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Jacques Dorsan

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22 December 1912 · 00:35 Europe/Paris
Orléans, 45, France · 47.90°N 1.90°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 Sagittarius · house 3

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  2. Moon in Gemini · house 8

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  3. Mercury in Sagittarius · house 3

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 4

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, 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.

  5. Mars in Sagittarius · house 3

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by aiming past the target on principle.

    In the daily traffic of information.

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 3

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 8

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 4

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

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

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 10

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aries · house 7

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, 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.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 5

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  13. Lilith in Aquarius · house 5

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury True Node · trine, orb 0.27°

    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.

  2. Moon Uranus · trine, orb 0.63°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.

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

  3. Sun Pluto · opposition, orb 0.80°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

  4. True Node AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.86°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.

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

  5. True Node MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.12°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into 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.

  6. Mercury AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 1.13°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →