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Bill Evans

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Bill Evans

16 August 1929 · 02:57 America/New_York
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States · 40.63°N 74.41°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 2

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

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

  2. Moon in Capricorn · house 6

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  3. Mercury in Virgo · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 12

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

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

  5. Mars in Virgo · house 4

    The capacity to want something and go at 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.

  6. Jupiter in Gemini · house 12

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius · house 6

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 10

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 3

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

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

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 1

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

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

  11. True Node in Taurus · house 11

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 11

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 6

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.53°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public obstruct each other.

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

  2. Chiron AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.54°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Moon Mercury · trine, orb 1.10°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on run together easily.

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

  4. Sun Saturn · trine, orb 1.11°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it run together easily.

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

  5. Venus AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 1.44°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the face a life presents before it says anything are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Mercury Lilith · trine, orb 1.39°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

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