← Catalogue · pharmacist, professor, chemist
Antoine-Jérôme Balard
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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.
☉ Sun in Libra · house 3
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
☽ Moon in Scorpio · house 4
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.
☿ Mercury in Libra · house 3
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.
In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.
♀ Venus in Scorpio · house 4
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.
At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.
♂ Mars in Cancer · house 11
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
♃ Jupiter in Virgo · house 2
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.
♄ Saturn in Virgo · house 2
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.
In resources, and in what is judged valuable.
♅ Uranus in Libra · house 3
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.
In the daily traffic of information.
♆ Neptune in Scorpio · house 4
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued privately, and with more force than is displayed.
In the foundations, where the line comes from.
♇ Pluto in Pisces · house 8 ℞
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
☊ True Node in Pisces · house 8 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.
In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Sagittarius · house 5
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
⚸ Lilith in Virgo · house 2
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.
In the matter of keep and livelihood.
The tightest aspects
☽ Moon ◻ AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.29°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the face a life presents before it says anything obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
☿ Mercury ☍ MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.77°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
☉ Sun ☌ ♅ Uranus · conjunction, orb 0.89°
The drive to be someone in particular and the impulse to break a pattern that still works are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
☽ Moon △ ☊ True Node · trine, orb 1.23°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♃ Jupiter ⚹ ♆ Neptune · sextile, orb 0.87°
The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♀ Venus ⚹ ♃ Jupiter · sextile, orb 1.14°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the appetite for more room than is currently available assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.