Paul

"Try somewhere more northerly in sweden/norway etc and you will start to notice the differences. I can't remember my geography too well now, but you could try Trondheim in Norway which I think is more northerly of stockholm, or better yet try murmask in russia. You'll begin to notice that things go wrong quickly"

I did try a virgo rising both upnorth in sweden and in murmask but the houses didn't change all that much, and they don't even change much in cape town, africa. So virgo rising seem to keep pretty equal houses wherever the location, and aquarius and capricorn rising seems to have more or less uneven houses.

On the subject of freaky charts I did a chart interpretation once for a girl who had EVERY planet in the 6th house, and that's the freakiest chart I've ever seen. And I can prove it with the help of my insane memory - she was born october 31, 1983 at about 4.00 p.m. in Boden, sweden. That girls first house is 4 degrees wide!!! She's semi famous in sweden. Her mother is a famous author and she herself is a journalist, blogger, columnist etc.

I just now created a really freaky chart, check out may 4, 2000 at 3:15 a.m. in Luleå - "lulea" works - Sweden. There's a big pile of taurus planets in the 1st and FOUR whole intercepted signs in the first house. It's quite a strange sight.

"Some signs rise quicker and slower in the northern hemisphere in comparison to the southern hemisphere. In the northern hemisphere Libra, Scorpio and Sag are slow risers, so more peole have them as their rising sign, whereas Pisces and Aries are much quicker and therefore rarer. The opposite is true in Australia.
With that in mind its worth remembering that the signs of ascension are likely to behave differently in the southern hemisphere in comparison to the northern"

Yes, I've notice that too and also thought that for instance an aries rising from australia might not be the same type as a european aries rising ;).