Your Astrological Toolbox
The simple answer seems to be that it looks neat, and it
provides equal room in each house to write in the
planets. When I was first learning astrology, in the early
1960s, this was just about the only chart form available,
it was, therefore, the one I grew up with. It comes in
fancier varieties also—having scalloped houses, lotus-
shaped chart wheels, and so forth. The one pictured
above is the most common form of the astrological chart
wheel.
Unequal Wheel of Houses
The astrologers who were interested in house system
that more accurately represented the actual space of
each house developed a wheel of houses exactly like
the standard chart wheel, except that it showed the
actual space each house took up. In this house system,
some pieces of the zodiac pie are larger than others,