5th House Astrology A Guide To The Zodiac's Fifth House
The fifth house tell us about our expression, creativity, romance, and how we shine our unique lights to the world.
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Let’s take a look at the fifth house.
Content
- 5th House Meaning In Astrology
- Planets In The 5th House
- 5th House Through The Signs
5th House Meaning
Fifth House Of Astrology- What Is It?
The fifth House refers to children, creativity, and the pursuit of pleasure. This includes personal interests, love affairs, sports, hobbies, speculation, risk-taking, teaching, drama, creative self-expression, love
Romance, dating, love affairs, and sexual relationships are ruled by this 5th house, yet marriage is assigned to the 7th. Why? Because, until very recently, marriage was not entered into for pleasure, for love, nor for personal fulfilment. Marriage was hardly even entered into by choice, but rather for the purpose of raising kids to preserve the values of a particular culture or religion. And these marriages were most often arranged according to class and financial status, a partnership befitting the 7th house.
Nowadays, it’s common to marry for love. To avoid confusion, remember: affairs of the heart are in the 5th house, but cooperative partnerships are in the domain of the 7th house.
Word Summary of home and family life according to your 5th House Sign Cusp:
- Aries – Active
- Taurus – Resting
- Gemini – Playful
- Cancer – Affectionate
- Leo – Self-centered
- Virgo – Diligent
- Libra – Harmonious
- Scorpio – Unsettling
- Sagittarius – Exploring
- Capricorn – Constructive
- Aquarius – Contemplative
- Pisces – Searching
Word Summary of your home and family life if you have a planet in your 5th House:
- Sun – Extensive
- Moon – Devoted
- Mercury – Amusing
- Venus – Pleasant
- Mars – Intense
- Jupiter – Varied
- Saturn – Somber
- Uranus – Interesting
- Neptune – Exciting
- Pluto – Dramatic
What Body Parts Are Related To The Fifth House Of Astrology?
The 5th house is mainly concerned with the middle body parts i.e. the heart and the digestive system which contains the liver, gall bladder, stomach and pancreas. It also controls the health of these parts. A weak house results in bad health of these parts and cause diseases such as heart
Planets In 5th House
Planets In The Fifth House
The planet which mainly affects the fifth house astrology is The Sun. The Sun rules Leo and the 5th House. The planet which this house influences the most is Jupiter which brings good characters in a person. Following is what different planets bring to the fifth house of astrology:-
Sun In 5th House
All of this is most likely to focus upon the means and products of your creative expression. This would involve things like pastimes, romance, children, art, speculation, drama, partying, etc. What this entails or even demands of you is that you celebrate your uniqueness in an unreserved, even abandoned way.
You find brightness simply through shining; and in company you do seem to glow. Being proud of your own life and personality, as long as it does not devolve into conceit, encourages others to be proud of themselves as well. The making of something or someone is your essential quality. To you the world really is a stage, so the power and ability to play is vital, as too is your understanding that life is for living
Moon In 5th House
All these needs and feelings are especially drawn to situations where fun and creativity are in the offing. How you respond to this has a great deal to do with your Moon-Sign traits, which I have just described. One way or the other though, you are instinctively drawn to one type or another of creative self-expression – be it art or drama, children, romance, hobbies or gambling. Because you naturally have a feel for such areas, there is an infectious and familiar quality about you and others gather round this like a campfire
Mercury In 5th House
Mercury in the 5th house,
Venus In 5th House
VYour feelings of love and beauty have no trouble finding expression because you have a natural sense that they should be expressed. So you possess the usual graces of a romantically and artistically inclined soul: affectionate, lively, entertaining, attractive to the opposite sex, etc. You also like to seek out such qualities in life and others, so galleries, theatres, parties, etc. exercise a magnetic pull.
You experience all the highs and lows of love and art, for this is essentially what gives you such a vibrant sense of them. You should never let anything get in the way of expressing yourself creatively for your natural style is very real. If you have children, it shows in them too
Mars In 5th House
Whatever your manner of self-assertion, because you have a lust for life you run into plenty of opportunities to exercise it. You are rather like a sparking plug is to gasoline. Be it an affair of the heart, a business enterprise or whatever, things are set in unstoppable motion by your verve and desire.
If you are not aware of this provocative streak in your nature, you will attract rivalry anyway – or else you could have children who are bold or arrogant. But really it’s you that is the forceful one and although there is a danger of being crude and unsubtle, going wholeheartedly for the object of your desires is in order
Jupiter In 5th House
Most of all you apply this faith
You are a great believer that life is a play and the world is a stage – but just make sure you know who the director is!
Saturn In 5th House
These lessons and limitations bear most of all upon your individual means of self-expression. This could include anything that is a creative product or outlet of yours such as artwork, children, hobbies, games, romance, etc, so delays, difficulties, duty, denial or heavy responsibilities are all possible in one or more of these areas.
You are learning to go about such matters in a disciplined way, as if you have to prove something. Until you do, little or nothing will be forthcoming. When you do however – which would be through a gradual process – you could become quite an authority in that field. Overall, you tend to feel that your creative efforts are being watched and judged. They are – by you! Since you are your own overseer, why not be a positive and generous one?
Uranus In 5th House
Your urge for change and awakening makes itself felt in your manner of sexual or creative expression. Whatever is original, or shocking, marks the way in which you come across, be it socially or artistically. In any event, taking a conventional route in this respect will either be very boring or unproductive or both. Sexually too, you are unlikely to be happy with the norm in the sense of settling down with the spouse and children, because this would seriously inhibit your all-important freedom of expression.
Any children you have will also be unusual, disruptive or gifted in some way. Creative ideas come and go like lightning, so you have to be ready and quick to catch them. This is important to bear in mind, for potentially you have access to a streak of genius – hence your insistence on the space to make free with your individuality
Neptune In 5th House
For you, such sensitivity and yearning for something finer
Indeed, the ‘Agony and the Ecstasy’ are your constant companions, as they are for all romantic and creative souls. With affairs of the
You certainly ought to be artistically talented considering that yours is an artistic and poetic temperament and your work will be constantly inspired and fed by the peaks and troughs created by your acute sensitivity and imagination.
If for some reason you do not pursue some art form, then this has to be because of an unsympathetic figure or factor in your life that crushed your latent abilities. If this is the case, take up art as a hobby – because your imagination is too good to waste on mere daydreaming. If you have children, they are highly sensitive or imaginative.
Pluto In 5th House
Pluto in the 5th House allows Power and transformation enter your life via your creative means of expression or romantic involvements. With the former, artwork, hobbies or drama can be quite heavy,
Obsessiveness and a strong accent upon sex bear witness to the fact that although you may have been in it for fun at the start, as it wears on you become conscious that it’s souls and not just bodies that are getting close with all the highs, lows and deep changes which this entails. The physical result of sex, children, will have an even more than usually profound effect
As an alternative to all this you consciously, or unconsciously, sense what deep and turbulent waters love or art will get you into – and so you back-paddle. But, as Dante said, “Take away my demons and you take away my angels”. In other words, your choice is between either agony coupled with ecstasy, or, safety coupled with frustration