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Alfred de Musset

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Alfred de Musset

11 December 1810 · 11:00 Europe/Paris
Paris, Île-de-France, France · 48.85°N 2.35°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 Sagittarius · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  2. Moon in Gemini · house 4

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  3. Mercury in Sagittarius · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

  4. Venus in Capricorn · house 12

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  5. Mars in Libra · house 8

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  6. Jupiter in Taurus · house 3

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by aiming past the target on principle.

    In the public record of a life.

  8. Uranus in Scorpio · house 9

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  9. Neptune in Sagittarius · house 10

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  10. Pluto in Pisces · house 1

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  11. True Node in Libra · house 7

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  13. Lilith in Leo · house 6

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Lilith AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.19°

    What was refused, and refuses in turn and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  2. Saturn Chiron · sextile, orb 0.32°

    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.

  3. Sun Mercury · conjunction, orb 0.87°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Sun Saturn · conjunction, orb 0.95°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. Venus Pluto · sextile, orb 0.57°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Uranus Chiron · square, orb 0.91°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

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