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kennethreitz ce93f429a2 Add Knowledge: the vault's reference shelf, crosslinked across the site
Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes,
67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer.

- scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault:
  slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site
  links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables
  rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion
  list plus a privacy guard.
- tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and
  aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note
  (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages
  list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other
  pages get a Related Knowledge block.
- Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never
  displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid
  diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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You cannot see your own face; this is why the world gives you others. obsidian-knowledge

Seventh House

You cannot see your own face; this is why the world gives you others.


Domain

The Seventh House is the house of the other — the first house of the chart to look outward and find someone standing there. It governs partnership in its committed forms: marriage, the business alliance, the contract that binds two into a shared enterprise. Wherever a life joins deliberately with another, the Seventh presides. Yet its meaning is subtler than romance, for it also rules open enemies, the declared adversaries who oppose us face to face, and these too are a kind of partner — the person across the table, whether beloved or rival, who defines you by contrast.

At its deepest, this is the house of projection and reflection. The qualities we cannot see in ourselves we tend to find in others, drawn magnetically toward what we lack and repelled by what we deny, and the Seventh is the mirror in which all of this plays out. It asks what you seek in a partner and what that seeking reveals about you. To meet the other honestly here is to meet a disowned part of the self, returned in human form. Ruled by Venus, it seeks balance, harmony, and the difficult art of remaining oneself while truly joined to another.

Correspondences

Attribute Value
Number 7
Natural Sign Libra
Natural Ruler Venus
Type Angular (Descendant)
Keywords partnership, marriage, open enemies, the other

On the Wheel

The Seventh House is angular, one of the four cardinal points, and its cusp is the Descendant — the western horizon, the exact place where the sky was setting at your birth. It sits directly opposite the Ascendant, and this opposition is the whole meaning of the house: where the First is the self arriving, the Seventh is the other met across the horizon of the self. Angular houses initiate, and the Seventh initiates relationship, the deliberate turning toward another that begins every partnership. It is the pivot where a chart stops being about "I" and becomes about "we."