The twelve houses
The Eleventh House
Friends, community and hope. Who are my people, and what are we building?
- Sphere of life
- the group you belong to
- Natural sign
- Aquarius
- Natural ruler
- Saturn and Uranus
- Type
- Succedent
- Keywords
- friendship, networks, causes, hopes
The eleventh house is chosen company: friends, groups, movements and networks — and the long-range hopes you are working toward with them.
Houses are not signs. The signs describe how something happens; the houses describe where in a life it happens. The eleventh house is the the group you belong to — and every chart has one, whether or not a planet is sitting in it.
Angular, succedent or cadent
Succedent houses (2, 5, 8, 11) hold and consolidate what the angles begin. The eleventh house is succedent.
A planet in the eleventh house
A planet here shows up among your friends, in the groups you join, and in what you hope for.
An empty eleventh house
An empty eleventh house is common; the cusp sign still describes the company you keep. Most charts have several empty houses — there are only ten or so bodies for twelve rooms, so emptiness is the norm and means nothing bad.
Why the natural sign matters
Each house has a sign that belongs to it by nature — here, Aquarius, ruled by Saturn and Uranus. That association is where the house's reputation comes from: Fixed air: conviction held at a distance. But the sign on your eleventh cusp is set by your birth time, and it is the one that describes how this part of your life actually behaves.
Your eleventh house sign
Find the sign on your own cusp in the birth chart report, then read what it does there: