Pholus in the Signs & Houses
With unbridled curiosity comes the death of something grand, as Pholus was wondering how a small pointed stick could kill a large beast just before he himself dies from it. Here, painful realizations of boundaries and responsibilities come as you grow. Pholus is where one absentmindedly, even blindly, goes about one’s business until he sees the mortal light and crashes, grounded by confrontation of karma and responsibility.
Click here to go to the extended chart selection on Astro.com. Under additional objects, go to ‘multiple selections possible,’ and select Pholus. This will show you his sign and house placement, as well as aspects to him. His glyph looks like a key with a P on top
Pholus in 1st House/Aries: Splashes the room with your vibrancy. Goes through many changes in appearance as well as identity crises. You look for something that can spark a new battle or even new life. This placement can have depressive symptoms in between lifestyles that pique your interest at the time. You were confrontational as a child. With time, you learn that sometimes it’s best to sit back and wait, take your time to shed your skin. You may find that jumping to attack finishes what you start too soon. You are well known as someone who is explosive, dressing eccentrically and maybe having a temper, or at least love a good debate. You spark many interests as you live your life full of color, and your intense life brings much change to others as you are constantly changing yourself. Childhood for you brought you all over the place, and even now sometimes you feel like you’re being stretched too thin. Try not to lose sight of your refined passions in search for new shiny ones and appreciate the lows as they allow you to relish the highs in your life.
Pholus in 2nd House/Taurus: You accumulate much in life, as this opens the box possessions and creation. This placement brings explosive artistic and musical talent. You may go through periods of impulsive buying and saving, shifting between minimalism and excess. It could mean a lot of clothes, plants,- always something that makes you feel sustainable, while less of what you know you can’t keep up with, like dishes or pets. You find out early what you can and can’t be held responsible to keep going. You create things or find sources that makes people’s jaw drop often. Self-worth fluctuates with your comfort levels, either boistering ego or deflating it. With persistence, projects that seem like they’ll take forever will achieve tremendous results, including knowing one’s own immense worth, as you realize that it’s a long uphill battle to fulfilling accomplishment.
Pholus in 3rd House/Gemini: An extensive word bank has trouble reaching your mouth and fingertips, leading to keen improvisational skills. You find yourself with a plethora of data and seemingly useless trivia. You may have ‘foot-in-mouth disease,’ in which you try to say so much at once that it comes out jumbled up, or you may say one thing innocently and accidentally offend others, as your words carry a lot of power. Each day, something surprising happens to you and you’ve started to get the feeling that the world is out to get you. This is because this placement means torrential every day travel, wild siblings and an interesting neighborhood. You can at least say that you’re never bored. You may have made a lot of mischief in grade school, or read an asinine amount of literature. Keep in mind that, no matter what trouble your mouth gets you into, tomorrow is another day with fresh possibilities.
Pholus in 4th House/Cancer: You may be, as your mother would describe in an endearing way, a “happy accident.” She impacted you in a huge way, and you have strong feelings about her, one way or another. Her influence on you reverberates throughout your life, and if your relationship with her is left unresolved, you will find that you can never escape her. Either way, family and your proverbial home unleashed emotions you would rather not have bubble up to the surface at first. This is due to a strong resonance you have with your ancestral past, and try as you may, you can never escape your family’s legacy, for better or worse. Regardless, when you find a house that actually feels like a home, you liven it up like no other. Once you settle down and have a family of your own, the intensity of such responsibility can be intimidating. Fear not- each new edition to your home brings a fresh start, another way to explore your deep inner emotions and bring out the best, as you always seem to do in the end.
Pholus in 5th House/Leo: Creativity is impulsive here. When you decide to make something, in awakens forgotten oceans from within you, choppy with excitement as it laps the shores of your mind. Your inner child can overwhelm you at times as you try to suppress it in fear of being too overwhelming to others as well as yourself, leading to a feeling that you lack an ego entirely. It’s likely that you will pick up many hobbies, particularly art-based, as well as a few lovers as outlets for your immense energy. You may compulsively seek relationships of every kind as the love you find in them ignites your uncontainable passion, or maybe shy away from them in fear of what those feelings can invoke. You meet many soul mates in your life, and this compulsion after your lust life may get you in trouble as you cross lines in the sand. This is because you just cannot be contained, no matter how hard you try. In a way, you never grow up, being able to entertain yourself in any situation. Never let that fire of passion go out- just remember to balance the wild things that make life worth living with the mundane things that maintain your livelihood in the first place.
Pholus in 6th House/Virgo: Major transformations come in health and work. You seem to have unexplainable health problems rather often, caused by lack of caution in your daily work. Like You are creatively as well as mechanically inclined, able to enhance details in music and art, anything you put your hands to, really. In fact, the more hands-on a project is the better. This placement leads to potency in daily work and service possibly leading to quick promotion in day jobs. This promotion, while at first glamorous, eventually feels stagnating. In the past, you realize a pattern of biting off more than you can chew. This leads to periods of hopping from one daily routine to the next, with many changes in career and education paths, before you find the situation where you ‘never work a day in your life’ due to the immense passion you have for it. With experience, you can gauge the amount of work a worthwhile project needs and when and find the drive to keep at it.
