posted December 30, 2007 08:21 AM              

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Since there seems to be some confusion around here about which house system is best I thought it would be helpful to talk about our preferences concerning house systems.

(1) Which house system do you use?

(2) Why do you prefer this particular house system over all the others?

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So, I guess I'll go first...

(1) Placidus

(2) I prefer Placidus simply because the house placements of my personal planets (namely the Sun and the Moon) sound most accurate in Placidus. Also house cusps of empty houses make most sense using Placidus and transits are most accurate as well. I also tried Koch, Equal, Porphyry, Campanus and Regiomontanus. Koch, Equal and Porphyry put my personal planets in houses where they don't belong. Campanus in my case creates houses that are looking pretty wacky (for instance the cusp of my 7th house is at 22 degrees Virgo and the cusp of my 8th house is at 27 degrees Scorpio). Regiomontanus looks quite promising ... however, I have yet to research this system more thoroughly.

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posted December 30, 2007 09:05 AM            

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I learnt using Equal House. It's neat, simple, and apparently has been around for 3000 years (see link below).

But at the moment I tend to use Placidus more. It puts the MC on the cusp of the 10th, and unequal houses seem to have more bearing on the uneven daylight we get here some distance from the equator.

But I am no expert, not at all and am open to persausive argument.

Because you like your chart best under one system over another seems a poor reason to me to prefer it, but apparently, that is the main motivation behind any of our choices{see what she says about Koch}:
http://www.astrocom.com/articles/infospecials/IHSX.pdf

But fair play, I like a bit of Koch myself.

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posted December 31, 2007 09:38 AM              

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In professional practice for 25 years, I use Placidus primarily, occaisionally Koch--the latter based on intuition. I do not consider Equal House to be a valid system. Nobody divides their activities equally.

Actually, I think that choosing a system is an individual choice--that some systems work best for some types of mind and other systems work best for other types. I have long recommended to students that, once they have a grasp of the basics, they run charts in two or more systems for a while and compare them to see which "feels best", which gives a better reading for them.

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posted December 31, 2007 11:39 AM            

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I thought about using the whole sign house system. I think that's the oldest. The Vedic Astrologers mainly use that system.

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posted May 23, 2016 01:10 AM            

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I use Equal simply because it works for me and also because it looks clean and simple.

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posted May 23, 2016 12:22 PM            

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Linda Goodman used Equal.

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posted May 23, 2016 01:31 PM            

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I don't like equal personally. It puts my Mercury and Neptune in the fourth, which doesn't fit. Placidus and Koch are more accurate for me; I'm just trying to juggle between which is better.

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posted May 24, 2016 06:45 PM            

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I use Koch, although I think Placidus works fine.

Equal house never made any sense to me -- it just doesn't make sense that everything would fit into neat little boxes like that. Astrology is a bit messier and more subjective. No two people are going to read a chart the same way, and I notice house themes are often very much divided between the quality of two signs, especially since most of my chart houses fall into 2 signs. *shrug*

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posted May 24, 2016 09:15 PM            

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The equal house system is a fraud, not a system. It is designed for the superficial convenience of flat wheel chart watchers.

Placidus is the most accurate house system we have, but even it breaks down beyond about 66° north or south latitude.

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posted May 25, 2016 11:06 AM            

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Doesn't matter if I use Placidus, Equal or Koch, all my planets still end up staying in the same houses, and all the house cusps are still ruled by the same signs either way so I don't care. However, I think that Placidus should probably be more accurate whereas equal is too simplistic. I'm not sure what formula is involved in dividing the houses like Placidus does, but there must be a reason for why the houses aren't always divided so evenly, and it's probably an essential element, which equal completely disregards, which is probably wrong. Besides, astro.com seems to use Placidus by default, because when you go to "personal portraits" and scroll down to "House positions", it uses Placidus.

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