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Alda Merini

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Alda Merini

21 March 1931 · 05:00 Europe/Rome
Milan, Lombardy, Italy · 45.46°N 9.19°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 Pisces · house 1

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  2. Moon in Aries · house 2

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  3. Mercury in Aries · house 1

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 12

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 6

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 5

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

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

  7. Saturn in Capricorn · house 12

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 2

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 7

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aries · house 2

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

    In the matter of keep and livelihood.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 3

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  13. Lilith in Pisces · house 1

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In bearing and first impression.

The tightest aspects

  1. Uranus True Node · conjunction, orb 0.09°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Venus AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.67°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the face a life presents before it says anything are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Moon Pluto · square, orb 0.90°

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

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

  4. Sun Mars · trine, orb 1.24°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the capacity to want something and go at it run together easily.

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

  5. Moon AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 1.38°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Moon Saturn · square, orb 2.16°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it obstruct each other.

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

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