Astrological Houses

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 Astrological houses are the twelve twelve divisions of the visible visible sky, sky, xed from the local horizon. There's six houses above the horizon, six below. below. Stand out of doors and a nd  oint straight u. That's the !"th house cus #more #more or less$. %oint to the eastern eastern horizon. That's the Ascendant, or rst house cus. &t extends down into the ground. The sky immediately above it is art of the !th house. hous e. Somewhere between the !"th and !st houses are the !!th and !th house boundaries #cuss$. These boundaries, one about every (" degrees, stay in the same lace all day with resect to the horizon. They're xed. As the earth turns around its axis, the sun and lanets, rising in the east and setting s etting in the west, aear to wander through them during the course of the day. day. These twelve sections of the daily sky color the lanets as they ass through them. This will not be surrising to those who know the di)erence between the colors of sunrise and sunset. Indicates a book on our Top Ten list. If you would like to nd more books like it, click on the star.

THE HOUSE CONNECTION: CONNECTION: How to read the houses in an astrological chart - aren Ha!a"er-#ondag, $1%&'( Contents: List of charts & gures Astrological Astrological signs & symbols Foreword

)art 1: Theor*: 1. Tyes Tyes of o f ruler rule r !. "ouse connections #. Imortant houses $. "ouse rulers in asect %. The role of house ruler in comle interretation interretation )art +: House connections:

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'. "ow house connections work (ibliograhy Inde About the author

Comment: )f this book, *aren *aren herself has this to say, from the Foreword+ Foreword+ I hae been working with house connections eer since I began my astrological studies, and this book is the distillate of my ndings. -othing could ersuade me to omit this articular facet of interretation, interretation, and I am in full agreement with the sontaneous comment of a student who once said, If you oerlooked oerlooked the house rulers & house connections or did not know how to deal with them, you would not be able to derie one /uarter of the information from the chart you derie from it now. 0age iii "amaker23ondag "amaker23ondag was insired by the 0rather sketchy accounts she found in orin. *aren says says we had to wait until the adent of sychology before astrological house interretation could be fully deeloed. I am of the oinion the delay was due to the earlier inade/uate house systems, a roblem that 4lacidus soled, but /uite by accident. 0"e was hoing to nd an easy way to calculate )ri!ar* irections . As a result, the otential of the 4lacidian house system remained unreali5ed until /uite recently, i.e., until *aren6s book. I am making this dogmatic statement because, many years ago, I used to make informal rectications rectications using the house ta.les  I had aailable, and with good success. I once tried the same thing with och houses, only to discoer that *och would not rectify rectify a chart. 7er since then, I hae had a healthy resect for the di8erent di8erent things that di8erent house systems can do, and an awe of 4lacidus. For her art, all the charts in this book are set in 4lacidus, which *aren does not note, I resume because she, like so many of us, has neer tried any other system. (ut enough reamble. The remise of the book is that the lanets which rule the signs on the arious house cuss, also rule the houses concerned. 9rucially, these lanets rule by means of their sign and house lacements. The ruling lanets bring the sign and house they are osited in, to the houses they rule. As /o.son remarked, remarked, the ruling lanet is the landlord  of the house he rules. 4lanets in the house are tenants. The ruling lanet sets the scene. "e has control. "e is the ulti!ate ulti!ate authorit*. 7en

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'. "ow house connections work (ibliograhy Inde About the author

Comment: )f this book, *aren *aren herself has this to say, from the Foreword+ Foreword+ I hae been working with house connections eer since I began my astrological studies, and this book is the distillate of my ndings. -othing could ersuade me to omit this articular facet of interretation, interretation, and I am in full agreement with the sontaneous comment of a student who once said, If you oerlooked oerlooked the house rulers & house connections or did not know how to deal with them, you would not be able to derie one /uarter of the information from the chart you derie from it now. 0age iii "amaker23ondag "amaker23ondag was insired by the 0rather sketchy accounts she found in orin. *aren says says we had to wait until the adent of sychology before astrological house interretation could be fully deeloed. I am of the oinion the delay was due to the earlier inade/uate house systems, a roblem that 4lacidus soled, but /uite by accident. 0"e was hoing to nd an easy way to calculate )ri!ar* irections . As a result, the otential of the 4lacidian house system remained unreali5ed until /uite recently, i.e., until *aren6s book. I am making this dogmatic statement because, many years ago, I used to make informal rectications rectications using the house ta.les  I had aailable, and with good success. I once tried the same thing with och houses, only to discoer that *och would not rectify rectify a chart. 7er since then, I hae had a healthy resect for the di8erent di8erent things that di8erent house systems can do, and an awe of 4lacidus. For her art, all the charts in this book are set in 4lacidus, which *aren does not note, I resume because she, like so many of us, has neer tried any other system. (ut enough reamble. The remise of the book is that the lanets which rule the signs on the arious house cuss, also rule the houses concerned. 9rucially, these lanets rule by means of their sign and house lacements. The ruling lanets bring the sign and house they are osited in, to the houses they rule. As /o.son remarked, remarked, the ruling lanet is the landlord  of the house he rules. 4lanets in the house are tenants. The ruling lanet sets the scene. "e has control. "e is the ulti!ate ulti!ate authorit*. 7en

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though, in the ma:ority of cases, he will not be hysically resent in the house itself. itself. -or will he necessarily hae any formal asect to the cus, or to the lanets residing in his house. 0The ruler is een stronger when he does, of course. (ut, regardless, regardless, the house, and all lanets in it, are a re su.ordinate to hi! . This is "amaker23ondag6s House Connection theor*, as clearly as I can state it. 0The author herself uts a sychological gloss on it.  There are are seeral signicant etensions etensions to this theory. theory. In chater #, I!portant Houses, *aren traces the chain of disositors around the chart+ For eamle, eamle, we could discoer the following chain+ the ruler of 1 is in ;, the ruler of ; is in <, the ruler of < is in !, the ruler of ! is in 11, the ruler of 11 is in ;. This series roides us with an insight into a reaction attern attern that, for this erson, is related to the 1st house 0we always begin with the 1st house. 0g. !; =hat this articular eamle also means, as I hae learned from eerience, eerience, is that when an indiidual, long single, gets married, married, he becomes a radically di8erent erson as a result. This is also a lso true of chains that include the >un with the ;th. *aren goes on to the natural wheel, in other words, that the rst house always relates to Aries & ?ars, the second to Taurus & @enus. ?yself, I dislike all things that muddle houses with signs. I nd the angular houses 01, $, ;, 1, like cardinal signs 0Aries, 9ancer, Libra, 9aricorn, to be actieB succedent houses 0!, %, C, 11, like ed signs 0Taurus, Leo, >corio, A/uarius, to be conseratieB and cadent houses 0#, ', <, 1! to be like mutable signs 0Demini, @irgo, >agittarius, 4isces, in other words, to be areas oer which we hae little control. I also a lso nd that signs are su.ordinate to houses, in other words, a ma:ority of lanets in cardinal signs but in cadent houses leads to a life of uncontrolled uncontrolled chaos, the cardinal signs acting owerfully 0cardinal 0cardinal in uncontrolled uncontrolled 0cadent ways. I am this way myself, with ed signs in cadent houses. InterretationE I6m :ust trying to hang on "ow about mutable signs on angular housesE That would be someone who neer knows what6s going on around him. (ack in the mid 1<<6s, I glanced at this book 0as is my wont long enough to understand the basic concet. I hae been running with it eer since. In )art +, "amaker23ondag "amaker23ondag gies cookbook delineations. Guler Guler of the rst in the rst, ruler of the rst in the second, ruler of the fourth in the eleenth, etc. "er unstated unsta ted baseline for her delineations is the >un, since ?ars ruler of the third in the 1!th

