οἰκοδεσποτεία
oikodespoteia

Greek noun

Last edited: 2023-10-31
Primary meaning house-mastership
Literal translation house-mastership
Variants
οἰκοδεσποτεία oikodespoteia
Edited by
house-mastership astrological concept

ἀναγκαῖον οὖν ἐστιν ἐπὶ πάσῃ καταρχῇ ζητεῖν καὶ τὰς μεσεμβολίας Ἡλίου καὶ τῶν ἀστέρων, καὶ τὰς ἐμπεριοχὰς τοῦ ὡροσκόπου καὶ τῆς Σελήνης καὶ τοῦ ἀστέρος τοῦ λόγον ἔχοντος πρὸς τὴν οἰκοδεσποτείαν τῆς καταρχῆς

‘It is necessary in every inception to seek both the interpositions of the Sun and the planets and the enclosures of the Ascendant and the Moon and the planet that has the claim to the house-mastership of the inception.’

— CCAG I p. 107

Genre: horoscope

(GH L 487)

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2023). οἰκοδεσποτεία (Lemma #1415). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1415/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2023). οἰκοδεσποτεία (Lemma #1415). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1415/
MLA (9th)
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2023). οἰκοδεσποτεία (Lemma #1415). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1415/
Harvard
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2023) οἰκοδεσποτεία (Lemma #1415), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1415/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1415,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael},
	year = {2023},
	title = {οἰκοδεσποτεία ({Lemma} #1415)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1415/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1415/},
}