4th House (Bandhu Bhava) House of Family and Home[Astrological Womb].

The Fourth House:House of Family and Home.

The fourth house covers your home -- 

what it looks like, where it is located, and with whom you share your space. This includes any house guests or visitors who stop by to visit or to help you with home-improvement projects or for babysitting. It also rules individuals who challenge domestic harmony. 

Family life comes under this fourth house, as would all property matters such as the real estate -- buying or selling houses, condos, co-operatives, or the leasing of an apartment. This house also rules your parents and your relationship with them, the foundations of your life. Finally, the fourth house indicates the lifestyle you will have much later in life, for the fourth house is a metaphor for the end of the day.

The fourth house is ruled by the sentimental sign of Cancer, and its nurturing Moon.

The fourth house is the life arena of home, and those that dwell there with you. It shows the influences of early family, and a sense of roots that go way back in time. It’s the base of the Deep Self, the one that emerged from a long line of ancestors, whether they’re known consciously or not. This house is how we integrate all we know about where we’ve come from, to create a sense of where Homeis.

It’s the house of earliest nurturing, going back to the womb. Planets here influence how that care was perceived, and whether there was a sense of shelter or not. It’s the house of emotional retreat, and the private comfort given by those we consider family. This house is often associated with Mother, but if your primary caretaker was Dad, that mothering experience in your memory would have a male face.

Later in life, this house guides the particular way we seek retreat. It’s about the sanctuary of home as a place to coax out, and soothe the innermost part of the Self. Being the house of Cancer, it’s how we create a shell to protect us from the elements. In the real world, that means the buying and selling of home, and things like renovation.

This house is about how we react to, and reflect (Moon) what’s totally beyond our control. That’s our family of origin, and the cultural heritage we emerge from. It guides what we do with that heritage. Creativity in this house might inspire story or visual art that comes from that sense of personal roots. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to resolve those given family factors, with who we sense we really are as an entity apart. That’s why the fourth house is full of gifts and challenges that lead to the deepest kind of questioning and soul growth.

Different Planets In Fourth House

Sun in the 4th House

All of this is most likely to be focused upon, and affected by, your home and background. So your roots are very significant in determining what you make of life. You can either get buried in them or use them as a base from which to launch yourself. If there are negative qualities in your early home life, this will dog your progress more than is usual, so it is not until the latter part of life that you begin to prosper.

Even then, this would entail your coming to terms with blocks created in childhood. Your father has a lot to do with all this, for his character has affected you in more ways than you possibly care to admit. Your career or reputation may well involve being the proprietor/owner of some form of establishment or foundation, or simply that you work at or from home. Whatever the case, making a deliberate effort to get away from the home and family scene occasionally is very therapeutic because you can become so bound up in it as to lose your sense of vitality and individuality.

Moon in the 4th House
Whatever your feelings or needs, you instinctively know how to protect and feed them. In fact, you are a natural homemaker. You exude a home-from-home, hearthside familiar atmosphere. This fosters all domestic and catering talents, be it on a professional or amateur basis. You also have a closeness to Nature. A feel for flora and fauna is in your blood and you could have green fingers. You can, however, be overly attached to your roots - never leaving the region, or even home, you were born in.


Mercury in the 4th House
These mental qualities of yours were strongly influenced by your early home life and racial, cultural or national background so your mind can be somewhat buried in your roots as it treads well-established, but possibly habit-ridden paths. As a reaction to this, you might rebel against them, moving about from place to place in a need to find your own mind, or attracting a domestic or family set-up where you're continually having to assert your individual attitude. You like to surround yourself with books and bits and pieces of interest because they give you a sense of security. Another interest in roots, and the security which they provide, may well involve subjects like geology, archaeology, ecology, genealogy, etc but, at the bottom of all this is your father, who was probably an intellectual type and not easy to get to know emotionally. This would have fed your mind but frustrated your feelings. In other words, what you're really digging for is your father's soul - because it is the route to your own.


Venus in the 4th House
These senses most readily find expression in your private or home life so it's more than likely that your interior decor is tasteful and your flair for this might be employed on a professional level. Romance too is more happily pursued in the home or family environment, where there is more likely to be a warm atmosphere and no unwelcome intrusions. Your father and background are the wellspring of your sense of grace and charm and in times of stress you retreat to regenerate in your nest of pleasingly familiar surroundings.


