5th house

The 5th house rules everything you do for joy rather than obligation: creative work, performance, romance, children, recreation, gambling, hobbies. It is the house of self-expression in its most personal sense — where you put YOURSELF into the world without negotiation. The sign on the 5th-house cusp and any planets there describe your creative style and how you approach pleasure. Venus in the 5th loves easily and often; Saturn in the 5th approaches creativity with discipline and sometimes inhibition; Jupiter in the 5th amplifies both fortune in love and the appetite for risk. The 5th is the natural house of Leo. In medical astrology it rules the heart and spine.