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Michel de Certeau

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17 May 1925 · 01:00 Europe/Paris
Chambéry, 73, France · 45.57°N 5.92°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 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  2. Moon in Pisces · house 1

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  3. Mercury in Aries · house 2

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  4. Venus in Gemini · house 3

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 12

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 9

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 1

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In bearing and first impression.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 7

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 5

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  11. True Node in Leo · house 6

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 2

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

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 6

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. True Node AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.29°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into 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.

  2. Venus MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.54°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.

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

  3. Sun Uranus · sextile, orb 0.88°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the impulse to break a pattern that still works assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Moon Lilith · trine, orb 1.20°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply 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. Saturn AC Ascendant · square, orb 1.90°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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. Saturn Pluto · trine, orb 2.03°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

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