Lilith is not a real celestial object but a position of the Moon when it is at its farthest point from the Earth.
Although it was a long time believed that it was a real object it is a fictitious Earth’s moon.
The position of Lilith is often related to uncontrollable erotic desires and se*ual freedom, situations which we feel we don’t have control over, or some uncontrollable experiences that are happening to us.
Under Lilith’s influence, we might feel as if we are possessed by some uncontrollable force, especially not being able to control our sexual desires.
Lilith calls us to break the rules and make us act in a way we feel is inappropriate according to social standards.
Aspects between Lilith and planets in another person’s chart usually indicate strong attraction and passion between two people. Lilith is often analyzed in synastry comparisons.
Lilith in the 4th house
Lilith in the 4th house of the natal chart is often an indication of the insecurities the person feels. It is like they don’t feel safe in the world and everything that surrounds them.
This is a difficult placement for Lilith. It often implies ancestral trauma that is causing the person’s unrest and anxiety.
Some people with this placement of Lilith don’t feel good when they are at home. This might imply childhood abuse or some other unpleasant circumstances during your growing-up years.
When Lilith is in the fourth house it is possible that you were separated from your parents early in life due to circumstances and this has left a permanent mark on your soul.
You might feel as if you were betrayed by them in some way even when the circumstances and the reasons for what you have experienced were justified and they weren’t your parents’ fault.
For some, this placement of Lilith might indicate their parents not being able to protect them and give them the sense of security they needed when they were young.
These people might feel that they have lacked the needed nurture and care, especially from their mother.
These traumatic experiences often lead to these people losing the need to be parents themselves and feeling afraid that they would be a failure in the role of a parent.
Sometimes this placement can indicate household conflicts, control issues, suppression of desires, and especially conflicts with their parents.
Sometimes this position indicates manipulative parents, especially the mother.
In some cases, the mother is not interested in the child’s upbringing and is not thoughtful and caring enough, neglecting the person with Lilith in the 4th house, which has a traumatic effect on their soul.
This is often a case where the mother abandons the person as a child leaving them to wonder why and scaring permanently their sense of worth.
Not often, Lilith in the 4th house can indicate being abandoned by your parents through death, divorce, or just them leaving you.
This placement is often a sign of karmic baggage the person carries into this life, and it is related to painful and shameful events happening in their family in past generations.
In some cases, the person with Lilith in the fourth house is a result of a relationship between their parents which is only based on sexual instincts and desire and not true love and commitment.
This is often the case when the parents divorce early in the person’s life, or they don’t get married at all and the person is raised by one parent, usually the mother who is not very interested in giving her best to nurture this person and often sees them as a reminder of the horrible mistake they have made by being with their father.
This can go vice versa if the father is the single parent raising the person with Lilith in the fourth house.
With this placement of Lilith, the person often experiences being raised by a stepparent.
These negative circumstances the person has experienced during their formative years are often the cause of why the person chooses not to become a parent at all. They might focus their life on their career and other interests instead.
Often people with Lilith in the 4th house don’t enjoy spending their time at home when they are grown up, and they use it as a place to sleep while they spend most of their days somewhere else.
In many cases, Lilith in the fourth house can be a sign of secrets regarding the person’s ancestors. There might be some bad relationships between family members and some bad events that have marked their family.
When Lilith is in challenging aspects with Saturn, Pluto or Mars, the person might have experienced physical abuse or punishment by their parents and certainly verbal abuse.
People with this placement of Lilith usually endure many challenges in their childhood home and growing up which toughens them and makes them prepared for the obstacles life will put behind them.
Lilith placed in the 4th house can have many different meanings, and the most significant ones are:
- Unresolved trauma from childhood
Common issues people with Lilith in the fourth house experience are traumatic events from their childhood that have caused them anxiety and other consequences.
This placement is often related to physical abuse, abandonment, neglect, mistreatment from the person’s caretakers, emotional pain, abuse, etc.
All of these circumstances might lead to the person’s lack of self-worth, insecurity, and social inadequacy.
- Unstable childhood circumstances
People with Lilith in their fourth house often experience discord in their family household caused by the constant conflicts of their parents. They are also likely to experience negligence and abuse by one or both of their parents.
These unpleasant circumstances permanently scar the person who ends up filled with resentment towards their parents, parenting, and remorseful memories of their childhood.
Often the bad relationship between these people’s parents ends up in separation or divorce. They often experience abandonment issues and fears of being abandoned in their adult years because of the real experience of abandonment they have gone through when they were children.
- Unconventional family and household circumstances
The placement of Lilith in the 4th house is often an indication of some unconventional circumstances in your family.
This person might not have experienced a traditional upbringing and had parents and a relationship with them that was anything but conventional.
Their parents might have had a unique parenting style, given them way too much freedom, or weren’t the best example. This doesn’t have to be a bad thing and it is different for every person with this placement.
This placement can also indicate that the person was raised by cousins or by stepparents.
This placement could also indicate that the person was moving a lot during their childhood.
All of these circumstances have affected the person emotionally.
- Avoiding home life
The dynamic the person with Lilith in the 4th house has experienced during their childhood years and during growing up often affects them in a way that makes them insecure and has issues with attachment to people.
These people might be overly needy and cling to the people in their life, especially their partners.
