3rd House ~ Communication:
Mutable, Air, Yang, Personal; Relates to Mercury; Corresponds to the Sign Gemini
Communication with the Environment: mental activity, routine interactions, transmitting and receiving information, intellectual endeavors, teaching, writing, conversation, messages, telegrams, correspondence, personal thoughts, journal keeping, letter writing, the day-to-day environment, acquaintances, short journeys, relatives, neighbors, siblings, intimate brotherhoods and sisterhoods, consciousness groups, covens, sanghas.
The experience of the location in which we grow, and the people in the close environment that enable us to develop the ability to communicate, learn, think and process facts. Where we experience relationships with siblings, neighbors, people close by but not necessarily intimate, like teachers, etc. and early educational experiences. The clarity with which we perceive other people and the messages we receive from them. The capacity and drive to explore the immediate world around us for information and intellectual confirmation. Our manual and mental dexterity and skills base. The nervous reactions to the world and the messages implanted in early childhood about the world and personal environment. Everything that affects us intellectually from the outside world and changes our mental image of that world.
Family ties, siblings, school life, education, communications, letters, books. Short journeys, cars, bicycles, public transport. Speech. The mind and the relationship of the subject to his/her/their environment, and his/her/their self-expression in daily life. What you think. Your ability to relate to the environment. Dexterity, duality, restlessness. Writings, news, communications, rumors. Memory, perception and speech. Taken for granted skills. The synthesizing powers of the conscious mind.