Succedent House - Footnotes

Footnotes

1. ^ "Latin succedere to go up, follow after, succeed, from sub- near + cedere to go" from succeed. (2009). In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved March 19, 2009, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/succeedfrom
2. ^ William Lilly, Christian Astrology (London, 1647), p. 48.
3. ^ as summed up by William Lilly (1647): "The angles are most powerful, the succedants are next in virtue, the cadents poor, and of little efficacy: the succedant houses follow the angles, the cadents come next the succedants," (Ibid., Book I, p. 48) and (speaking horary chart judgments) "The nearer your Significator is to an Angle, the more good you may expect; less, if placed in a Succeedant house; little, if in a Cadent." (Ibid., Book II, p. 301.)
4. ^ Guido Bonatti, Liber Astronomiae, Part II. . Project Hindsight, The Golden Hind Press (Berkeley Springs, WV, 1994.) pp. 2–3. Bonatti compares the fixed signs to the middle months of each of the four seasons, in which the season is established and fixed in character. In the same way, the succedent houses, in the center of each quadrant, have a fixed character.
5. ^ "It signifies fear and anguish of mind" says Lilly (Op Cit., Book I, p. 54.)
6. ^ Lilly (Ibid., p. 48) lists the second house as the fourth weakest house in the chart.
7. ^ " the estate or judgement concerning the estate or fortune, of wealth or poverty, of all removable goods, money lent, of profit or gain, loss or damage." (Lilly, Ibid., p. 31.)
8. ^ See the 2nd century CE Vettius Valens, The Anthology, Book II, Part I Project Hindsight, The Golden Hind Press (Berkeley springs, WV, 1994), p. 17; and also the 4th century CE Paulus Alexandrinus, Introductory Matters in Late Classical Astrology: Paulus Alexandrinus and Olympiodorus (with the Scholia of later Latin Commentators). Archive for the Retrieval of Historical Astrological Texts (ARHAT), 2001. Page 45.
9. ^ Paulus Alexandrinus, Op. cit., p. 46.
10. ^ Joseph Crane. A Practical Guide to Traditional Astrology. (ARHAT, Orleans Massachusetts, 1997), p. 28.
11. ^ Lilly says of it: "The estate of men deceased, death, its quality and nature." (Lilly, Op. Cit., p. 54.)
12. ^ Crane, Op. Cit., p. 30. (quoted from Paulus Alexandrinus, Introductory Matters, Ch. 24.)
13. ^ Vettius Valens, Op. Cit., Book II, Part 1, pp. 10–11.