Your Astrological Toolbox
longer even the most popular format that professional
astrologers use. Each of us settles upon what works
best for us. Let's go through some of the more popular
chart forms and point out their pros and cons. Here
goes:
The Standard Wheel of Twelve Houses
Ancient astrologers, particularly those in India and the
Far East, did not even use round chart wheels. Most of
their forms were square-shaped. The format shown
above, a round chart wheel—with twelve equally spaced
houses—has been, however, the most popular form
used in the 20th Century.
This chart form has twelve ‘equal-sized’ houses, even
though almost no astrological house system, aside from
the Equal House System, has houses that are actually
an even 30 degrees in size—so, why use it?