← Catalogue · organist, conductor, pianist, composer
Carl Arnold (composer)
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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.
☉ Sun in Taurus · house 5
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
☽ Moon in Leo · house 8
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
☿ Mercury in Aries · house 3
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
♀ Venus in Taurus · house 5
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.
In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.
♂ Mars in Libra · house 10 ℞
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♃ Jupiter in Capricorn · house 1 ℞
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♄ Saturn in Taurus · house 5
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.
In the things done because they are wanted.
♅ Uranus in Leo · house 8
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.
In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.
♆ Neptune in Scorpio · house 10 ℞
The pull toward what has no edges, 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.
♇ Pluto in Aquarius · house 2
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.
☊ True Node in Leo · house 8
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by backing itself, publicly.
Where things are held in common, and where they end.
⚷ Chiron in Leo · house 8
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
⚸ Lilith in Virgo · house 9
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.
The tightest aspects
☉ Sun ◻ ☽ Moon · square, orb 0.01°
The drive to be someone in particular and the need for safety, and the habits that supply it obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
☿ Mercury ☍ MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.11°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.
☿ Mercury △ AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.47°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.
AC Ascendant ⚹ MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 0.58°
The face a life presents before it says anything and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♃ Jupiter ⚹ ♆ Neptune · sextile, orb 0.79°
The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♅ Uranus ☌ ☊ True Node · conjunction, orb 1.42°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.