Re: House system - asc centered vs beginning of house it's not a house system, but a mode where to begin 1st house. My Urania has option to draw few house systems in such a mode - asc as center of the house, boundaries/cusps drawn separately on both sides of asc line: Krusinki+Placidus+Porphyry+Equal http://www.astrologia.pl/urania-en.html Forum: Nativities & General Astrology Topic: House system with angles centrql to 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th Replies: 8 Views: 5789 Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:56 am Jump to post
Can you add the forth option - "other"? Can you add the forth option - "other"? Forum: Mundane & Financial Astrology Topic: Which House System for Mundane Forum Charts? Replies: 6 Views: 4802 Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:39 pm Jump to post
my 2 cents on houses beyond polar circle: http://www.astrologyurania.com/2008/05/ ... f-and.html And yet another cent on subject related to metrology...and houses http://www.astrologyurania.com/2009/01/ ... ffect.html Forum: Nativities & General Astrology Topic: Quadrant House Systems at High Latitudes Replies: 64 Views: 26178 Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:13 am Jump to post
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/97520 it seems that in seventeenth century the shift into round charts was on the move... Forum: Traditional (& Ancient) Techniques Topic: When did Round Charts Replace the Square Ones? Replies: 16 Views: 11238 Thu Sep 24, 2009 1:27 pm Jump to post
As the Almagest shows, he clearly had the mathematical tools to devise most or all of the quadrant systems we know today. And yet, as the Tetrabiblos shows, he didn't. 'Mikes you fink, don' it?' ;) Yes ;) Browsing through Almagest, the question comes: which one - ecliptic or horizon - was base coor... Forum: Traditional (& Ancient) Techniques Topic: Houses systems in TA Replies: 73 Views: 25558 Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:27 am Jump to post
[...] there is no mention (that I have been able to find, at least) of house division in the Almagest, and almost none in the Tetrabiblos. There isn't much to interpret, other than silence. Not a mention of a house system, maybe yes. But tremendous amount written (with drawings) on the local sphere... Forum: Traditional (& Ancient) Techniques Topic: Houses systems in TA Replies: 73 Views: 25558 Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:20 pm Jump to post
Well, in fact Placidus claimed it was the system mentioned in Ptolemy's Almagest. Margherita Ptolemy described method of (as nowadays we call it) semi-arcs as the method of primary directions. But he didn't used it for houses, and it hasn't hapenned for a better part of millenium until arabs used i... Forum: Traditional (& Ancient) Techniques Topic: Houses systems in TA Replies: 73 Views: 25558 Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:53 pm Jump to post
Re: Help with software review Also, if anyone knows of other primary direction software than the above-mentioned, please let me know. :) Urania also has wide selection of primary progressions: Ecliptic (for Asc and MC), Hour Angle (first equatorial coords), Campanus, Regiomontanus, Placidus, Topocentric, Porphyry, Horizon, Krus... Forum: News, Notices, Books, Links Topic: Help with software review Replies: 17 Views: 11368 Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:46 pm Jump to post