The 3rd House, let’s communicate !
- Attached to Gemini, symbolizing “I think”
- Axis of studies, intellect and reflection
- Mode : Mutable (Cadent)
- Element : Air (relational, exchange, sociability)
The 3rd House represents your communication, your relational exchanges, the awakening of intelligence, your faculties of adaptation to your environment, the relationships with your relatives, with the “Others”, with the people you meet on a daily basis (as your brothers, sisters, neighbours, friends, but also your customers or small flirts), it also represents beyond everything related to “circulation” and “movement”. It is in this house that the first superficial “Projections” in our relationships will be expressed.
It can be your discussions as well as your writings, your publicity, your teaching, all the forms of contacts. It can also be intellectual thinking or social thinking, the practical sense. In short, everything that allows you to evolve more easily in your close environment.
The 3rd House also corresponds to primary and secondary studies, to learnings, to the curiosity to learn, to the thirst for knowledge, the desire to establish links with “Others”, the thirst to communicate.
Finally, the 3rd House is that of short trips or small journeys (all forms of transport), in “exchange mode”.
Its general symbolism is directly related to that of the planet Mercury.
In your birth chart, the Sign in the 3rd House will imprint on your personality its character in the fields related to exchange, in your ways of speaking or writing.
The Planets in the 3rd House and their Aspects indicate the energies what will facilitate or complicate your faculties to transmit your messages, thus partly your general sociability.
The transits in the 3rd House of your chart will signify an updating of the house’s values, for example through a work of writing or teaching, significant words exchanged, a displacement…
Analyzing the 3rd House :
- First look at its opposite house, the 9th House, symbolizing philosophy.
- Then look at the Squares : the 6th House, the 12th House (Cadent Houses, representing adaptability)
- Take into account the Trines : the 7th House, the 11th House (Air Houses, representing sociability)
Planets Rulerships Analogy :
With the 3rd House we are halfway in the hemisphere of introversion, of our secret world, of matter, of inner life.
See the Astrological Houses.