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Bill Sharman

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Bill Sharman

25 May 1926 · 08:50 America/Chicago
Abilene, TX, United States · 32.45°N 99.73°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 Gemini · house 12

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 5

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

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

  3. Mercury in Taurus · house 11

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  4. Venus in Aries · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  5. Mars in Pisces · house 9

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  6. Jupiter in Aquarius · house 9

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 5

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 10

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

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

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 3

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  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 Cancer · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In bearing and first impression.

    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 Leo · house 3

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Saturn · opposition, orb 0.19°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.

  2. Saturn Neptune · square, orb 0.18°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against 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.

  3. Mercury Neptune · square, orb 0.37°

    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.

  4. Venus Neptune · trine, orb 1.41°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  5. Mars True Node · trine, orb 1.53°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.

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

  6. Jupiter Lilith · opposition, orb 1.97°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what was refused, and refuses in turn face each other across the chart.

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

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