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Charles Deburau

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Charles Deburau

15 February 1829 · 09:35 America/Chicago
Paris 3e, United States · 33.66°N 95.56°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 Aquarius · house 11

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Cancer · house 4

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  3. Mercury in Pisces · house 12

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

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

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 10

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

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

  5. Mars in Aries · house 1

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  7. Saturn in Cancer · house 4

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 10

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

  9. Neptune in Capricorn · house 10

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  10. Pluto in Aries · house 12

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  11. True Node in Libra · house 6

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In bearing and first impression.

  13. Lilith in Virgo · house 5

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Chiron · square, orb 0.35°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  2. Venus Uranus · conjunction, orb 0.77°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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. Chiron Lilith · trine, orb 1.30°

    The injury that becomes a competence and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  4. Moon Mars · square, orb 2.23°

    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.

  5. Mercury Jupiter · square, orb 2.07°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the appetite for more room than is currently available obstruct each other.

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

  6. Moon Neptune · opposition, orb 2.75°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges 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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