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would make for far too large a book. It is therefore imortant that you take *aren6s wonderful theory & appl* what *ou "now to it. To do this, you will need to generate a basic list of keywords for the arious lanets & houses. >unHlife, ?oonHmoods, ?ercuryHcommunication, etc. =hen you do this with the houses, you will, erforce, eand your ideas about them. The third house, for eamle, goes from reading & writing & schoolwork & brothers & sisters & errands, etc., to, being busy around town, which incororates all of the aboe. =hen we do this, we sometimes end u with #rd houses as (.?.).9., i.e., (ig ?an Around Town 0originally+ )n 9amus. Gegrettably, and to my surrise, *aren6s gras of houses is not great. =hat fascinates me about The "ouse 9onnection theory is that it can be eanded almost foreer. After you6e mastered the sign on the cus & the sign of the ruling lanet, you go back to the sign on the cus & start all oer again. Is the sign cardinal, ed or mutableE Is it re, air, earth or waterE Is the degree early or lateE Is the ruler direct or retrogradeE It turns out that eerything you learned about astrology, e0er* single thing  suddenly takes on new life, new meaning. A mutable sign on the second house cus throws his money away. A ed sign won6t let go of it. A water sign on the second takes his ossessions ersonally. An air sign on two has no idea what he ossesses. An early degree means that one is :ust getting started & has a long way to go in that articular house. A late degree means it6s done & oer & too late, etc. =hich is nothing more than lugging horar* ideas into your natal delineations. This stu8 is that owerful. "amaker23ondag has a strongly sychological orientation, which I myself do not care for. >he somehow manages to miss lanets in mutual recetion, which I hae found to tie the two houses together, as if the houses themseles had actually merged. ebilitated lanets, another area that *aren misses, are /uite fascinating. ebilitated lanets, by denition, rule the sign, and therefore the house, oosite to themseles. =e can see this /uite clearly in the chart of former J> 4resident (ill 9linton. "e has >aturn debilitated in Leo in 11. That >aturn wants to be in % in A/uarius, where it has, his entire life, got him in trouble eery time he so much as looked at a girl. Another case, also of a debilitated >aturn in Leo, was Adolf "itler, who had it in the 1th. The classic shorthand says that >aturn in 1 always fails. The full story is that >aturn in 1, when debilitated or retrograde, comulsiely takes on resonsibilities until

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it collases from the sheer weight of it all. =hich, whateer you think of him, was certainly true of ?r. "itler. In his case, >aturn6s rulershi of his $th droe him to settle his country6s territorial 0$th house matters. =hich, as >aturn was debilitated, came to recisely the same end as ?r. 9linton6s a8airs. -ote that this debilitated concet also alies to all those, like myself, who hae >un in A/uarius. =e6d really all rather be somewhere, anywhere, as far away as we can get. 7en with its Kaws, how imortant is this bookE =hen it went out of rint a few years ago, I emailed the author & asked for ermission to rerint. >he ointed me in the direction of her utch ublisher, who had the rights. =hich led to =eiser, which had become Ged=heel, who had the rights to the translation. =ho neer got back to me. =ho hae now rerinted this book. After you6e bought your basic chart interretation tetbook, after you6e bought a good ehemeris & a table of houses, after you6e got your feet wet, this is the ery net book. It6s that fundamental. Ged=heel H =eiser, !%% ages.

Gead the bookE =ant to tell the worldE "ow many stars 012% would you gie this bookE Tell us

THE HOUSES: Te!ples o2 the S"* - e.orah Houlding, $+(&33 Contents: Foreward by Gobert "andB Introduction+ =heels & signs+ theories on house diisionB 4reliminary guide to diisions of the celestial shere 1. !. #. $. %. '. ;.

Introducing the houses+ An historical oeriew The angles+ >ignicance of 7gytian solar hilosohy Asects & gates+ The !ndHCth house ais 4lanetary :oys+ %thH11th house ais The king & /ueen+ The #rdH
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C. Technical basis & the inherent diculties of house diision <. 4tolemy6s owerful laces  Aendices* A. Dlossary of traditional & technical terms (. The lanetary hours 9. Al (iruni6s adice on nding the hour of your birth =orks citedB Deneral indeB "ouse rulershi inde.

Comment:  From the back coer+  The astrological circle of houses is erceied as a wheel of life, coering the full sectrum of human eerience from formation of character through to death. =hy did the ancient astrologers deise the scheme in such a way that it does not seem to follow the natural order of lifeE =here do the meanings of each house come from and how hae they been adated oer the centuries 2 more imortantly, whyE )ther books hae attemted to resole these issues, but none hae roided ade/uate answers. In The Houses: Te!ples o2 the S"*  eborah "oulding6s clear narratie & original research into the history & deeloment of house meanings elores the symbolic threads that are embedded into the hilosohy of houses, strengthing our understanding of their use in ractical alication.  The book starts with a refreshing statement of rinciles+ "ouses are not signs, signs are not houses. 0They hae ery little in common, actually. -or do the houses suceed each other in anything like a logical fashion+ The regnant %th recedes marriage of the ;th, death in the Cth comes before worldly success in the 1th.  The chaters on oosing houses are an ecellent analysis. 9hater ;, "ouse Gulershis In 4ractice, gies a house2by2house delineations for ?ain rulershis, "orary astrology, ?undane astrology, Lawsuits, 7ents, ?edical, 9ommerce, 9olour, Mualities, irections, Associated lanets & signs, and, nally, -ames. >he follows this with chaters on how arious systems calculate houses, and what 4tolemy really said 2 and meant 2 about houses in Tetra.i.los .

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All in all, by far the best book I hae seen on houses. =esse Astrologer, 1C' ages.

HOUSES O4 THE HO/OSCO)E - 5ill Her.st, $+6&'( Contents: )art 1: Theor* 7 techni8ue: 4reface to 4art 1 1. The logic of houses !. The twele areas of eerience+ Indiidual house /ualities, traditional meanings, contemorary meanings #. Jsing the houses $. )ther ways to use houses %. Technical s+ human issues

)art +: Interpretations 4reface to 4art ! '. First house ;. >econd house C. Third house <. $th house 1. %th house 11. 'th house 1!. ;th house 1#. Cth house 1$.
Comment:  The late -eil ?ichelsen rst ublished this book, back in 1 edition, each ossible

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combination of lanet & house got its own full age. >un in the third, a full age. ?ercury in the 1!th, full age. Nuiter in the second, full age, etc. All the same tet is here in the new edition, but the slightly smaller format means the indiidual delineations no longer t neatly on a single age. =hat do I think nowE =ell, if you need a good, basic book on what lanets mean when they fall in secic houses, this book will do. "erbst understands that houses are not the same as signs, though his gras of houses is not as strong as I would like. In laces theory gets in the way of a good delineation. "ere is art of ?ars in the $th+

"inner link" parent  "ere we see a contradiction, a masculine symbol in the mother6s area. It can indicate a number of distinctly di8erent ossibilities. If your mother was feminine on the surface, you still felt her masculinity assert itself often. >he might hae been a woman of high energies, the natural ruler of the roost, someone who could easily hae moed her talents into the eternal world of cultural ower. )n the other hand, your father may hae taken oer some of the classical duties of motherhood. )r you could hae imrinted on the urgency of your relationshi for him, with desire silling oer into interaction. This lacement sometimes indicates long2standing disagreement or bitterness with arents, often resulting from a conKict in the arent2child roles. "oweer, een when that is the case, there is a sense of strength that erades the imrints. 0gs. !$#2$ And here, for contrast, is Alan O"en+ ?ars in the Fourth "ouse as a constant undertone of high2 strung emotions, irritability, or the urge to dominate. A oorly asected ?ars in this osition can ofen indicate strife in the domestic shere, an oerly dominant arent, or certain diculties surrounding the changing of residences. 0 Alan O"en9s Co!plete Astrolog*, g. #!; )ken has the better gras, but you hae to hunt through his book to nd it. "ere are some of "erbst6s rules for :udging houses+ In an 7?4TO house, the sign in which the lanetary ruler is

