GeminiGrrl
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I've been reading about the fact that when interpreting the natal chart, it's important to look at house rulers and their placements as well as planets and signs -- however, I don't entirely understand what determines house rulership.
Let's say that you come across a natal chart where one or more houses are occupied by more than one sign -- say, someone whose IC is at the last degrees of Taurus, which means that most of the fourth house is in Gemini rather than in Taurus (and even perhaps a bit in Cancer if the fifth house starts in the first degrees of that sign). Would the house ruler of this person's fourth house be considered Venus (the planet ruling Taurus, the sign in which the IC is located) or Mercury (the planet ruling Gemini, the sign which occupies most of the fourth house) -- or would it perhaps be both?
Let's say that you come across a natal chart where one or more houses are occupied by more than one sign -- say, someone whose IC is at the last degrees of Taurus, which means that most of the fourth house is in Gemini rather than in Taurus (and even perhaps a bit in Cancer if the fifth house starts in the first degrees of that sign). Would the house ruler of this person's fourth house be considered Venus (the planet ruling Taurus, the sign in which the IC is located) or Mercury (the planet ruling Gemini, the sign which occupies most of the fourth house) -- or would it perhaps be both?
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