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Artemus Ward

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26 April 1834 · 22:56 America/Detroit
Waterford, ME, United States · 42.69°N 83.41°W
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 Taurus · house 4

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  2. Moon in Sagittarius · house 12

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  3. Mercury in Aries · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  4. Venus in Taurus · house 5

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  5. Mars in Pisces · house 3

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  6. Jupiter in Taurus · house 5

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 9

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 2

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  9. Neptune in Aquarius · house 1

    The pull toward what has no edges, 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.

  10. Pluto in Aries · house 3

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

  11. True Node in Gemini · house 7

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 5

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    In the things done because they are wanted.

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 3

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

    In the daily traffic of information.

The tightest aspects

  1. Neptune Lilith · sextile, orb 0.23°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Moon AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.66°

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

  4. Uranus AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.83°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Moon Uranus · sextile, orb 1.49°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply 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.

  6. Venus Mars · sextile, orb 1.49°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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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