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laced accounts for aroimately 'P of the eerience of an emty house, while the sign on the cus contributes only about $P of the meaning. In an )99J4I7 house, those roortions of interretation by sign ary according to the number & weight of lanets that occuy the house and that are found on the cus. 0g. 11$ An occupied  house is an area of your life that contains a siritual challenge.  The ruled house is the area where you see the results of how you6re dealing with that challenge. 0g. 11' Guled houses are the sychic barometer of our rogress in the challenging eeriences of occuied houses. 0g. 11C  Oou sort of wish he would :ust write about lanets in houses & leae the metahysics aside. In this book "erbst ascribes dreams as a contemorary meaning of the twelfth house. "e oerlooks, or does not know, that dreams were traditionally gien to the ninth house.  To each house, "erbst assigns a ruling lanet. These are the lanets which are normally associated with the signs of the natural wheel, where Aries Q rst house, etc. From g. $+ .... there is the natural linkage of lanets with houses. This is analogous to the concet of lanetary rulershi in the zodiacal signs. The lanet +ars bears a certain tonal similarity to the rst sign of the zodiac, Aries. Therefore, it carries that same similarity in its emhasized relationshi to the !st house.  This is, in fact, incorrect. 4lanets hae no natural or accidental anity to houses, only to signs. Failure to understand this key oint criles the ability to work with cusal disositors, as one is constantly alying lanetary energies 0?ars to the rst, @enus to the second, ?ercury to the third, etc. which do not eist in the chart under study. Jnless, of course, that chart actually has Aries rising. )n gs <2!, "erbst has a section entitled, houses are not signs, but with lanetsQhouses already established, he cannot get beyond simle mechanical di8erences between houses and signs. If your astrological theory says that lanets rule both houses as well as signs, then it will conse/uently be hard to distinguish houses from signs, try though you might. Towards

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the end of this section, he remarks, The literature of astrology is ockmarked with disgracefully shoddy writing and dangerously sub-ective content that is widely acceted as truth. 0g. erendiity 4ress, $#< ages.

HOUSES, HICH 7 HEN - E!!a 5elle onath, $1;&33 If you6e eer been u55led why there6s so many di8erent ways to diide the sky into twele sections 0houses, get this book and nd out how the di8erent methods comare. iscussed are 7/ual, 4orhyry, 9amanus, Gegiomontanus 0Gational, ?orinus, 4lacidus, >olar 7/uilibrium, "amburg ' house system, )ctoscoes 0systems of C houses, Toocentric & *och. Find out how your customary house diision system comares. Aendi+ birth data for eamles. 111 ages including bibliograhy. AFA, aer.

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THE %TH HOUSE: )owers o2 the Soul, Se< 7 one* - arc /o.ertson, $16&33 Contents: &n this book there is no table of contents, but there are ages with big rinting on them. So & have adated some to t the bill* )ut of the darkness of self  >imle transits for timing inestments  The signs of business  The soul & Cth house mysteries ying a little 4owers of C in transit actiation & deeloment (ecoming an indiidual through se

Comment: )nce you get ast the crude, distracting "7O L))* AT ?7 tyesetting, you will nd this to be an ama5ingly good book. @asty better than "aydn 4aul6s e8ort 0immediately below. Gobertson starts with inestment 2 Cth house. "e then looks at transcendence, ie, the ability to change the urely hysical into the wholly siritual, which is Cth house. Gobertson fudges the Cth house & death 0well, wouldn6t we all like to fudge :ust a bit right about hereE but he does say you won6t get through the Cth house unscathed, nor should you. Gobertson says he always feared >etember, but was always grateful when )ctober came round. As the author died some years ago, I took the time to nd his date of death+ >etember !', 1e, is eactly right. >e for the sake of amusement is %th house. >e as something that changes you foreer, that6s Cth house, and the concet is brilliant. "ere, Gobertson delineates signs on the cus, and airs them with the comlimentary signs on the !nd. A book full of ideas & insights. AFA, ;' ages.

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=ATE O4 /E5I/TH: Astrolog*, regeneration 7 %th house !*steries - Ha*dn )aul, $+'&'( Contents: 1. The underworld of the Cth house !. ?yths of rebirth, renewal & regeneration #. 4ersonal & lanetary alues 2 shared resources $. 4ower, maniulation, comulsion, obsession %. >eual & emotional union 2 crisis & catharsis '. Gaising the dark side 2 reression & taboo ;. 4lanetary guides & inner contacts C. The initiation of death 2 the rocess of renewal <. The wounded healer (ibliograhy Inde

Comment:  This blast from the ast was rst ublished in 1<<#, and is now 0!< again in rint.  The book deals with Cth house issues from a sychological and new age oint of iew. The Cth house is broken down into arius categories, as you can see by the table of contents, aboe. In each, a general discussion of the toic, followed by the e8ects of the arious lanets 0signs in the house. In the fth chater, on se, the introductory remarks are etensie, followed by etensie remarks on each of the lanets, and then discreet delineations of the twele signs. >e is the rimary focus of the book as a whole. This is true, een in chater C, on death, where the format changes a bit & we are now gien delineations of transiting lanets in the Cth house.  Transiting >aturn, among other things, limits our ability to hae se, though the author is not /uite so blunt as that. I regret to say there is nothing at all in this book about your artner6s ances, nor is there any serious mention of hysical death 0far less, any discussion of it, and only assing remarks as to Cth house sychism. "ere is an ecert+ 9aricorn, from chater %, on se+ 4assion & 9aricorn are uncomfortable comanions, and you may feel ulnerable to emotional inolement, as indicated by inner

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shields against 7ros6 arrows of loe. =hile there can be an earthiness & hysicality about your seuality, engaging feelings can instigate withdrawl & fear, marked by self2reression, assiity, and restrained caution in a8airs of loe. The /ualities of this 9aricorn inKuence are more easily dislayed in worldly matters 2 by rationality, disciline, and organi5ation 2 and these fail when faced with uncontrollable emotions. If ermanent relationshis become committed & legali5ed, then you easily gie loyalty & delity, as marriage conforms to accetable social behaiorB the main diculty can lie in the aroach to deeer leels of intimacy. 0g. !$  The comlete tet on 9aricorn in this chater is e times as long, this is only the beginning. =e can see the author6s writing is abstract, and often formalistic. I could wish for better. =eiser, #1$ ages.

Gead the bookE =ant to tell the worldE "ow many stars 012% would you gie this bookE Tell us

INTE/CE)TIONS, C>C?ES O4 S)I/ITUA? UN4O?ENT - u"e e4aria, $13&'( 9ontents+ In the beginningB The intercetionB 9ycles of intercetionB  The rebirthB The illumination haseB The ascending eriodsB ?a:or cycles and the intercetionB The delay factorB Interceted lanetary sign rulersB Interceted solar returnsB 4lacidus and *och house intercetionsB The soul eerience and the intercetionB The higher selfB Interceted signs, houses, lanetsB Linked housesB 9ase studies. Aendi+ interceted2 lanets, north lunar nodes, sign ais, house ais. 1%1 ages including references. *osmic 4ress, aer.

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E@UA? HOUSES - 5eth och, $1(&33 From the introduction+ =hat sets the 7/ual "ouse system aart from other methods of creating the ring of houses is+ 1 its basic nature 0e/ual houses are drawn from their relationshi to the Ascendant alone.... ! each house is indeed e/ual 0there are no interceted signs and the same degree of each successie sign aears on each successie cus.... # the Imum 9oeliH?idheaen ais does not usually align with the fourth houseHtenth house cuss. 9ontents+ 9reating an e/ual house chartB Geading the e/ual house chartB ?ore on the midheaenB ?ore on the ascendantB 7amle in the e/ual house systemB Transits through the e/ual house chart. '< ages including bibliograhy. AFA, aer.

