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Barbara Ruick

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23 December 1932 · 21:45 America/Los_Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States · 34.05°N 118.24°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 Capricorn · house 4

    The drive to be someone in particular, 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.

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Sagittarius · house 4

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 4

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

  5. Mars in Virgo · house 1

    The capacity to want something and go at it, 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.

  6. Jupiter in Virgo · house 1

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    In bearing and first impression.

  7. Saturn in Aquarius · house 5

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, 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.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 1

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.

    At the threshold, before anything is said.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Pisces · house 7

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 9

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Taurus · house 9

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury True Node · square, orb 0.12°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

  2. Mercury Neptune · square, orb 0.18°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

  3. Jupiter Pluto · sextile, orb 0.14°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Neptune True Node · opposition, orb 0.30°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Venus Saturn · sextile, orb 0.45°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Saturn MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.56°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →