I am going to read your chart, but not right now. dead tired.

""I use equal and find it quite good"? LOL. sounds like you're talking about a cake recipe. "

lol sorry for the simplification! I was just popping out to lunch but wanted to respond to your post, so did it quickly!

"Paul, I don't get how you can be so serene about this matter.. "

Ok, basically I kind of feel that different house systems apply to different people at different stages in their life. I think Placidus particularly is a more subjective house system. I think Equal is more 'blank slate' in terms of houses. I've said on this tribe before (somewhere) that it wouldn't surprise me (in fact I'd almost expect it) that Equal is more appropriate for children and that as we grow older, depending on our free will and subjective viewpoin of the world, our understanding of it and ourselves becomes warped to some extent and to me the other house systems are these 'warpings'. However I wasn't figuring in Whole system when considering that, I was primarily considering Equal vs the others.
The reason I'm so serene is that I have found the houses that work for me. I'm not 'new' to whole sign system. I've looked into it before and found it pretty insightful, just found Equal even more so. I also found Koch quite useful, particularly when 'time' is more in consideration, by which I mean the progressions, transits and particularly the Huber Clock (not sure if anyone here uses that).

"I don't agree with the equal system, because each house is not assigned to its ruling sign, and that's why I've even considered the whole sign system, in the first place"

Could you explain please? What do you mean each house is not assigned to its ruling sign?

""House rulers in houses would be the exact same regardless of house system though. The only difference is the house ruler itself may be different. " I don't get what you mean. How, the same?, but different? "

regardless of how you split up the horoscope, if a house cusp starts on Aries, the house ruler is ALWAYS mars. Thats true for every single one of the house systems. So that's what I mean by saying that the house rulers in houses would be the exact same. However, because the same house may start in different places in each house system, WHAT that house ruler is may be different.
Hope that makes more sense.

Paul - i'll read yours best I can in return for you reading mine. If you like, i'll do a solar return chart reading for you if u feel that you have had your natal chart read quite a lot already - let me know if you fancy that, absolutely no worries if not :)

Paul ~

Well, some people ask for this because they are unsure and need some guidance, too. I know that when I first started out I was not in a position to read someone else's chart, but having it done with mine showed me better how to do it and helped me get on my way. And I have to disagree with you about that thread ~ I think enough people reciprocated. I am not sure why you don't see that rather than being selfish, the ones who did not reciprocate are more likely trying to learn and feel intimidated about interpreting a chart at the moment. We have all been in those shoes, it seems to me.