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Lyonel Feininger

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Lyonel Feininger

17 July 1871 · 06:08 America/New_York
New York City, New York, United States · 40.71°N 74.01°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 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 Cancer · house 12

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 12

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  4. Venus in Virgo · house 2

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

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

  5. Mars in Libra · house 3

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 12

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

    In the part that operates without being watched.

  7. Saturn in Capricorn · house 5

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Cancer · house 12

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  9. Neptune in Aries · house 9

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 11

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 9

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    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 by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Neptune · square, orb 0.32°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

  2. Jupiter Chiron · square, orb 0.77°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  3. Chiron AC Ascendant · trine, orb 1.09°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  4. Mars Lilith · trine, orb 1.49°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  5. Sun Uranus · conjunction, orb 2.33°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the impulse to break a pattern that still works are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Moon Pluto · sextile, orb 1.71°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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