471:, the eighth house cannot "see" the Ascendant from its position. For this reason it has a rather tenuous relationship with the health and power of the first house. Therefore, it was called "Idle," a term reflecting its relative lack of active power within the circle of the houses. It was from this that its traditional connection with Death was established, since the first house is the house of health and vitality. Indeed, modern astrologers—and also Lilly --often call the eighth the "House of Death." Not all connections with death are negative; the eighth is also the house of inheritances resulting from death. Also, according to
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447:"joyed" in the fifth house—that is, that she was particularly dignified, or powerful here. However, as Crane says, "in spite of this house being the joy of Venus, pleasures and sensual enjoyments were not emphasized until later" than the Hellenistic era. For some 20th-century practitioners, the fifth house corresponds by the idea of "natural houses" to
590:, Part II. . Project Hindsight, The Golden Hind Press (Berkeley Springs, WV, 1994.) pp. 2–3. Bonatti compares the fixed signs to the middle months of each of the four seasons, in which the season is established and fixed in character. In the same way, the succedent houses, in the center of each quadrant, have a fixed character.
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astrologers, the second house was the "Gate of Hades," referring to the fact that the second house leads the way to the houses that lie beneath the horizon of the chart (that is, the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth houses.) This may account for the house's somewhat weak reputation, although
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The ancients called the eleventh house the "House of Good Spirit" or "Good
Divinity," and it was considered a very beneficial place in the chart. The primary meaning of this house, too, has survived more or less intact into the 21st-century: a house of hopes, aspirations and expectations, a place
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the person. In a similar fashion, the eighth house, which follows the seventh house of the partner or spouse or “other person,” represents the belongings of the other person or partner. Succedent houses, as a whole, have a stable, unchanging, fixed quality, deriving from their central position in
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The fifth house has signified children for several thousand years. As with the second, that primary connotation has continued into the present day. Modern astrologers sometimes also connect this house with sexual relationships and also with artistic, as well as biological, creativity. For the
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Modern astrology has lost some of the sense of material success and money that this house originally signified (Jupiter was the ancient planet of money), but it is still considered a house of wishes and hopes. In addition, modern astrologers perceive the eleventh to be a house of clubs and
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The second house signifies the possessions of the person or event for which the chart was cast. This meaning has persisted unchanged for several thousand years. Although some modern astrologers (those using the idea of "natural houses," which is explained more fully in
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associations, of groups of people working together—and also a house denoting friendships. Traditionally, since the eleventh appertains to the tenth and the tenth was the house of the king, the eleventh has denoted the king's advisers, his council and allies.
400:—also have a quality of appertaining to the angular houses, much as a representative or underling of a powerful person. In this way, the second house, for example, which succeeds the first house of the body and personality, tends to signify the things that
412:(or unfortunate) connotation (the eighth house), and one is rather weak (the second), on the whole, these are productive houses in which matters normally take root and flourish, such as possessions (the second house) or children (the fifth house.)
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Some modern astrologers see elements of spirituality here, since the survival of the soul is connected with death as well. Furthermore, some make a connection of the eighth house with sex—probably from a hypothetical connection to
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as summed up by
William Lilly (1647): "The angles are most powerful, the succedants are next in virtue, the cadents poor, and of little efficacy: the succedant houses follow the angles, the cadents come next the succedants,"
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Alexandrinus, Introductory Matters in Late Classical Astrology: Paulus Alexandrinus and Olympiodorus (with the Scholia of later Latin Commentators). Archive for the Retrieval of Historical Astrological Texts (ARHAT,
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Because the angular houses are the most powerful places in the chart (Lilly says "Planets in angles do more forcibly show their effects"), succedent houses—which are less powerful than the angular but more powerful than the
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is the traditional ruler of
Aquarius and it would make little sense for Saturn to be comfortable in Jupiter's house (and vice versa), this association did not exist in astrology until more recent times.
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ancients, this was the "House of Good
Fortune," and quite a positive and beneficial one. For that reason, ancient and medieval astrologers believed the fortunate planet
619:" the estate or judgement concerning the estate or fortune , of wealth or poverty, of all removable goods, money lent, of profit or gain, loss or damage." (Lilly,
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for the fulfilling of desires—and in a very worldly way. Worldly eminence and material abundance are denoted by this house, and the most beneficial planet in the
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The eighth is the one unfortunate house in the succedent group. This connotation derives from the lack of relationship of the eighth house with the house of the
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chart judgments) "The nearer your
Significator is to an Angle, the more good you may expect; less, if placed in a Succeedant house; little, if in a Cadent." (
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Hindsight, The Golden Hind Press (Berkeley springs, WV, 1994), p. 17; and also the 4th century CE Paulus Alexandrinus,
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meaning "subsequent" or "succeeding". Since the angular houses are the first, fourth, seventh and tenth houses, the succedent houses are the
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Anthology, Book II, Part I Project Hindsight, The Golden Hind Press (Berkeley springs, WV, 1994.)
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Late
Classical Astrology: Paulus Alexandrinus and Olympiodorus (with the Scholia of later Latin Commentators).
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Lilly says of it: "The estate of men deceased, death, its quality and nature." (Lilly,
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597:"It signifies fear and anguish of mind" says Lilly (
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725:Schiffer Publications (Altgen, PA; March 1987)
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709:A Practical Guide to Traditional Astrology.
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793:Astrological house systems
118:Astrological organizations
59:Worship of heavenly bodies
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69:Astrology and astronomy
579:Book II, p. 301.)
381:second, fifth, eighth,
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649:Paulus Alexandrinus,
106:Astrology and science
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738:Christian Astrology.
684:Introductory Matters
636:Introductory Matters
601:Book I, p. 54.)
500:, has his joy here.
64:History of astrology
557:Christian Astrology
473:Paulus Alexandrinus
465:astrological aspect
723:Horoscope Symbols.
716:Liber Astronomiae,
229:Astrological signs
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736:Lilly, William.
588:Liber Astronomiae
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431:Hellenistic
278:Sagittarius
144:Hellenistic
113:Astrologers
702:References
686:, Ch. 24.)
210:Locational
190:Electional
134:Babylonian
126:Traditions
51:Background
695:Op. Cit.,
669:Op. Cit.,
651:Op. cit.,
531:succedere
520:Footnotes
469:Ascendant
467:with the
461:Ascendant
402:belong to
377:succedens
283:Capricorn
205:Financial
89:Classical
34:Astrology
787:Category
752:See also
680:Op. Cit.
599:Op Cit.,
543:succeed.
509:Aquarius
387:houses.
385:eleventh
288:Aquarius
177:Branches
84:Behenian
74:Glossary
678:Crane,
608:Lilly (
537:near +
529:"Latin
498:Jupiter
481:Scorpio
410:malefic
302:Symbols
273:Scorpio
200:Medical
169:Western
164:Tibetan
154:Islamic
139:Chinese
79:Planets
744:2001.)
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621:Ibid.,
577:Ibid.,
573:horary
569:Ibid.,
539:cedere
513:Saturn
494:zodiac
427:Taurus
365:in an
359:houses
316:Metals
311:Planet
293:Pisces
253:Cancer
248:Gemini
243:Taurus
195:Horary
159:Jewish
96:Zodiac
763:House
610:Ibid.
445:Venus
374:Latin
370:chart
268:Libra
263:Virgo
238:Aries
185:Natal
149:Hindu
727:ISBN
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638:in
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