Pholus in 7th House/Libra: You are almost always open to welcome new friends, but equally wearisome from previous relationships you realized you didn’t want to be responsible for. You gain a lot of acquaintances (though more than you often bargain for) as you are eternally approachable because people realize you’re very accepting of others. This acceptance comes from the knowledge that everyone is a can of worms waiting to be opened. When you do find people to be close to, boy do you open up. Often, you are more contained alone than you are with friends. Others bring out things in yourself you never realized on your own. Though you bring the life to the party, time to yourself can help you recuperate as you get so wrapped up in relationships that you feel the need to explode, often on those you’re close to. The intensity others bring out in you is better in smaller, more manageable doses, otherwise it can burn everyone involved quickly unless they can handle and match it.
Pholus in 8th House/Scorpio: You search for something that will open the doors to intimacy, but get closer to others than you could ever hope for. You often joke about how emotional you are fully aware of how deeply your wounds hurt, and you learn that laughter is the best medicine at an early age. You may absorb others’ passions for your own gain. You expect the most out of your relationships because that’s exactly what you bring to the table. When you do let someone in and get attached, you share what you have in hopes that the return will be higher. You don’t let go without years of resentment put behind you, should someone let you down. This placement makes you as quick to hate as to love, as these emotions go hand in hand for you. You have premonitions of the end and want to quickly get the grieving process over with before something even dies. Remember that change is inevitable and the grieving process is far from linear, as your explosive emotions may get the better of you until you learn to keep them in check.
Pholus in 9th House/Sagittarius: When you finally find something to believe, you have forcefully strong opinions on the subject. You get inspired to acquire knowledge when information shakes you to the core. With travel and secondary schooling comes strong changes in perspective. In fact, you’re always expanding your perspective by reading books and articles on what fascinates you, debating with others, or just by leaving your house and absorbing the world around you! Secondary education and long-distance travel may be a painful awakening on how little you know and how far you have to go. However, instead of letting this petrify you, you take it as a personal challenge and push through, no matter how many tearful nights it takes. You are fascinated with other cultures and points of view. However, don’t forget that you’re human, like everyone else. We all make mistakes and believe things that are biased, sometimes to the detriment of others. The reason we make mistakes is to learn from them, and if your point of view doesn’t match up with someone else’s, it doesn’t always mean that you’re better than them. Share your patience and determination with others by teaching them, helping them to understand differences and bridge the gap, not just looking down on them.
Pholus in 10th House/Capricorn: This placement longs for a career that makes a strong impact. Their presence, especially in public and the workplace, is hard to miss. You have explosive ideas and plans for the future. You remember your childhood as boring, and aim to for an exciting life, often longing to move to a big city. However, you easily get wrapped up in the daily grind and lose track of time, realizing that weeks or months have slipped by and you haven’t progressed much towards your goals. This placement can relate to the guardian aspect of the Pholus myth, which means you must keep in mind boundaries and avoid overstepping them absentmindedly, as this can lead to much pain and wasted time. You may jump from career to career as you search for the ideal public image, or take your sweet time figuring what exactly it is you want to do with your life. Keep in mind that any venture brings experience which can be applied to other facets of life.
Pholus in 11th House/Aquarius: You look high and low to find a cause to be passionate about, often becoming entranced by friends and anything you can invest hope in. The connections to make in groups opens a whole world of information to absorb. In this age of information, you thrive on the internet, as you love having immense information at the tap of a finger. You may lose yourself often in technology, as you find these newer ways to connect to the world around you astoundingly interesting. You associate yourself with people that you know will wind up doing something off the wall, which is what you live for, but you take responsibility for the group. This leads to problems with trying to balance many different strange people and still having the ability to be as weird as you want yourself, without feeling overwhelming to others or overwhelmed yourself. Pholus spends most of his orbit near Uranus, so you already accept the sudden change aspect he brings. Integrating these changes into your hopes and friends is needed.
Pholus in 12th House/Pisces: Has sudden and reverberating realizations with divine energy, often exposed to, even tested, several religions- as many as you can get your hands on, at least- to find a true belief system that shakes you to your core. You often find that things just don’t quite click, shaping your beliefs around the one you just feel is right. It is common for this placement to jump from one end of the spectrum to the next over your life, converting from one faith or even obsession to one that seems the polar opposite. You find the similarities and form an at least digestible belief system if not the ideal one. Alone time is rejuvenating, as one way or another you never seem to have you truly to yourself. It can also be scary, as you realize perhaps too much at times. Don’t be afraid of solitude or meditation, as you may find something worth devoting yourself to, as after death comes rebirth.
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