The Astrological Houses...
House 1
House 2
House 3
House 4
House 5
House 6
House 7
House 8
House 9
House 10
House 11
House 12
The 3rd House
(communication/transportation)
As we saw earlier, the Third House represents the field of experience in which you are challenged to keep your mind and senses wide open, taking in the raw information of the world, and then communicating your impressions of that information as clearly as possible.
Learning to see what's before your eyes -- that's Third House territory... Traditionally, this is the House of Communication.
Perception might be a better word... The words on this page are "communicating" with you... But so does the blueness of the sky and the warmth of a friend's touch.
Through your perceptions, the universe floods you with a continuous storm of raw information. Trouble is, we tend to miss most of it... How?.. By filtering it through the thick mesh of our preconceived notions and pet theories, often symbolized astrologically by whatever planets lie in this part of the birthchart... The evolutionary question you're facing in this House is simple... "To say".
Can you keep a radically open mind? Can you really see what is before your eyes? Can you bleach your senses as clean as Buffalo Bones in the desert? Spirit has given you intelligence and a capacity to communicate... It's given you curiosity...
The discipline here is talking -- and listening... Experiencing -- and digesting... Understanding -- and endlessly questioning your understanding.
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