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Derek Forbes

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Derek Forbes

22 June 1956 · 16:40 Europe/London
Glasgow, United Kingdom · 55.87°N 4.26°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 8

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

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

  2. Moon in Sagittarius · house 2

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 8

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 8

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  5. Mars in Pisces · house 4

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Leo · house 10

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 1

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Leo · house 9

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 12

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 2

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 3

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

The tightest aspects

  1. Jupiter Saturn · square, orb 0.12°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it obstruct each other.

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

  2. Jupiter Neptune · sextile, orb 0.32°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Sun Venus · conjunction, orb 0.63°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Mercury True Node · opposition, orb 0.64°

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

  5. Saturn Pluto · square, orb 0.69°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived obstruct each other.

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

  6. Jupiter Pluto · conjunction, orb 0.81°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available 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.

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