Why does AstroDatabank use Equal House when constructing charts for newsmakers?
If you were born way up in Lang, Saskatchewan (Canada) like Lois Rodden you too would know from first-hand experience how much more reasonable a equal house system looks compared to Koch and Placidus. Lois’s chart in Placidus has enormous 1st and 7th houses of 58 degrees each and tiny 4th and 10th house that span only 18 degrees each. Here is Ms. Rodden’s more theoretical view on equal house: “The most popular house systems (Placidus, Koch, Porphyry, etc.) accept that Asc-Dsc axis as the start of the 1st and 7th houses and the MC-IC axis as the beginning of the 10th and 4th houses. Placidus draws the planets closer to the Asc-Dsc axis and Koch draws them closer to the MC-IC axis. Their differences come from using different measurement systems to trisect (cut into three segments) the space in between the axises. But to “my” mind this measuring of physical characteristics is not in keeping with the symbolic nature of astrology. “Astrologers everywhere agree that there are 12 signs of 30
