House 5

Banquets, alehouses, taverns and plays all land here in Lilly 1659, and Venus has her joy on account of those pleasures. He also places children here and adds ambassadors and messengers, a mixed list that hints at how the houses grew by accretion. It is a succedent house, the one that comes after the angle of the fourth.

Later writers keep the two main strands, and Sepharial 1920 lists offspring, domestic relations and social pleasures. Alan Leo, writing before 1917, adds enterprise and energy along with the pleasures of the senses. These books speak flatly about offspring, and that strand is left as a historical claim here and says nothing about whether anyone should have children.

Creativity and romance are the headings of modern popular astrology, and neither word appears in Lilly's list. The chain from banquets to self-expression is short enough to follow, though it is plainly a modern reading of an older heading.