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Ewald Mataré

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25 February 1887 · 03:30 Europe/Berlin
Aachen, Germany · 50.78°N 6.08°E
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 2

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

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

  2. Moon in Aries · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Pisces · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  4. Venus in Pisces · house 3

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

  5. Mars in Pisces · house 3

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.

    In the daily traffic of information.

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 10

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Cancer · house 7

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Libra · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Taurus · house 5

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 5

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  11. True Node in Leo · house 8

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, 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.

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 6

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  13. Lilith in Pisces · house 3

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mars AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.03°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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.

  2. Sun Jupiter · trine, orb 0.38°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

  3. Mercury Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.48°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Chiron AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 1.22°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Mars Chiron · square, orb 1.25°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  6. Venus Neptune · sextile, orb 1.03°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →