CADENTHOUSE
The houses of an astrological chart are classified into three groups of four: angular
houses (the first, fourth, seventh, and tenth), succedent houses (the second, fifth,
eighth, and eleventh), and cadent houses (the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth). Tradi-
tionally, the cadent houses have been referred to as the mental houses, although this
ascription applies best to the third house and the ninth house (the houses of the
“lower” and “higher” mind). In classical astrology, cadent houses were regarded as the
least powerful houses in which planets could be positioned, while angular houses were
the most powerful. Modern astrologers, however, tend to think that planets placed in
the angular houses have the most influence on the outer, surface aspects of a person’s
life, and planets placed in the cadent houses have the most impact on one’s inner life.
Planets located in succedent houses mediate inner and outer lives.
Sources:
Brau, Jean-Louis, Helen Weaver, and Allan Edmands. Larousse Encyclopedia of Astrology.New
York: New American Library, 1980.
Hand, Robert. Horoscope Symbols.Rockport, MA: Para Research, 1981.
CALENDAR
Astrology is built upon an accurate accounting of time. Fundamental to this account-
ing is a calendrical system that takes into consideration the irregular manner in which
days, months, and years fit together. A calendar in the broadest sense consists of the
set of rules that a society uses for deciding which days are ordinary days and which are
holidays (a variant of “holy days”). Societies in the past evolved many different kinds
of calendars, and a surprisingly large number of them are important for understanding
the details of the Western civil calendar.
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