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 | ♂ |
| Taurus and Libra are the house of Venus | ♀ |
| Gemini and Virgo are under the dominion of Mercury | ☿ |
| Cancer is the house of the Moon | ☽ |
| Leo is the house of the Sun | ☉ |
| Sagittarius and Pisces are the houses of Jupiter | ♃ |
| Capricorn is the house of Saturn | ♄ |
| And Aquarius is governed by the Herschel Planet | ♅ |