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Gore Vidal

3 October 1925 · 10:00 America/Chicago
West Point, Mississippi, United States · 33.61°N 88.65°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 Aries · house 5

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

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

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

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

  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 Libra · house 10

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.

    In the public record of a life.

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 2

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 12

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

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

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 4

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

    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 Leo · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 8

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  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 Aries · house 5

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Leo · house 8

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

The tightest aspects

  1. True Node Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.16°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Jupiter Pluto · opposition, orb 1.09°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what will not be negotiated with, only survived face each other across the chart.

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

  3. Mars Lilith · sextile, orb 0.83°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. True Node AC Ascendant · trine, orb 1.13°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  5. Mars True Node · sextile, orb 0.98°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Jupiter Saturn · sextile, orb 0.92°

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

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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