Our emotional foundation and subconscious self-image based on early childhood experiences are established in the fourth house. The way we feel about ourselves is conditioned by our experience of our parents’ (or significant others’) acceptance or rejection of us as we were growing up. From these experiences we developed our sense of belonging and our capacity to receive - and/or a sense of alienation and a difficulty or frozenness in receiving.

The fourth house rules the home, our family as a child and as an adult, the nurturing parent and our early experience of being nurtured, our most personal and intimate life, real estate and property, and our heritage and ancestry. Here is where we send down roots and establish a base of operations, find our limits, and generally secure ourselves. It is the end of any searching we might have done in the Third house, and thus rules the latter part of life. A planet here indicates the need for a stable emotional base in order to fill the needs of the house it rules. The more planets in this house, the more one tends to be subjective, personal, private or introverted.

Astronomically speaking, the fourth house is that one-twelfth sector of the local sky counter-clockwise from the nadir (see above picture) occupied by planets in the two hours before they reach the lowest point in the local sky.

You're large of heart, generous, and compassionate in your understanding of others' feelings with Jupiter in your fourth house. Good fortune and blessings surround your home and the latter part of your life, and may bring material abundance to these areas as well. You find yourself through your family and all things domestic, and it would be excellent to somehow make your living in these areas. You'll probably have a large family, and a spacious and comfortable home. You seem to be lucky at finding places to live, and may take up residence far from your place of birth. There will be gain through your parents and through inheritance. Good memories of the warmth, nurturance and security provided by your parents motivate you to help them in their later years.