← Catalogue · inventor, engineer, railway engineer
Alphonse Beau de Rochas
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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.
☉ Sun in Aries · house 7
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
☽ Moon in Aries · house 7
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.
Across the table, wherever there is another party.
☿ Mercury in Pisces · house 5
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
♀ Venus in Taurus · house 8
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
♂ Mars in Aquarius · house 4
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.
♃ Jupiter in Libra · house 12 ℞
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♄ Saturn in Aquarius · house 4
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.
At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.
♅ Uranus in Sagittarius · house 2 ℞
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♆ Neptune in Sagittarius · house 3 ℞
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♇ Pluto in Pisces · house 5
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.
In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.
☊ True Node in Cancer · house 9 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Pisces · house 5
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.
In the things done because they are wanted.
⚸ Lilith in Aquarius · house 4
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued independently, and slightly against the grain.
In the foundations, where the line comes from.
The tightest aspects
♂ Mars ☌ ⚸ Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.07°
The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
☉ Sun ☌ ☽ Moon · conjunction, orb 0.26°
The drive to be someone in particular and the need for safety, and the habits that supply it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
♅ Uranus ⚹ ⚸ Lilith · sextile, orb 0.14°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♂ Mars ⚹ ♅ Uranus · sextile, orb 0.20°
The capacity to want something and go at it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
☿ Mercury ☌ ♇ Pluto · conjunction, orb 0.38°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.
☉ Sun ◻ MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.39°
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.