A cadent house is one of houses 3, 6, 9, or 12. Each comes after a succedent house and before the next angular house in the chart sequence.
Astrological traditions often associate cadent houses with adapting, distributing, learning, or bringing one phase toward transition. “Cadent” does not mean useless or doomed; it is a structural classification with symbolic interpretations.
The term identifies position in the repeating house pattern. The numbered house still supplies the more specific reflective territory.