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George Gershwin

26 September 1898 · 11:09 America/New_York
Brooklyn, New York, United States · 40.65°N 73.95°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 Libra · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  2. Moon in Aquarius · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Virgo · house 9

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  4. Venus in Scorpio · house 12

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 8

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  6. Jupiter in Libra · house 10

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

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

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius · house 1

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  8. Uranus in Sagittarius · house 12

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  9. Neptune in Gemini · house 7

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 7

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Capricorn · house 2

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Scorpio · house 12

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

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

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 8

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mars True Node · opposition, orb 0.66°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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.

  2. Moon Venus · square, orb 0.68°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near obstruct each other.

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

  3. Mars Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.77°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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. Jupiter Pluto · trine, orb 1.21°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  5. Saturn AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 1.38°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the face a life presents before it says anything are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Mercury Pluto · square, orb 1.38°

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

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