Mars in the 4th House
These powers of self-assertion are somewhat unconscious, buried either by having had the actions of others overwhelm you in some way, or else it has simply never occurred to you that you had a right to get what you wanted. Your father's influence or your early sexual experiences could have contributed to, or been, the cause of this. Whatever or whoever it was could well be causing you to feel very angry, but probably unconsciously.

Left to itself, this anger could give rise to domestic strife or, at its most extreme, fires or accidents in the home. So sooner or later you have, or have had, to get out from under - possibly as a result of some emotional upheaval - and strike out for what you want and what you believe in. Such angry feelings can be released temporarily through energetic housework.

Jupiter in the 4th House
You have inherited this brand of faith and philosophy. This means that it is in your blood and so therefore you are not that conscious of it; it is just there. At some stage it may well be necessary for you to become more aware of the nature of this inheritance because either it's a negative faith and is doing you no good, or, it's positive and you're not making the most of it.

Your father's beliefs, or lack of them, have a lot to do with all this. A sign of your innate faith or luck can be seen in your domestic affairs and where you live. Your abode may well be large, mobile or involve human growth activities.

Saturn in the 4th House
These lessons and necessities focus mainly upon your home or inner life and the sense of order that was laid down during your early years - especially by your father. If that sense was absent or restrictive, you may now go around with an inner feeling that something is missing or not good enough and then come to depend upon having very stable domestic security to compensate for this.

But in the long run of course it doesn't, because it's a want of something emotional rather than something material. In other words, at some stage, you will have to reaffirm that sense of belonging which was not forthcoming in childhood. At the other extreme, your early life might have been highly structured in a supportive way, thus giving you an inner sense of being in the right place at the right time.

Uranus in the 4th House

Your urge for change and awakening is most likely to manifest itself as upheavals or something out of the ordinary on your domestic scene, in your background, or in your relationship with your father. With regard to these situations, you find that you have to adopt an unconventional or even breakaway attitude. You may at times experience feelings of being uprooted or of being rootless. Your father might appear to have disowned you.

The intention behind this, or any other such feeling of being disinherited, is that you re-establish your right to be here on your own, more consciously conceived, terms. You may find that all of this entails moving home more than average, or of occasional chaos within the home and family. In your home itself, you like to have freedom of movement and not be too tied to it. This is one reason why you may like effort-saving electronic gadgetry. Your home is a testament to the uniqueness of your lifestyle.

Neptune in the 4th House
For you, such sensitivity and yearning for some ideal focuses upon your home life and family background. It is most likely that you experience this as remembering things in the past as being idyllic. The streets or fields of your childhood have a rosy veil cast across them. Indeed, such childhood dreams are true, even if only because of the way you perceived life in those innocent times.

Actually, this is the whole sentiment underlying Neptune here: that life is as sweet and as secure as you make it. The negative value here is, of course, one of glossing over the less pleasant or even harsh experiences of early life. This has the effect of making you feel rather rootless because, through denying past pain, you are still denying a part of yourself. So, you have to go into that pain and then re-emerge cleansed with a far clearer sense of 'Paradise Lost'; this in turn enables you to go about regaining your 'Paradise', thereby imbuing your own home with a hauntingly familiar quality.

This is very important to you and creates a haven for others too. It also has something to do with your psychic sensitivity to the Earth and Nature's forces. Without doing this 'regaining', as with the weeds at the bottom of a pond, you can be trapped in the past, or in the self-contained nature of your family and particularly the relationship with your father, who may have been a vague, weak or unavailable figure. Positively though, he could be a great example of selflessness and compassion.

With regard to finding a home itself, this is often in the lap of the gods in that some power outside you grants or takes away quite special abodes. Living by the sea is especially desirable and beneficial to you.

Pluto in the 4th House

Your area of power and transformation is your home, family and roots generally. If you're comfortable with your family or racial background, then you truly have deep roots and a firm sense of belonging. If, however, there are shadows cast across the path that leads back into your past, then they could haunt you with feelings of statelessness and a profound inner loneliness.

Either the positive or negative qualities will be in evidence in your domestic situation. Someone in your life (most likely your father) went about in the time of your childhood in a similarly soul-torn state, but as a child you took it personally and now you feel that the ground could open up and swallow you if you don't keep yourself very much to yourself.

