"Recently a reader asked me what it means when a planet in our chart seems to be in two different houses based in what house division system we use. In other words, if our Sun is in the 8th using one system and the 9th using another, what does it mean?

Actually this is a very common occurrence, due to intercepted signs and a wide divergence in the size of houses based in where we were born. Still, there are ways to sort through what creates the phenomenon so that we can understand possible meanings when we see this happening in a birth chart.

"In the upcoming analysis of house division in Hellenistic astrology, we will be making a new distinction for which there is as yet no accurate terminology. Sometimes we will be talking about a twelvefold division done for the purpose of ascertaining planetary strength; we will usually call such a division a "dynamical" division. At other times we will be interested in a twelvefold division done for the sake of establishing regions that are associated with areas of life houses in the modern sense; we will call such a division a "topical" division.