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18 January 1689 · 08:30 Europe/Paris
Bordeaux, 33, France · 44.84°N 0.58°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 Capricorn · house 12

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  2. Moon in Sagittarius · house 10

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  3. Mercury in Capricorn · house 11

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  4. Venus in Pisces · house 1

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

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

  5. Mars in Sagittarius · house 10

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

  6. Jupiter in Aquarius · house 12

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

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

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 8

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

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

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 3

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Pisces · house 1

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In bearing and first impression.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 6

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aries · house 2

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 3

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Scorpio · house 8

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mars AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.23°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Jupiter Saturn · square, orb 0.55°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it obstruct each other.

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

  3. Venus Lilith · trine, orb 1.03°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  4. Pluto Chiron · sextile, orb 0.80°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Sun Lilith · square, orb 1.85°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  6. Mercury Neptune · sextile, orb 1.58°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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