EQUAL HOUSE SYSTEM ACS-MC
	Author:	=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Bogdan_Krusi=F1ski?=
	E-Mail:	bogdan@mercury.ci.uw.edu.pl
	Date:	Apr 2, 1998

This message (ACT# 3311) was sent by '=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Bogdan_Krusi=F1ski?= bogdan@mercury.ci.uw.edu.pl>': ------ =_NextPart_000_01BD5E25.20B55EC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello! >Subject: EQUAL HOUSE SYSTEM ACS-MC >Wed, 25 Mar 1998 23:30:32 -0500 > >This message (ACT# 3252) was sent by '#ziva2285 = ziva2285@ix.netcom.com>': > snip> > >My point was that from the philosophical point of view, only the equal >houses maintains >the basic structre of the 3 qualities, by having 90 degrees between = each >house. Usually (read: in common practise) houses are based on Asc and MC, = points on ecliptic. But MC is derived from the zenit which isn't placed = on ecliptic. So the houses primarily are not so connected with ecliptic = as it looks likes when we are using only eclpitic projections of house = cusps. In any space system 1st house cusp is always 90 degrees from 10th = house cusp. They are distorted only when we try to compress the complete = sphere in only one, ecliptic plane. So many house systems maintains that = basic structure of 3 qulities (except of course Placidus and Koch). There's only question which plane should be chosen and how (if needed) = projected onto other planes (ecliptic, for instance). One thing is for = sure - from practical experience most people use either Placidus or Koch = (which theoretically shouldn't work). So we must take, that these two = are more often than any other system near reality (for me still too much = often out of reality - real hit rate of max. 60-70% is not good - it is = like if we look at signs we would have had at least 3 planets in wrong = signs).=20 Campanus broke it badly, because MC is only sometimes the 10th house = cusp (sometimes in polar zones it is the 4th house cusp in this system). = Also, when looked from that basic point of view, 1st house cusp is the = east point of horizon, which is up to many degrees (up to 90 degrees on = the pole) away from Asc. If we take that the half of the plane is "the = beginning of 1st house", we can get any plane crossing through zenit and = horizon. But in that case finally we get width of house cusp 180 = degrees. This is what exactly means not taking as first house cusp Asc = point in space. The same story with Asc is in Regiomontanus house system.=20 But what it would like if we took the plane crossing exactly through Asc = and zenit points? It is what I've done 3 years before, getting new house = system. In such a house system the only poosible way of projecting were = the meridians (since MC must be still the 10th house cusp).=20 Practically, in shorter quadrants you get cusps very similar to Placidus = (when you exclude situations where the longest houses in ecliptic = projection are near Asc - Desc axis - which is rather an error of = Placidus - projected from higher latitudes towards either equator or = ecliptic, no matter how, shortest houses are always near Asc - Desc = line), and in longer quadrants cusps (especially 12th, 11th little less) = similar to Koch. Description about these (in Polish so far, I still haven't time to = translate it; and still working on materials to work out the problem of = houses, since it is not so easy only to talk of pure houses; = progressions is what differs basically houses from signs)=20 http://mercury1.ci.uw.edu.pl/~bogdan/astrol.htm and program utility (in English) to generate house tables http://mercury1.ci.uw.edu.pl/~bogdan/zipped/tables.zip Those of you with experimental nature, tell me what you think about. Good Luck Bogdan Krusinski