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Placidus houses

Also called Placidus

A time-based quadrant house method; some cusps cannot be calculated at high latitudes.

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Word origin · etymology

Eponym.

Named after Placidus de Titis, the seventeenth-century astrologer associated with this house method. The label is an eponym.

Astrodienst: Swiss Ephemeris programming manual ↗

How we know · epistemology

Spherical division method

The method derives cusps through time-based divisions of diurnal motion. Some high-latitude configurations lack solutions; substituting another method without disclosure changes the chart’s stated construction.

Deborah Houlding: house division principles ↗

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  1. Deborah Houlding: house division principles ↗
  2. Astrodienst: Swiss Ephemeris programming manual ↗