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Walter Gropius

18 May 1883 · 10:00 Europe/Berlin
Berlin, Germany · 52.52°N 13.41°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 Taurus · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  2. Moon in Libra · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 11

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  4. Venus in Aries · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  5. Mars in Aries · house 9

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

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

  8. Uranus in Virgo · house 2

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Taurus · house 10

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    In the public record of a life.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  11. True Node in Scorpio · house 4

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 10

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

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

  13. Lilith in Libra · house 3

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

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.26°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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. Mercury Lilith · trine, orb 0.35°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  3. Saturn Pluto · conjunction, orb 0.47°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Uranus Neptune · trine, orb 0.40°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  5. Sun Chiron · conjunction, orb 0.93°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Mercury Uranus · square, orb 0.92°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the impulse to break a pattern that still works obstruct each other.

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

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