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Bartolo Cattafi

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Bartolo Cattafi

6 July 1922 · 05:00 Europe/Rome
Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Sicily, Italy · 38.15°N 15.21°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 Cancer · house 12

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  2. Moon in Sagittarius · house 5

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

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

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 12

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  4. Venus in Leo · house 2

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  5. Mars in Sagittarius · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  6. Jupiter in Libra · house 4

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 4

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

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

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 2

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 12

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  11. True Node in Libra · house 4

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.

    In the foundations, where the line comes from.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 10

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

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

  13. Lilith in Pisces · house 9

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Uranus · trine, orb 0.18°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.

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

  2. Jupiter Pluto · square, orb 0.60°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available 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.

  3. Chiron AC Ascendant · square, orb 1.24°

    The injury that becomes a competence 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.

  4. Mars Uranus · square, orb 1.55°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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.

  5. Saturn True Node · conjunction, orb 1.83°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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.

  6. Venus Chiron · trine, orb 2.11°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

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