posted June 07, 2010 03:57 PM         

As far as your question - I'd say both... btw do you use equal or whole house system ALF? Does it affect the house your sun is in?

posted June 07, 2010 09:46 PM         

Adam is known for his speech impediment & I think Amowls has taken exception to it & rightly so.

Is it right for him to call ohmybaby an idiot because he didn't find her response helpful?

**EDIT**

Of course this could just be a dose of idiotic karma bouncing back

posted June 07, 2010 11:43 PM         

If she's the only one who understands then I'm content.

Ami - I'm not attacking your Bf so relax. I'm just calling a spade a spade. Adam's a big boy & not phased by anything I have to say, lol. As for his response to ohmybaby, in all honesty the response he got was valid but I don't think that was ALF's intention to feel the need to tell the troll off. I just think it was his normal response to an unsatisfactory answer.

posted June 08, 2010 08:14 PM         

Not always about doing the right thing as such or being serious, they are very much here to communicate. About whatever, hopefully astrology. You said what I wanted to

I can just about cope with these

Part understanding your question, will give it a quick run through, what I have used, if ok.

I favour equal house and also whole sign house system. Whole sign is the one I use - not too much difference. Why? We have 12 equal houses, 12 equal signs, so why not make it 12 unequal houses? Cos that would seem silly at first glance.
The tropical zodiac (this one) has the equal signs (in the sky , as such) laid across a belt going round earth. All equal in length. The sidereal zodiac (Vedic - one used in India and other 'groups') has the signs as the actual constellations in the sky. All unequal and divided by a star position, less measurable.

The tropical zodiac is based on the calender. The 4 cardinal points are Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn. If you want to know when Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter start, look at the Sun when it enters zero degrees of these signs and you will get a marker of when that season starts.

We have a fixed and very cyclic timing method of predicting the seasons here on earth. Happens every year.
I'm getting a little lost on myself here in wrapping this up, but think because of this equal set up given in the tropical zodiac, the timing here on earth fits and also represents/maintains consistency with how astrology is set up. Was that ok, if a little long?

Whole sign leaves the AC/DC and MC/IC axis seperate from house 1/7 and 4/10 to give more interpretation, and more significance to the axis, or 4 cardinal points of the zodiac. Whole sign also bring the focus more onto the signs as houses, as such. As in, the house cusps are exactly the same as the sign cusps.

posted June 08, 2010 08:32 PM         

Look at the natal chart in 2 parts:
1) The planets in the signs on the inside
2) The houses on the outside.

Many astrologers (and reputable ones at that) view the Sun as the centre of everything astrology - Linda Goodman anyone? (sorry)
Then they look at Moon as emotions and then Mercury as intelligence.

Learned to ignore that very quickly.

When I do astrology, I always start on the outside, with the house and work my way inside.

Take the planets which rule the sign and also the signs too, do you see something similar?
example....Mars is about warrior type, independence, aggresion. Aries is....the exact same. Why? Mars is the ruler of Aries and therefore the same. Just as Venus is the same as Taurus and Libra, Gemini same as Virgo and Gemini, Moon as Cancer, Sun as Leo, Pluto as Scorpio, Jupiter as Sagittarius, Saturn as Capricorn, Uranus as Aquarius, and Neptune as Pisces.

Once you get the hang of the planets representing their sign, hold that for later and then move on to the final step....
Look at your and any other persons natal, and look at house 1 (regardless of the sign on the cusp) as representing anything about Aries (and Mars) because Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, and you are looking at your 1st house.

Every 1st house will be about Aries matters (self/appearance) just as every 2nd house will be about Finances and food)

Now start to put the signs on.
You are Cancer rising. Put Cancer, the sign of home/family, on your 1st house cusp.
This now means that your 1st house (which is all about Aries - personality etc) is influenced by Cancer themes. Sensitive is one word to describe that.

You mention transits....
You want to see whats going on with your brother, you look at house 3 in your natal chart, which has Virgo on the cusp (in whole sign house system)
You want to see whats happening, you take the ruler of the sign on your 3rd cusp (because you want to know about your brother) which is Mercury, and see what the aspects are.

You link that planet with whatever planet is near or aspecting, to form a link between your brother (or 3rd house matter) and something else.

So, forget about look at the planets for the time being and look from the houses - from the outside in. Take whatever sign is on the cusp of the house (that you have interest in) as representing whatever that house originally represents.