You must understand that "Everything Under the Sun" is included in the houses. So houses have multiple "meanings," or content. Horary astrology, the astrology of "answering specific questions," is a house-based astrology. The signs are important only insofar as they determine the lord of a house.

When you ask the astrologer a question, he considers the subject matter of the question and assigns it to a house. A thing may be assigned, quite often, to two or three houses. Where the astrologer places it depends on the context of the question. For example, if a child's primary education is the subject of the question, it will go to the 5th House, but if it is higher education, the assignment is to the 9th. A book might be assigned to the third, if considered as a bound sheaf of paper (an object), but to the 9th if considered as a "work" (a collection of advanced thought).

But the point is that Everything can be found in at least one of the houses. A gold ring, if seen as a thing of value, goes to the Second House...If it is seen as something your mother gave you and an important statement of "who you are," it would be put in the 5th.

Ah, also the 8th is "Debt and Taxes" (Ben Franklin said "Nothing is certain but death and taxes," both 8th House affairs. The houses opposite each other play back and forth, echo one another...

Consider this: You pay off a debt (benefit the 8th House by reducing debt) but by doing so you deplete your personal fluid resources, which belong to the 2nd House.

Other things you can find lurking in the 8th include coffins, undertakers, vultures, inheritance, and an attic full of poor dead Uncle John's porno magazines (if seen as an "inheritance".) Garbage dumps, junkyards, the "second" of your opponent in a duel or boxing match, your bladder (anatomical), wills and testaments, your penis (assuming you qualify to have one,) and the direction west-southwest are also things of the 8th.