The Setting Place

The 7th House System

Let’s look at the next two pairs of angles, starting with the 7th House.

7th House:  Just as the 1st House marks your entrance into this world, the 7th House represents your exit stage left from this world. For that reason the 7th House signifies death. The Greek word used here (dun) means to plunge into, like plunging into the darkness of death. It also means plunging into a foreign place so the another signification of the 7th House is relocation or a very extended stay in a foreign place and again, “foreign” means any place away from your birth-place or your permanent place of residence (assuming you already relocated). Contrary to the false teachings of Modern astrologers, the word dun also refers to sexual union and copulation (yes, sexual intercourse) and plunging into in the sense of marriage. For those who don’t get it, the 8th House has nothing to do with sex (or transformation). Since the 7th House is related to uniting, it is also the house of your bestest friends. You know, the ones you sit around with doing each other’s hair.

8th House: Stars in the 8th House move toward the 9th House but are carried back to the 7th House by diurnal motion. The symbolism here is more than obvious. It’s like a drowning person trying to keep their head above water but continually sinking below the surface. The Greek word dusis means “sinking” and is another word associated with the 7th House. Eventually, the drowning person will grow tired and finally sink into the depths of the waters. To split hairs a bit, the 8th House is the act of dying while the 7th House is the quality of death. That a drowning person grows weak is why the 8th House is called the “Idle Place” (more on that later). The 8th House also signifies benefits from the dead which includes, but is not exclusively limited to inheritance. Because this quadrant (the 7th, 8th and 9th Houses) is based on government and authority it includes lawsuits and legacies. In modern language, legacies are royalties you receive from patents and copyrights you hold, and payments received from the lease of your property for oil, natural gas, coal or mineral rights, or harvesting lumber.

6th House: Stars here move toward the 7th House but are turned away by the diurnal motion. That is a good thing and one we’ll discuss in detail later. For that reason, the 6th House is everything that oppresses you and creates burdens for you such as illnesses, accidents and injuries, bad luck, and the hidden or secret enemies that create mischief for you. Because the 6th House concerns those things that burden you it also includes those things that might help with your burdens.

Contrary to the ethnocentric racist views of Modern astrologers, the 6th House is not “pets.” It is large quadrupeds. There are still 4.5 Billion people on Earth who ride horses or other animals because that is their only means of transportation and since there are few roads, the only viable means of transportation. Those people also use animals as pack animals to carry burdens for them and they use animals in agriculture.

That isn’t speculation. One of us was recently in Iraq and another in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Burkina Faso, Thailand, Panama and Honduras. Both witnessed caravans of camels, donkeys, mules and horses hauling goods from one place to another, people using animals in farming, or people riding animals as transportation.

Only an ethnocentric racist would automatically assume every one on Earth has fuel to burn and roads to drive.

Most misinterpret a particular Greek word as “slave” when that is not what it means. The Greeks had many words for “slave” but Hellenistic authors do not use them. A reading of works by Plato (in particular The Republic), Timaeus, Protogoras, Aristotle and others makes it clear they are referring to socioeconomic class. Specifically, they are referring to the people at the bottom rung of the socioeconomic ladder meaning those people who perform menial or servile labor. In a sense, it could refer to employees who work for you (bearing your burdens).