, homey feelings and choices.
Although it is often mistaken for the house of tradition, we have to understand that fourth house represents closeness. Tradition itself is seen through the sign of Capricorn and the opposing tenth house, as something that gives the ultimate feeling of responsibility, recognized through respect of the elders, and among them – our ancestry. Fourth house in its core can be linked to family traditions that serve only to keep the family together, and only for as long as they don't bring spasm into one's world and the feeling of strong responsibility that doesn't feel good. The best way to understand matters of the fourth house in their most beautiful light is through closeness we have with our mother, and those we laugh with, caress, care for, and those that thaw our hearts in the hardest of times.
This is the house that represents our emotional core and our ability to be satisfied, happy and smile from the heart. It is a house of home, family, motherly feelings, as well as our private business, how clean and innocent we feel, and our ability to open up. It is our final destination as the house that represents our grave, and our starting point seen though genes we chose for this lifetime, there to close the circle of one life from its beginning to end.
THE FOURTH HOUSE IN ARIES
When someone has the fourth house cusp set in the sign of Aries, it often speaks of impatience of the parent of opposite sex when the chart's owner was still a baby. In case of a perfect positioning, this is a sign of fiery emotional clarity, speed of decisions and the confidence one brought from their home and their upbringing. Each imbalance here speaks of pain and hurt, and even abuse or anger deeply seeded in one's family tree. Aries is a sign of fiery nature, and often doesn't give enough room for an individual to develop its emotional nature to the point of self-recognition, understanding, and enough compassion to reach the point of true satisfaction. This is someone raised in a loud home, with a lot of conflict, constructive or destructive, and gives as much energy to one's soul as it can take it away.
THE FOURTH HOUSE IN TAURUS
If the fourth house is set in Taurus, we see a natural position of care and physical devotion coming from one's parents. Although it can point out to traditional or strict upbringing, it always provides one with a certain sense of comfort and joy that creates a strong, fixed basis for a satisfying life. Only in the case of truly challenging position of Venus and the Moon can we presume that the person in question has an emotional debt to repay, and has to deal with feelings of guilt and incompetence coming from their early environment. In most cases this is a very warm position, enabling one to find beauty and see the world in color, as well as provide them with the ability to enjoy material reality and engage in practical matters in a healthy way.