The Twel0e Houses: A eeper ?oo" - ohn illner, $%&33 ontents* ForewordB )b:ectiesB A new way of looking at the 1! houses 0or domains adds clarity of meaningB 3odiac sign boundaries hae been obsered to be absoluteB 9onclusions. omment* This book is a useful aid in rectifying horoscoes. Among other obserations, Angular houses 01, $, ;, 1 reresent the resentB >uccedent houses 0!, %, C, 11 reresent the futureB 9adent houses 0#, ', <, 1! reresent the ast. 4lanets in airs of houses, contrasted 0eg, 1 & !, ! & #, # & $, etc.. This is useful in rectifying charts when one is trying to determine if Nuiter 0for eamle should be in the %th or 'th house. There is a section describing the e8ects of each of the 1! signs on each of the house cuss. A small but useful book. AFA, %1 ages, comb2bound.

INTE/)/ETIN= E)T> HOUSES - Ana /uiB, $1'&'( Contents: Introduction First houseB >econd houseB Third houseB Fourth houseB Fifth houseB >ith houseB >eenth houseB 7ighth houseB -inth houseB Tenth houseB 7leenth houseB Twelfth house.

Comment:  I susect a lot of you will buy this, because there is so little aailable about houses, they form such a large art of astrology, and there

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are so many emty houses. =hen I read charts, I suck a lot of meaning from emty houses, but it seems I am fated to not write the denitie book on the sub:ect. >ince Gui5 has, or has attemted to do so, I only wish the AFA had held her feet to the re & made her nish what amounts to a romising start. )nly the rst house does Gui5 treat in a comrehensie fashion+ 7mty Aries rst house, ruler ?ars in each of the twele houses, emty Taurus rst house, ruler @enus in each of the twele houses, etc. For the remaining eleen houses, she is sketchy. 7mty second house with Aries on the cus+ A note that one is likely to be an imulse sender, and, oh, by the way, if ?ars is in the 11th, or is asecting -etune, this or that situation may arise. This is hardly more than a tease. Gegrettably, this is how she treats emty houses !21!. >he also fails to note the obious+ If Aries is on the cus of the second, then the 11th house ?ars may well be ealted in 9aricorn, adding its >aturnine Kaor to the mi. >he uses Jranus as ruler of A/uarius, -etune of  4isces, 4luto of >corio. )n the other hand, ?aybe the limitations of this book will encourage you to do the work & gure it out for yourself. (ack in the mid21<<6s, I did. -ow I ama5e eole with what I can tell them about their emty houses. They are a fascinating study. AFA, !1 ages.

THE HOUSES O4 THE #OIAC - Ale< ise, $1+&33 Contents: 4refaceB  The  The  The  The  The  The  The  The  The  The  The

twele twele twele twele twele twele twele twele twele twele twele

houses houses houses houses houses houses houses houses houses houses houses

of of of of of of of of of of of

Aries Taurus Demini 9ancer Leo @irgo Libra >corio >agittarius 9aricorn A/uarius

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 The twele houses of 4isces

Comment:  isaointed with Gui56s book on emty houses 0aboe, I found this one in the AFA6s backlist. 4ublished in 1o the rst chater is Aries on the rst, Aries on the second, Aries on the third, etc. To read an indiidual chart, your own, for eamle, you must go from chater to chater. For nearly all the 1$$ combinations, he gies eamles of eole who had that lacement. And though he could hae limited himself to only a do5en di8erent natiities 0one for each of the rising signs, he in fact has a hundred or more eamles. Oou will nd in this book many eole with house cuss similar to yours, in other words.  The writing is uneen. >ome good, some not /uite. AFA,
Houses, page +

UN?OCIN= INTE/CE)TIONS - Helen Ada!s =arrett, $1+&'( Contents: i8erent "ouse >ystems Intercetions Through the "ouses FirstHseenth houses >econdHeighth houses  ThirdHninth houses FourthHtenth houses FifthHeleenth houses >ithHtwelfth houses ?ultile Intercetions  Ten signs interceted in two houses ?ore on Intercetions >ummary of Interretation ?ethod.

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Comment: Darrett is the rst 0and only author I hae found who understood the mechanics of intercetions, which gies her small book a great adantage oer all others. Doing chater by chater, the rst chater, on house systems, is a tyical, and unsatisfying, surey of arious house methods. Darrett, like most, has no concet of indiidual house systems, they are all  :ust retty faces in a crowd. This is a ity, because not only do intercetions change from house system to house system 0mine change from 4lacidus to *och, but intercetions also change when charts are rectied. These oints Darrett does not coer. Instead, we are told, again and again, that almost all house systems fail aboe '' degrees north latitude 0also beyond '' degrees south latitude, but are neer told there are ery few eole born at such latitudes, irtually no signicant eents which haen at such latitudes, and that the eoles who lie in these etreme laces rarely enture ery far south and so are irtually unknown to the rest of us. 0Few eole, small towns, no transortation, etc. =hy there is such fuss made about '' north I do not know. (ack when I ran charts for a liing 0some 1, charts oer four years, 1he was -orwegian, I remember her well. >he was a fre/uent customer, I had to set all her charts in 7/ual. In Darrett6s list of InterceptionHouse S*ste! 4acts on gs. $ 2 %, of the 1! oints, four of the oints deal only with etremely rare olar charts. In chater !, we get rules. "ere, Darrett shines. Intercetions are things that are, well, interceted. Instead of the /uarterback assing the ball to the wide receier, his ass is interceted by the oosing team. The result is interrution, interference, misdirection. Darrett6s rules are simle & direct+ =hat areas of life, in other words, what houses hae the intercetionsE =hat signs are intercetedE These are what are missing in your life. =here are the rulers of the interceted signsE This tells who or what are resonsible 0from gs. 1211 Darrett then hits on two ery imortant oints+ =hen the ruler of the interceted sign is itself interceted, and when the ruler of the interceted sign is found in one of the airs houses which hae dulicate signs on them. Darrett6s basic concet is that interceted signs come to light when the house cuss behind them, by

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rogression, catch u and change signs. Thus, if you hae an interceted sign in the rst house, you fundamentally changed when the ascendant rogressed into the net sign. >ome hidden art of you became aarent at that time. 7ery chart with a air of interceted signs also has two air of houses with the same signs on them, s/uare 0more or less to the interceted signs. >o if you hae Aries & Libra interceted, you will hae the signs of 9ancer & 9aricorn each claiming two houses. Darrett says the rulers of the dulicated houses 09ancer & 9aricorn, in this case, will unlock the interceted Aries & Libra. I6m not sure how this would work. Includes many chart eamles to illustrate her ractical ideas. A common2sense aroach to one of the mysteries of chart construction.

Darrett makes a good start. I would add the following+ If intercetions unlock when the house cus rogresses to meet them 01 degree a year, more or less, then by the age of ten all intercetions will be unlocked, as the house cuss in /uestion are inariably !% degrees or greater. (ut this is only otential. >ubse/uently there must be some sort of rogressed asect, either to the rogressed cus itself, or to the ruler of the sign, to trigger awareness of the underlying change. This would usually be done ia the rogressed ?oon. This is, in fact, how one becomes aware his retrograde ?ercury, retrograde at birth, has gone direct by rogression. First it goes direct. Awareness of the fact comes some time later, when the rogressed ?oon makes an asect to it. This haened to a friend of mine with a natal ?ercury retrograde in 1. "e was shy until two or three years after it went direct by rogression 0in his late !6s, when he suddenly discoered not only an ability to seak before the ublic, but an actual leasure in doing so. >uch is what I would guess would be the case with intercetions, but the fact that I am still wondering, age %<, about my interceted 11th house with interceted Nuiter smack in the middle of it 0where are my friendsEEE, means this theory, while logical, cannot be relied uon. Intercetions can be ranked. >ome are more imortant than others. I am of the oinion that interceted signs that hae no lanets in

