Remember that planets affect houses that they aspect, not just houses that they’re in. For example, you might not have Pluto in the 5th, but you might have Pluto squaring Sun in the 5th, or Moon in the 5th, meaning it affects the 5th house through the aspect (and from whichever house it itself is sitting in). So in that example, Pluto isn’t in the 5th but it’s still impacting it, so the person will still have issues with periodic destruction and renewal (Pluto) of their personal creativity, their self-expression and creations. (5th house) and the planet it aspects is the nature of how these 5th house things are affected, so with the Sun it is your identity, ego, self-expression, if it’s the Moon it is your emotions regarding your creative expression.
Another example. I don’t have Chiron in the 4th, but I have Chiron squaring my stellium of planets IN the 4th. Chiron affects the 4th through the square aspect, even though I actually have Chiron in my 2nd. So my stellium is in tension with Chiron type of issues/themes. So if I read about Chiron in the 4th and relate to it, that is why. This is synthesising the chart and finding why you might relate to something that you don’t ‘have’, which is just seeing where it exists somewhere else. Astrology isn’t cut and dry and one thing doesn’t just mean one thing. It isn’t as structured as that and it needs to be viewed with more fluidity.
One more example. I don’t have Mars in the 10th house, but I have Mars square the Midheaven (the 10th house cusp), so even though with Mars in the 1st, Mars operates IN the 1st house, it does affect my 10th house through how it operates in the 1st.
A planet in a house is where the planet operates primarily—but it CAN be affecting other houses too, through aspects.
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