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Wilhelm Leibl

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Wilhelm Leibl

23 October 1844 · 10:00 Europe/Rome
Cologne, Lombardy, Italy · 45.58°N 9.94°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 Scorpio · house 11

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Pisces · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 10

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

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

  4. Venus in Virgo · house 9

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  5. Mars in Libra · house 10

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Pisces · house 3

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Aquarius · house 2

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 4

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Aquarius · house 2

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Aries · house 4

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 12

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Virgo · house 9

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

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

  13. Lilith in Gemini · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Mars Uranus · opposition, orb 0.24°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works face each other across the chart.

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

  2. Sun Saturn · square, orb 0.88°

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

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

  3. Moon MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 1.37°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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.

  4. Venus Chiron · conjunction, orb 1.29°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. Lilith AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 1.36°

    What was refused, and refuses in turn and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.

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

  6. Saturn MC Midheaven · trine, orb 1.68°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →