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Ancient astrologers had a very different view of the third house than a correspondence to Gemini would imply. The house's primary significance was for siblings—a meaning it retains today. But Gemini has no such meaning. For another thing, the third house was the "House of the Moon
Goddess" rather
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Because of this weakness, the sixth house has also been connected with servitude and slavery, and it is for this reason, perhaps, that it has become associated with the most routine and arduous of work, and the sense of the workplace as an obligation to which people must report every day to do the
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rejoices in the sixth house. He is dignified when located in this house. Mars is considered a malefic planet, whose influence is often unfortunate and aggressive. Mars's joy in the sixth may have to do with his long connection with fevers and acute illness, but it is also true that Mars is the
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Cadent houses are therefore usually considered by astrologers as less fertile and productive places by their nature than either angular or succedent houses, and the planets located in them are seen as generally less powerful and comfortable. This view of cadency is universally found in ancient
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and the idea of the third house. But the "natural houses" doctrine stretches these similarities to a point which seriously distorts the original concepts. Hardly any of these zodiacal correspondences result in the same characteristics or dignities observed by earlier astrologers.
475:(3, 6, 9 and 12) become inharmonious. And sometimes they bring about hostile conditions, sometimes separations and banishments...." (However, there are conditions when a planet in a cadent house can be brought up to its full strength, for example, by a reasonably close
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work of others. This is not by any means the house of vocation, or even of the professions. Animals, too, are considered to be the servants of man, and possibly the animals connected here are smaller because the sixth is the lesser of the two houses of misfortune.
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makes a clear connection between this house and thieves, beggars, foot soldiers, and slaves. The house has always had a connection with sickness, and hence with suffering. One reason for this is because it is in a very weak angle to the house of the
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and
Ayurvedic practitioner Robert Svoboda may be more helpful by listing the first region of life governed by this house as "comforts of the bed (like sleep or sex), convalescence, confinement..." (in Hart deFouw and Robert Svoboda,
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Medieval astrologers connect it with the Church and clerics, long sea voyages, books, learning, philosophy and dreams. This connection with dreams is quite ancient, and references to the ninth house in this capacity can be found in
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The sixth house of the horoscope refers to illness, and also to our duties and responsibilities, and the most routine aspects of work. The sixth is the house of servants, and so may also refer to our service to others, but also to
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such as the work of Zip Dobyns, sometimes called the "Zip code," in which the first house is equal to the first planet (Aries), the second house to the second planet (Taurus) and so forth. See for example, Zip Dobyns (Pottenger),
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In the twentieth century, a concept called "natural houses" was popular, in which it was argued that each of the twelve houses of the astrological chart corresponds to a sign of the zodiac: the first house corresponds to
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It seems (according to this page) it is not sure in which category the philosophy of Mars in the sixth house belongs: is it the
Christian, modern, etc. astrology? The same counts for the exaltations in the houses below.
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The third house of the horoscope governs our siblings, letters and messengers, our neighbourhood, and short trips. Modern astrologers have also connected it our ability to communicate and to intellectualise.
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The ninth house, which ancient astrologers called "the house of the Sun God," has been associated with orthodox religion and with journeys (often undertaken for educational purposes in ancient times). The
451:, which literally means "falling" or "decline," because the houses were seen to be falling away from the strength of the angular houses, which were considered to be most influential because of their
526:, or that which we are obliged to do but do not necessarily want to do. It has been connected by Lilly to smaller domestic animals as well, "and the profit and loss got thereby."
762:(Hindu astrology), the twelfth house is very unfortunate but is also connected with sexual activity and with spirituality. Hindu astrology is closely connected to the
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connects it with destitution and beggary. The connection with very bad luck and material privation is almost universally found with the twelfth, as are enemies.
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The twelfth house of the horoscope governs troubles, self-undoing, secret enemies, and imprisonment (for example in asylums or penitentiaries), as well as larger
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The third house also had some connotation for travel but Crane postulates that this derived more from the fact that it opposed the ninth house, the house of the
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of the zodiac. But this obscures the essentially weak and unfavorable nature of these houses. Planets positioned in them lack influence and may even become
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and was surely instrumental in the interpretation by ancient astrologers of the angular relationships each house has with the others, and especially with the
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Modern astrologers have brought a spiritual aspect to the twelfth house that was wholly absent in the earlier tradition. This may have its origins in the
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and ends with a cadent house. There are four quadrants in an astrological chart, providing four angular, four succedent, and four cadent houses.
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astrologers called it "the house of Evil Spirit" and its reputation did not improve with the Arabs or with medieval astrologers. However,
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It is from medieval astrologers that the connection of the twelfth house with imprisonment derives; the idea is probably Arab in origin.
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calls this house the "pre-Midheaven" and gives it considerable influence. Both benefic and malefic planets are strengthened here.
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The ninth house of the horoscope governs our higher cognition, religious beliefs, and level of awareness. It is also the house of
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and is connected with long journeys far from home. Some modern astrologers also give it an association with the law.
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also carries a denotation of degeneration and decline. Our
English word "cadent" comes from the Latin translation of
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Furthermore, using "natural houses," cadent signs are seen to be very flexible and adaptive and correspond with the
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Classical Astrology: Paulus Alexandrinus and Olympiodorus, with the Scholia from Later Commentators,
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Ancient astrologers had a very dim view of the sixth house, which is called "the house of bad fortune."
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935:. (The Golden Hind Press, Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, 1994.) Book II, Part I, pp. 16.17.
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claims that an otherwise strong Saturn located here will bring success over enemies and joy in work.
1021:(The Golden Hind Press, Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, 1993), Chapter 24 (as referenced by Crane,
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influenced astrologers like Isabel Hickey to connect this house to karma from past lives.
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sources. For example, Paulus
Alexandrinus says of cadent houses: "stars found in these
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the "greater malefic," does rejoice here—which means he has considerable dignity—and
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The references used may be made clearer with a different or consistent style of
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Western astrologers regarded the twelfth house as a very unfortunate place.
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The idea of numerological correspondences goes back at least as far as
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The notion of cadent houses as weak and ineffective also persists with
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revival of present-day astrology, which had some Hindu influence. In
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that is, it cannot "see" the
Ascendant from a point 150 degrees away.
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Employing "natural houses," the third house would correspond to
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912:(TIA Publications, Los Angeles, 1973) and Maritha Pottenger,
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connects this house with slaves, enemies and defects, and
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Ancient Hindu
Astrology for the Modern Western Astrologer
608:. This may account for similarities between the idea of
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or "place of the Goddess of the Moon," Vettius Valens.
1092:(Samuel Weiser, York Beach, ME, 1997), pp. 91–92.
827:(ARHAT , Orleans Massachusetts, 1997), p. 20.
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825:A Practical Guide to Traditional Astrology.
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892:(CRCS Publications, Sebastopol, CA, 1992)
428:of the zodiac. A quadrant begins with an
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27:House of declining strength in the zodiac
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514:The four cadent houses are as follows:
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916:(ACS Publications, San Diego, 1996.)
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910:Finding the Person in the Horoscope
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964:or "place of the God of the Sun,"
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968:Book II, Part I, pp. 10–11.
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890:Astrology, a Cosmic Science.
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1126:Astrological house systems
176:Astrological organizations
117:Worship of heavenly bodies
447:called the cadent houses
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127:Astrology and astronomy
510:The four cadent houses
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1019:Introductory Matters.
1017:Paulus Alexandrinus.
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498:astrologers, such as
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1088:Ronnie Gale Dreyer,
914:Easy Astrology Guide
436:lies) proceeds to a
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869:Christian Astrology
712:Paulus Alexandrinus
888:Isabel M. Hickey,
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953:Vettius Valens.
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1109:exaltations
1074:Hart deFouw
1066:James Braha
1036:p. 31.
955:Anthologiae
933:Anthologiae
724:Hellenistic
696:Hellenistic
685:Ninth house
672:The planet
648:Sixth house
628:Third house
591:Sagittarius
496:Renaissance
336:Sagittarius
202:Hellenistic
171:Astrologers
1097:References
602:Pythagoras
544:, such as
535:philosophy
268:Locational
248:Electional
192:Babylonian
184:Traditions
109:Background
58:footnoting
1061:American
768:Theosophy
663:aversion,
659:Ascendant
606:Ascendant
457:Ascendant
414:astrology
341:Capricorn
263:Financial
147:Classical
92:Astrology
1120:Category
1063:Jyotisha
1034:op. cit.
1023:op. cit.
1007:Valens,
998:op. cit.
996:Valens,
987:op. cit.
944:op. cit.
782:See also
742:Firmicus
708:Firmicus
492:medieval
465:apoklima
461:apoklima
449:apoklima
426:quadrant
424:of each
346:Aquarius
235:Branches
142:Behenian
132:Glossary
54:citation
1032:Crane,
985:Lilly,
942:Crane,
760:Jyotish
710:and in
635:Mercury
622:malefic
524:slavery
485:Jupiter
481:benefic
360:Symbols
331:Scorpio
258:Medical
227:Western
222:Tibetan
212:Islamic
197:Chinese
137:Planets
976:Ibid.,
966:Ibid.,
920:
896:
746:Valens
736:Paulus
732:Valens
728:Saturn
700:Valens
654:Valens
610:Gemini
595:Pisces
583:Gemini
576:Pisces
572:Taurus
473:zoidia
445:Greeks
374:Metals
369:Planet
351:Pisces
311:Cancer
306:Gemini
301:Taurus
253:Horary
217:Jewish
154:Zodiac
1053:Ibid.
1044:Ibid.
1009:Ibid.
879:Ibid.
859:Ibid.
814:Notes
793:House
587:Virgo
568:Aries
552:like
479:to a
477:trine
434:angle
422:house
326:Libra
321:Virgo
296:Aries
243:Natal
207:Hindu
918:ISBN
894:ISBN
774:and
674:Mars
533:and
502:and
494:and
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