COMBINATIONS WITH THE  HOUSE



Please note that the examples below are meant to be just that: examples. They are not in any sense exhaustive. Furthermore,they are constructed of individual meanings I myself use. If you use different keywords than I do your own combined meanings will look quite different. Also, what I did not take into account in these examples is the order of the paired cards (which card is left and which right). Lastly, if you want to learn more about how to combine two cards' meanings >> here is an explanation of what works for me.


House-Rider
Invasion of privacy, home invasion. Fear of someone or something who/which is unfamiliar. Something or someone new or unfamiliar comes into the family / changes traditions / interrupts the life we are used to. Something which disrupts comfort. Change of rules (is needed). Forced change of plans. Yesterday's news. Someone comes (back) who we know very well. To be used to being pressured. Pushy family member. Pushy family. To be comfortable with change. Changes in the home/family. Change of habit(s).


House-Clover
To have no or few family responsibilities. To consider family matters unimportant. To take rules or tradition not very seriously; to be unburdened by considerations of what's proper. To be happy enough to settle down with the small joys of life (to not need anything big or grand). Familiar humour. Family member who is happy-go-lucky - has gambling issues - doesn't do their bit. To not follow a plan conscientiously. Rules which apply to gambling/risk taking. Conservative approach to anything which looks even faintly like a gamble.


House-Ship
To leave home, to move to a different place. To turn away from tradition and do things in a new way. To start new traditions. Conflict between wanting the comfort of familiarity and wanting to go explore the unknown. To be familiar (and comfortable?) with exploration, with the process of making new discoveries. To have a habit of leaving. To be used to someone's absence. To plan a journey; to plan a change. Mobile home. Holiday home. To find the structure of what is still unfamiliar. A family member who has has left - or who goes a different way than the rest of the family. An absent family member. A family member who doesn't commit (to the family). Someone can't commit to starting a family.


House-House*)
Family traditions. Established/familiar rules, established/familiar customs. To be very, very set in one's ways. Comfortable home. Privacy within the family. To settle down in one's home or in one's role as [mother, father, sister, brother etc.]. Ordered home/family life. Conservative plans.


House-Tree
Tree house. To live close to /in nature. To feel at home in nature. To be firmly rooted in one's family or in tradition - to find stability there. To settle down where/with which we feel safest and most grounded. Healthy family. Growing family. To be very comfortable in one's body. Physical traits we have inherited. Rules or habits concerning our body/health related issues. Our ancestors. To be rooted in the past (possibly not a good thing). To find grounding in tradition. Conservatism makes us unable to welcome innovations or anything unfamiliar - inability to adapt to change.


House-Clouds
Unclear family situations (e.g. concerning parentage or paternity); secrets within the family. To fog/veil private matters. A habit of pretending, or keeping things secret. Unclear rules. No plan. Uncertainty if we should stay in our home / start a family. Feeling of disorientation because we are not firmly rooted in a tradition or have no rules to live by. We feel unsafe, can't feel the connection with our family and close friends. No tradition or customs which could function as guidelines. No familiarity; to not recognise something or someone.


House-Snake
The person who is pulling the strings in the family. To crave a family, a safe home, and to do everything to get it. To be comfortable ("at home") in situations where diplomacy is needed; to be familiar and comfortable with power and/or sex. To rely on traditional (gender)rules to get what you want. A conflict between something you crave and the family's wishes; or a conflict between your true desires and a traditional lifestyle. To work towards the goal by following a plan.


House-Coffin
To feel suffocated in one's own home as if one were living in one's own grave. Loss of a family member (not necessarily through death!). A dead family member. A tradition which is not kept alive anymore. To give up a plan, a tradition, a home. To let go of something to do with an (exaggerated) need for safety. To bury one's wish to build a family / a house. Funeral arrangements (plans).


House-Bouquet
Gratitude or admiration for family(members). Interior design; to make one's home nicer. A family member who always tries to be nice to the others. The attempt to make family life more pleasant Family gatherings; to reconnect with family members. Familiar flattery; to be used to compliments or admiration. Elaborate rules or plans; to overdo it with planning. Traditional beauty standards. To plan a visit. Rules which apply when visiting/receiving guests. Home visit. Visit of the family or a family member. To be comfortable socializing. To have very set taste. Rules regarding the showing of gratitude.


