Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the

astrology podcast. Today is October 22nd, 2019, starting at 443 p.m. in

Denver, Colorado, and this is the 227th episode of the show.

In this episode, I'm going to be talking about the origins of the House Division debate

and how exactly there came to be so many different forms of house division in the Western

astrological tradition today, basically by tracing this issue back to its earliest starting point in the Western tradition as far as we can go back in terms of textual sources.

So let's go ahead and jump right into it.

This is a lecture, this is most of the podcast episodes are usually more

like discussions but this is actually one of the rare episodes where I'm going to give more of

a lecture and a presentation and this is actually based on some presentations that I've already given at conferences over the course of the past few years.

So the title of the Talk is The Origins of the House Division debate.

As we all know as modern astrologers in late 20th and early 21st century astrology,

there's many different forms of House division today and one of the questions

that astrologers sometimes have but don't really know how to answer is how did

this come to be the case how did did we end up with, you know, dozens, at least one if not two

dozen different forms of House division, all of which are saying that are sort of like

vying for people's attention and are saying that they are the best system to use for dividing up a chart into the 12 sectors or into the 12 houses.

So one of the things that I would say is that we can actually understand not just this issue, but many issues by going back and studying the origins of Western astrology, by basically, going as far back in the Western tradition as you can,

based on studying the surviving texts of the Western tradition,

you can actually come to understand some of these issues and come to understand some of the debates

that are things that astrologers have been wrestling with for centuries.

And sometimes by going back to the roots of these debates, you can understand the issue much better and have a fresh perspective with which to sort of attempt to resolve the issue and to approach it from.

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