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Jacques Delille

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Jacques Delille

22 June 1738 · 18:00 Europe/Paris
Clermont-Ferrand, 63, France · 45.78°N 3.09°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 Cancer · house 7

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  2. Moon in Virgo · house 9

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 7

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 8

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  5. Mars in Aries · house 4

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Aries · house 4

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 7

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 1

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 7

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  10. Pluto in Scorpio · house 11

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  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.

  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 Gemini · house 6

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Pluto · trine, orb 0.10°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  2. Neptune Pluto · trine, orb 0.22°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  3. Sun Neptune · conjunction, orb 0.32°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Moon Lilith · square, orb 0.29°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  5. Lilith MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.38°

    What was refused, and refuses in turn and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  6. Sun MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.62°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

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