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Art Nash

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21 September 1923 · 07:10 America/New_York
Newton, MA, United States · 42.34°N 71.21°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 Virgo · house 12

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  2. Moon in Aquarius · house 5

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 1

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Libra · house 12

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  5. Mars in Virgo · house 12

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 2

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 1

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In bearing and first impression.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 6

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 11

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  11. True Node in Virgo · house 12

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.

    In the part that operates without being watched.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 7

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Taurus · house 8

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

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Pluto · square, orb 0.00°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what will not be negotiated with, only survived obstruct each other.

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

  2. Saturn Chiron · opposition, orb 0.22°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the injury that becomes a competence face each other across the chart.

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

  3. Moon Jupiter · square, orb 0.31°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the appetite for more room than is currently available obstruct each other.

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

  4. Neptune Chiron · trine, orb 0.38°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  5. AC Ascendant MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.76°

    The face a life presents before it says anything and the direction a life is aimed in public obstruct each other.

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

  6. Saturn Neptune · sextile, orb 0.60°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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