Principle / Ruledraft· Frawley — Astrology of the Seers
The house–sign analogy (1st~Aries … 12th~Pisces) and its Vedic departures
rul-house-sign-analogyPrāṇa relevance
Carries the body homology: 1st~Aries~head … 6th~Virgo~digestion … 12th~Pisces~feet, the kalapurusha head-to-feet map that the Medical theme uses for body-part affliction. The analogy is the bridge that lets a house inherit its sign's bodily correspondence. Gross-body level.
Sources
- txt-frawley-astrology-seersThe Houses and their Analogy to the Signs (book p.135–137)Modern✓ verifiedhouse~sign analogy 1st~Aries … 12th~Pisces; neither system rigid; Vedic departs more, esp. 3rd & 11th; houses divide an earthly, signs a cosmic/solar space
- txt-frawley-astrology-seersHouse Significators (book p.155)Modern✓ verifiedhouse significators differ from the lords of the analogous signs
Other attributes
- Rule Class
- doctrine
- Statement
- Each house generally carries a meaning analogous to the sign of the same number (1st~Aries head/ego/self, 2nd~Taurus resources, 3rd~Gemini curiosity, 4th~Cancer mother/home, 5th~Leo soul/creative intelligence, 6th~Virgo health/work, 7th~Libra relationship, 8th~Scorpio sex/death/occult, 9th~Sagittarius religion/philosophy, 10th~Capricorn status/achievement, 11th~Aquarius aspirations/friendship, 12th~Pisces subconscious/hidden emotion). Neither system follows the analogy rigidly; the Vedic system DEPARTS more than the Western, most notably at the 3rd house (Vedic: prowess/siblings/motivation, not the Western rational/informational mind) and the 11th house (Vedic: individualistic/egoistic gains, not Western group/friendship). The houses cannot simply follow the signs because they divide a different (earthly) space, whereas signs divide a cosmic/solar one.
- Tag
- MODERN
- School Positions
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- Conditions
- the analogy is a heuristic for house meaning, not an identity; the natural significator (karaka) of a house is NOT the lord of the analogous sign (e.g. Mars significates the 3rd, but Mercury rules Gemini — book p.155)