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William Hamilton

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4 August 1805 · 00:00 Europe/Dublin
Dublin, Ireland · 53.33°N 6.25°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 Leo · house 4

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  2. Moon in Sagittarius · house 6

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  3. Mercury in Virgo · house 4

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  4. Venus in Leo · house 4

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  5. Mars in Libra · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 6

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 5

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

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

  8. Uranus in Libra · house 5

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.

    In the things done because they are wanted.

  9. Neptune in Scorpio · house 6

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Pisces · house 11

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Capricorn · house 8

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  12. Chiron in Capricorn · house 8

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Mars Lilith · square, orb 0.15°

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

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

  2. Moon Venus · square, orb 0.29°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near obstruct each other.

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

  3. Uranus AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.34°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

  4. Moon Mercury · square, orb 0.51°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on obstruct each other.

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

  5. Sun Saturn · sextile, orb 0.50°

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

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. True Node Chiron · conjunction, orb 0.59°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →