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Max Ophuls

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Max Ophuls

6 May 1902 · 11:00 Europe/Berlin
Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany · 49.23°N 7.01°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 Taurus · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  2. Moon in Aries · house 10

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  3. Mercury in Taurus · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

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

  4. Venus in Pisces · house 9

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  5. Mars in Taurus · house 10

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    In the public record of a life.

  6. Jupiter in Aquarius · house 7

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  7. Saturn in Capricorn · house 6

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

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

  8. Uranus in Sagittarius · house 5

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Gemini · house 11

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 11

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

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

  11. True Node in Scorpio · house 4

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  12. Chiron in Capricorn · house 6

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Sagittarius · house 5

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

The tightest aspects

  1. Lilith AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.09°

    What was refused, and refuses in turn 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.

  2. Sun Chiron · trine, orb 0.39°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  3. Venus Neptune · square, orb 0.44°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

  4. Sun Jupiter · square, orb 0.86°

    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.

  5. Moon MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 1.63°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Uranus MC Midheaven · trine, orb 1.37°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

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