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Jacques Prevel

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21 July 1915 · 05:30 Europe/Paris
Bolbec, Normandy, France · 49.57°N 0.47°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 12

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

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

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 4

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  3. Mercury in Cancer · house 11

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 12

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 11

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  6. Jupiter in Pisces · house 9

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Cancer · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 7

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 12

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

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

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 11

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

    Among the people chosen rather than given.

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 7

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 9

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Gemini · house 11

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

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mars AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.09°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Moon Uranus · square, orb 0.81°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works obstruct each other.

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

  3. Sun Jupiter · trine, orb 1.13°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

  4. Mercury Saturn · conjunction, orb 1.54°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. Jupiter Neptune · trine, orb 1.56°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  6. Moon True Node · square, orb 2.29°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

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