Meaning
The eleventh house follows the Midheaven, high in the day side of the chart. Valens calls it the Good Daimon, the good spirit, and counts it the most fortunate of the places after the angles; Jupiter has its joy here in the medieval scheme, which Lilly repeats. In Lilly's ranking of strength it comes fifth, the best of the succedent houses.
Lilly gives it friends and friendship, hope, trust and confidence, praise or blame and the faithfulness of friends, and for a king his favourites, counsellors and allies. Modern astrology reads it as friendships, groups, community, causes and hopes for the future. Our keywords are "friends, community, hopes".
In a chart
A planet in the eleventh house is read for how a person belongs to groups and what they hope for with others: Saturn, the house's natural ruler in modern teaching, as steadiness in long friendships, Uranus, its modern co-ruler, as a pull towards causes. The sample chart on our system page has its Moon in the eleventh house by Placidus, read as finding security among friends; switch to whole-sign houses and the same Moon is in the twelfth, with another reading.
Opposite it lies the fifth, Valens's Good Fortune: the eleventh for hopes shared with others, the fifth for one's own delights.
Across the traditions
In whole-sign houses the eleventh house is the eleventh sign from the rising sign, the count Valens and Jyotisha both use. The pairing with Aquarius, and with Saturn and Uranus, is a modern teaching device of the twentieth century.
Our reading
Our chart's own line for the house covers friendships, groups, community and hopes for the future, and each planet has a reading here in our own words, under each house system.
Correspondences
Each item with how it stands: “sourced” is in the work cited, “our construction” is EsoTerrier’s own, and “disputed” means the sources disagree.
- Topics (Lilly, 1647)
- Friends and friendship, hope, trust, praise or blame; for a king, his favourites, counsellors and allies sourced
- Class (Lilly)
- Succedent, fifth in strength sourced
- Place name (Valens)
- the Good Daimon sourced
- Natural sign and ruler
- Aquarius, with Saturn and Uranus: a modern teaching device after Alan Leo; Lilly's pairings differ sourced
- Topics (modern)
- Friends, community, hopes sourced
- One right house system
- No: a planet's house can change with the system; ours is named on the chart disputed
- Our keywords
- "friends, community, hopes" our construction
How the schools read it
- Hellenistic (Valens)
- The eleventh place, counted by whole signs from the rising sign; called the Good Daimon.
- Lilly (1647)
- Succedent; friends and friendship, hope, trust, praise or blame; for a king, his favourites, counsellors and allies.
- Modern psychological (Alan Leo, Rudhyar and after)
- Friends, community, hopes.
- Jyotisha
- The eleventh bhava, always counted by whole signs from the lagna.
- EsoTerrier
- Placidus by default, Whole Sign and Equal a tap away, Porphyry above the polar circles; a reading for each planet in the house, in our own words.
Claims about it
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There is one correct house system, and a planet's house is a fact of the sky.
disputedWhat the record shows: A planet's house depends on the division chosen: between Placidus and Whole Sign a median of twelve of sixteen objects changed house in our 56 test charts. We default to Placidus and show the system on the chart.
