Oriental Houses

Houses that lie in the eastern (oriental) hemisphere of a horoscope, houses one, two, three, ten, eleven, and twelve.

The term may also sometimes be used to describe those houses moving away (clockwise) from the horizon (Ascendant-Decendant axis) and toward the vertical axis (meridian axis): the second and fourth quadrant houses, namely houses four, five, six, ten, eleven and twelve.

See also Occidental Houses.

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