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Marcel Couraud

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20 October 1912 · 17:00 Europe/Paris
Limoges, New Aquitaine, France · 45.83°N 1.25°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 Libra · house 6

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  2. Moon in Aquarius · house 11

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  3. Mercury in Scorpio · house 7

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  4. Venus in Scorpio · house 7

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  5. Mars in Scorpio · house 7

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued privately, and with more force than is displayed.

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

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 8

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

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

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 2

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 10

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 4

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

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

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aries · house 12

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

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

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Aquarius · house 11

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Venus · square, orb 0.41°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near obstruct each other.

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

  2. Sun Neptune · square, orb 0.94°

    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.

  3. Venus Neptune · trine, orb 0.93°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  4. Mercury Chiron · trine, orb 1.00°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  5. Uranus AC Ascendant · square, orb 1.00°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

  6. Sun AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 1.63°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

How these readings are put together →