posted July 18, 2018 07:53 AM            

As she puts its "the ruler of the "intercepted" house is somewhere in the chart and doing something!" And so she opts for the equal house system.

I think intercepted house rulers are those that are "interrupted". Kind of like a country within a country.

This country cannot escape the influence of the host country and longs for freedom but is held " captive".

So to access the intercepted house, one must go through the host and dig deeper.

The idea is that intercepted houses reflects areas of life where we have "restriction" in expression and difficulties. Whilst duplicated houses is where we are making up for that restricted energy.

posted July 18, 2018 10:51 PM            

I am reproducing here my own post from this thread ... http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum24/HTML/227867.html ...

It is important to be clear what is meant by 'interception' as there are two ways of referring: intercepted signs and intercepted houses.

This term 'interception' has been corrupted through the popularization of astrology from geometry in which the full and proper term is 'interception of an arc' or 'intercepted arc.'

The intercepted portion here is the purple area:

From the Arkana Dictionary of Astrology:

quote:

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intercepted sign (redirected from 'intercepted house') A term, which though frequently used, is something of a misnomer. It is generally supposed to refer to a sign which, due to the variations in time of Right Ascension, is not posited on one of the cusps in the symbolic representation of the mundane system [houses]. In fact it is really an intercepted house - some insist that planets within such a house are given emphasis, while others insist there is a general weakening. Quantitatively speaking, however, the house covers a much wider area of influence than would a normal mundane arc, and one would therefore expect the influence to be more considerable than normal. Certainly there is a statistical propensity for such houses to contain more planets than other houses.

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So to illustrate, in the chart below the house interceptions are seen in the widened 6th and 12th houses which contain the entire signs of Scorpio (6th) and Taurus (12th). Gemini is not intercepted and Sagittarius is not intercepted, as signs cannot be intercepted.

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posted July 19, 2018 12:33 AM            

Here is my intercepted 1st and 7th house:

For me, Pisces was never "locked up" or "blocked" in any way in my chart. If anything, there's been an overemphasis on creativity in my life. I was a competent musician by the time I was 16, fluent in 5 different instruments. I also have a degree in fine art.

Now days, I choose to express that energy on my own time, in a quiet studio or at a desk, instead of exploiting it for monetary means. But it is there, and has never been limited.

I do think the 3 planets in Virgo in my 7th house play a part, though. And, though 2 of my "duplicate" houses (4th and 5th) are ruled by Gemini/Mercury, which is in an intercepted house, I have Sagittarius/Jupiter in Leo in my 6th house to "help" me use my intercepted houses.

posted July 19, 2018 01:13 AM            

There is an unbelievable amount of misinformation out there from astrologers on this, and some really well known and respected ones. I have some of the texts, and I can't use the ideas in them, because they fall apart on deeper study.

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"Drift like a cloud and flow like water, seeing that all life is a magnificent illusion, a playing of energy, and there is absolutely nothing fundamentally to be afraid of." -- Alan Watts