An interception is when a sign is completely engulfed in a house in your natal chart, meaning that the sign doesn’t rule a house in your natal chart. Due to this, the sign preceding the intercepted sign rules the intercepted house instead.
The preceding sign ruling the intercepted house is often how people have tried to recover their intercepted house. However, it’s by this attempt of recovery where the void by intercepted houses is seen.
INTERCEPTED HOUSES
The intercepted houses shows which areas of life you may actively try to recover.
1st House/7th House: relationship with yourself and others
2nd House/8th House: securing yourself and others
3rd House/9th House: thinking and believing
4th House/10th House: past and upbringing, and ambitions and future
5th House/11th House: creative self-expression and friendships
6th House/12th House: conscious and subconscious
INTERCEPTED SIGNS
Aries/Libra Interception: If you have an interception in Aries and Libra, then your intercepted houses will be ruled by Pisces and Virgo instead. With Pisces ruling instead of Aries, you may feel that you can’t assert yourself in the area of life where Aries is intercepted in your chart. You also feel that the matters of your area of life can be confusing and not straightforward at all. You can struggle to find yourself. Due to this struggle, with Virgo ruling your intercepted House instead of Libra, you have the urge to serve others. There’s the thought that if you serve, rather than just be yourself, you will be likable. You don’t believe that just simply being yourself will get you what you want because you’ve struggled to learn how to be yourself in the first place.
Taurus/Scorpio interception: If you have an interception in Taurus and Scorpio, then your intercepted houses will be ruled by Aries and Libra instead. With Aries ruling the intercepted house instead of Aries, you struggle to feel a sense of comfort and stability in your intercepted house. Due to this, you constantly fight and believe that you have to work to get what you want. You don’t feel at peace. With Libra ruling the intercepted House instead of Scorpio, you feel stifled in your self-expression. You believe that if you are sociable and peaceful, you will get what you want. You struggle to be your true self shown in intimacy because there is a feeling of powerless. Rather than relying on your own power, you rely on others.
Gemini/Sagittarius interception: If you have an interception in Gemini and Sagittarius, then your intercepted houses will be ruled by Taurus and Scorpio instead. With Taurus ruling your intercepted House instead of Gemini, there is this strong, clinging need for stability in the intercepted House. You can struggle to be flexible, and you can be stubborn in regards to your intercepted House. Due to this, you can struggle to learn new things for you fear change. With Scorpio ruling your intercepted House instead of Sagittarius, there is a need for power in the intercepted House. Rather than being free and adventurous, you would much rather stay consistent, empowering yourself with staying power rather than empowering yourself with new knowledge from exploring.
Cancer/Capricorn interception: If you have an interception in Cancer and Capricorn, then your intercepted houses will be ruled by Gemini and Sagittarius instead. With Gemini ruling the intercepted House instead of Cancer, there is a lack of emotional nurturing and understanding. You fill this void with mental understanding and rationality instead. There is a feeling of inconsistency for there is a lack of comfort. With Sagittarius ruling the intercepted house instead of Capricorn, there is a sense of purposeless and rootless wandering. There is a feeling of being powerless due to not practically establishing yourself. You constantly search for new knowledge, but you struggle with applying that knowledge.
Leo/Aquarius interception: If you have an interception in Leo and Aquarius, then your intercepted houses will be ruled by Cancer and Capricorn instead. With Cancer ruling the intercepted house instead of Leo, there is the feeling that you can’t provide anything worthy from yourself. Due to this, you would rather emotionally nurture others and help others rather than express yourself and stand out. With Capricorn ruling the intercepted house instead of Aquarius, due to feeling that you are unworthy of providing anything worthy about yourself, you would much rather follow the rules rather than break them. You struggle with accepting the quirky, unique parts of yourself because you struggle to accept the likable, creative parts of yourself.
Virgo/Pisces interception: If you have an interception in Virgo and Pisces, then your intercepted houses will be ruled by Leo and Aquarius instead. With Leo ruling over the intercepted house instead of Virgo, you may feel that you are not useful and resourceful to others. So instead of serving others, you find it easier to serve yourself and to be yourself to compensate. With your intercepted house ruled by Aquarius instead of Pisces, you struggle with utilizing your creativity to show compassion for others because you may find your creativity to be irrational. To compensate, you will often only show your compassion rationally and due to this, you limit yourself by not accepting the irrational. Due to limiting yourself, you can often feel like an outsider.