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Rufus Choate

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Rufus Choate

1 October 1799 · 15:00 Europe/London
Ipswich, England, United Kingdom · 52.06°N 1.16°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 Libra · house 5

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 6

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  3. Mercury in Virgo · house 5

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  4. Venus in Scorpio · house 6

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  5. Mars in Libra · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

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

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 2

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  7. Saturn in Leo · house 4

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  8. Uranus in Virgo · house 5

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

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

  9. Neptune in Scorpio · house 6

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued privately, and with more force than is displayed.

    In the unglamorous upkeep of a life.

  10. Pluto in Pisces · house 11

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Taurus · house 12

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  12. Chiron in Scorpio · house 6

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  13. Lilith in Taurus · house 12

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Neptune · conjunction, orb 0.10°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Lilith MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.12°

    What was refused, and refuses in turn and the direction a life is aimed in public obstruct each other.

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

  3. Venus Jupiter · trine, orb 0.16°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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.

  4. Venus Pluto · trine, orb 0.25°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  5. Jupiter Pluto · trine, orb 0.41°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  6. Sun Saturn · sextile, orb 0.61°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →