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Albert Ellis

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Albert Ellis

27 September 1913 · 22:20 America/New_York
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · 40.44°N 80.00°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 Libra · house 4

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.

  2. Moon in Virgo · house 4

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

    At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 5

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  4. Venus in Virgo · house 3

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 1

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 7

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 12

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

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

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 2

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

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

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 1

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

    In bearing and first impression.

  11. True Node in Pisces · house 10

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 10

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Pisces · house 10

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.

    In the public record of a life.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.73°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  2. Sun Uranus · trine, orb 0.68°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.

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

  3. True Node Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.71°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Venus Pluto · sextile, orb 0.63°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Moon Mars · sextile, orb 1.43°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Sun Mars · square, orb 2.20°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the capacity to want something and go at it obstruct each other.

    The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.

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