poivre said:
I'm going to print off the two charts and look them over today.
I don't understand about not all houses in quadrant systems
are 30 degrees...thinking this is probably too much information
for me at this time.
Have a great day!
poivre
I'll try and show that using your natal details and very simple maths (to avoid any mind blowing but also to remain faithful to the principles involved).
Now Dave will kill me for using a 2 dimensional simplification of 3 dimensional space but the spherical geometry for this explanation doesn't add anything vital.
Your MC is 9 Li 40 - to save brainpower, let's call that 10 Libra.
Your ASC is 16 Sa 56, again to save brainpower we'll call that 17 Sagittarius.
Now in 2 dimensional form your chart is a circle. Conventionally the Zodiac starts at 0 degrees Aries, so converting 10 Libra into 360 degree format, we get 190 degrees. (6 signs of 30 degrees each +10 degrees)
17 Sagittarius is 257 degrees (8 signs of 30 degrees each + 17 degrees)
The difference between the MC and the Ascendant is 67 degrees. This is the quadrant comprising the 12th, 11th and 10th Houses. If we divide this into three equal houses, each house of these 3 is 22.33 degrees wide.
Now look at the 1st, 2nd and 3rd houses. These lie between the Ascendant and the IC (opposite the MC). The IC is 10 Aries (using our rounded figures). The distance in degrees from the Ascendant (17 Sagittarius) to the IC is 113 degrees (13 degrees to 0 Capricorn - then 3 signs of 30 degrees each and then an additional 10 degrees in Aries).
113 degrees divided into 3 equal parts gives us 37.67 degrees each. So Houses 1,2 and 3 are larger than houses 10, 11 and 112.
Houses 4, 5 and 6 are obtained by drawing straight lines across the circle from the MC, 11th and 12th cusps, so they too are 22.33 degrees wide and houses 7, 8 and 9 are likewise obtained by drawing straight lines from the Ascendant, 2nd and 3rd Cusps and they are thus also 37.67 degrees wide.
So we have two different widths of houses in your (simplified) quadrant chart and that's what's meant by 'unequal' houses.
It's not necessary to actually calculate the intermediate house cusps to see that they are not equal but as an exercise I calculate them anyway just to see how they differ from the more complex calculations for the Placidus cusps
The 'Minderwiz' cusps are:
1st - 16.56 Sagittarius
2nd - 24:31 Capricorn
3rd - 02.05 Pisces
4th - 09.40 Aries
5th - 02.05 Taurus
6th - 24.21 Taurus
7th - 16.56 Gemini
8th - 24.31 Cancer
9th - 03,05 Virgo
10th - 09.40 Libra
11th - 02.05 Scorpio
12th - 24.31 Scorpio
Now these share the same Ascendant, Descendant, MC and IC as with the Placidus (and other quadrant systems) chart but differ on the others (the so called intermediate house cusps). However the pattern is the same, with the 10th, 11th, 12th and 4th, 5th and 6th Houses are the smaller ones.
Sadly I can't claim that the Minderwiz cusps are a brand new House system, they are actually the exact same cusps that you get with the Porphry House system and that was invented some 2,000 years ago and is probably the oldest quadrant system still exisiting.