Word origin · etymology
Descriptive English method name.
Equal identifies the repeated equal angular size of the houses. The name describes their division rather than a founder.
How we know · epistemology
Geometric division convention
The usual construction spaces boundaries thirty degrees from the Ascendant. This makes cusp arithmetic simple, but does not prove that equal sectors correspond to equal or measurable life influences.
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