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Artemus Ward
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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 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.
☽ 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.
☿ 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.
♀ 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.
♂ 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.
♃ 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.
♄ 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.
♅ 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.
♆ 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.
♇ 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.
☊ 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.
⚷ 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.
⚸ 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
♆ 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.
☽ 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.
♅ 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.
♅ 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.
☽ 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.
♀ 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.