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Albert de Lapparent

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Albert de Lapparent

30 December 1839 · 10:00 Europe/Paris
Bourges, Centre-Val de Loire, France · 47.08°N 2.40°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 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 8

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

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

  3. Mercury in Sagittarius · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  4. Venus in Scorpio · house 9

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  5. Mars in Aquarius · house 12

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

  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.

  9. Neptune in Aquarius · house 12

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

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

  10. Pluto in Aries · house 2

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Pisces · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In bearing and first impression.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Cancer · house 5

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Scorpio · house 9

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

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

The tightest aspects

  1. Jupiter Uranus · trine, orb 0.26°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.

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

  2. Sun Moon · sextile, orb 0.36°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the need for safety, and the habits that supply it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Moon Mars · square, orb 0.75°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it obstruct each other.

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

  4. Sun True Node · sextile, orb 0.67°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Venus Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.98°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Mercury AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.67°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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