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Patch Adams

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Patch Adams

28 May 1945 · 20:15 America/New_York
Washington, DC, United States · 38.90°N 77.04°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 Gemini · house 7

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  2. Moon in Sagittarius · house 1

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

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

  3. Mercury in Taurus · house 6

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  4. Venus in Aries · house 5

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  5. Mars in Aries · house 4

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  6. Jupiter in Virgo · house 9

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  7. Saturn in Cancer · house 8

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  8. Uranus in Gemini · house 7

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 10

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 8

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 8

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Virgo · house 10

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  13. Lilith in Libra · house 10

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn True Node · conjunction, orb 0.14°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Mercury Jupiter · trine, orb 0.35°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

  3. Sun AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.92°

    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.

  4. Sun Pluto · sextile, orb 0.97°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Mars Lilith · opposition, orb 2.02°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn face each other across the chart.

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

  6. Moon Chiron · square, orb 2.43°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

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