If you're to prevent what amounts to self-isolation from dominating your life - or someone from still dominating your domestic scene with a heavy presence (and that could be yourself!) - then it is imperative that you exorcise such a ghost. To do this you must delve and dig into your past history until you've found what's obsessing you (and what you cannot forgive in yourself or someone else) and then actually forgive them.

Once you've accomplished this, you will at last feel that you have a power-base, a home that is your castle - because it will have been built on the only foundation that will satisfy you: a deep feeling of being here on planet Earth.

Rahu:

Rahu in fourth house, the native will own many kinds of ornaments may have relationship with more than his/her spouse and will serve others. Possibility of interruption in studies at an early age of his/her life.

Ketu:

Ketu in fourth house indicates, link with foreign lands and poor fate, not good for mother, happiness and landed property.

Fourth House Lord in Various Houses

Fourth House Lord in Ascendant:Fourth house Lord in Ascendant indicates that natal will enjoy comforts such as related with mother, landed property, vehicle(s), wealth and happiness. Natal will be intelligent and well educated. But this happiness or benefits will depends on the strength of the Lord of fourth house.If fourth house lord is very strong then natal is born in a rich family and if fourth house lord is not very strong but strong natal is born in a middle class family. Similarly we can find out with other positions of fourth house lord.

Fourth House Lord in Second House:Fourth house lord is in eleventh house from its own position, gains and in the house of finance. Centre Lord in second house Dhanyog (good for finance). Natal will enjoy love and affection from his/her mother and other relatives.Weak fourth house lord will not be in a position to give above said benefits and may give reverse of the above.

Fourth House Lord in Third House:Fourth Lord strong and placed in third house, means happiness went to courage- indicates that Natal will earn wealth and luxurious life with own efforts and will have good character.Afflicted fourth lord indicates – happiness gone to its twelfth house, means loss of happiness, instability in profession. Normally such natal is always a worried person. Difficult for the natal to secure wealth and enjoy established lifestyle.

Fourth House Lord in Fourth House:It’s an auspicious position. Such natal leads good life and enjoys happiness. Such natal is normally smart, well-educated, and intelligent with good fate and will have a good character. Natal will lead successful, happy & dignified life. Natal will enjoy happiness from mother, land-property and vehicle(s).But if fourth house lord in fourth is combust or in debli sign, then natal will have different results from this position.

Fourth House Lord in Fifth House:Good connection of centre and trine, auspicious situation. It’s a Rajyog position. Such natal will enjoy higher education, sharp skills and intelligence. By the end of life, natal will have good landed property, good longevity and good family values etc. It’s a good position for children.This Rajyog indicates wealth, power and good support from the ruler or employer.

Fourth House Lord in Sixth House:It’s not an auspicious position for fourth house lord. Such natal faces instigation related to property disputes etc. Mother of natal will also not enjoy good status or relation with mother might be affected. There is possibility of vehicle accident(s) and disturbance in educations. Natal may suffer mental tensions (whole life).

Fourth House Lord in Seventh House:Natal will have good and attractive personality. Early marriage, wealth, prosperity comes with spouse. Natal will be successful in business/profession.

Fourth House Lord in Eighth House:It’s not an auspicious position for fourth house lord. Normally such natal may not enjoy relationship with mother and also not enjoying good relationship with other near and dear one.Although, natal will enjoy normal life style, but can get some hidden property or wealth. Normally, native’s landed property will have some litigation and will not have mental peace.

Fourth House Lord in Ninth House:It’s an auspicious connection with centre and trine and forms a Rajyog. Natal will enjoy great prosperity, wealth and happiness. Normally such native will be benefited from his/her father.

Fourth House Lord in Tenth House:It’s an auspicious position for fourth house lord. Fourth house lord aspects its own house and providing natural strength to the house which gives prosperity, wealth, happiness and fortune. Mother will have longevity. Natal will have good, senior position and good reputation. Such natal is capable of earning money from business also.But afflicted fourth house lord can reverse above.

Fourth House Lord in Eleventh House:Eleventh house is eighth house from fourth, if fourth house lord is strong, only then it’s a good position, otherwise it’s not an auspicious position, natal may not get success in business.Natal will enjoy support from friends.

Fourth House Lord in Twelfth House:It’s not an auspicious position for natal. Such native will suffer from business losses, health loss and does not enjoy happiness. No gains from mother-father. But native lives far away from his/her native land (lives in foreign land).