Be at Home in Your 4th House

Your fourth house or IC (imum coeli, meaning bottom of the sky) represents your family (often the role of the mother), your emotional foundation, and the home. This can mean your literal home as well as the feeling of home. The sign that your fourth house occupies reveals your most private self and the ways that you create inner security. This house asks the question—what is private and intimate for you? Where and how do you feel most nurtured and safe?

Signs and planets occupying this house can describe your relationship to family, maternal energy, and how you build your infrastructure. They reveal the way that you relate to the most basic ideas of comfort, closeness, and the kind of intimacy you share with those you’re closest to. Sitting at the bottom of your birth chart, you can also look to this house to understand how you make space to recharge your energy.