The fifth house shows our needs in love and where we release fourth house energies and emotions. The more emotional we are, the greater the need for constructive channels of expression. All forms of self-expression, anything we create or do purely for its own sake, children of the mind and the body, love affairs (insofar as they represent fun and self-expression) or their lack, theater, dramatics, hobbies, speculation, play and amusement, are all indicated by this house. The more planets we have in the fifth, the more abundant the energy we have to release, with perhaps some disinterest in receiving the same from others. This is also the house of hidden karma resulting from the misuse of the will or love principle in past lives.

Astronomically speaking, the fifth house is that one-twelfth sector of the local sky midway between the western horizon and the nadir (see above picture) occupied by planets two to four hours after they set.

The Sun is excellently placed in the fifth house, the second of the three fire houses (first, fifth and ninth) of spirit. You're a natural at any and all kinds of creative self-expression: music, drama, art, writing, whatever you will. Too much self-projection will bring obstacles and humbling experiences, however, as the fifth is the house of hidden karma from too much self will. Often flamboyant and driven, you are very expressive and outgoing when it comes to your feelings and emotions; it is easy for you to wear your heart on your sleeve. Exercise forethought and discrimination in your love affairs. Animals and children play a large part in your life.

You're in tremendous company with this amazing list of famous people born about the same time of day as you (Sun in the fifth house): Louis Armstrong, Candice Bergen, Halle Berry, Shirley Temple Black, William Blake, Jon Bon Jovi, Sonny Bono, Diamond Jim Brady, Marlon Brando, Sir Richard Burton, Pablo Casals, Benvenuto Cellini, Wilt Chamberlain, Carol Channing, George M. Cohan, Kevin Costner, Joan Crawford, Leonardo Da Vinci, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Placido Domingo, Faye Dunaway, Larry Flynt, George Foreman, Bob Fosse, Aretha Franklin, Bill Gates, George Harrison, Tommy Lee Jones, Stan Kenton, Klaus Kinski, Liberace, Malcolm X, Henri Matisse, John McEnroe, Charles Mingus, Joni Michell, Thelonius Monk, Mozart, Anais Nin, Richard M. Nixon, Maureen O'Hara, Peter O'Toole, Dolly Parton, Sidney Poitier, Tony Randall, Will Rogers, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Charlie Sheen, James Spader, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Gloria Steinem, Roger Vadim, Sarah Vaughan, Mae West, Jonathan Winters, William B. Yeats, and Paramahansa Yogananda.