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waybread said:A50, I think the point is that children are a 5th house matter.
Traditional astrology does number birth order according to the house. The 5th house is the first child; the 7th house is the 2nd child, the 9th house is the 3rd child, and so on. How this works is basically through a technique that a modern astrologer might called "derivative" or "derived" houses.
So because the 1st child is the 5th house, and since siblings are a third house matter, you come up with the 7th house representing the 2nd child because it is the third house from the 5th. In this technique, you always start with the initial house in question (the 5th) as #1. The next house would be the 6th, and the third house would then be the 7th. Then a third child would be the sibling (3rd house) of the 2nd child, and so on.
I'm not sure this works in practice, but that's the idea, anyway.
The thread header was' indications of fertility in the natal chart' obviously if you have children then the 5th describes the children also my view of labour,but to conceive in the first place, I still say conception is 8th house matter.....not 5th