12 HOUSE AND HUMAN ORGANS

 

In medical astrology the right half of the body represented by house 1 to 7 and left half of the body by house 7 to 1.

First House: Head, brain, body in general, hair, appearance, skin, sleep, freedom from ill-health, longevity and old age, ability to perform work.

 

Second House: Face, eyes (right eye), teeth, tongue, mouth, oral cavity, nose, speech, nails, steadiness of the mind.

 

Third House: Ears (right ear), throat, neck, shoulders, upper Limbs, trachea (windpipe), upper part of oesophagus (food pipe), clavicles (collar bone), the 1st web space of the hand, dream, mental instability, physical fitness and physical growth.

 

Fourth House: Chest (thorax), lungs, heart (according to some), blood vessels of the thorax, diaphragm, potent and effective medicine, breast.

 

Fifth House: Heart, upper abdomen and its viscera, viz., stomach, liver, gall bladder, spleen, pancreas, duodenum (i.c., derivatives of the fore-gut), mind, thinking, pregnancy, umbilicus.

 

Sixth House: Small intestine, mesentery, appendix, part of the large intestine (i.e., derivatives of the mid gut), upper ureter, diseases in general, ill health, wounds, injury, operation, mental agony, madness, phlegmatic illnesses, tuberculosis, tumors, eruptive diseases (small pox!), diseases of the eye, poison.

 

Seventh House: Large intestine and rectum, kidney, lower urinary tract (lower ureters and urinary bladder),uterus, ovaries and testes, broad ligaments, prostate gland, seminal vesicles, urethra, anal canal, groins, semen, sexual union.

 

Eight House: External genitalia, perineum, anal orifice, secondary sex characters, loss of a limb, affliction to face, chronic or incurable disease, longevity, severe mental anguish.

 

Ninth House: Hips, thighs, femoral arteries, nourishment.

 

Tenth House: Knee joints, patella (knee-cap), popliteal fossa (the hollow behind the knee joint).

 

Eleventh House: Legs, left ear, alternate house for disease (sixth from the sixth house) and recovery from disease.

 

Twelfth House: Feet, left eye, disturbed sleep, mental imbalance, physical ailment, hospitalization, crippled limbs, death.