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Bernard Boutet de Monvel
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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.
☉ Sun in Leo · house 7
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
☽ Moon in Aquarius · house 1
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, 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.
☿ Mercury in Cancer · house 7
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
♀ Venus in Cancer · house 6
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
♂ Mars in Gemini · house 4
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.
♃ Jupiter in Taurus · house 4
The appetite for more room than is currently available, 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.
♄ Saturn in Taurus · house 3
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
♅ Uranus in Virgo · house 8
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
♆ Neptune in Taurus · house 4
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.
At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.
♇ Pluto in Taurus · house 4
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.
In the foundations, where the line comes from.
☊ True Node in Sagittarius · house 11 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Taurus · house 4
The injury that becomes a competence, 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.
⚸ Lilith in Leo · house 7
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.
Across the table, wherever there is another party.
The tightest aspects
♄ Saturn △ ♅ Uranus · trine, orb 0.21°
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
☉ Sun ◻ ♆ Neptune · square, orb 0.63°
The drive to be someone in particular and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
☉ Sun △ ☊ True Node · trine, orb 0.82°
The drive to be someone in particular 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.
☿ Mercury ⚹ ♇ Pluto · sextile, orb 0.59°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♄ Saturn ☍ MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 1.07°
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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.
♅ Uranus ⚹ MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 0.85°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.