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them can be ignored. -o lanet means no weight, means no interest in the a8airs of the sign, so why botherE If the >un or ?oon are in interceted signs, the a8airs of the houses they rule are blocked. >ecically, the ad:oining houses with Leo and 9ancer on the cuss are stranded. As nature abhors a acuum, I would eect the a8airs of the oosite houses, the ones with 9aricorn and A/uarius on the cuss, to dominate them, as eressed by the house & sign of their ruler, >aturn. If the ruler of the ascendant is in an interceted sign, I would eect such a erson to be unknown and not a little mysterious. -ormally the house and sign of the ruler of the ascendant tells us how he eresses his ascendant. =hen the chart ruler is interceted, we are denied that. As I hae remarked elsewhere my own riate work suggests that interceted signs, with planets in the!, are areas of life which were not under our direct control as of the end of the reious life. =hich is why they are now interceted. (y the end of our reious life, we had needlessly thrown the ball to the oosing team and, in this life, they are now running with it. =e must struggle to reassert control. The houses ruled by interceted lanets are those areas of  life, the interceptions the!sel0es are the means by which they gained control. If those houses 0the ones ruled by interceted lanets themseles hae lanets in them, the result can be /uite comlicated. This is not a theory that can be easily roen one way or the other, but Darrett does gie this entrancing hint+  There is no indication that an intercetion is foreer. It is only interruted or taken away for a while after the team lost its ball to the other team. =e hae to wait for the roer time to earn the right for what the intercetions reresents. Intercetions are karmic. 0g. < "elen Adams Darrett died in !!. I am surrised, and leased, to see eanded ersions of her books. AFA, ;% ages.

Gead the bookE =ant to tell the worldE "ow many stars 012% would you gie this bookE Tell us

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/U?E/S O4 THE HO/OSCO)E: 4inding *our wa* through the la.*rinth - Alan O"en, $1'&'( Contents: List of eamle horoscoes Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction

1& )eeling the onion: 4lanets, signs, houses, asects, /ualities, elements, gender, summary +& )lanetar* dispositors deDned: "idden rulers reealedB 4lanetary mutual recetionB etermining the relatie strengths of lanets in mutual recetionB 78ects of asects between lanets in mutual recetionB ?ultile mutual recetionB Final disositorB 4lanets as nal disositors in the natal chart. & House dispositors 7 planetar* rulers: )eriewB ?utual recetion by houseB Linkages by same house rulershiB -atural & natal house relationshisB >trengths & weaknesses of lanets when osited in their houses of honor or dishonorB Asects between house rulers. 6& The ruler o2 the horoscope 7 its dispositor: etermining the ruler of the natal chartB The sign on the ascendant & the delineation of the rulerB Intent & theme of the ascendantB 7ssential meaning of the ruling lanet & its e8ects on the horoscoeB Guling lanet by signB Guling lanet by houseB Guling lanets in the housesB >econdary disositorshi. (& The ruler o2 the horoscope 7 its aspects: =hen the ruler of the horoscoe is a lanet con:unct the ascendantB =hen the lanet con:unct the ascendant is the ruler of the sign on the ascendantB Final disositor & the lanetary rulerB Assessing the anities between ruler of the horoscoe & its disositorB Assessing the e8ects of other asecting lanets to the ruler of the horoscoe.

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;& Su!!ar* o2 rulership 7 planetar* co!pati.ilities: Leo rising 0>unB 9ancer rising 0?oonB Demini or @irgo rising 0?ercuryB Taurus or Libra rising 0@enusB Aries or >corio rising 0?arsB Aries rising 0?arsB >corio rising 0?arsB >corio rising 04lutoB >agittarius rising 0NuiterB 9aricorn rising 0>aturnB A/uarius rising 0JranusB 4isces rising 0-etune. F& The place!ent o2 the rulers in the astrological houses: >ummary of astrological keywords & hrasesB The nature of the second houseB The nature of the third houseB The nature of the fourth houseB The nature of the fth houseB The nature of the sith houseB The nature of the seenth houseB The nature of the eighth houseB The nature of the ninth houseB The nature of the tenth houseB The nature of the eleenth houseB The nature of the tenth house. Gecommended reading list Inde

Comment  This book tells how signs relate to each other by means of the lanets that rule them. This is accomlished by an understanding of lanetary disositors. In other words, this sign is disosed by that lanet in that sign. In other words, @enus in >corio can make a mess of Taurus. )ken does this art ery well. =hen he tries to add houses, he stumbles, as he does not hae a clear understanding of them. =hich surrised me, frankly, as I know how brilliant he is. "e lists keywords for lanets, signs & houses. "is house keywords are sign2based, and ecessiely simlistic. "ere are his keywords for the third+

The Houses - from a more Socially Evolved Perspective ... Third =hat I think & seek to communicate to others 0g. 1<# )n the net age we hae+ The Houses - from a More Traditional, strolo!ical Perspective ... Third method of communication, early education & enironment, brothers & sisters, close friends 0g. 1<$ )ken then roceeds to use the socially evolved ersective as if it was the only one. "ere is the start of Guler of the second in the third+ ...the nature of one6s self2worth or actual substance of alue 0money, for eamle has to be communicated. The need to connect with eole or with life situations that amlify one6s

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oortunities is essential. Any lanet found in the Third "ouse is used to make connections. =hen it is the ruler of the >econd, then such connections are sought that may increase the otential uses of one6s ersonal talents & resources. If that lanet is aRicted, then there is a limitation or diculty with the connection2making rocess.... 0gs 1<'2;  Oes, all of this is true, but, well, yes, houses two & three are more than this and, yet, less than this, too. =hich means that )ken understands his socially evolved keywords, but, by what he does not say, seems not to understand those of the traditional astrological ersective. In this book are a great many useful ideas & techni/ues that are grounded in astrological basics. Things you always knew but neer knew what to do with, at least, not like this. >tudy of this book will be rewarding, u to the oint where one grows frustrated with )ken6s rather limited gras of the houses, which undergirds his toic. At that oint, this becomes the most ecellent of all ecellent books+ )ne that forces you to go beyond what the author has written. IbisH-icholas "aysH=eiserHGedwheel, #1; ages.

THE TE?GE HOUSES: E
)art 1:The landscape o2 li2e: 1. (asic remises !. >ace, time & boundaries )art +: apping the ourne*: #. The ascendant & the rst house $. The second house %. The third house

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'. The Imum 9oeli & the fourth house ;. The fth house C. The sith house <. The descendant & the seenth house 1. The eighth house 11. The ninth house 1!. The midheaen & the tenth house 1#. The eleenth house 1$. The twelfth house 1%. Drouing the houses

)art : A guide to li2e9s possi.ilities: 1'. Deneral guidelines+ The lanets & signs through the houses 1;. Ascendant tyes 1C. The >un & Leo through the houses 1<. The ?oon & 9ancer through the houses !. ?ercury, Demini & @irgo through the houses !1. @enus, Taurus & Libra through the houses !!. ?ars & Aries through the houses !#. Nuiter & >agittarius through the houses !$. >aturn & 9aricorn through the houses !%. Jranus & A/uarius through the houses !'. -etune & 4isces through the houses !;. 4luto & >corio through the houses !C. The ?oon6s nodes through the houses !<. The ossible e8ects of 9hiron through the houses #. A case study 9oncluding thoughts Aendices+ 1. The twele houses+ A summary of key concets !. The /uestion of house diision -otes >uggested reading >ources for chart references

e# in the $lare edition Gemembering "oward >asortas+ arby 9ostello Laura (oomer2Trent

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7rin >ullian ?elanie Geinhart Inde

