Last Sunday I logged on to a wonderful webinar offered through Kepler College, and presented by Rob Hand, one of THE big names in astrology. It was about house rulers in the medieval system, using the so called traditional rulers to link houses of the chart. In the ancient system, each planet ruled two signs and thus, two houses in a chart. I know that's probably more information than you non-astrologers want, but you need it to set the stage.
Linking houses and seeing where the rulers end up in the chart is descriptive of how you operate in life and how it will work out in your life. I promptly tried it out on myself and half a dozen charts of family and friends and was amazed at the results.
By way of explanation, the houses of a natal chart represent areas of life, such as:
- career - 10th;and so on. This is a gross simplification of the representational areas, but it gives you the basic idea of what it means. When two houses have the same ruler, those two areas of your life are permanently joined at the hip and how that will work out in your life is shown by where the ruler sits in the chart.
- how you make money - 2nd;
- communication, writing - 3rd;
- contractual partners and one-on-one relationships - 7th;
As an example, my second and third houses are linked, so that indicates (among other things) that I would make money (2nd) through communications and writing (3rd). The joint rulers (Sun and Moon, which in that system work in tandem) are, Sun in the 11th house (organizations, the collective) and Moon in the 6th (employment, daily routine). I worked for a major retailer (an organization - 11th), writing and publishing a magazine to the field (the collective). It was my employment and my daily routine(6th). Just that little bit showed me how clear this system is.
How things work out example: Both the Midheaven and the 10th house are indicative of career. My chart shows I would be self employed because the ruler of the midheaven is in the first house of self. I have been self employed for 13 years. The tenth house (career) has a common ruler with the 7th house of one-on-one relationships and contractual relationships. Part of my career (10) has been very much about both contract work and one-on-one relating (7) - reading faces as a professional under contract, and relating to the attendees of the events, one-on-one. And before that, I was doing contract work, preparing other people's books and brochures for publication. My midheaven is in the 9th house of publishing.
What's so incredible is every chart will tell things like this about every area of your life. It has been very informative as to how descriptive the method can be and how accurate.
Those brilliant minds hundreds of years ago certainly knew what they were talking about.
Saundra_M
I enjoyed your treatment of this subject. I'm not one of those who can easily relate to the "you've got blah-blah in the seventh house and blah-blah-blah on the mid-Heaven" type of talk, but you simplified it and made it easy for me to follow. The examples you provided from your own chart also helped me to form a clearer picture.
ReplyDeleteI can see why you admire this ancient system. It sounds very accurate!
From the little you told me via email about applying it to my chart, it sounds like it would confirm many things we already know about how I operate in life. I'd be interested to hear more when you have time (uh-oh, this is dangling the carrot!) and maybe it can help me figure out why, so far, I haven't been as consistent or profitable at the money-making side of my natural talent.
Thanks for another thought-provoking post!
Thanks, Milli. I've looked at your chart with this system very briefly. I'll do more soon and tell you why you're not a millionaire (yet) with your writing efforts!
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