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Steven Pinker

18 September 1954 · 02:00 America/Toronto
Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 45.51°N 73.59°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 Virgo · house 3

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  2. Moon in Gemini · house 11

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 4

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  4. Venus in Scorpio · house 4

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 6

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 12

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

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

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 4

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

  8. Uranus in Cancer · house 12

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 4

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 2

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

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

  11. True Node in Capricorn · house 6

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Capricorn · house 6

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued soberly, and with the long arithmetic done.

    In the unglamorous upkeep of a life.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Scorpio · house 4

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued privately, and with more force than is displayed.

    In the foundations, where the line comes from.

The tightest aspects

  1. Jupiter Neptune · square, orb 0.02°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

  2. Sun Jupiter · sextile, orb 0.11°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the appetite for more room than is currently available assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Mars Lilith · sextile, orb 0.11°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Venus Mars · sextile, orb 0.17°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the capacity to want something and go at it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Venus Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.28°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Mercury MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 1.16°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.

How these readings are put together →