Comment:  This is one of the longest books eer written on houses. >asortas oerlays sychology onto the usual lanetHsign airings 0?ercury, Demini & @irgo all being about the same, for eamle, see the list of contents, aboe, as well as the usual rst house is sort of like Aries, the second is kinda like Taurus, the third must be like Demini, etc. >ecically, we are born, take our rst breath on the ascendant & foreer after, that is how we see the world, through our ascendant. 0&sn't that backwards/ &sn't the ascendant how others see us/ 0evermind. The second house is when the newborn infant discoers it has a body, the third is when it learns to walk. The fourth is home. The fth is fun. The sith is a reaction to the fth, the seenth is a contrast to the rst, the eighth is what we share with a artner, the ninth is our reward for utting u with the eighth, the tenth is the ninth brought down to earth 0E, or what we want to be known for, or maybe how we ackge our career. The 11th is the JranianHA/uarian house where we want to be bigger than ourseles. It is full of inisible organi5ing elds, and, oh, yes, friends. The twelfth is Dod & the =omb, which takes us back to where we started, ie, the ascendant 0the ending of *ubrick6s !1, anybodyE And karma & reincarnation & all of that. >uch are >asortas6s fundamental iew of the twele houses, in brief. A good eamle of >asortas6s oint of iew comes in chater 1%, =rouping the Houses. The nd  1th s2uare* A number of conKicts can be stirred if lanets in the !nd s/uare lanets in the %th. The need for security & a regular income 0!nd could interfere with time sent on more creatie & recreational actiities 0%th. 9onersely, the struggling artist or 6resting6 actor 0%th often su8ers from the lack of a stable income 0!nd. >ome eole with s/uares between the !nd & the %th derie their sense of ower, worth & imortance 0%th solely through what they own & ossess 0!nd. 9hildren 0%th might be treated as ossessions 0!nd or eerienced as a drain on resources. 0g. <# All of this may be true, but rst we need to determine the secic

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signs which are in s/uare to one another, and then consider the lanets forming the s/uare. In chater 1% we also learn that houses 1, % & < are re, houses !, ' & 1 are earth, houses #, ; & 11 are air, and $, C & 1! are water. =hich is the houses as signs arallel.  The nal section of the book, giing delineations of each of the lanets through each of the houses, is reasonably good. =hen >asortas attemts to delineate signs on the cuss, the results are largely unsatisfactory. Sa"oian 7 Ac"er do a better :ob of that. The roblem with lanet2in2house delineations, in general, is that they are only a fragment, a frustrating fragment, of the whole. )n ages 1<211, >asortas coers my own ersonal method of reading houses, but does so in a cursory fashion, as if he had neer actually tried the techni/ue. For eamle, In the eamle chart, the sith house is emty. Following the three stes outlined aboe, much can be learned about that house. >agittarius is on the cus of the 'th house+ on one leel, this could mean that 7lliot should deelo skills 0'th of a >agittarian nature 2 techni/ues for eanding or broadening the ision of other eole, for instance. The ruler of >agittarius is  Nuiter, which is laced in the 11th house of grous. The grou setting could be an aroriate lace to emloy his skills 0ruler of the 'th in the 11th. >ince Nuiter is in Taurus & con:unct ?ars, his temerament is suited to leading 0?ars the grous he might establish 0Taurus. (ut we mustn6t forget that 9aricorn is also in the 'th house. Therefore >aturn6s osition in the chart will eert inKuence in relation to the 'th house as well.... 0g. 11 If "oward had eer actually tried this techni/ue, he would hae discoered it to work rather well. "e would hae discoered, for eamle, that the tiny fragment of 9aricorn in the 'th 0the last 11 degrees has no signicant e8ect, at least, so far as the 'th is concerned. (ut he also would hae been writing actual delineations, which, from the books of his that I6e looked at, he rarely attemts. >agittarius, for eamle, is rst of all about enthusiasm. Guler in the 11th, 7lliot takes his enthusiasm for foreign foods & new medical techni/ues & shares them with his many friends. )r tries to, as ?ars, debilitated in Taurus, hammers ceaselessly on frontal attack+ Oou must like this new dish A Kaw which Nuiter, only one degree away, magnies to 7lliot6s detriment. "oward uses this as an eamle of how to read an emty house. To me, 7lliot6s chart is more interesting for the mutual recetion between ?ars, in Taurus, and @enus, in Aries. =atch out for mutual recetions between those two

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In sum, this book reminds me of ane Gudhyar, in that you will nd all manner of things, many of them useful, if you read the book through. Flare 4ublications, #!# ages.

Gead the bookE =ant to tell the worldE "ow many stars 012% would you gie this bookE Tell us

 >OU/ HIEN )OE/S: Intercepted Signs 7 /etrograde )lanets - oan ic"en.urg, $+3&33 Contents:  To the reader

Intercepted Signs: En0iron!ent 0ersus destin* Introduction to interceted signs 1. =hat6s it all aboutE "ouse systems !. Detting started #. 4olarity of the signs $. Gulershis & retrogrades %. ulicated signs or interceted houses '. Are you out of your elementE ;. 4lanets 0in interceted signs C. Asects & hases <. Gelocation charts 1. Transits & intercetions+ Inner lanetsB )uter lanets 11. 7nironment s+ destiny charts 1!. Intercetions in reiew

/etrograde planets: >our hidden powers Introduction to retrograde lanets

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1#. "ow lanets retrograde 1$. The retrograde dilemma 1%. 7ight stages of cyclic unfoldment 1'. The lanets+ • • • • • • • • • • •

?ercury 2 ?ercury6s retrograde transit @enus 2 @enus6 retrograde transit  Trans27arth lanets ?ars 2 ?ars6 retrograde transit  Nuiter >aturn 9ollectie lanets Jranus -etune 4luto 2 Getrograde transit of trans2ersonal lanets 4rogressions

9onclusion Aendi+ Getrograde ehemeris, 1
Comment: ecember, !C+ A customer brought this book to my attention a few days ago. "ere are my notes on interceted signs+ ?y iew of interceted signs is that they are house2based. Oou hae one way of dealing with the house from the sign on the cus. (ut for unclear reasons this doesn6t work all that well & so, erhas in your teens or early !6s, you found a work2 around, by means of the sign interceted inside that house. Oou are then unaware you hae two di8erent ways of dealing with matters of that air of houses. =ickenburg is grasing+ "oweer, when signs are interceted, instead of roiding constructie feedback and encouraging you to inestigate the needs of your interceted signs ... to dele more deely into the eeriences aailable through your interceted signs ... to uncoer the hidden otentials they dene ... the enironment challenges you to moe on to the net obvious ste in life 0the eeriences of the net house. The enironment simly does not see, or understand, the degree of comleity inoled with nding fulllment in the areas of life shown by the houses

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containing interceted signs. ue to lack of encouragement, feedback or role models o8ered by the outside world, the needs of these signs are often hidden until later in life when some crisis 0brought on by transits brings them to the surface. The needs & otentials of interceted signs, and the owers of interceted lanets, are sometimes delayed in eression because of lack of eternal stimuli. 2 0g. 1C, emhasis & ellises in original.  This is a nice idea, but only half thought through. >he6s saying that a house with an interceted sign inside it won6t work all that well, and I agree. >he then says a8airs of this house will be ignored, and here I disagree. There are only twele houses. Interceted signs come in airs. )ne of them might ossibly be ignored. )ne of them cannot be. All you need do is consider the si ossible airs. 1 & ; E Try to ignore the rst It may be that one is unaware of the diculties with the interceted sign until it is touched o8 by some transit, but it may also be the interceted sign is a long2running sore that neer /uite goes away. I do not think that resolution of this roblem waits until one is % or '. The roblem is soled much earlier, but awareness of that solution may not come until much, much later. In my case, Libra & Aries, in houses % & 11, are interceted. >aturn sits in Libra, Nuiter in Aries. I was aware of %th house roblems, I was aware of a >aturnian inKuence in it, before I was 1%. 0ecades before I knew anything about >aturn or astrology. ?y rst e8orts to work with the sign on the cus of %, @irgo, did not haen until I was in my $6s. I did not become aware of the true situation, ie, the dual nature of the house, until my %6s. I hae still not gured out what is going on with Aries in 11. =ickenburg6s notes on interceted houses 0gs. %! 2 %C are theoretical. In theory, houses with the same signs on them would be linked in some fashion, but we need to nd the ruling lanet & note the house & sign it is in, as well as any tight asects it may hae. /o.ert 5lasch"e has tightly linked !nd & #rd houses, by means of disositors in mutual recetion 0his chart is ublished, which, for him, means the harder he works 0#rd house the more money he makes 0!nd. 0Gead his book on the self2emloyed astrologer. I hae the same signs on ! & # 09ancer, but I am not so drien 0#rd, nor do I get rewarded 0!nd when I am. In my case, the ruler, the ?oon, is in

