Your Astrological Toolbox
and this chart form above shows that. The ascendant or
first house cusp is still on the left; however, as you can
see, the 10th house cusp (Midheaven) and the other
house cusps are staggered, showing the actual amount
of space allocated to each house rather than having all
of the houses shown as having an equal 30 degrees of
space.
A side benefit of this kind of chart is that a small
aspectarian can be drawn in the center of a chart, which
shows at a glance something about the aspect patterns
making up the chart. With unequal houses, this means
that the planet positions are roughly where they should
be on a 360-degree wheel, so it is possible to draw out
such an aspectarian. In the standard wheel of houses,
this would not work, as the planets are restricted
spatially to the equal 30-degree houses, and these, then,
are seldom true enough to bring out the patterns. This
chart format, above, is still quite popular.