Occidental Houses
Definition of Occidental Houses:
Correctly, houses that lie in the western (occidental) portion of a horoscope, houses four through nine. Sometimes used to describe first and third quadrant houses (one, two, three, seven, eight and nine), those houses that are moving away from the vertical axis toward the horizon (in a clockwise direction in a horoscope).
Houses can be categorized by polarity (also called “duality,” or active/receptive energy, or yin/yang energy) into occidental houses and oriental houses.