How to read an "intercepted" sign in a house depends on the kind of reading that you're doing. But, we can get into that later. For now, we're doing natal chart readings, so, think of it as a difference in "growth and maturity." The first sign. going counter-clockwise, will apply more to earlier years of life, but maturity will bring on the qualities of the next sign in the House.RoseRed wrote: Thats why I have:
(5 to 6) House 5: Aquarius and Pisces (more pisces than aquarius)
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Because I have the two signs within my house and the one covers more area than the next. Do I then have more pisces qualities when it comes to the 5th house than aquarius qualities, or does the line of intersection mean than even though I have pisces in my 5th house, aquarius is the dominant sign (cause of the line of intersection).
Oh and I wanted to ask, is the horizontal line always horizontal?
(if I look in the little circle in the middle of the whole graphic i can see my horizontal line is perfectly horizontal but my vertical line has gone a bit squif)
Just as a side note: you can determine when -- at what age -- this transformation will occur by counting the number of degrees in that house before the next sign begins. Remember that each "sign" has 30 degrees, but each house has a variable number of degrees. So, if the 8th degree of Aquarius was on the 5th house cusp, about age 22 you would begin to show the qualities of the next sign, Pisces.
You can also read an intercepted House in a natal chart as an "experience" or "growth" in that House. Suppose the "native" ("native" being the person whose natal chart you are looking at, including if it is yourself) is doing a painting. At first, you might approach your creation like the qualities of Aquarius (earth, yin, angular). But, as your project continued, you would change your approach to more Piscean qualities (water, yin, cadent). Another example of how "experience" and "growth" evolves with an intercepted sign might be that when you first had children (5th house), you would think in abstract terms about your children, a part of humanity and an expression of your philosophies of life, hoping to mold them into mini-YOU's (aquarius qualities). But, as your children got older, you become less cold and detached, more emotionally attached to them, more nurturing (Pisces).
Another thing that can happen is that the native isn't ever really settled in that House....things of one sign are always being "at war" with the next Sign within the psyche or with others in the environment, and this battle continues until the native can successfully integrate the qualities of the next sign.
Intercepted signs are used in karmic astrology -- just to give you an idea of another application -- would show that the native is evolving spiritually into the next sign...that growing into the next sign is that person's goal in this life, having incomplete growth from another lifetime, represented by the first sign in that house.
Something else to consider is just what you already thought...when a sign is intercepted very early into the House -- say in the first few degrees -- you would have "more" of the second sign qualities in that House than the sign that is about to leave.
Since intercepted signs are very common, I'll try to post a thread about them.
Well, it depends on the software. I've seen some software that keeps the Midheaven line the constant. And, I've seen software that shifts them all so that the entire chart is almost sideways. The thing to remember is just to be able to locate the Ascendant/Midheaven lines.RoseRed wrote: Oh and I wanted to ask, is the horizontal line always horizontal?
(if I look in the little circle in the middle of the whole graphic i can see my horizontal line is perfectly horizontal but my vertical line has gone a bit squif)