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August Derleth

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August Derleth

24 February 1909 · 21:00 America/Chicago
Sauk City, WI, United States · 43.27°N 89.72°W
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 Pisces · house 5

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 7

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 4

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, 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.

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 4

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

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 3

    How you go after what you want.

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  6. Jupiter in Virgo · house 11

    Where you want more room.

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Aries · house 6

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 4

    The urge to break something that still works.

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 9

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, 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.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 9

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Gemini · house 9

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 5

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  13. Lilith in Virgo · house 11

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

The tightest aspects

  1. Pluto Chiron · trine, orb 0.30°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  2. Moon Jupiter · trine, orb 0.76°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

  3. Neptune AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.62°

    The pull toward what has no edges 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.

  4. Pluto True Node · conjunction, orb 1.01°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. Uranus MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 1.53°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

  6. True Node Chiron · trine, orb 1.31°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →