---
title: "Western significations (Lilly)"
method: GET
path: "/v1/western/significations"
tags: ["Western Astrology"]
---

# Western significations (Lilly)

`GET /v1/western/significations`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.asterwise.com`
- URL: `https://api.asterwise.com/v1/western/significations`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

What each house and planet signifies in William Lilly's Christian Astrology (1647), as a fixed list with stable ids: the twelve houses (pp. 50-56) and the seven planets (pp. 57-83: kinds of people, professions, manners when well and ill dignified). Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are left out because Lilly has none. Two levels: a domain (relationships, work, wealth …) and the signification itself. Ids are stable: never renamed, removed or reused; a retired entry stays with deprecated=true and replaced_by. The list says what the texts say; it does not decide what counts as love, work or energy for an app, so each app keeps its own mapping. Cacheable for a day.

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- ApiResponseSignificationsResponse
  - `success` boolean: True if the request succeeded
  - `message` string: Human-readable status message
  - `data` SignificationsResponse, required
    - `tradition` 'vedic' | 'western', required
    - `version` integer, required: List version; goes up when entries are added or retired.
    - `source` string, required
    - `id_policy` string, required
    - `notes` string[], required
    - `domains` SignificationDomain[], required: The first level: broad areas of life shared by both lists.
      - `id` string, required: Domain id, e.g. relationships.
      - `label` string, required
    - `houses` HouseSignifications[], required
      - `house` integer, required
      - `id` string, required
      - `name` string, required
      - `label` string, required
      - `source` string, required
      - `significations` Signification[], required
        - `id` string, required: Stable id, e.g. bphs.house.7.spouse. Never renamed or reused.
        - `label` string, required: Plain-English label, close to the source wording.
        - `domain` string, required: Domain id from the domains list.
        - `source` string, required: Verse or page the entry comes from.
        - `deprecated` boolean: True when retired; the id stays so old mappings do not break.
        - `replaced_by` string, nullable: Id of the entry that replaces a deprecated one.
    - `planets` PlanetSignifications[], required
      - `planet` string, required
      - `id` string, required
      - `significations` Signification[], required
        - `id` string, required: Stable id, e.g. bphs.house.7.spouse. Never renamed or reused.
        - `label` string, required: Plain-English label, close to the source wording.
        - `domain` string, required: Domain id from the domains list.
        - `source` string, required: Verse or page the entry comes from.
        - `deprecated` boolean: True when retired; the id stays so old mappings do not break.
        - `replaced_by` string, nullable: Id of the entry that replaces a deprecated one.

## Other responses

- `401`: Authentication failed
- `403`: Authorization failed
- `404`: Resource not found
- `413`: Payload too large
- `422`: Validation error
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded
- `500`: Internal error
- `502`: Upstream provider error
- `503`: Service unavailable

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/asterwise/apis/asterwise-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/asterwise/apis/asterwise-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/asterwise/apis/asterwise-api/revisions/3c4bbb1194e2?raw)