4th House

Angular · natural ruler Cancer · home, roots, family

The root of things — home, lineage, the private ground beneath a life.

The fourth house is angular, sitting at the base of the chart where the foundations are laid. Aligned with Cancer and the Moon, it governs home, family, and origin — the place one comes from and the place one retreats to. It is the most private of the angular houses, the interior life and the inheritance carried from those who came before.

Here are roots and belonging, the felt sense of where one truly lives beneath all outward circumstance. The fourth house describes the soil a life grows from and returns to, the deep ground that shapes everything built above it.