and Hi, my name is Chris Brennan and and you're listening to The Astrology Podcast.

This episode is recorded on Wednesday, May 9, 2018, starting at exactly 8 o'clock PM in Denver,

Colorado, and this is the 157th episode of the show.

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astrology podcast.com slash subscribe. In this episode I'm going to be doing a

solo show where I talk about which of the 12 houses the signification of sex should be assigned to and how

that assignment has changed in different eras over the course of the past 2,000 years of the

astrological tradition.

So part of the Genesis of this episode was actually last fall.

I was participating in just an astrology forum and I kind of noticed there was this thread where there was basically some modern astrology and he was talking about

He was interpreting a chart and he was associating the eighth house with sex, which is a standard association over the course of the past few decades or the course of the past century.

And I saw another astrologer came in who was more of a medieval or Renaissance astrologer and he started kind of

giving the modern astrologer a hard time saying that the actual the true assignment of sex

should be to the fifth house, which is more common in some

late medieval and especially some renaissance texts where there was more of a focus on the fifth

house for matters pertaining to sexuality.

But what I thought was interesting is that this medieval astrologer, this proponent of medieval astrology didn't seem to notice or seemed unaware that even the Fifth House

emphasis which became so prominent in the later part of the astrological of traditional astrology

by the time of the 17th century, even that was a shift away from the earlier part of the

tradition from the Hellenistic tradition where sex actually shows up as a signification of the

seventh house, and in point of fact the only explicit reference to

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