Significance of the First House in a Birth Chart

In episode 455 astrologer Chris Brennan does live chart readings with listeners to talk about the meaning of 1st house placements in their birth chart. This workshop was recorded a few weeks ago in preparation for the longer episode on the 1st house in astrology that was released last week, titled The First House in Astrology: Planets in the Rising Sign. The purpose of the livestream was to gain a deeper understanding about what the first house means by interviewing some people with prominent 1st house placements about their life. During the course of the livestream we discuss some examples of people with planets in the first house, those who have the ruler of the Ascendant in different houses, and also some people who had major transits through the first house. I also put out a call for examples from Twitter/X, and read a number of examples that were sent in live at different points. By the end of the episode we ended up learning a lot about what the first house means by hearing about the lived experience of people with prominent placements involving that house in their chart. This episode is available in both audio and video versions below. Timestamps 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:05 1st house meaning 00:10:44 Mars in 1st house example 00:13:44 Mars in 1st house interview 00:28:29 Third Mars in 1st house example 00:31:10 Miscellaneous listener examples 00:36:52 Jupiter in 1st house interview 00:50:12 Saturn 1st house transit interview 00:59:33 Uranus & Pluto conjunct ASC transit 01:03:17 Uranus conjunct Ascendant transit 01:07:03 Miscellaneous examples 01:11:47 Eclipses in 1st house interview 01:19:34 Ruler of 4th house in 1st interview 01:33:01 Saturn transit in 1st house interview 01:49:01 Ruler of the Ascendant in houses 01:56:12 Ruler of Ascendant in 7th house interview 02:11:39 Final thoughts 02:16:43 Credits Watch the Video Version of This Episode Watch the video version of this episode on 1st house birth chart readings on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njdGDsHZvf8 - Transcript A full transcript of this episode is available: Episode 455 transcript Listen to the Audio Version of This Episode Listen to the audio version of this episode or download it as an MP3: