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Lawrence Durrell

27 February 1912 · 01:00 Asia/Kolkata
Jalandhar, Punjab, India · 31.33°N 75.58°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 Pisces · house 3

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  2. Moon in Gemini · house 7

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

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

  3. Mercury in Pisces · house 3

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

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

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 2

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 7

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 1

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

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

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 6

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

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

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 2

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

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  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 7

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.

    In one-to-one dealings, allied or opposed.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aries · house 5

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 3

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.

    In the daily traffic of information.

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 2

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Chiron · conjunction, orb 0.20°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Mercury AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.56°

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

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

  3. Uranus AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.73°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Mars MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.38°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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.

  5. Neptune True Node · square, orb 1.25°

    The pull toward what has no edges 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.

  6. Jupiter MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.62°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available 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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