Horary House Finder: Which House Rules Your Question?
Pick who your question is about and what you want to know. This names the house to judge from, and shows the counting.
Judged from the 12th house
the 10th counted from the 3rd
- 1 you1st
- 2 your sister or brother3rd
- 3 your sister or brother's career10th from the 3rd → 12th
In this question your sister or brother is the 3rd. Their career is the 10th counted from them, so count 10 houses on from there and you land on the 12th.
Which house rules it is the first step; whether it happens takes a whole chart. Casting one is free, and the 12th house carries over, so nothing is asked twice.
Ask it properly, free →How the counting works
Every horary question is judged from one house. Your own matters take their own house directly: your money is the 2nd, your career the 10th. Anything belonging to somebody else is counted from that person's house instead — which is what astrologers call turning, or a derived house.
Your sister is the 3rd. Her career is the 10th counted from her, so you count ten houses on from the 3rd and land on the 12th — a house nobody guesses. This is the traditional system of derived houses. The person asking is the querent; the planet that ends up standing for the matter is its significator.
The tool never guesses. It offers a fixed set of relationships and topics, each one taken from a sourced rule, and does the arithmetic in front of you. If your question does not fit any of them, the honest answer is that it needs a chart — which is what the button under the answer is for.
The method
Method: Lilly's derived houses, as set out in Christian Astrology, with the parent assignments Lilly himself uses — the mother is the 10th, the father the 4th. Anything belonging to somebody else is counted from that person's own house.
The ones people get wrong
Nobody searches for which house rules money. These are the assignments that actually send people looking, and each is one the tool settles in two taps.
My boss → the 10th. But a dispute against my boss → the 7th, because an open opponent takes the 7th whatever their social role.
My sister's money → the 4th. Her house is the 3rd; her money is the 2nd counted from there.
My partner's job → the 4th. The 10th counted from the 7th.
My child's missing possession → the 6th. The 2nd counted from the 5th.
Will my sister get the job? → the 12th. The 10th counted from the 3rd — the most surprising result in the set.
What this does not do
Stated plainly, because a tool that hides its edges is not one an astrologer will trust or link to.
- It answers one subject at a time. A question with three parties — selling a house, say, where you are the 1st, the buyer the 7th and the property the 4th — has no single chain. Ask about each subject in turn, then cast the chart, which is where all three significators appear together.
- Aunts, uncles and cousins are deliberately absent. No authority we work from states their house, and deriving one unsourced is the one thing this tool exists not to do.
- It finds the house and the path to it. Whether the answer is yes is a different question — that needs the chart.
- It takes no typed questions. Every answer comes from a table with a citation behind it, not from a model guessing at your wording.
Common questions
Do I need a birth chart or a birth time?
No. A horary chart is cast for the moment a question is asked, not for a birth. This tool needs neither — only who your question is about and what you want to know.
Which house is my mother — the 10th or the 4th?
The 10th. Lilly gives the mother the 10th house and the father the 4th, and this tool follows him throughout. The modern swap that puts the mother in the 4th belongs to a different tradition; mixing the two is the commonest way to derive a wrong house.
What is a turned or derived house?
A house counted from somewhere other than the ascendant. Your sister is the 3rd, so her money is the 2nd counted from the 3rd — which is the radical 4th. Turning is how the tradition reaches anything belonging to somebody other than the person asking.
My question landed on the 1st house. Is that a mistake?
Usually not. Some chains genuinely resolve to the 1st — your mother's father is one — which means that person shares the significator standing for you. It is a real result and the tool says so; telling the two apart is a job for the full chart.
Is my salary the 2nd house or the 11th?
The 11th. Money is always the second house of somebody, and a salary is your employer's money: the 2nd counted from their 10th, which lands on the 11th. Your own 2nd is your own money and movables.
Will this tell me the answer to my question?
No. Finding the house is the first step of a reading, not the reading. Whether the matter comes to pass depends on the planets ruling those houses and how they meet, which needs a chart cast for the moment you asked.