Succedent house

Definition

A succedent house is one of the four houses that follow immediately after the angular houses within the zodiac wheel: houses 2, 5, 8, and 11. They receive this name because they succeed, in the literal sense, the angular houses 1, 4, 7, and 10. Traditional astrology associates them with consolidation: what the angular house set in motion, the succedent settles and gives material or emotional body to.

In context

If house 1 marks how a person presents themselves to the world, house 2 (succedent) describes the material and symbolic resources sustaining that presentation. If house 7 speaks about the encounter with the other, house 8 elaborates the emotional and economic depth of that bond. Succedent houses are less visible than angular ones, yet they carry the weight of settling: here a person manages what the angular houses put into play, without yet closing the cycle of the whole axis.

To go deeper

The succedent house sits between angular and cadent houses:

• Angular house: sets the axis in motion.
• Cadent house: closes the cycle.
• The succedents are houses 2, 5, 8, 11.