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Tom Wesselmann

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23 February 1931 · 08:00 America/New_York
Cincinnati, OH, United States · 39.13°N 84.51°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 12

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

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

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 2

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 12

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

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

  4. Venus in Capricorn · house 11

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 4

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Capricorn · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 1

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 6

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 5

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aries · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In bearing and first impression.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 2

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

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  13. Lilith in Pisces · house 12

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.18°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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. Sun Neptune · opposition, orb 0.46°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the pull toward what has no edges face each other across the chart.

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

  3. Venus Pluto · opposition, orb 0.62°

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

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

  4. Saturn Pluto · opposition, orb 0.71°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Pluto AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.80°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  6. Jupiter Lilith · trine, orb 0.99°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →