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Ben Folds

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Ben Folds

12 September 1966 · 22:06 America/New_York
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States · 36.10°N 80.24°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 Virgo · house 5

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  2. Moon in Leo · house 4

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  3. Mercury in Virgo · house 5

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

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

  4. Venus in Virgo · house 5

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.

    In the things done because they are wanted.

  5. Mars in Leo · house 4

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  7. Saturn in Pisces · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Virgo · house 5

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  9. Neptune in Scorpio · house 7

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  10. Pluto in Virgo · house 5

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

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

  11. True Node in Taurus · house 12

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 11

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Pisces · house 11

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.

    Among the people chosen rather than given.

The tightest aspects

  1. Pluto Lilith · opposition, orb 0.01°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and what was refused, and refuses in turn face each other across the chart.

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

  2. Sun Neptune · sextile, orb 0.05°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Sun Uranus · conjunction, orb 0.17°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the impulse to break a pattern that still works are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Uranus Neptune · sextile, orb 0.12°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Pluto AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.18°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  6. Lilith AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.19°

    What was refused, and refuses in turn and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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