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André Suarès

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André Suarès

12 June 1868 · 12:00 Europe/Paris
Marseille, 13, France · 43.30°N 5.38°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 Gemini · house 9

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  2. Moon in Pisces · house 6

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  3. Mercury in Cancer · house 10

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 11

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

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  5. Mars in Taurus · house 8

    How you go after what you want.

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  6. Jupiter in Aries · house 7

    Where you want more room.

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius · house 3

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, 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.

  8. Uranus in Cancer · house 10

    The urge to break something that still works.

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  9. Neptune in Aries · house 7

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 8

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  11. True Node in Leo · house 11

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 7

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

    In one-to-one dealings, allied or opposed.

  13. Lilith in Aquarius · house 5

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Mars Pluto · conjunction, orb 0.00°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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.

  2. Moon Uranus · trine, orb 0.37°

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

  3. Venus Chiron · trine, orb 0.48°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  4. Jupiter Lilith · sextile, orb 0.33°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Mercury Pluto · sextile, orb 0.43°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Mercury Mars · sextile, orb 0.43°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the capacity to want something and go at it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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