Chapter I（续 1）

The Tenth House or Mip-HEaven, or Upper Meridian, the apex of the earthy triangle, denotes the fame and honour and worldly status of the native, the parentage and hereditary tendencies, and governs all matters connected with profession, business, employment, and worldly occupation. The Second House shows the outcome of the labour or profession in financial advantage, remuneration and monetary condition generally. The Sixth House shows the service required, and governs all matters connected with servants and helpers and those who are often inferiors. It is the house of employment and ceremonial magic.

The Seventh House or Descenpant denotes relation. All partnerships and unions of every kind are shown by this house, and thus it is the house of marriage, and of the Individuality. The Third House denotes relatives and kindred arising from unions, and also the expression through the brain of the union with the subjective and objective mind. It has also come to have some relation to short journeys, owing to its connection with the concrete or brain mind, which cannot travel far from the objects with which it is connected. The Eleventh House denotes the friends and acquaintances arising from unions, etc. Hopes and wishes are also indicated by this house.

The Fourth House, or Napir, or Lower Meridian, denotes the environment, the life of the householder, also hidden and secret matters either connected with parentage or domestic affairs, and shows the conditions at the close of life. The Eighth House denotes death, and all matters connected with dissolution, and indicates the nature of the death the native will meet, and all expectations connected with the death of others; also re-generation or re-birth, or the raising of any faculty signified -to a ‘higher octave.’ The Twelfth House is the house of confinement, or matters that, having their root in the fourth, spring out of parentage, inheritance and unseen affairs connected with the inner or psychic life ; it is therefore called the house of occultism and (physical) *self-undoing.’

The Cardinal or ‘Angular’ houses or angles show all things that must be expressed outwardly, such as physical matters connected with the external life; (Rajas—activity). The Fixed or ‘Succedent,’ ze., second, fifth, eighth and eleventh houses, indicate matters connected with the feelings and emotions, not yet ripe for physical expression, but maturing for future development; (Zamas—stability). The Mutable or *Cadent,’ z.¢., third, sixth, ninth and twelfth, show all matters latent in the mind and affairs brought over from past lives and not yet ready for final expression in the physical world; (Sattva—rhythm).

In the reverse order of the above, the Cadent, Succedent and Cardinal divisions may be said to represent thought, feeling and action, or spirit, soul and body.

The houses to the left of the meridian are called ovzental, easterly or rising; those on the right are called occidental or descending. They represent respectively the objective and subjective. The six houses above the horizon, 7th to 12th, correspond to the ‘life’ side of the universe: the six below, 1st to 6th, correspond to its ‘form’ side.

Having partially explained the rationale of the twelve divisions, each house will now be seen to have a definite meaning, out of which a greater number of minor influences will arise.

The following is the general nature of each house :—

I. First House.—Personality, natural disposition, worldly outlook generally. Physical experiences as obtained through the five senses. ‘The parts of the body denoted are the Aead and face.

II. Second House—Finance, monetary prospects. Desires caused by tenthhouse influence affecting moral growth. ‘The parts of the body denoted are the throat and ears.

Ill. Third House-—Relatives and kindred, travelling, intellect derived from education and study, and minor impressions made upon the physical brain. The parts of the body denoted are the neck, arms and shoulders and the lungs.

IV. Fourth House—Hereditary tendencies; home and domestic life; parentage, environment, and the general state of things at the close of life. ‘The parts of the body denoted are the breasts, stomach and digestive organs.

V. Fifth House.—Offspring ; generative powers, sensations and pleasurable emotions arising from the senses, worldly enterprise and energy. ‘The parts of the body denoted are the (vis, heart and back.

VI. Sixth House—Service and attachments arising from the expression of the tenth house, therefore servants and inferiors in social rank. ‘This house also denotes sickness arising from worry and anxiety. It is also the house of phenomenal magic arising from the powers of the southern angle. ‘The parts of the body denoted are the dowels and solar plexus.

VII. Seventh House-—Unions, marriage, partnerships, individual character and humane tendencies. ‘The parts of the body denoted are the veins and kidneys.

VIII. Eighth House-—Death, all matters pertaining to legacies or affairs connected with death. It is also what is termed an occult house, owing to its relation to the fourth, which denotes the psychic tendencies. ‘The parts of the body denoted are the secret parts and the generative system.

IX. Ninth House.—Higher mentality, scientific, philosophic and religious tendencies. It also denotes long journeys, dreams and the image-making power. The parts of the body denoted are the thighs and hams.

X. Tenth House.—Profession, business ability, fame, honour and material reputation. All worldly activities and moral responsibilities are shown by this house. ‘The parts of the body denoted are the kmees.

XI. Eleventh House.—F¥riends, acquaintances, hopes, wishes and aspirations. The parts of the body denoted are the /egs and ankées.

XII. Twelfth House—Occult tendencies. Its connection with the fourth house shows the psychic thought inheritance from the past and the result as either joy or sorrow. ‘This may be said to be the most critical house of the twelve. The parts of the body denoted are the feet and ‘oes.

These twelve houses or divisions are like spokes of a great wheel running from the hub at the centre, which represents the nucleus of the

experiences gained from each of the twelve houses. The nature of the particular experience will be shown by the sign of the zodiac occupying each house, and the quality of these signs we will study in the next chapter; but the nature of each house should be understood apart from the signs, and then it will not be difficult to comprehend what follows. When the mind has retained a clear picture of the nature of each house the student may endeavour to imagine a line running from each of the twelve divisions or houses to the centre of the map, endeavouring to think of the native as remaining in the centre with all these forces playing around him, with a natural tendency always to be drawn more toward the first house and grasp at this spoke of the wheel more than any of the others, while at the same time being drawn in other directions and influenced by the outside conditions affecting each spoke of the great wheel.

It must be understood that the manner of describing the formation of the Twelve Houses which has been adopted in this chapter is symbolical or figurative. It has been chosen because the Sun exerts a special influence when at each of the four angles of the heavens related to the four quarters of the day, an influence specially related to that of the houses concerned. But the Twelve Houses are always simultaneously present, and exert their several influences according to the signs and planets which occupy them, whatever may be the hour of the day or night, no matter whether the Sun is upon an angle or not, though of course the presence of the Sun in any house will accentuate the influence of that house.

It should also be thoroughly grasped that there exists the most intimate correspondence between the signs and the houses, between Aries and the First House, Taurus and the Second House, and so on. Hence the influence of a planet in Aries will correspond to that of the same planet in the First House—will correspond to it, though it will not be exactly the same. Perhaps ahint as to the difference may be given in the suggestion that the houses relate to physical matter, and the signs to astral matter. But it must be kept in mind that the influence of the signs is greater than that of the houses, and that the former will overbear the latter.