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Robert Ripley

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Robert Ripley

22 February 1890 · 01:20 America/Los_Angeles
Santa Rosa, CA, United States · 38.44°N 122.71°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 Pisces · house 3

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  2. Moon in Aries · house 4

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply 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.

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 2

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  4. Venus in Pisces · house 3

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

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

  5. Mars in Scorpio · house 12

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 2

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

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

  7. Saturn in Virgo · house 9

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Libra · house 11

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Gemini · house 6

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

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

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 7

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

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

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 7

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Cancer · house 8

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 8

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.10°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

  2. Venus Pluto · square, orb 0.25°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what will not be negotiated with, only survived obstruct each other.

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

  3. Sun Venus · conjunction, orb 0.95°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Saturn True Node · sextile, orb 0.55°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Venus AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.85°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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 Pluto · square, orb 1.20°

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

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

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