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Houses · Intermediate

Whole Sign houses

Also called Whole Sign

The oldest house system: the whole rising sign is the first house, the next sign the second, and so on.

Hellenistic astrologers used Whole Sign houses, and many traditional and some modern astrologers have returned to them. They work at every latitude. The Midheaven is not a cusp in this system and can fall in the ninth, tenth or eleventh house.

How it is worked out
House n begins at 0° of the sign n−1 signs after the rising sign.
  • Kind: Calculation, History
  • Tradition: Hellenistic astrology, Traditional Western astrology, Modern Western astrology
  • In this site’s birth chart: used

Related: House system, Placidus houses, Midheaven, Hellenistic astrology

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