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Benjamin Godard

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Benjamin Godard

18 August 1849 · 23:00 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 Leo · house 4

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

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

  2. Moon in Virgo · house 4

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 4

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 2

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

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

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 12

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Virgo · house 4

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

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

  7. Saturn in Aries · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 12

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Pisces · house 10

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Aries · house 12

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Virgo · house 4

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

    In the foundations, where the line comes from.

  12. Chiron in Scorpio · house 6

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  13. Lilith in Sagittarius · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Uranus · trine, orb 0.36°

    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. Moon Mars · square, orb 0.48°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it obstruct each other.

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

  3. Mercury Pluto · trine, orb 0.61°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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 True Node · opposition, orb 0.62°

    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. Sun Lilith · trine, orb 0.84°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  6. Mars Neptune · square, orb 1.19°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

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