Cast & Chart

House

House 6

A chart describes tendencies in a symbolic tradition. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

In an older source

this house is a Feminine and Cadent house, unfortunate, as having no aspect to the Ascendant

William Lilly, Christian Astrology, Book I (second edition) (1659)

About this entry

Geometry explains the word unfortunate in this quote. This house lies five signs along from the first, and Ptolemy, in Ashmand's 1822 translation, says that parts five signs apart share no configuration. Lilly 1659 applies the point to the house, so the label describes a line that does not connect and is no statement about a person.

Lilly's list is a farm and household inventory of servants, day laborers, tenants and small livestock. He also gives this house sickness in the period sense, and that part of the old system is medical history and offers no guidance about anyone's health. Mars has his joy here, a technical pairing in Lilly's scheme.

Sepharial 1920 still has servants and adds food, clothes and comforts. Modern popular astrology recasts it as daily work and habits, with the employer now in place of the farm, a change of setting the old lists invite.

Where this text comes from

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Our own plain wording. Quoted lines keep the spelling of the scanned source.