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Alexander Downer

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Alexander Downer

9 September 1951 · 22:55 Australia/Adelaide
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia · 34.93°S 138.60°E
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 Virgo · house 4

    The drive to be someone in particular, 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.

  2. Moon in Sagittarius · house 8

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  3. Mercury in Virgo · house 4

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Virgo · house 4

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.

    In the foundations, where the line comes from.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  5. Mars in Leo · house 3

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  6. Jupiter in Aries · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 5

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  8. Uranus in Cancer · house 2

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 5

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 3

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

  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 Sagittarius · house 8

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 2

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Chiron · conjunction, orb 0.23°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Venus Lilith · sextile, orb 0.77°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Jupiter Uranus · square, orb 1.15°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the impulse to break a pattern that still works obstruct each other.

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

  4. Moon MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 1.25°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Sun AC Ascendant · trine, orb 1.63°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  6. Mars Jupiter · trine, orb 2.01°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

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