Oriental Houses
Definition of Oriental Houses:
Houses that lie in the eastern (oriental) hemisphere of a horoscope, houses one, two, three, ten, eleven and twelve. Sometimes used to describe those houses moving away (clockwise) from the horizon (Ascendant-Decendant axis) and toward the vertical axis (meridian axis, MC-IC axis), the second and fourth quadrant houses, namely houses four, five, six, ten, eleven and twelve.
Houses can be categorized by polarity (also called “duality,” or active/receptive energy, or yin/yang energy) into oriental houses and occidental houses.
What are the Oriental Quadrants?
The Oriental Quadrants in a birth chart consist of Houses 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, and 12. The technical definition is this: the section between the Ascendant and the Midheaven, and also the section between the Descendant and the I.C. (nadir).
If you divide the birth chart into 4, the Oriental Quadrants would be the top-left and the bottom-right quadrants of the birth chart.