House-Scythe
To discontinue a habit. To settle old scores within the family. To sever some or all family ties. To take stock of which tradition/rules one wants to follow because they're good, and which one wants to discard because they are unproductive. To terminate a lease agreement / lease agreement is terminated. Urgent family matters; something urgent concerning home(life). To tidy up one's home. Efficient plan. To be pulled/pushed away from where we feel comfortable and safe.


House-Whip
Aggression or even violence or abuse somewhere in the family. Rules/traditions concerning atonement or punishment; traditional punishment; restrictive traditional world views that make us feel guilty or ashamed for completely unnecessary reasons. Family guilt. To be ashamed of one's family or home. A conflict in the family. Conflicting rules. To be used to aggression/insults. To feel at home in situations of conflict or debate. Home or family is threatened; our habits are ridiculed/chided. Destructive conservatism; destructive traditions.


House-Birds
(Probably unstructured, chaotic, hectic) communication in the family. Messy home. Stressful family life; worries about family/home. Chaotic family life or living situations. No peace at home. Flexible family life. Quick reactions in matters concerning family. To feel unsettled because one is disconnected with one's family, or tradition. Structure and plans help in chaotic/stressful times. Difficulties with settling down. To never be sure that we are safe.


House-Child
Child or children in the family. New family member. To start a family; a new home. Just start a new tradition! To grow into one's role within the family. To develop a habit. To be comfortable around children. Conflict between wanting things to be safe/familiar/predictable, and being curious about new ways of doing things. Tradition vs. innovation. To raise a child conservatively. Child feels safe. A weak plan; weak rules.


House-Fox
Household insurance. To be overly defensive against anybody not part of the "in-group"; to defend family/in-group members. To be suspicious of anything unfamiliar. Xenophobia. To identify strongly with one's family or certain traditions. To stay true to oneself despite being oppressed by traditional rules. To be suspicious about anything long-established. Caution in family matters. Family member who takes care of themselves first / to accept that in order to take care of your family you first have to take care of yourself. Egotistic family member.


House-Bear
To protect family(members) or the home. Security system. Parent, grandparent - family member that has more power than you and/or more practical knowledge. Family (and/or tradition) has a powerful influence on you. Someone or something that influences the family or home life. A dominant family member (negatively: the family tyrant). Clash of wills at home, hot-blooded arguments at home. Very strict rules. To (re)assert the rules. Influential family.


House-Stars
Hopes and wishes concerning one's family or one's home. Trust in our family. A very conservative outlook on the meaning of life, or a very conservative type of spirituality (organised religion). To keep our hopes/dreams private. To think our family life, or a certain rule or tradition, is all rosy while in reality it isn't. Meaningful tradition; traditions give one's life meaning. To find safety/comfort in daydreaming. Ideals about home/family. The ideal home/family. Idealistic view on our home country.


House-Stork
To leave the nest / return to the nest. To move house / return to home country. To move on. Wherever (or whoever with) we can find regularity, a sense of familiarity, in times of transition or transformation. Family life is transforming. Changing traditions. Family (wo)man by nature. Having a family transforms us. Conflict between wanting to be safe, wanting things to stay the same, and desperately needing transformation. Well-planned transition. Familiar longing. Familiar cycles; something returns with regularity. What we thought of as "normal" turns out not to be - change of world view. To long for (a) home. Homesickness.


House-Dog
Family friend, loyalty to family/home country, support from or for the family. To crave approval from family members. The underdog in the family; compliant family member. To let tradition and rules guide us - possibly but not necessarily uncritically accepting traditional role models. Helpful plan. To obey the rules. A very intimate friend. To be used to getting help. To ask for help. Private matter between us and a friend.


House-Tower
To never go out. "My home is my castle!" The head of the family; family tyrant. Or: To be emotionally distant with one's family. To keep away from one's family or to shut family out. The necessity to set boundaries within the family. To feel lonely even within the family. To think that one's family is better than other families. To have very high standards for the family members. A plan, once made, governs what one does. Established authority. Traditional hierarchy. To enforce rules.


