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As I mentioned in the other threads in my little basics series, the houses roughly correspond to the ideas of the signs. So if the first house of identity and ‘personality’ relates to Aries, then the Second House relates to Taurus.

The Second House relates to issues that deal with the principles of personal possessions and value. By value I do not mean just money (though that is undoubtedly also a part of it) but also the things that you value. What are your ‘values’? The Second House will describe them! Look to the 2H (and its house ruler – the planet relating to the sign on the cusp, if Aries, then Mars etc) to see your attitudes toward money and toward your values. Someone with Jupiter here or with Sagittarius on the cusp might, for example, place a lot of value on higher education, foreign travel and philosophies etc. But also their attitude toward money may be Sagittarian also – perhaps someone who likes to gamble or splash out, or is always spending money on travelling or on new courses.

Planets here parcticularly can show how we spend our money and what what way our income is. For example I have Uranaus in my 2H – Uranus in my chart is Aquarius so Uranus is also the dispositor of my Moon which relates to comfort and security – anyway with my Uranus in the 2H I have worked in jobs where, for some reason, tax is calculated wrong and I’m paid less than I should be and have to wait for the following month. In my last job I worked for a company that was tied into the property market. For about 5 months on and off we wouldn’t get paid on pay day. We wouldnt’ get told until that day either. I remember waking up and looking at my account in the red and then two weeks later I would get paid without warning. Once I got paid on one day for two months wages – it was just that erratic. In the end I had worked two months without having been paid and then the company went into administration – I lost my two months wages. This is very much the product of disruptive Uranus in my 2H, the latter conclusion where I didn’t get paid at all might be seen by looking at Neptune, also in the 2H.

What is your experience of the 2H? What are your values? How do you spend your money?

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I read that other house systems other than the original house system, the whole sign house system were based on errors to begin with.





The following by Chris Brennan

Whole Sign Houses:

the original house system



In no other area of astrology is there so much mess and confusion than in the area of the so-called “houses”. There are at least twenty or thirty different house systems or means of dividing the so-called “birthchart” into twelve segments of life activity.



The more commonly known house systems are: Whole signs(oldest), Equal House(1st century BC), Porphyry(3rd century AD), Alcabitus(6th century), Campanus(13th century), Regiomantus(14th century), Placidus(17th century), and Koch(20th century). Others include: Meridian(Midheaven), Topocentric, Morinus, Horizontal, Geodetic, Zodiacal, Svarogish, Krusinski, and so on.



In astrology, houses, mansions, or domains, are supposed to represent general areas of life activity. They are the grounding areas or arenas of expression for the planets. There are generally twelve houses, although in extreme northern or southern lattitudes there can be ten, depending on the house system used.



In modern astrology, two important points or “angles” are generally used in the construction of houses; the ascendant degree which begins the first house, and the Midheaven degree which starts the tenth house. At equatorial latitudes these two points are generally 90 degrees apart, but the further one moves north or south the greater or lesser the distance between them, resulting in uneven and sometimes intercepted(invisible) houses.



The most common house system in use today is the Placidus system named after Placidus de Tito of the 17th century. In this system, like most others, the ascending degree starts the first house and the midheaven degree starts the tenth house. The remaining houses are then trisected on a time arc basis rather than space. The problem is the houses distort or intercept in extreme latitudes.



It seems human nature always veers towards the more complex ideas or notions in any field, ignoring the truer and simpler ones. Originally, the words “houses” and “signs” were interchangeable or meant the same thing. A planet in Aries was also a planet in the house of Aries, so that in effect. there were no real houses as we know them today.



The artificial divisions we now know as houses were attempts by the early Greeks and the Hindus to measure strength “points” in the horoscope, which at some point in time(7th and 8th centuries AD) were construed or confused as means of dividing the birth chart. The ascendant and midheaven degrees and their opposites, for example, were definite power points or areas of intense focus, but not necessarily the beginnings of a house or quadrant.



In fact, there is no real basis for the astrological houses at all. They derive from a misunderstanding of the true nature of the Ascendant and Midheaven factors in astrology, the former representing the Earth or terrestial sphere, and the latter representing the Sky, Heaven, or celestial sphere. The Ascendant is planet Earth, and the Midheaven(MC) has as its source, the Earth’s inner central sun. The IC(Imum Coeli) and the descendant are merely opposite or reflex points.



If any house system should be used at all, it should be the Whole Sign House system, where the ascendant sign becomes the whole first house and the others follow. The ascendant point can then fall anywhere in the first house and the midheaven point anywhere in the upper half of the chart. The Ascendant and Midheaven, in effect, become PLANETS, which is what they truly are, and because we live on planet Earth, it is the FIRST house or primary habitation. For a description of what the houses really mean, see here http://www.librarising.com/astrology/fwa/basics2.html



The Whole Sign House system was used by the ancient Greeks and the Hindus(who still use it today). It is the oldest and simplest house system in existence, and immediateley eliminates the awful mess astrologers have made on the issue over the last 1300 years or so.



For a full explanation on whole sign houses see here.

http://classicalastrology.tribe.net/thread/4f214879-77d3-41e2-8365-50f5f753761d



http://www.librarising.com/astrology/misc/wholesignhouses.html

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I got a free reading from some site MaryEllen recommended some months ago on one of the black moon lilith threads, and this is the description I got for my Mars-BML trine:



Mars trine Black Moon (orb: 2°46’)

Keywords

The Mars stamina pulled towards the inner universe.

The Black Moon, with its metaphysical depth and its intimate

relationship to the deepest of the human psyche, can significantly

modify the significance of Mars in a chart. It adds an occult

dimension to it. It makes the native more likely to use his/her Mars

energy to work on himself/herself and explore inner worlds rather

than only being concerned with external things and the material

world. It can give a strong need to follow a spiritual path and

explore the hidden mysteries of existence rather than just being

engaged in materialistic pursuits.

But at times, the pull towards the depth of the psyche can also

result in a paralysis of the Mars stamina, caused by deep unresolved

conflicts. Profound inner upheavals can then make the native go

through phases of an ‘eclipsed Mars’, losing their sense of direction

and being unable to achieve in the world. This is a general

characteristic about the Black Moon: to those who are in touch with

the depth of themselves, it gives sharpness and adds even further

depth. But to those who are disconnected from their own depth, it

can creates crises of great magnitude.





All this is 100% true for me, and I think it definitely explains my loss of direction in my chart, since my Mars situation would otherwise suggest un-crippled outer-expansion:tightly conjunct Moon and Jupiter, in Gemini, and the 9th house-extroverted positions. Plus it squares my Mercury-ruler of my Ascendant. Plus it parallels my MC!

Well, for a better image, my chart is here:



http://people.tribe.net/487fd771-d1a6-4132-b909-966191b9e505/photos/f7f958b4-fc43-4b31-852d-5d12765a63b6



and the site where I got the free reading from is: www.clairvision.org





So, anyway, I wanna know what your thoughts o this are…pretty potent, this Black Moon Lilith, isn’t it? If you have any Mars-BML aspects in your natal chart, I’d love o hear about it..or if you have encountered it in your reading experiences.

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