← Catalogue · music director, singer-songwriter, guitarist

Brian Ray

A
Brian Ray

4 January 1955 · 05:42 America/New_York
California, Maryland, United States · 38.30°N 76.51°W
Placidus houses

♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ACMC13°1817°3519°1328°3022°1726°2418°3826°1128°0326°295°3127°5922°46123456789101112

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 Capricorn · house 1

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 5

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  3. Mercury in Capricorn · house 1

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    In bearing and first impression.

  4. Venus in Scorpio · house 12

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  5. Mars in Pisces · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  8. Uranus in Cancer · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 10

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

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

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 8

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Capricorn · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued soberly, and with the long arithmetic done.

    At the threshold, before anything is said.

  12. Chiron in Capricorn · house 2

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  13. Lilith in Scorpio · house 11

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Neptune Chiron · square, orb 0.06°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  2. Jupiter Uranus · conjunction, orb 0.23°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the impulse to break a pattern that still works are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Mars Lilith · trine, orb 0.48°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  4. Venus Chiron · sextile, orb 0.51°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Mercury Saturn · sextile, orb 0.59°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Moon Saturn · opposition, orb 1.04°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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.

How these readings are put together →