Planet in different sign than cusp

Capricorn2616

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How do I interpret a planet being is a different sign than the cusp of the house. For example, my third house cusp is in Sag, but I have five planets in the third house in Capricorn. How does this affect how the planets function within the house?
 

JUPITERASC

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How do I interpret a planet being is a different sign than the cusp of the house.

For example, my third house cusp is in Sag,
but I have five planets in the third house in Capricorn.

How does this affect how the planets function within the house?
The fact is, the house location of a natal planet can change
dependent on the house system chosen :smile:

easily verified at astro.com's Extended Chart Selection Page
there, fourteen of the more popular house systems currently in use are available options
Placidus is simply the default
to view for oneself how that works in practice
simply create a natal chart using Whole Sign Houses option
then create the same natal chart but this time using the Placidus option

EXPLANATORY ASTROLOGICAL HOUSES ARTICLE http://www.librarising.com/astrology/misc/wholesignhouses.html


QUOTE

'...There are at least twenty or thirty different house systems
or means of dividing the so-called "birthchart" into twelve segments of life activity.
Originally, the words "houses" and "signs" were interchangeable.
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....'


'….Artificial divisions now known as houses were attempts by early Greeks and Hindus
to measure strength "points" in the horoscope, which during 7th and 8th centuries AD
were construed or confused as means of dividing the birth chart.
The ascendant and midheaven degrees and their opposites were definite power points or areas of intense focus
but not necessarily the beginnings of a house or quadrant....'
 

JUPITERASC

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I use BOTH whole signs AND Alcabitius

whereas
tsmall uses BOTH whole signs AND Placidus

some use Regiomontanus
there are multiple house systems
its a matter of personal choice


I shall quote tsmalls comment
posted on another thread at
http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum...ad.php?t=94683


I use both whole signs and Placidus.

The original idea of quadrant based house systems was to determine angularity
and never to replace the concept of topics
.

So I count signs for topics and use a house system overlaid onto it.

Because, as I mentioned above, capability and angularity/ability to act are two different things.
 
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