If the Planets are the essential forces ruling life in the sublunary world, the houses are the principles that bring them down to earth and ground them in our everyday reality. Building on the foundations of volume one (assessing planetary condition), volume two begins by exploring the twelve houses in rich detail, before providing a synthesis of planet-based and house-based approaches to delineating a chart. Having articulated the principles of delineation, the book then explores the different systems for ascertaining the rulers of the entire nativity. Like the helmsman's rudder that steers the ship of life through the waters of existence, the rulers of the nativity provide the overarching principles that support and guide the native's life as a whole. Book jacket.