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oosition to the >un, which disoses it. The olarity between the >un6s house & the ?oon6s house, fueled by the luminaries themseles, dominates the entire chart. =ickenburg6s retrograde theory is that the rst of the two signs a lanet rules is its rimary. The second is its retrograde osition. ?ercury is naturally Demini. =hen it is retrograde, it functions more like @irgo. >aturn is :ust ne as far as 9aricorn is concerned, but if you hae it retrogarde, you hae to deal with A/uarian issues. Jranus, when direct, functions like A/uarius. =hen retrograde, like 9aricorn. 0=ould this not make Jranus the higher octae of >aturnE irect -etune is 4iscean, retrograde, >agittarian. irect 4luto is >corionic. Getrograde, 4luto functions in an Aries fashion. This is a noel theory.  The author coers the eight stages of retrograde. =hich are+ 1. >olar con:unction 0suerior to retrograde 5one !. 4re2retrograde to retrograde station #. Getrograde station $. First half of retrograde hase %. The solar oosition or 0?ercuryH@enus inferior con:unction '. >econd half of retrograde hase ;. >tationary direct C. >tationary direct to solar 0suerior con:unction 0g. 1#1 =ickenburg6s writing on the arious lanets when retrograde is /uite good, and almost comletely free of mythical references, which I found a welcome relief. The retrograde aendi gies the datesHlocations the lanets enter their retrograde 5one 0ie, area of the sky they are about to back oer, the datesHlocations of the retrograde station, the solar con:unctionHoosition, the date the lanet goes direct, and the datesHlocations the lanets left the retrograde 5one. All of which will hel you to focus more clearly on retrogrades. AFA, !!# ages, aer.

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UNE/STANIN= INTE/CE)TIONS, A e* to Unloc"ing the oor - I&I& Chris c/ae, $++&33 Intercetions are what haens when you hae the same sign of the 5odiac on two house cuss, and elsewhere in the chart, two oosing signs missing. The further your birth from the e/uator, the more common this becomes. This ecellent new book eamines this in detail. 9ontents+ @alue & e8ect of intercetionsB 78ect of house systemsB "ow much of the chart is a8ectedB 78ect on signs, >trength of rulerB Intercetions deeloed by transit & rogressionB Interretation of interceted 0missing signs in airs 0eg, AriesHLibra,  TaurusH>corio, etcB Interretation of reeated signs, in airsB Interceted lanetsB 7lements 0air, re, water, earth & modes 0cardinal, ed, mutableB "orary & electional alications. !' ages including bibliograhy. AFA, aer.

4/O ONE HOUSE TO ANOTHE/ - Sophia ason, $11&'( Contents: Introduction First house >econd house  Third house Fourth house Fifth house >ith house >eenth house 7ighth house -inth house  Tenth house 7leenth house  Twelfth house >amle charts

Comment: From the introduction+ -ew astrologers often anticiate a certain transiting asect to a natal lanet, only to hae it ass without any noticeable e8ect. Then, after a few days or weeks hae assed, faorable news is heard regarding a family member or friend. If the indiidual were to reeamine the natal chart and correctly aly the transiting asect to its roer house, it would be

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iewed with a di8erent ersectie.  This book tell how transits to your natal houses e8ect those in your enironment. Ie, synastric use of transiting lanets in houses. If you neer thought to ask yourself this, well, maybe you should. The introduction continues+  There are no elanations as to why natal & transiting lanets are able to reeal the a8airs of others through one6s own horoscoeB we know only that it works with ama5ing accuracy.  The slower moing lanets 0Nuiter, >aturn, Jranus, -etune & 4luto are more at to inKuence the a8airs of others, than are the faster lanets. This is due to the many asects that the slower lanets are likely to receie during their rolonged stay in one house. Jsing transiting -etune in >agittarius as an eamle, suose it were transiting through your second house of money. To a certain etent -etune will hae an illusie e8ect on nances during its fourteen year stay in %the second house. )n the negatie side, you must guard against ossible theft, decetion, confusion & being easily led or inKuenced nancially. )n the ositie side, -etune will introduce a new and uni/ue way of earning money. Oou may, for one reason or another, hae to kee ersonal nances a secret.  To determine the illusie energy of -etune6s a8ect on the rest of the chart+ First, determine which indiiduals are goerned by each house. >econd, nd the section of each chater entitled, Oour second house is their... and read it from the ersectie of the indiidual in /uestion. For eamle, after reading the ninth house section, one notes that in2laws and grandchildren are listed. Oour second house is their sith house of health & work. It is ossible that -etune6s stay in your second house will bring into iew an illusion that is dicult to diagnose or a hosital stay for either or erhas both of these indiiduals. 0gs. ii2iii =hich makes this book an eamle of chart2turning, for those of you who use that techni/ue. AFA, aer, ;$ ages.

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)?ANETS IN HOUSES, Eour En0iron!ent /o.ert )elletier, $+6&'( Contents: Foreword, by ?ichael ?unkasey Introduction First house >econd house  Third house Fourth house Fifth house >ith house >eenth house 7ighth house -inth house  Tenth house 7leenth house  Twelfth house Aendi+ Thoughts on the use of house systems, by ?ichael ?unkasey

Comment: From the back coer+ "e discusses the meaning of each lanet in each house as deried by counting from each of the other eleen houses, and he discusses the meaning of each house osition in relation to the other houses with which it forms trines, setiles, s/uares and oositions, incon:uncts and setiles. In each chater, wheel symbols grahically show the seenteen di8erent house relationshis delineated for each lanet. Finally, 4elletier delineates the >un2?oon olarities in terms of the wheel of houses....The introductory material includes a discussion of such toics as hemisheres and /uadrants, emty houses, lanets transiting houses, the lanetary ruler of the sign on the cus of a house, direct and retrograde lanets in houses, and the meaning of houses in circumstances, character and urose in life. I am trying, again, to understand this book. "ere is the author6s elanation of how houses work+

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 The ruler of the house 2 the lanet ruling the sign on the house cus 2 has authority oer the a8airs of that house, whether the house is emty or occuied, and is an actie etension on those a8airs. >ince each lanet rules one or two houses, the a8airs of the ruled house are necessarily imlicated in the a8airs of the house occuied by the lanets. If a lanet is not in the house it rules, it must adat to the circumstances of the house it is in, which modies what it can do. For eamle, if the >un is in the twelfth house, the solar energy is modied, and the indiidual must make certain ad:ustments in his or her self2eression. If the >un is the ruler of the seenth house, then a erson6s self2 eression relates to the welfare of others.  The more lanets that there are in one house, the more comle are the circumstances. )n the other hand, when there are no lanets in a house, the circumstances reresented by that house re/uire less direct attention than the areas of actiity indicated by the houses that do contain lanets. The a8airs of the unoccuied houses are woen into those of the occuied houses through the lanets ruling the emty houses. Any actiity that relates to an unoccuied house is integrated into the actiity of the house in which the ruler is located. 0g. $ In my iew, this is backwards, and muddled as well. =hich is why I neer understood the book, and maybe why nobody else eer has, either. The rst roblem is that lanets do not rule houses, they rule signs. This is fundamental. A lanet does not adat to the house it is in, as much as it dominates the house0s that bear the sign0s which it rules. It dominates by means of the sign 0rimary and house 0secondary in which the ruler is laced. (y means of its rulershi, it dislaces whateer lanets may be in the house0s it rules. 0=hich, of course, nd themseles occuied with the signsHhouses which they rule. In the case of stelliums, the a8airs of the houses ruled by the stellium are dominated by the sign 0rimary and house 0secondary where the rulers are located. =hich is why stelliums are so owerful. ?ost of the chart can nd itself wraed into a single house. That can be intense. In 4elletier6s eamle, if the >un is in the 1!th & ruling the ;th, the seenth house has Leo on the cus, which uts the >un in 9aricorn in 1!. If this is a female natiity, her husband 0or artner works 09aricorn /uietly behind the scenes 01!th, as the >un in a female chart reresents the men in her life. If it is a male natiity, his domineering 0Leo wife 0;th house must ut u with his own self2imosed obscurity 01!th & the work 09aricorn

