Latin Name: Benefactions (Benefacta).
Greek Name: Good Spirit (Αγαθος Δαιμων — Agathos Daimōn).
Arabic Names: the House of Fortune (بيت السعادة — Bayt as-Sa’adah) · the House of Friends (بيت الإخوان — Bayt al-Ikhwan).
Hebrew Name: the House of Good Fortune (בית המזל הטוב — Beit ha-Mazal ha-Tov).
House Type: succedent.
House of ‘Joy’: for the figures of K Jupiter ( Acquisitio, Lætitia).
House of ‘Sorrow’: for the figures of C Venus ( Amissio, Puella).
Mundane Planetary Ruler: A Sun.
Direction: south-south-east.
Whereas the fifth house signifies our creative potential and its results, the opposite eleventh house signifies those people who value us for these unique qualities, and not merely for our social standing.
Close Friends
The eleventh house signifies close friends—those people with whom one is connected not by formal obligation, utility, or social necessity, but by personal affection, trust, loyalty, and voluntary mutual support. These are the people who value a man for his personal qualities, share his interests, rejoice in his successes, and sincerely wish him well.
A Warning Concerning the Broad Use of the Word “Friend”
If you are not genuinely close to someone in real life, then the category of “friends” on social media should not be taken literally. The mere fact that a person appears on a “friends list” does not make him a true friend. In most cases, such people are merely acquaintances and therefore belong to the seventh house as “other people.”
Likewise, a co-worker with whom one has established pleasant relations remains a colleague and belongs to the seventh house. A neighbour, even where mutual sympathy and good neighbourly relations exist, still remains a neighbour and therefore belongs to the third house.
A house is determined not by the superficial pleasantness of interaction, but by the essential nature of the relationship itself. The eleventh house signifies true friends: people with whom there exist personal loyalty, deep trust, and voluntary mutual support.
Common Error
The Eleventh House as the “House of Groups, Associations, and Social Institutions”
The eleventh house does not signify “groups,” “associations,” or “social institutions,” as many modern astrologers claim. For example, a labour union is fundamentally an association of colleagues and therefore belongs more properly to the seventh house.
Hopes and Wishes
Friends naturally become the objects of our hopes and expectations. Moreover, friends are often the chief admirers and supporters of our creative work. For this reason, the eleventh house signifies hopes, wishes, aspirations, and expectations in the broadest sense.
A Warning Concerning the Broad Use of “Hopes” and “Wishes”
Nevertheless, if a question can be assigned to a more specific house, it should not be framed solely in terms of hopes or wishes. If the querent asks, “Will my dream come true?” or “Will my hope be fulfilled?”, one must first determine the actual subject of the hope or dream and then assign it to the appropriate house.
Income, Rewards, and Benefits from High Position
Many of the most important significations of the eleventh house arise from its relationship to the tenth house, since the eleventh is the second house from the tenth. Accordingly, the eleventh house signifies:
- salary and wages;
- profit from business;
- government grants;
- taxes owed to the state;
- tax returns;
- pensions;
- professional honours and awards;
- bonuses, subsidies, and any money received through government or office.
Passports, Visas, and Official Permissions
The eleventh house also signifies passports, visas, residence permits, and other official authorizations granted by the state. Such documents represent formal permission allowing the querent to receive a certain benefit, opportunity, or lawful access from governing authorities.
Praise, Trust, and Favour
Among the rarer significations of the eleventh house are praise, trust, and favour. This meaning follows naturally from the nature of the house of friends and patrons: a man is trusted, recommended, supported, spoken of well, and shown goodwill. In older sources, the eleventh house was frequently associated with the favour of the king, patronage, and benevolence from persons in authority.
Lottery Winnings and “Gifts from Heaven”
Since the tenth house symbolically represents Heaven as the highest point of the chart, any profit or benefit proceeding from it may be understood as a kind of “gift from Heaven”—gain received without direct effort on the part of the individual.
For this reason, the eleventh house signifies lottery winnings, unexpected strokes of fortune, and other forms of sudden or unearned gain.
Counsellors and Assistants of Those in Power
Since the second house signifies the close advisers or assistants of the querent, the eleventh house—as the second from the tenth—signifies the close advisers, assistants, and trusted attendants of rulers and persons in authority.
Thus, if the tenth house signifies the king, the eleventh signifies the prime minister; if the tenth house signifies the prime minister or president, then the eleventh house signifies his cabinet, administration, or immediate political circle.
Examples of Eleventh House Questions
- Will I win the lottery this year?
- Will my salary increase during this half of the year?
- Will I receive a government grant?
- Will my visa be approved?
- Will the president dismiss his minister of defence?
Quotes on the Eleventh House
In the eleventh house, we ask about hope and about distant friends.
Lectura Geomantiæ
Because the eleventh house belongs to the succedent houses and forms a T sextile aspect—the aspect of half-love—with the Ascendant, it signifies friends. And because of its strength, since it adjoins the principal Pivot (that is, the Midheaven), it signifies grace and honour.
Abraham Ibn Ezra, The Beginning of Wisdom, Chapter III
A planet in the eleventh house is like a man in the house of his friends.
Abraham ibn Ezra, The Beginning of Wisdom, Chapter VIII, § 119
The eleventh house is the house of hope, trust, and confidence; of footmen; of the aid and help of the King, and of him who is most in favour with the King. From this house also is judgment taken for praise and commendation; also the familiar friends with whom one lives, his counsel, and the joy of K Jupiter. It rules the legs to the ankles… It is fortified by K Jupiter and weakened by F Mars and L Saturn.
Claude Dariot, A Brief and Most Easy Introduction to the Astrological Judgment of the Stars, Chapter XII
This house has signification of friends and acquaintance; the thing hoped for or desired; the fidelity or falseness of friends. As to kings, it represents their households, allies, counsellors, associates, treasure, ammunition, and soldiery… It is a succedent house.
John Middleton, Practical Astrology, Chapter XI
It does naturally represent friends and friendship; hope, trust, confidence; the praise or dispraise of anyone; the fidelity or falseness of friends. As to kings, it personates their favourites, counsellors, servants, associates or allies, their money, exchequer, or treasure; in war, their ammunition and soldiery. It represents courtiers, etc. In a commonwealth governed by a few of the nobles and commons, it personates their assistance in council. As in London, the tenth house represents the Lord Mayor; the eleventh, the Common Council; the Ascendant, the generality of the commoners of the said city. Of members, it rules the legs to the ankles… K Jupiter especially rejoices in this house. It is a succedent house, and in virtue is equivalent either to the seventh or fourth houses.
William Lilly, Christian Astrology, Chapter VII
