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William Backhouse

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28 January 1592 · 01:11 Europe/London
Swallowfield, United Kingdom · 51.38°N 0.96°W
Placidus houses

Chiron not shown. The asteroid data files begin in 1200 and this birth is earlier, so there is no position to draw. Nothing else on the wheel is affected — the planets come from a different set of files that reaches much further back.

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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 Aquarius · house 3

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  2. Moon in Cancer · house 9

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 3

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

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

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 2

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  5. Mars in Aries · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 2

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  7. Saturn in Cancer · house 8

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 5

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 9

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Aries · house 5

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

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

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 8

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Lilith in Scorpio · house 1

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Mars · sextile, orb 0.00°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the capacity to want something and go at it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Sun AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.17°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the face a life presents before it says anything obstruct each other.

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

  3. Venus Uranus · square, orb 0.15°

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

  4. Mars Saturn · square, orb 0.15°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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.

  5. Mercury Lilith · square, orb 0.19°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  6. Saturn AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.32°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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.

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