← Catalogue · university teacher, psychologist

William K. Estes

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17 June 1919 · 23:45 America/Chicago
Minneapolis, MN, United States · 44.98°N 93.26°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 Gemini · house 5

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  2. Moon in Aquarius · house 1

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  3. Mercury in Cancer · house 5

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  4. Venus in Leo · house 6

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 4

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 6

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

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

  7. Saturn in Leo · house 7

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 1

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 6

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

  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.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 2

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  13. Lilith in Scorpio · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

The tightest aspects

  1. Neptune Chiron · trine, orb 0.73°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  2. Pluto Chiron · square, orb 0.88°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  3. True Node MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 1.62°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Chiron MC Midheaven · trine, orb 1.47°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  5. Moon Lilith · square, orb 1.93°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply 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.

  6. Mercury Pluto · conjunction, orb 1.99°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.

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