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Auguste Arnaud

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22 August 1825 · 07:00 Europe/Paris
La Rochelle, New Aquitaine, France · 46.16°N 1.15°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 Leo · house 12

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  2. Moon in Sagittarius · house 4

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

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

  3. Mercury in Virgo · house 1

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  5. Mars in Leo · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  6. Jupiter in Leo · house 12

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 10

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

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

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 4

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Capricorn · house 4

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Aries · house 7

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, 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.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 4

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 8

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.12°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the face a life presents before it says anything obstruct each other.

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

  2. Uranus AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.12°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

  3. Mars Pluto · trine, orb 0.21°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  4. Neptune Lilith · square, orb 0.60°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  5. Saturn Chiron · sextile, orb 0.82°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Venus Uranus · opposition, orb 1.72°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the impulse to break a pattern that still works face each other across the chart.

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

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