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Alain Decaux

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Alain Decaux

23 July 1925 · 02:15 Europe/Paris
Lille, Hauts-de-France, France · 50.63°N 3.06°E
Placidus houses

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Reading

Put together from what the tradition attributes to each body, sign and house — a portrait to enjoy, not a verdict. The positions beside it are the part that can be checked.

  1. Sun in Cancer · house 3

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  2. Moon in Leo · house 4

    What makes you feel safe.

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

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 4

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  4. Venus in Leo · house 4

    What you like, and how you go about liking it.

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    In the foundations, where the line comes from.

  5. Mars in Leo · house 3

    How you go after what you want.

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 8

    Where you want more room.

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 6

    The strict teacher you thank later.

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

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

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 11

    The urge to break something that still works.

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 4

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, 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.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 2

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

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

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

  11. True Node in Leo · house 3

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 11

    The sore spot you end up good at.

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 2

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

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

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Venus · conjunction, orb 0.68°

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

  2. Venus AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.57°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Uranus AC Ascendant · square, orb 1.00°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

  4. Sun Chiron · square, orb 1.33°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  5. Uranus Lilith · trine, orb 1.05°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  6. Moon Neptune · conjunction, orb 1.57°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky