Day 4 | Home, Environment & Beauty
ASTROLOGY + TAROT
Together, these tools support the deeper work of yoga: becoming aware of conditioning so it can soften, release, and transform.
SPOTLIGHT ON: THE 4TH HOUSE
The 4th House is the place of home, roots, and emotional grounding. In astrology, it reflects where we seek safety, rest, and a sense of belonging - both externally in our living spaces and internally in our emotional world. The 4th House speaks to foundation not as something fixed, but as something we continually tend, shaping how supported we feel in life.
The 4th House is deeply connected to ancestry, lineage, and early foundations of safety and belonging. It reflects the homes, places, and emotional environments we were shaped by, as well as the inherited patterns- spoken and unspoken - that inform how secure we feel in the world. Our ancestral roots and early sense of place quietly influence how we create home later in life, shaping what feels grounding, familiar, or nourishing, even as we grow and change.
Everyone has a unique astrological natal chart, and within it a 4th House that describes how home, safety, and belonging are experienced. It can point to the environments we need to feel settled, the emotional patterns we carry, and how we create refuge for ourselves and others. When we work consciously with the 4th House, home becomes less about perfection and more about presence - an inner foundation that can be returned to again and again. You can use your 4th House placement or Sun sign for the reflections below.
Aries learns home through autonomy and movement. Karmically, their sense of belonging grows when home supports independence rather than confinement. Beauty is found in spaces that feel alive, active, and self-directed. Home becomes a place of renewal, not restriction.
ARIES
Taurus carries a deep karmic connection to comfort, stability, and sensory beauty. Home is shaped through texture, warmth, and continuity. Their lesson lies in learning that security can evolve without being lost. Beauty becomes a form of devotion- something tended patiently over time.
Taurus
Gemini learns home through variety, conversation, and mental stimulation. Karmically, they are shaped by environments that encouraged curiosity and exchange. Beauty emerges in lightness, flexibility, and spaces that invite movement and ideas. Home feels alive when it allows for change.
Gemini
Cancer is deeply karmically tied to home, ancestry, and emotional safety. Their environments often carry the imprint of memory, care, and lineage. The lesson is learning to nurture without clinging to the past. Beauty arises where tenderness and protection coexist with emotional openness.
Cancer
Leo learns home through self-expression and warmth. Karmically, they thrive in environments where they were seen, celebrated, or invited to shine. Beauty is found in spaces that feel generous, creative, and alive with presence. Home becomes a place where the heart can be fully expressed.
Leo
Virgo’s karmic relationship to home centres on care, order, and functionality. Their sense of beauty lies in simplicity, cleanliness, and thoughtful detail. The lesson is learning that home does not need to be perfect to be nurturing. Beauty emerges where care is practical and kind.
Virgo
Libra learns home through balance, harmony, and aesthetic consideration. Karmically, their environments reflect a desire for peace and relational ease. Beauty is central - colour, proportion, and flow matter deeply. Home becomes a place where connection and grace are cultivated.
Libra
Scorpio’s sense of home is shaped by depth, privacy, and emotional truth. Karmically, early environments may have carried intensity or unspoken undercurrents. Beauty is found in intimacy, shadow, and spaces that feel safe to retreat into. Home becomes a container for transformation.
Scorpio
Sagittarius learns home through freedom, movement, and meaning. Karmically, belonging is often linked to place, travel, or philosophy rather than permanence. Beauty arises in openness and spaces that reflect a larger worldview. Home feels supportive when it allows room to grow.
Sagittarius
Capricorn’s karmic relationship to home involves responsibility, structure, and endurance. Early environments may have emphasised duty or self-reliance. Beauty is found in simplicity, strength, and things built to last. Home becomes grounding when softness is allowed alongside structure.
Capricorn
Aquarius learns home through individuality and chosen belonging. Karmically, they are shaped by feeling different or outside traditional definitions of home. Beauty emerges in originality, unconventional spaces, and shared ideals. Home becomes a place where authenticity is welcomed.
Aquarius
Pisces carries karma around emotional permeability and spiritual belonging. Home is often shaped by atmosphere, feeling, and subtle energy. Beauty lies in softness, imagination, and gentle boundaries. The lesson is creating spaces that nourish without dissolving the self.
Pisces
TAROT
3 CARD SPREAD
Use this card spread as inspiration for reflection on 2026. If you don’t have a tarot deck you can use oracle cards or any other kind of deck.
You could also use the themes simply for reflection or journaling.
Rather than thinking of the cards as being a prediction of what’s to come- or a definitive outcome, bring a softer energy in. Bring the intention of the cards showing lessons to uncover, inspiration for change or conditioning you can work at moving through.
SIAN’S PULL FOR THE COLLECTIVE
The King of Swords- The Marseille Deck
A determination to break from the past. An inner strength & will to overcome uncertainty.
The King Swords brings a sense of being well resourced- architects, designers, scientists, professors, an intellectual serenity.
It’s inverse is the use of power through verbal abuse, slander, or being overly critical or totalitarian. So try not to get too heated when it comes to choosing cushion covers.