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which he nds there. 4erhas she rescues him from institutional life, or maybe she :oins him there. 0Let keywords be your guide. >huRe them about until they make a story. (ut you want to hear it from 4elletier. >o be it. From Se0enth House Se8uence: )luto:

+nd to the ;th: Oou generally know how to conince eole of your skills, and you hae the romotional ability to win their atronage for your serices. (ut remember that without customers, you6re out of business, so be sure to gie them eerything they ay for. 0g. !' "uhE 4e.ruar*, +311: I had a look at the >un2?oon olarities. 7ach chater ends with >un in that house, ?oon in each of the other houses. >ince most of us hae >un here & ?oon there, it makes it a sna to look u one6s own >unH?oon olarity. >o I looked u mine, >un in <, ?oon in #. "ere is what I read. 4elletier is in italics, my comments are in regular tye+ 3our faith in your ability to succeed is a strong oint in your favor. . . 2 The olarity in this case is about raw knowledge. < & # are cadent. 9adent houses are the least likely to succeed. but it does not comletely override your anxiety about being ready when an oortunity is resented.. Aniety would be an asect from >aturn. -ot an oosition from the ?oon, as oositions are always ob:ectie, ie, certain. >/uares can roduce aniety. )ortunity comes from angular houses, not cadent ones. 9adent houses get dragged willy2nilly. onse2uently you strive to imrove your 2ualications by nding additional ways to use your creative ideas.. Mualications are angular. 9adent houses don6t hae /ualications, they :ust try to hang on as best they can. ?oreoer, cadent houses don6t use anything ery much. These two articular houses 0# & < roduce ideas. They hae no idea how to use them. To do this, you might form associations. Swhich is 11th house, not #H< with eole S#H< are not eole houses. # is kin, but that6s a restricted use of eole who are already involved in elds that interest you, so you have access to the means for romoting your 

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ideas in the future.. 2 This again confuses #H< with 1H1. 3ou may also have to coe with owerful arental conditioning . . .. =ell, -). And now the roblem has become clear. 4elletier is subordinating the house to the lanet which is in it. >un & ?oon Q addy & ?ommy. I really wish that would get thrown out. A lot of other folks say that >aturn is addy. 9an addy be both >un & >aturn, or are we grasing at strawsE

)lanets are 8ualities& The* are ne0er persons, nor things nor places nor an*thing concrete&  The >un is authority. The ?oon is recetiity. 4ut the >un in < and, other things being e/ual, if you make an e8ort you will become an authority on religion, or hiloshy, or foreigners, or trael 2 or astrology, etc. If your >un is in <, these toics will occuy a lot of your time. (ut the >un in < as a descrition of your father & what he eects of youE -o. ?y father left school in the o far as I can tell, he was only semi2literate. "e was born, raised and died 9atholic. "is one big tri in life was to moe from ?innesota to *ansas shortly after he got married. =here he stayed. "e neer isited me while I studied at uniersity, where I sent e years. "e had no interest in languages, nor foreigners, nor did he eer meet any, so far as I am aware. Houses are concrete areas o2 li2e& )eople, places and things&  addy has a house. Traditional astrologers think it6s the $th. ?oderns think it6s the 1th, as they hae a simlistic understanding of the sub:ect. In my case, as it haens, my un rules my $th. >o shouldn6t this hae resulted in a home enirionment 0$th house that had a erasiely un is in A/uarius, which means it is debilitated. ae6s Gule says debilitated lanets want to be in the house oosite 0which would be the #rd, not the $th, but ae6s rule does not work when the sign the debilitated lanet seeks is not actually on the oosite house cus. "ouse cuss function as lanetary anchors, so if Leo is not on the cus oosite, then the >un has nothing to grab on to. >econdly, the house the >un is in, and the house it rules, the house with Leo on the cus, are incon:unct, < to $. Incon:unct literally means, no asect. -o asect means no inKuence. In this

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case, the >un6s anchor sign, Leo, is beyond the >un6s gras. Third, the sign on the cus of the un is in does not control the house the >un is in. =hich further strands the >un. 9aricorn on < is not comatible with >un in A/uarius. In this case, the cus will not let the lanets in its house get comfortable. 7cet for cadent houses, I say that lanets in this situation want to be in the net house, are running to get into the net house, in this case the house with A/uarius on the cus, but this does not work with cadent houses and angles. The angles of the chart are walls.  Oou6re either in the angular house, or you6re not. =hen lanets in cadent houses are not in the same sign as what is on the cus 0#, ', <, 1!, they are stranded+ Little ower in the house they are in, no ower in the nearby angular house. This is uni/ue to the cadents, it6s what the angles steal from them in order to be angles.  The net e8ect, in my ersonal case, is that I6e neer really felt at home 0$th house, but, >un debilitated 2 and stranded 2 in <, the >un could neer /uite manage to nd a life abroad, either. O7>  O)J 9A- read this leel of detail in a chart. In fact you should be unsatised if you cannot. 4elletier6s book is from 1<;C. To think what he wrote was the best that could be done makes me sad. Nudging by the books I see on my sheles, I6m not certain we6e come ery far since. For some years now I hae been trying to nd the concets which will make this clear to you. =hitford, #'' ages, aer.

HOUSES O4 THE HO/OSCO)E, An Introduction - Alan O"en, $1(&'( Contents: Introduction =hat are the houses of the horoscoeE A house diided  The name, address & /uality of a house

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 The  The  The  The  The  The  The  The  The  The  The  The

rst house+ I am myself  second house+ I am my alues & resources third house+ I am my mind fourth house+ I am my family fth house+ I am my creatiity sith house+ I am my health & work seenth house+ I am myself with you eighth house+ I amtransformed ninth house+ I am my beliefs tenth house+ I am my rofession eleenth house+ I am my asirations twelfth house+ I am the unierse

 The secondary meanings of the houses Geference guide

Comment:  The word, Introduction in the title fairly sums u the book. First ublished in 1<<<, this is essentially an eanded treatment of what the author had reiously ublished in the early 1<;6s, as art of Alan O"en9s Co!plete Astrolog* . And while that6s one of  my to icks for introductory astrology books, in a seciali5ed book, such as this, from an author twenty years more eerienced, I eect something more than a warmed2oer resentation of old material. 7en ecusing the dated materials & limited scoe, this is not among the best books on houses, and this desite the fact that Alan )ken is one of the ery few astrologers to hae imressed me with his wit & sheer brilliance. In addition to delineating the arious lanets in the arious houses 0lifted, with little change, from his earlier book, he also gies delineations of the arious signs on the arious cuss. Alas, in this )ken is bettered by >akoian & Acker6s Gising >ign )erlays in their Astrologer9s Hand.oo"  0another of my to icks.  The chater on secondary meanings is, I regret to say, merely the keywords that )ken used in the earlier chaters, ie, he resents nothing new. =hile )ken says that eerything in the world can be found in one house or another 2 which is true, by the way, the houses are much richer than )ken6s meager descritions.

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