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The eleventh house
The eleventh house is friends, groups and the future you plan with other people: the wider circle, shared causes, hopes and the community you choose.
There is a friend you would still call at three in the morning, and a group chat that has outlasted three jobs and a move. The eleventh house is the part of the chart that belongs to the people you chose, and to what you hope for together.
It is the circle beyond the family and beyond the partner: not the person across the table but the people around it. It is where you find the others who see the world as you do.
In your chart
The eleventh-house cusp sign sets the kind of friend you make and the kind of group you join. Sagittarius gathers everyone for the trip, Virgo helps you move, Gemini keeps you company by message, Cancer remembers your birthday. Aquarius belongs to Saturn by tradition and to Uranus in modern astrology, and a planet here looks for its own kind. Jupiter’s joy, in the same lists as the others, is the eleventh, which the tradition called the Good Spirit.
From a real analysis
In her chart: Leo on the cusp of the 11th house · 20°47′ Leo
Your eleventh house, the house of friends and the groups you join, begins in Leo, and its ruler is your Sun, so your friendships grow out of shared curiosity. You are the friend who passes on a book with a note tucked inside, and who remembers the thing someone mentioned once. Your Jupiter makes you a generous host to anyone who needs looking after. In a group you ask the shy person a question and then actually listen to the answer.
Themes
Friendship, first of all, and after it every kind of belonging: teams, associations, neighbourhood causes, online communities, the club that meets on a fixed day. Hopes belong here too, the wishes you say to friends before you say them to anyone else. A strong eleventh house is at ease with a crowd, and thinks of the future as something to build with other people.
Belonging has a price. A group can ask you to be less than you are, and company becomes a way of not being close to anyone. The house works best when you have friends who see the whole of you and still ask you to come.
Facing the fifth
The eleventh is opposite the fifth. The pleasure you keep for yourself and the pleasure you share with a group pull in different directions, and few charts settle it without effort.
How the analysis treats it
In the eleventh house the analysis reads your friends, your groups and what you hope for, from the cusp sign, the ruler’s placement and any planets inside.
Every house needs an exact birth time: without one the chart leaves the houses out rather than guess. The houses are drawn in Placidus unless you choose Whole Sign, Koch or Equal, and the analysis says which.
Sources: every position and date here comes from NASA JPL’s DE440 ephemeris and is checked against NASA’s JPL Horizons. How it is checked.
Your eleventh house
That is the eleventh house in general. Your chart shows the sign it starts in and the planets that stand in it, and that is what makes it yours. Free, and it takes a minute.