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Bobby McFerrin

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Bobby McFerrin

11 March 1950 · 23:19 America/New_York
Manhattan, New York, United States · 40.78°N 73.97°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 Pisces · house 4

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  2. Moon in Capricorn · house 2

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

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

  3. Mercury in Pisces · house 3

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 3

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  5. Mars in Libra · house 10

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  6. Jupiter in Aquarius · house 3

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

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

  7. Saturn in Virgo · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Cancer · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 11

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 9

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aries · house 4

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Sagittarius · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  13. Lilith in Taurus · house 6

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Chiron · square, orb 0.36°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  2. Neptune Pluto · sextile, orb 0.41°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Mercury Lilith · sextile, orb 0.54°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Mercury MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 1.29°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Mars True Node · opposition, orb 1.44°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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.

  6. Moon Mars · square, orb 1.46°

    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.

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