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James Van Horne

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6 August 1935 · 12:40 America/Indiana/Indianapolis
South Bend, IN, United States · 41.68°N 86.25°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 Leo · house 9

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 12

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

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

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 9

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  4. Venus in Virgo · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  5. Mars in Scorpio · house 12

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

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

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 12

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued privately, and with more force than is displayed.

    In the part that operates without being watched.

  7. Saturn in Pisces · house 4

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, 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.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 6

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 10

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

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

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  11. True Node in Capricorn · house 3

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 8

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  13. Lilith in Virgo · house 10

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.

    In the public record of a life.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Mars · conjunction, orb 0.03°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Neptune Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.45°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Moon Uranus · opposition, orb 1.06°

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

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

  4. Jupiter AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.92°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the face a life presents before it says anything are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. Mars Uranus · opposition, orb 1.03°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works face each other across the chart.

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

  6. Sun Jupiter · square, orb 1.07°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the appetite for more room than is currently available obstruct each other.

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

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