First: This is the house of the self and your needs. It can deal with identity and how you express it. It is also related to being "seen."
Second: This is the house of money and values. Transits through this house deal with resources you alone control, and how you extend your identity outside of the self into the space around you.
Third: This house deals with community and communications on a mundane level, along with topics of daily and Earth-based rituals on a spiritual level.
Fourth: This house includes topics of family, family of origin, and your roots and ancestors. You may find that transits through this house point to things happening in the physical home as well.
Fifth: This is a house related to how you exert your identity in the world through the ways you add to it, and thus is often talked about as the house of "pleasure" covering topics of sex, creativity, and children.
Sixth: This is the house of the body and illness, and can also be connected to employment or the ways that you serve the world around you.
Seventh: This house deals with the "other" and how you connect to the people around you. It can cover serious romantic relationships, as well as friendships, and business partnerships.
Eight: This house is similar to the 2nd house but deals with other people's resources. So this could be related to debt, collaboration, and exchanging of resources.
Ninth: This is a house related to broadening the mind including through larger divinatory practices such as astrology, religion, travel, publishing, and higher education.
Tenth: This is the house of your reputation and career. Not so much the jobs you do but the larger goal you have in your life whether it brings in the most income or not.