posted July 04, 2009 10:29 AM         

Do any of you use the equal house system? What drove you to make the jump? Did your chart under this system make more sense to you than the one you originally learned?

If you want to see what your chart looks like using equal houses, you can do so on astro.com.

- On the main page after you sign in, click the "Extended Chart Selection" link

- Under "options," choose "equal" on the drop down menu after "House Systems"

- Add whatever asteroids you want (if any)

- Viola!

Using the equal house system:

My Aries Sun moves away from the 12th house cusp and solidly resides in the 11th.

My Capricorn Moon moves out of the 9th house and into my 8th.

My Pisces Venus moved out of the 10th house and into the 9th.

posted July 04, 2009 02:27 PM         

Pluto went from the 9th house to the 8th
Saturn went from the 8th house to the 7th
Uranus went from the 10th house to the 9th

But since these are in the same quadrant (except for the 10th of course), they pretty much feel the same to me, like they can be interchangeable. I mean, Pluto will still cause intense, profound relations with others if it is in the 8th or the 9th and Saturn will still cause me to have responsibility issues with others – partnerships and money eventually combine. Even Uranus, that is in the 9th Placidus and 10th Equal, is still conjunct the MC so that feels exactly the same. Then I read a few articles on the subject:
http://www.skyviewzone.com/birthinfoforms2/housesexplained.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_house_system#Equal_House
http://www.astrolozy.com/article19.asp

There are so many on the subject actually, mostly debates.

Equal house or even whole signs just makes more sense to me because it is logical (and balanced, I have lots of Libra influence).

posted July 04, 2009 09:48 PM         

I'm still not exactly sure how I feel about all the changes to my chart when it switches to equal houses, though. Like Lucia said, how can they both be accurate? Does it show that we put too much emphasis on sign placement and too little on house (or vice versa)? I have a LOT of early/late degree action happening (Mercury at 1 degree, Mars & Uranus at 4, Pluto at 25 and Sun, Moon, and Neptune all at 26), so literally half of my planets shift houses when I switch systems (it's less dramatic in whole signs, though).

In some regards, it DOES make more sense. I never related much with what I'd been told about 10th house Venus, so much so that it's actually been one of my only points of doubt where astrology is concerned. I've never dated for wealth or status, am a total lazy bones, and am actually INCREDIBLY turned off my materialism/social climbers. What I've read about 9th house Venus translates pretty much into that, so- that not only fits, but resolves a serious issue for me.

posted July 05, 2009 12:25 AM         

With the others I use Plac or Koch because those 2 styles I have learned astrology using them

posted July 05, 2009 12:55 AM         

Jeeez. It changes my ex's Sun in his natal chart from the friendly, gregarious 11th house to the 12th house and then gives us an exact conjunction of his Sun-Pluto to my MC-Pluto.