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Hartzell Spence

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15 February 1908 · 00:05 America/Chicago
Clarion, IA, United States · 42.73°N 93.73°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 Aquarius · house 4

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  2. Moon in Leo · house 9

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  3. Mercury in Pisces · house 4

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

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

  4. Venus in Aries · house 5

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  5. Mars in Aries · house 6

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  6. Jupiter in Leo · house 9

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Pisces · house 5

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 3

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 8

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 8

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 9

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 3

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  13. Lilith in Leo · house 9

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    In what is believed, and how far it is carried.

The tightest aspects

  1. Chiron MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.21°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.

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

  2. Mercury Neptune · trine, orb 0.66°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  3. Moon Venus · trine, orb 0.75°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near run together easily.

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

  4. Mercury True Node · trine, orb 0.67°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.

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

  5. Sun Mars · sextile, orb 0.64°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the capacity to want something and go at it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Neptune True Node · conjunction, orb 1.34°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →