Word origin · etymology
English terms with Latin antecedents.
Angular comes through Latin angularis from angulus, ‘corner’ or ‘angle’. Succedent comes from Latin succedens, the participle of succedere, ‘to follow’ or ‘come next’. Cadent comes from Latin cadens, the participle of cadere, ‘to fall’. These histories explain the positional language, not the origin, validity, or universal interpretation of the astrological house categories.
Merriam-Webster: angular ↗Merriam-Webster: succedent ↗American Heritage Dictionary: cadent ↗
How we know · epistemology
Chart-relative house classification plus traditional interpretation
Given a stated house system, place, and time, a planet's house membership and its angular, succedent, or cadent category can be reproduced. This is not the same thing as mundane angularity in observational astronomy, which concerns an object's relation to a local horizon or meridian. Lilly-style claims about strength are traditional judgments from this chart circumstance; category membership alone does not establish a result or a universal ranking across schools.
William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.48 · house categories ↗
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