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Houses and Signs
The twelve houses used in astrology are not the same as the twelve signs. They differ in many ways. To begin with, the houses are similar to a clock face on a compass. The houses are the spaces between the lines, and not the lines themselves, as you would find in a clock. Additionally, the numbers of the houses start with 1, which is just under the horizontal line on the left side, and proceed counterclockwise to the space just above the same horizontal line on the left, ending with 12. I mention this since those two facts; that the numbers of the houses move counterclockwise, and; that the house is the space, and not the line make this quite different from a clock face which it otherwise resembles.