12 Houses of Astrology: How the Zodiac Divides Life Into Experience, Action, and Time

The 12 houses of astrology describe not personality traits, but the way human life is distributed. In astrology, the zodiac does not work as a straight sequence of signs. It operates as a spatial system that breaks experience into twelve distinct zones. These 12 astrological houses show where things happen — where effort is spent, where consequences appear, and where attention is repeatedly pulled during life cycles and planetary transit phases.