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Yukio Mishima

14 January 1925 · 21:00 Asia/Tokyo
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 35.69°N 139.69°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 Capricorn · house 5

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  2. Moon in Virgo · house 12

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  3. Mercury in Capricorn · house 4

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 4

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

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

  5. Mars in Aries · house 8

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 4

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

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

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 3

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 7

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

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

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 12

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Leo · house 11

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 8

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 10

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Pluto · sextile, orb 0.12°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Mercury Venus · conjunction, orb 0.70°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Moon Saturn · sextile, orb 0.67°

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

  4. Saturn True Node · square, orb 0.72°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

  5. Saturn Pluto · trine, orb 0.79°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  6. True Node MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 0.69°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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