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Abe Fortas

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Abe Fortas

19 June 1910 · 06:00 America/Chicago
Memphis, Tennessee, United States · 35.15°N 90.05°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 12

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

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

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 5

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 11

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  4. Venus in Taurus · house 11

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  5. Mars in Leo · house 1

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  6. Jupiter in Libra · house 4

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 7

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 1

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 12

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

  11. True Node in Taurus · house 11

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    Among the people chosen rather than given.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 9

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Scorpio · house 5

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Pluto MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.09°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the direction a life is aimed in public obstruct each other.

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

  2. Venus Neptune · sextile, orb 0.16°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Mercury Jupiter · trine, orb 0.30°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

  4. Sun Pluto · conjunction, orb 0.90°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

  5. Sun MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.81°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is aimed in public obstruct each other.

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

  6. Saturn Chiron · sextile, orb 0.92°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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