Planets in the houses

By Maren Tremblay, Fatesight editor · Last updated November 1, 2026

A planet's sign says how it acts, and its house says where in your life it acts. Enter your date, time and place of birth to see all ten planets' houses, each with what it is read as.

All 120 planets in houses

Choose a planet and a house. Each page gives its reading in love and at work, and the hours of the day it applies to.

How to read a planet in a house

Start with the houses that hold the most planets, because that is where your attention tends to go. Then look at the angular houses, the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th, where a planet is read as being most visible to other people.

A house with no planet in it is not empty of meaning. It is read through the planet that rules the sign on its edge, wherever that planet sits.

Houses need your birth time, because the whole set turns once a day. A difference of two hours can move every planet into the next house, while its sign stays the same.

What each planet is read as

• The Sun is read as who you are at the centre, so its house is where you tend to feel most like yourself.
• The Moon is read as what you need to feel safe, so its house is where you tend to look for comfort.
• Mercury is read as how you think and talk, so its house is what you tend to think and talk about.
• Venus is read as how you love and what you value, so its house is where you tend to look for pleasure and connection.
• Mars is read as your drive, so its house is where you tend to push hardest and where you tend to fight.
• Jupiter is read as where you grow, so its house is where life tends to feel big and hopeful.
• Saturn is read as where you build slowly, so its house is where you tend to be careful and work the hardest.
• Uranus is read as where you break the pattern, so its house is where you tend to need freedom and get surprises.
• Neptune is read as where you dream, so its house is where you tend to idealise things and where you see less clearly.
• Pluto is read as where you change at the root, so its house is where things tend to feel intense and hard to let go.

How your houses are worked out

We use the same chart code as our birth chart calculator: positions from astronomy-engine, the open-source astronomy library, in the tropical zodiac, with Placidus houses. At or beyond the polar circles, where Placidus can't be drawn, the chart uses Porphyry. The hours on each pair's page are local solar time. They shift through the year because the Sun does, and with your latitude. Its share is out of 2,112 birth moments spread evenly from 1950 to 2010, at 40° north. A share above or below one in twelve, 8.3%, comes from how Placidus houses vary in size at that latitude and how the planet moves. How we calculate the sky shows the checks.

• The 12 houses
• Planets in signs
• Birth chart calculator