House 3

News and siblings share this house in Lilly 1659, along with cousins, neighbors and short trips near home. He treats it as the place of whatever travels a short way between people. The Moon has her joy here, and with her in a moveable sign he expects much trotting back and forth and seldom a quiet life, which is his phrase for restlessness.

It is a cadent house, meaning it falls away from an angle, and Lilly rates such houses weak. He also names Mars a cosignificator here, an old term for a planet naturally linked with a house, and that is why he says Mars in this place is not very unfortunate. So a label that sounds bad gets a partial reprieve within a single paragraph of his.

Sepharial 1920 keeps short trips, letters and near relations nearly word for word. Alan Leo, writing before 1917, adds the intellect formed by education. Modern popular astrology extends that to schooling, phones and everyday talk.