A Deeper Understanding of the 3rd House in Astrology

A Deeper Understanding of the 3rd House in Astrology...

Each house symbolizes a level
of human development.
The 3rd house is symbolic
of early childhood.
It is a personal house of self-development.

In the metaphoric journey of the soul through the houses, you move into the symbolic house of early childhood in the third house. Here, you discover the wonders of the mind.

It begins at home where you learn to speak and communicate.Then, you make your first venture into the outside world when you start school. In school, you learn to read, write and gather information. With all of these newly formed skills, you realize there is an entire world beyond your own body and physical objects.

There are facts, reasons, explanations and answers, and they can all be communicated. This creates a duality between the physical world and the intangible world of thinking and reasoning, which makes it a house of duality. In this house of the dual sign Gemini, you gain your first understanding of your ability to detach from the physical world and enter into the realm of your mind. For the first time, you experience the world in an intangible manner. Here, you don't need to touch anything, or affect anything. Rather, you can observe things and understand them.By developing your ability to understand the world around you rather than affect it or experience it physically, as in the first and second houses, you gain a new perspective.

The world becomes a little bigger and more interesting and you become a little smaller in comparison. You are finally able to step back and understand the world. However, this is still one of the personal houses of self-development. You step back here, but you don't step outside of yourself.

It's precise and accurate. There's no need to pass judgement or change it, because before we are ready to do any of those things, we must make sure we know exactly how things are in the first place. This is the purpose of the third house in the evolution of the houses. This house is still rather narrowly focused. It's about gathering information about your world but not about interpreting it, judging it or changing it. It's about learning how it works without any regard to whether it's moral or immoral, harmful or beneficial. In the third house, it's only about the facts. Like a child in elementary school learning to read, write, and do arithmetic, here you learn to see the world exactly how it is.