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Here's a game about houses and their meanings.
The rules:
Select a game or sport. Assign the game/sport to a house. Explain why that game should be in that particular house. Karma points will be awarded if the explanation avoids references to signs. I'll start off with a couple of games.
Peek-a-boo - 1st house
Peek a boo is a game usually played by an very young child and an older person, father, mother, sister, etc. The game has no rules and requires no equipment. At it's simplest, the older player covers his face/eyes with hands, and then peeks out and says "peek a boo." The younger player follows suit. The younger player will almost invariably carry this game to "the next level" by hiding being sofas or other large objects and then emerging to yell peek a boo. There is absolutely nothing competitive about this game. It's sole purpose seems to be to interface (the essential meaning of the 1st house) with the world.
Inasmuch as houses can signify the unfolding of time within the natal horoscope, this was a game I associate with the very beginning of life, which is another meaning for the first house.
Pick up sticks - 2nd house
A simple game where two opponents try to pick up as many sticks as possible. The sticks are slender sticks, pointed at both ends and similar in size to bamboo skewers used for bbq. Each player may pick up sticks so long as he doesn't move any stick other than one being picked up. If another stick moves, his turn is over and the opponent may pick up sticks. The game is started by dropping the sticks. Some will roll out to the edge of the playing surface and are easy to pick up. But the majority will clump into a pile and manual dexterity is required to move the stick off the pile so that it can be picked up.
I associate this game with the 2nd house because the equipment and rules are so simple. Yet, the game introduces the idea of both rules and competition so it is a step beyond the very fundamental game of peek-a-boo. Also, this game is all about manual dexterity. It's manipulating matter at a pretty basic level. Nothing fancy...just pick up those sticks. The second house is ruled by the planet Venus and it's sigel is the baked potato (contrary to what you've read). Therefore "hot potato" is another game that fits nicely with this house.
The rules:
Select a game or sport. Assign the game/sport to a house. Explain why that game should be in that particular house. Karma points will be awarded if the explanation avoids references to signs. I'll start off with a couple of games.
Peek-a-boo - 1st house
Peek a boo is a game usually played by an very young child and an older person, father, mother, sister, etc. The game has no rules and requires no equipment. At it's simplest, the older player covers his face/eyes with hands, and then peeks out and says "peek a boo." The younger player follows suit. The younger player will almost invariably carry this game to "the next level" by hiding being sofas or other large objects and then emerging to yell peek a boo. There is absolutely nothing competitive about this game. It's sole purpose seems to be to interface (the essential meaning of the 1st house) with the world.
Inasmuch as houses can signify the unfolding of time within the natal horoscope, this was a game I associate with the very beginning of life, which is another meaning for the first house.
Pick up sticks - 2nd house
A simple game where two opponents try to pick up as many sticks as possible. The sticks are slender sticks, pointed at both ends and similar in size to bamboo skewers used for bbq. Each player may pick up sticks so long as he doesn't move any stick other than one being picked up. If another stick moves, his turn is over and the opponent may pick up sticks. The game is started by dropping the sticks. Some will roll out to the edge of the playing surface and are easy to pick up. But the majority will clump into a pile and manual dexterity is required to move the stick off the pile so that it can be picked up.
I associate this game with the 2nd house because the equipment and rules are so simple. Yet, the game introduces the idea of both rules and competition so it is a step beyond the very fundamental game of peek-a-boo. Also, this game is all about manual dexterity. It's manipulating matter at a pretty basic level. Nothing fancy...just pick up those sticks. The second house is ruled by the planet Venus and it's sigel is the baked potato (contrary to what you've read). Therefore "hot potato" is another game that fits nicely with this house.
