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F. Sims Pounds

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7 September 1920 · 07:42 America/New_York
Newtown, Luzerne County, PA, United States · 40.23°N 74.94°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 Virgo · house 12

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  2. Moon in Cancer · house 10

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

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

  3. Mercury in Virgo · house 12

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

  4. Venus in Libra · house 1

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  5. Mars in Sagittarius · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  6. Jupiter in Virgo · house 12

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.

    In the part that operates without being watched.

  7. Saturn in Virgo · house 12

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 6

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 11

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  11. True Node in Scorpio · house 2

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 7

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 4

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

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Saturn · conjunction, orb 0.42°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. AC Ascendant MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.38°

    The face a life presents before it says anything and the direction a life is aimed in public obstruct each other.

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

  3. Pluto Chiron · square, orb 0.53°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  4. Mars Jupiter · square, orb 0.75°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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.

  5. Jupiter Uranus · opposition, orb 0.81°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the impulse to break a pattern that still works face each other across the chart.

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

  6. Moon Lilith · opposition, orb 0.96°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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.

How these readings are put together →