Re: Placidus vs. Whole Sign
I realized that this concept may be so foreign to you or anyone that reads it that I'd best give an example.
Let me use the 8th House as an example...as I can really speak from a lot of experience as to a particular matter concerning the 8th House. That matter being of with the dissolution of of material structures back into energy. An example is that of which 'elemental or 'sympathetic magick' is a part of. It deals with anything that [but certainly not limited to] some sort of 'presence', if I may be permitted to say, that some one might 'conjure up' using the aforesaid types of "magick' [Now if you don't want to believe in 'magick', as such, that's fine. Please discontinue reading and disregard this post of mine...but I do wish to complete this explanation for any others that may also have read to this point and would like for me to complete this post.] As the 8th House does deal with things of dissolution and by that dissolute beings [meaning astral and or etheric entities, un-embodied energies, ghosts etc...things of such nature. ...if someone wishes to say "Demons"...that would fall into this category. Now, I"M NOT SAYING...I'm just saying...if you catch my drift.]
Awhile back someone thought they were, "Going to show me a thing or two"...as to to the only way I can put this... let's just say I was dealing with a very determined individual with a very aggressive agenda as to "getting me out of the picture" as He saw me in His way as to getting to my sister... whom is a very physically beautiful woman and had sought some advice on some spiritual matters and she is a bit naive about trusting people that advertise such service, believing them to be 'aligned with the direction' she thinks every one is, or should be, that would so advertise.
So to get to the point..let me just say that this 'advisor' won't ever dare try to approach her again and certainly won't try me again for the reason I can only illustrate and that illustration being the Sabian Symbol for the 17th degree of Gemini, my Placidus 8th House cusp.
..and which is [by the late, great 20th century writer, philosopher, astrologer, Dane Rudhyar, from his book on these symbols, "An Astrological Mandala"]
"THE HEAD OF A ROBUST YOUTH CHANGES INTO THAT OF A MATURE THINKER.
KEYNOTE: The transformation of physical vitality into the power to build concepts and intellectual formulations through which knowledge can be transferred.
While in the preceding symbol we see the explosive release of impulses generated by a new realization of what is right and wrong - the "woman" way controlled by feelings - now we have a picture of a process of quiet and steady metamorphosis of biological energy into mind-power, which can be seen symbolically as the "man" way. The symbolism may seem old-fashioned today, but the two contrasting approaches to communication of new experiences remain evident, however one wishes to symbolize them.
This second stage of the sixteenth sequence, as is nearly always the case, presents a contrast with the first stage. What we see pictured is the transformation of emotions into mind, of instincts into thoughts - a process of MENTAL METAMORPHOSIS."
...If it can be done..it can be undone... or even turned around...
I can't explain it any more than that as this isn't of the venue for such discussions, nor the topic itself ..and I do apologize for having to pick this particular subject for demonstration...but it is one I am MOST assured of...and sometimes it takes 'a recounting' of something that is of 'dramatic effect' to get ones 'point' across [I'm not trying to make this any more than what it was/is to create a 'Drama' ..it happened, I'm not "making this up", and by most people that did hear such an account, I know that they would so deem it to be so.]
So, in conclusion, let me say that whatever House you wish to know of as to how you are 'wired' to deal with the affairs of that particular Houses' affairs ...regardless of House System [unless they are in conflict with those affairs of Houses that Placidus does claim to and also does actually deal with...as I know there probably are some conflicts between some systems on an affair or two... and I understand there are, according to some astrologers, definitely some conflicts in regard to that matter...] .... when using the Sabian Symbols in this manner, Placidus is the only system for that application alone that, I both know of and, I so will endorse...and I am steadfast in that conclusion... and somewhere on this Earth there is a certain person that knows this to be a fact. [if he's still alive, that is...I don't know if my sister is still so naive to this day... but at least she certainly is a little less so...so I can't I can't say for her whether or not she would so publicly endorse my statement..but I do know she won't deny it in private.]