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Barthold Theodoor Willem van Hasselt

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Barthold Theodoor Willem van Hasselt

7 November 1896 · 22:00 Europe/Amsterdam
Leiden, South Holland, The Netherlands · 52.16°N 4.49°E
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 Scorpio · house 4

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  2. Moon in Sagittarius · house 5

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

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

  3. Mercury in Scorpio · house 4

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

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

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 5

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 11

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  6. 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.

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 4

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued privately, and with more force than is displayed.

    In the foundations, where the line comes from.

  8. Uranus in Scorpio · house 4

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  9. Neptune in Gemini · house 11

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 11

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.

    Among the people chosen rather than given.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 7

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Scorpio · house 4

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

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

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 10

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Neptune True Node · trine, orb 0.46°

    The pull toward what has no edges 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.

  2. Mercury Chiron · conjunction, orb 0.71°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Pluto AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.45°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Saturn True Node · square, orb 0.85°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

    The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.

  5. Moon MC Midheaven · trine, orb 1.47°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  6. Venus Neptune · opposition, orb 2.33°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the pull toward what has no edges face each other across the chart.

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

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