The ability to reason out, use critical thinking, and think through, these basic "blending" ideas in astrology is very important. When you can blend the basics together, without help and without someone else's spin on them, then you can successfully start to blend more complex topics in astrology. Being able to blend the basics yourself is the foundation upon which everything else is built.
The Basics
The Triplicities (The Four Elements)
Angular, Suceedant, Cadent
Cardinal, Fixed, Mutable
And the individual Houses, Planets, and Sun Signs
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We are now going to move from the 5th House, Sun, and Leo into the Moon, Cancer, and 4th House.
Please see the graphic.
Just like the previous lesson about the 5th house, Leo, and Sun...the 4th House, Moon, and Cancer all have similar meanings.
I am also posting a graphic for the 4th House. You can print this out for your notebook, or for your index cards. You will notice that this time, I haven't given you a lot of keywords or information about the 4th House.
**So, I am asking YOU to post information about the 4th House to begin this Lesson. What does the 4th House mean? Can you give some examples of activities and things that are represented by the 4th House? (Just the 4th House, please. We will talk about Cancer and the Moon in the next sections).
If you quote someone else's description about the 4th House, always give a link to the website or credit to them in your post.
It would be easy to just give you another list of things about the 4th House. But, I find that the more you participate, the more I learn, too! So we all benefit from the things you find, the questions you ask, and the information you post! It also helps me know "where you are" in your understanding so I can tailor the class to the needs of everyone. So, please participate!
There is yet another reason for you to look-up and post information about the 4th House! Those who study how people "learn" have found that simply reading something is a poor way to retain the knowledge and information! But, when you actively seek out information, and the very ACT of writing it with typing causes that information to be "stored" more strongly in memory because it uses many different parts of your brain to do the seeking and writing = strong storage in memory and easier retrieval of those things learned later.
This is a time to help everyone find more keywords and information for your notebooks and index cards. Like the previous lesson, we will soon start to do interpretations on the things we learn about this astrology 4th house!
I will post the next section after there has been participation with this one!
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