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Doug Ardito

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10 March 1971 · 11:55 America/New_York
Bedford, MA, United States · 42.49°N 71.28°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 10

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

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

  2. Moon in Virgo · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Pisces · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

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

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 8

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

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

  5. Mars in Sagittarius · house 6

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 6

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  8. Uranus in Libra · house 4

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Sagittarius · house 5

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Virgo · house 4

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 9

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 10

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  13. Lilith in Virgo · house 4

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 0.15°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Mars Pluto · square, orb 0.34°

    The capacity to want something and go at 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.

  3. Uranus AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.53°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the face a life presents before it says anything obstruct each other.

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

  4. Moon Neptune · square, orb 1.25°

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

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

  5. Sun Lilith · opposition, orb 1.49°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what was refused, and refuses in turn face each other across the chart.

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

  6. Venus Chiron · sextile, orb 0.90°

    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.

How these readings are put together →