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Alan Watts

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Alan Watts

6 January 1915 · 06:20 America/Los_Angeles
Kent, Washington, United States · 47.38°N 122.23°W
Placidus houses

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Reading

Constructed, not stored: each reading below is assembled from what the tradition attributes to the body, the sign and the house. It describes the symbolism — it is not a claim about a person, and unlike the positions it sits beside, none of it is something this site can check.

  1. Sun in Capricorn · house 1

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.

  2. Moon in Virgo · house 9

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  3. Mercury in Capricorn · house 1

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    In bearing and first impression.

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 12

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 1

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued soberly, and with the long arithmetic done.

    At the threshold, before anything is said.

  6. Jupiter in Aquarius · house 2

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 7

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 2

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 7

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 7

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 2

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued independently, and slightly against the grain.

    In the matter of keep and livelihood.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 3

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  13. Lilith in Taurus · house 5

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Lilith · trine, orb 0.08°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

    Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.

  2. Sun Chiron · sextile, orb 0.06°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Moon Mercury · trine, orb 0.32°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on run together easily.

    Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.

  4. Chiron Lilith · sextile, orb 0.15°

    The injury that becomes a competence and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Saturn True Node · trine, orb 0.37°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.

    Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.

  6. Sun Mercury · conjunction, orb 0.56°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

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