House-Garden
Conflict between private and public. Someone's privacy is violated. A family in the public eye. Society's traditions, traditional public venues. Public buildings. Social rules. To feel at home in society / large groups of people. Family teamwork. To be used to networking. Family outing. Family member who is out. Family reputation. To (re)present one's family. Disclosure of private matters.


House-Mountain
Familiar challenge; to be used to having to jump hurdles. Comfortable silence. Very quiet or stubborn family (member). Lack of communication in the family. No one in the family talks about the elephant in the room. Difficulties with the home and/or family. Debilitating compliance to tradition/rules. Never leaving the comfort zone creates a rather boring, too quiet, unchanging, life. Strict, unbudging conservatism. To refuse access to our private life.


House-Crossroad
A conflict between the safety traditional living grants and wanting to be free to do things in our individual way. Alternatives to traditions/habits. Optional rules. Plans B and C. Deliberations or decisions concerning our home or family life. Family support in a time of indecision. To be used to indecision. To have a habit of hesitating a long time before making a choice. To feel ambivalent about (starting a) family. To choose the low-risk option.


House-Mice
A stealing family member (or one who takes too much without giving back). Something unhealthy or corrupt in the family dynamics. Loss of family sense; family doesn't hold together. All of the above but applied to tradition or rules. Sense of safety is slowly dwindling for a particular reason (which mightn't be consciously known yet). Dirty house; unhealthy living conditions. Pest infestation of one's home. Familiar disease. Diseases which run in the family.


House-Heart
Loving family; to give compassion and understanding within the family. Quality time with family; to look after a family member who needs special care. Reconciliation with a family member. Traditional ways of showing affection. Try to see the positive sides of family / rules/ tradition. To keep one's love private. The attempt to plan (ahead) romantic love. Traditional view on love. Lovers who are so busy with each other that everything/everyone else is shut out. Unchanging love. Attempts to preserve love the way it is now. To be used to being loved / cared for. To dearly love that which we are familiar with. Or: Love will come once familiarity is there.


House-Ring
Shared home. Family cohesion. Kinship. Family ties, family connections; family commitments. Promise to our family (members). To be comfortable with making commitments. To feel bound by tradition/rules. Extremely set habits. To agree to a plan; to stick with a plan. Attachment to home(country), family, traditions, habits. Familiar cause. Safe connections. To keep certain affiliations private. Long established connection. A familiar connection.


House-Book
Home schooling. Family in which education is very important. Facts about a family (home); family history. Knowledgeable family member. Knowledge about tradition(s). To know the rules. Something only family members know. Private knowledge. Established facts. Familiar truth. To want to know only the "safe", comfortable facts - facts which do not require us to change.


House-Letter
Conversations about family matters; things that should be expressed concerning family. Family where there's a lot of communication; or: family who needs to communicate more. A letter home; to have conversations with one's parents or siblings. Documents concerning a house / one's home. (To set up) rules for communication. To meticulously plan a conversation. Familiar conversations; conversations you've had forever but nothing new ever comes from them. Conversation about familiar topics - boring conversations?


House-Man (a)
Man who is: native, at home, at home with something, a family member, well-established, settled, private, familiar, used to or intimate with you; close-minded regarding anything which is new/unfamiliar, xenophobic, orderly, normal, regular, simple, planning ahead, low-risk, safe, conservative, inflexible, anti-innovative. Male family member; a creature of habit, stay-at-home dad. Man moves in, starts a family, settles with something, keeps something private, wants things to stay as they are. Patriot. Family man. A man's privacy. (Traditional) rules or roles which apply to men specifically.


House-Woman (a)
Woman who is: native, at home, at home with something, a family member, well-established, settled, private, familiar, used to or intimate with you; close-minded regarding anything which is new/unfamiliar, xenophobic, orderly, normal, regular, simple, planning ahead, low-risk, safe, conservative, inflexible, anti-innovative. Female family member; a creature of habit, stay-at-home mom. Woman moves in, starts a family, settles with something, keeps something private, wants things to stay as they are. Patriot. Family woman. A woman's privacy. (Traditional) rules or roles which apply to women specifically.


