All signs are the same size, 30 degrees each. Houses, though, can have different sizes. The further away you get from the Equator, the greater the
differences in house size become. This makes it possible for some signs in a horoscope to be intercepted. In other words, they are totally enclosed in a
house, and, as a result, they do not appear at the beginning of any house. Now what are the effects of intercepted signs?
The horoscope is symmetrical. If a sign is intercepted, the opposite sign must be intercepted as well. There are twelve signs and twelve houses. There has to
be one sign at the beginning of every house. If two signs are intercepted, two other signs must do “double duty” and each has to appear on two house cusps.
Wickenburg has two different names for these. In “Intercepted Signs”, she called them “duplicated signs.” In “Your Hidden Powers”, she named them
“intercepted houses” (because the houses are enclosed entirely in those signs). These are important too and will be dealt with in the next chapter.
In the horoscope of a person, an intercepted sign shows a blockage. The qualities of that sign have difficulty coming out. It is like a room in your house
that can only be reached by first going through another room. An interception means that your early environment did not give you the ability to deal with the
things ruled by the intercepted signs. The qualities of those signs can get bottled up, repressed. Eventually, the pressure builds to the breaking point and
they burst out…usually in ways that are not appropriate.
It is better to interpret intercepted signs in pairs. Opposite signs normally work as a team. For instance, the aggression of Aries is balanced by the charm
and social skills of Libra. With intercepted signs, the link is broken. The opposite signs cannot balance each other. Take the Virgo-Pisces combination. A
person with an intercepted Pisces may not be able to discriminate or be practical in the area ruled by that house. In the opposite house where Virgo is
intercepted, they could be excessively focused on details and find it difficult to get the big picture. The effects will manifest mostly in the areas of life
that are governed by the houses containing the interceptions.
How do you deal with intercepted signs? Your early environment didn’t give you the support necessary to develop the abilities governed by those signs and
you have to make up for this with your own conscious efforts.
But how do we know specifically what to do? One way is by using our “duplicated signs.”
Duplicated signs, as mentioned earlier, are signs that appear on the cusps of two houses. If you have intercepted signs, you must have duplicated signs as
well. These signs and their intercepted houses can show a way out of the difficulties caused by the intercepted signs.
复式星座，就是拥有两个宫头的星座，如果我们有复式星座，我们得好好利用它，因为它和截夺宫能够提供解决由截夺星座带来的麻烦的方法。
You can also look to the ruling planets of your intercepted signs. The house and sign positions of these planets, as well as the aspects they form, can show
another way to solve the problems caused by your intercepted signs. Sometimes though, one of these planets is also placed in an intercepted sign. That’s
like having your keys locked inside your car. It usually means that this planet cannot be used to overcome the interception.