Is Placidus or Whole House a more accurate house system and why?

[Charles]

Is Placidus or Whole House a more accurate house system and why?

Discussion

[abbyisntshort]

I use whole sign for no other reason than it just has been more accurate in my experience when I’ve talked to people about their charts. I figure if it works, it works????????‍♀️

[3amLongbow]

Definately Placidus, not criticizing whole house. Here`s what I think. If sun, mars, mercury, uranus are all in Sco and all in 8th house and then apply that in whole house, they are now in 9th. Simply put, it is not possible that we have the same person here.

I`m not quite sure of the ways that astrologers who use whole house to interpret the charts.

[creek-hopper]

I use Equal house system, wherein the ascendant’s degree is the 1st house, and the degree is used on all the other houses. So an Asc of 12 Pisces, gives a 2nd house at 12 Aries, a 4th at 12 Gemini, and so on. I don’t like the Whole Sign system as it leaves the ascendant orphaned, uncoupled from its position as the first house cusp. Some people are bothered by Equal Houses having a 90 degree 4th and 10th cusps that don’t coincide with the MC/IC. I agree with Carl Payne Tobey that the MC is not a part of astrology, it is not part of the ecliptic. The MC is part of a different circle. The 4th/10th houses should be 90 degrees from the ascendant just like Cancer and Capricorn are in a 90 degree square to Aries.