_Of the Twelve Houses._--The 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th houses--_angular_.--These are of more durable signification than the others, denoting the wife or husband--a situation under Government, &c. &c. The twelve houses have signification of all the various concerns of human life, and of nature at large. _For Example._--When the cusp of the first house is well aspected by, or has the presence of Jupiter or Venus, and these are not afflicted by the aspects of evil planets, they preserve life in infancy, and give health, and often an agreeable person. But if their rays or presence (says Varley) should be thrown on the cusp of the second house, then the native will have success in concerns of property. The Sun in this house helps to disperse property; and if he be peregrine, that is, in the sign of a contrary nature to his own, where he has no dignities, and is without reception, then the native's property is dispersed in vainglorious expenses; but if the Sun be in Leo, his property in general will be ample enough to admit of instant acts of bounty and benevolence. In a similar strain, Astronomers particularize the remaining eleven houses. It would be impossible, in any reasonable space, to describe further the operations of the planets in the several houses thus assigned to them. _As to when the Planets are most powerful._--Barrett says:--The planets are powerful when they are ruling in a house, or in exaltation, or triplicity, or term, or face, without combustion of what is direct in the figure of the heavens; but we must take care that they are not in the bounds or under the dominion of Saturn or Mars. The angles of the ascendant, and 10th and 7th are fortunate; as also the lord of the ascendant, and place of the Sun and Moon. The Moon is powerful if she be in her house, in exaltation, in triplicity, in face, or in degree convenient for the desired work, &c. &c. FIGURE 2. VARLEY'S TABLE OF SIGNS, HOUSES, EXALTATION, AND TRIPLICITY. The falls of the Planets are opposite to their Exaltations, and their Detriments opposite to their Houses. Aries and Scorpio are the house of Mars [Mars] Taurus and Libra are the house of Venus [Venus] Gemini and Virgo are under the dominion of Mercury [Mercury] Cancer is the house of the Moon [Moon] Leo is the house of the Sun [Sun] Sagittarius and Pisces are the houses of Jupiter [Jupiter] Capricorn is the house of Saturn [Saturn] And Aquarius is governed by the Herschel Planet [Uranus] PLATE II. This table gives the usual symbols employed for indicating the several planets, and which are still retained in Astronomy for simplicity of expression, but which Astrologers venerate as possessing a cabalistic character. Associated with these symbols are the names of certain principal angels, spirits, or demons, forming, however, but a small proportion of such airy nothings.