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Barbara Hand Clow

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14 February 1943 · 19:22 America/Detroit
Saginaw, MI, United States · 43.42°N 83.95°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 Aquarius · house 6

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  2. Moon in Gemini · house 10

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  3. Mercury in Capricorn · house 5

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  4. Venus in Pisces · house 7

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

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

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

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

  8. Uranus in Gemini · house 10

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.

    In the public record of a life.

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 2

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 12

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Leo · house 12

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

  12. Chiron in Leo · house 12

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    In the part that operates without being watched.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 11

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Pluto · sextile, orb 0.02°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Sun True Node · opposition, orb 0.42°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  3. Sun Chiron · opposition, orb 0.89°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  4. Venus Jupiter · trine, orb 0.75°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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.

  5. Uranus AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.87°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

  6. Uranus Neptune · trine, orb 0.99°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky