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Auguste Perdonnet

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12 March 1801 · 03:00 Europe/Paris
Paris, France · 48.85°N 2.35°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 Pisces · house 2

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  2. Moon in Aquarius · house 1

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

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

  3. Mercury in Aries · house 3

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  4. Venus in Taurus · house 4

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 7

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, 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.

  7. Saturn in Leo · house 7

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Libra · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Scorpio · house 10

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Pisces · house 2

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  11. True Node in Aries · house 3

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Sagittarius · house 11

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 6

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury True Node · conjunction, orb 0.18°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Moon Saturn · opposition, orb 0.29°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it face each other across the chart.

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

  3. True Node Chiron · trine, orb 0.19°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  4. Lilith AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.32°

    What was refused, and refuses in turn and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Mercury Chiron · trine, orb 0.36°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  6. Pluto AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.26°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →