_The Second House._--This house has signification of the native's wealth and worldly goods. The house is feminine, ruling the neck, and the colour is green. _The Third House._--This governs brothers and sisters, short journeys, neighbours, letters and writings. It is masculine and governs the hands, arms and shoulders; its colours are red and yellow mixed. _The Fourth House._--This rules the father, inheritances or property of the native, and shows his condition at the close of life. It is feminine, and rules the stomach, breast and lungs; its colour is red. _The Fifth House._--This signifies the children of the native, also his success in speculation and hazardous games, the pleasures he enjoys and the wealth of the father. It rules the heart, back and liver, is masculine, and represents in colour black and white mixed. _The Sixth House._--This concerns the native's servants, sheep, goats and small cattle. It also signifies the father's kindred. This house is feminine. It rules the belly and intestines and its colour is black. _The Seventh House_ gives judgment of marriage and describes the man or woman in all love questions. It is masculine, it rules the haunches, and its colour is black. _The Eighth House_ argues of death, of legacies and wills, also of the kind of death a man shall die; it is a feminine house. It rules the lower parts of the trunk of the body; its colours are green and black. _The Ninth House_ gives judgment on voyages and long journeys, and also on events happening to the wife's kindred. It rules the hips and thighs. It is a masculine house; its colours are green and white. _The Tenth House_ is called the _Mid-heaven_, and is feminine. This concerns the native's mother, and also his calling. It rules the knees and hams, and its colours are red and white. _The Eleventh House_ represents friends and friendship. It is masculine and rules the legs. _The Twelfth House._--This house is often called the _Evil Dæmon_, for it is the house of sorrow, self-undoing, enemies and imprisonment. It governs great cattle. It is feminine, and rules the feet and toes, and in colour it governs green. The strongest houses are the first (the _Ascendant_) and the tenth (the _Mid-heaven_). The first, fourth, seventh, and tenth are called Angular Houses, and represent the four cardinal points of the compass; thus the first is east, the seventh west, the fourth is north, and the tenth south. The second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh houses are called Succedent Houses; the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses are termed Cadent Houses (see plate 1). Any planet posited in a Cadent House is regarded as weak in its effects on the native. It is necessary to have thoroughly mastered the influences of the twelve houses, as well as those of the seven planets, and of the signs of the zodiac, before attempting to cast a nativity or to work a horary question. CHAPTER VII. AN EXPLANATION OF VARIOUS TERMS USED IN ASTROLOGY