The whole sign house system’s deviation from the quadrant house system simplifies the possible chart layouts, offering a kind of pattern, one in which twelve archetypal life paths emerge.

“The dichotomy of real and unreal is false. Reading canonical texts and tracing the veins of thought through history, like mapping an ancient river bed, shows you that each age’s fundamentals of reality are the next age’s naive mythology, each twisting and malleable, ribboning over the landscapes of time.”