House types correspond to qualities and are given special
names: Angular, Succedent, and Cadent.
Angular houses correspond to the Cardinal
signs. These are houses 1,
4, 7, and 10, the houses that begin with the Angles of the horoscope.
Why are they called 揳ngles??Centuries ago, astrologers
didn't draw horoscope wheels. They made a square with the sharp
corners going left and right, top and bottom. Of course, the
Ascendant, Mid-Heaven, Descendant, and Nadir landed on these
angles. The name stuck even after square 搘heels?went out of
fashion.
When anything is missing in a chart, there are always two
ways to deal with it. You can totally ignore whatever is missing.
It doesn't concern you. What you don't have, you don't miss.
Or, you are very aware of what is missing. It is a lack that you
can spend your entire life trying to deal with. You can overcompensate and turn the weakness into a strength. On the other
hand, it can overwhelm you.
Missing Angular Houses: When there are no planets in Angular
houses, it becomes more difficult to initiate
things, to stay in the here
and now. An example of overcompensation would be Raquel
Welch. One of the hardest working people in show business, she had
no trouble diving in and getting the job done. Seven planets in Earth
signs makes her concerned with material resources and their
accumulation, as good an incentive as any to keep working
(especially since four of them are in Virgo, sign of work).
Missing Succedent Houses: When there are no planets in Succedent
houses, the result
houses, there is could be little (if any) ability to focus on
ultimate or long range results. Or there may merely be no concern
with these things at all. If you have this one, it doesn't mean
that what you do won't have any lasting effects. It just means
that this is not your focus. Jennifer
Jason Leigh has no succedent planets. She has seven in cadent houses,
which increases her ability to develop characters (cadent houses
deal with background) but there is little, if any, attention given
to what's down the road.
Missing Cadent Houses: When the Cadent houses are empty, there may be no sense of your background,
of what has gone on before, and that could mean you can find
yourself always starting over again from square one. Or you could
be unconcerned with background matters and simply take them for
granted. Elizabeth
Taylor would be the first type. Anyone who gets married eight times
simply isn't learning from experience. Prince
Charles would be the second type. Hey, he's the Prince of Wales.
Most of the ceremonial duties and responsibilities fall on his
mother, the Queen. He can do what he wants.
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