House 7

Spouses and open enemies share one house in Lilly 1659, and the pairing looks strange until the logic appears. This angle stands opposite the rising point, so it holds whoever faces the person across a table: the other side in a lawsuit, the opposing army, the thief, the physician in a medical question and the astrologer in an astrological one.

Lilly calls it the angle of the west, where planets go down. It ranks among the four strong angles in his table. Sepharial 1920 trims the list to marriage, contracts, agreements and partners, and Alan Leo, writing before 1917, keeps unions and partnerships.

Modern popular astrology treats it as the house of committed relationships. It tends to drop the thieves and armies that Lilly seated here. The house says nothing about whether or whom anyone should marry.