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Brian C. Cook

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23 August 1939 · 15:15 America/Chicago
Green Bay, WI, United States · 44.52°N 88.02°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 Leo · house 8

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.

  2. Moon in Sagittarius · house 1

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

    In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 8

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  4. Venus in Leo · house 8

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    Where things are held in common, and where they end.

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 2

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  6. Jupiter in Aries · house 4

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 4

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, 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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 5

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 9

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 8

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

    In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.

  11. True Node in Scorpio · house 10

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Cancer · house 7

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  13. Lilith in Aquarius · house 2

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Jupiter MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.21°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available 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.

  2. Uranus Neptune · trine, orb 0.24°

    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.

  3. Saturn True Node · opposition, orb 0.36°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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.

  4. Pluto True Node · square, orb 0.34°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived 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 Neptune · square, orb 0.46°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

  6. Saturn Pluto · square, orb 0.69°

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

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

How these readings are put together →