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Clifford Odets

18 July 1906 · 13:00 America/New_York
Philadelphia, PA, United States · 39.95°N 75.16°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 Cancer · house 9

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  2. Moon in Gemini · house 8

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  4. Venus in Virgo · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 9

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

  6. Jupiter in Gemini · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  7. Saturn in Pisces · house 5

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 3

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 9

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

    In what is believed, and how far it is carried.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 8

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.

    Where things are held in common, and where they end.

  11. True Node in Leo · house 10

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 4

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Gemini · house 8

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Pluto · conjunction, orb 0.65°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Sun Mars · conjunction, orb 0.89°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the capacity to want something and go at it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. True Node Chiron · opposition, orb 0.89°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the injury that becomes a competence face each other across the chart.

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

  4. Venus AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.96°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Mercury Pluto · sextile, orb 1.47°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Moon Mercury · sextile, orb 2.12°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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