House-Man (b)
Man who is: native, at home, at home with something, a family member, well-established, settled, private, familiar, used to or intimate with you; close-minded regarding anything which is new/unfamiliar, xenophobic, orderly, normal, regular, simple, planning ahead, low-risk, safe, conservative, inflexible, anti-innovative. Male family member; a creature of habit, stay-at-home dad. Man moves in, starts a family, settles with something, keeps something private, wants things to stay as they are. Patriot. Family man. A man's privacy. (Traditional) rules or roles which apply to men specifically.


House-Woman (b)
Woman who is: native, at home, at home with something, a family member, well-established, settled, private, familiar, used to or intimate with you; close-minded regarding anything which is new/unfamiliar, xenophobic, orderly, normal, regular, simple, planning ahead, low-risk, safe, conservative, inflexible, anti-innovative. Female family member; a creature of habit, stay-at-home mom. Woman moves in, starts a family, settles with something, keeps something private, wants things to stay as they are. Patriot. Family woman. A woman's privacy. (Traditional) rules or roles which apply to women specifically.


House-(Sensual)Lily
Stable relationship with a sex partner; fulfilling sex life with spouse. Traditional forms of sexual relationships (monogamy; fidelity) which might be comfortable or stifling. To find great comfort and peace in one's home. Harmonious family life. Artistic family. Established artist. A very slow, traditional approach to something. Rules that create harmony.


House-(Virtuous)Lily
Traditional moral virtues (values). Family rules (or familiar rules) about the right conduct. Strict moral values; moral virtues which are so established they seem immutable even if one would like to do things differently. A virtuous family member; family as a whole who puts a lot of emphasis on virtuousness or specific virtues. Peaceful (undisturbed) home life. Home life which is experienced as morally constricted, uptight. Virtues relevant specifically in the family (e.g. dutifulness, honouring one's parents, physically keeping a clean house etc.). To have a very humble home; to live modestly.


House-Sun
Happy family; joy about family/home. Family celebration; traditional holiday(s). Family (members) ignore conflicts/family secrets. Warmth within the home/family. To spend a day at home, or with one's family. Obvious plan; superficial planning. Awareness of family matters. The rules are clear (and no shades of grey allowed). Confidence in family/tradition/rules. Very established, stable confidence.


House-Moon
The influence which how we were raised, or our family now, have on our subconscious or on our prevalent emotional state. Nights at home; to stay in at night; to plan a night; rules regarding night time/sleep time. To find rest at home / in privacy. Something fearful goes on in the family. Familiar intuitions. To be familiar with and comfortable with acting according to intuition. Emotional family; depressed family member; a shadow lies on a home.


House-Key
To open one's home to someone or something new. To let traditions slide and try new ways of doing things. It's time for new rules. To find new (probably emotional) access to one's family. To find out about a family secret. We are already familiar with the solution. Rules concerning accepting something. To plan (how) to say yes. To open up when it's safe. A risk-free acceptance/opening up. Understanding within the family. To release a family member, or family member releases us. To break free from confining traditions, or from a restrictive family.


House-Fish
Rich family, a family who greatly value money or expensive objects. Family/tradition/rules are of great value. Specific valued traditions. To put great stock in following the rules. Family with many members. Lots of rules. Familiar rules, established rules. Established business; family business. To be comfortable around money, to be familiar with financial or business issues. Homemaker; house work. To value comfort, to value familiarity. Low-risk or conventional ways of dealing with finances. To make a living in a way considered "proper".


House-Anchor
Stable family life. "My home is my castle". To make one's home; to take up residence; to establish oneself. To feel confined by tradition (or family). Stay-at-home. One's life is centred around family/home/tradition, maybe too much so. To be unable to leave parental home. To cling to tradition/rules. Established routines. Plans give you safety. Everything is horribly boring because nothing changes, ever.


House-Cross
Home life or the family feels like a burden. Burdensome traditions. To adhere to traditions, to firmly stick with rules. The fixed idea that having a family, or having a very stable and traditional life, is what we should aspire to. Family duties. To be responsible for a family. Hardships within the family. Strong adherence to what's established and familiar. Very traditional/regressive, intolerant worldview.


House - Wild Card
A home not made yet; a home in an unexpected place. The family that is waiting for us outside of the one we're born into. Something is not a habit or tradition yet. Yet unfamiliar. A plan not fixed yet. A questionmark regarding one's home or family. A (possibly genderqueer) person with the attributes of the House (see the House's keywords).


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