Sometimes this is a sign of a person who is somehow triggered by domestic life and cannot seem to experience stability. They solve it by staying away from home as much as possible.
Many of them despise traditional family roles, such as the role of a spouse and parent, and they avoid being in these roles.
- Heritage trauma
In some cases, the issues the person with Lilith in the fourth house experiences during their lifetime, especially during their early years, is rooted in inherited family issues.
This is sometimes linked with disgrace and shame because of something their ancestors did, or some other issues. Some of them feel they don’t belong to their family and feel very alienated.
Lilith in the 4th house transit
When Lilith transits through the 4th house, this coincides with situations where your strong emotions might disrupt your family peace and your relationships with family members.
Maybe during this transit, you will decide to rebel against some family rules or traditions and you will demand to live your life the way you prefer and not in the way you are supposed to according to some rules set to you by your parents and ancestors.
Sometimes your rebellious behavior might help you to express how you feel and in turn, this will create an atmosphere of understanding and tolerance within your home.
You might learn that all it was necessary was to speak your mind about some things to be resolved.
In some cases, Lilith transiting through the 4th natal house can be a sign of some misfortune or accidents in your family household, but only if these are also confirmed by other aspects and placements in your progressive and natal chart.
Lilith in 4th house synastry
When one person’s Lilith is placed in another person’s 4th house, this often brings the issues of security to the surface for one or both partners.
The Lilith person is better at finding security within the boundaries of the relationship.
The 4th house person needs to feel secure and safe within the home and family life they share with the Lilith person, and this can sometimes be hard to achieve because of the Lilith person’s dramatic personality and unpredictable behavior.
Lilith person has a stronger and more intense personality than the 4th house person.
The 4th house person might be perceived as boring and overly organized by the Lilith person, which can lead to disagreements and conflicts between them.
The rules that the 4th house person tries to impose on the Lilith person might be suffocating for them and they will want to leave the relationship if something doesn’t change and the 4th person isn’t prepared to loosen things up.
Sometimes the Lilith person can help the 4th house person overcome some childhood trauma, especially related to their early home life and relationship with their parents.
Lilith in the 4th house composite
When composite Lilith is placed in the 4th house of the composite chart this can create tensions between the partners regarding their home and family life.
Maybe there will be issues with the partners’ different views and approaches to raising their children or organizing their family life.
One of the partners might be overly responsible and traditional, while the other partner might be free-spirited and unbound by the restrictions of traditions and societal rules.
If this is the case in the relationship, these issues might be the cause of friction and disagreements between the partners that might weaken their relationship or even cause its end.
Lilith in the 4th house of the composite can also bring some unexpected and misfortunate events that might be very burdensome to the relationship between the partners and will put their relationship to the test.
Lilith in myth
Lilith is a mythical figure from predominantly Mesopotamian and Judaic mythology.
According to mythology, Lilith was the first wife of the first man created by God. She was also created from dust like Adam, the first man.
She was the one that preceded Eve and was banished from the Garden of Eden because she was disobedient to Adam.
According to other sources, she was the one to leave Eden because she couldn’t stand not being equal to Adam and needing to obey him.
In many depictions, Lilith is represented as a female demon, stealing babies, especially newborns during nighttime.
Lilith in astrology
Astrologically, Lilith represents the dark side of our nature. Lilith is something we usually don’t like to reveal to anyone, and we try to hide or repress.
The sides of our personality which are ruled by Lilith are the ones that are hurting us the most and we usually avoid dealing with them.
Lilith reveals our subconscious desires and instincts, especially those of se*ual nature. Lilith brings very intense experiences into our lives that allow us to confront these sides of us and heal them.
Usually, the parts of our personality where Lilith’s energy is expressed are very destructive and often beyond our control.
Lilith is our rebellious side of nature and shows the urges we cannot control.
Often the parts of our personality represented by Lilith are those we feel ashamed of and we tend to hide them because we fear rejection and judgment by our society.
The energy of Lilith is untamed and raw and often scares people. Embracing it is not very easy and often brings a dose of risk.
4th house of the natal chart
The 4th house of the natal chart is ruled by the Moon. It is a water house and represents our home, family, and our private life. This is the house of our family members and our roots.
The fourth is the house of our family heritage, and family karma, especially from the mother’s side.
The fourth is also the house of your parents (the less dominant one, which is usually the mother, but sometimes the father can be represented by this house if the mother is the dominant one in your family).
It shows what your home looks like and how it is decorated, and the planets inside give more insight into this. This is also the house of your real estate.
This is also the house of the ending of your life.
Transits
The transits represent the movements of the planetary positions of the angles and planets in the natal chart.
Planets are constantly moving and when they create significant aspects with the natal placements this is when significant events occur in our life if other circumstances align.
They are usually used in predictive astrology.
Synastry analysis
Synastry is the analysis of the influences between the charts of two people to determine whether they are compatible or not.
There are various methods that synastry uses, but the basic one consists of comparing the planetary placements from one natal chart with the planetary placements in another.
Significant contacts between two people usually have strong ties between their natal charts.
Composite horoscopes or charts
Composite charts are used in synastry analysis.
A composite chart is the chart of the relationship between two people and the energy of this relationship.
It is created by the middle points of the planets and the charts of two people.
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