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Charles Dawes

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27 August 1865 · 15:32 America/New_York
Marietta, OH, United States · 39.42°N 81.45°W
Placidus houses

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Reading

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.

  1. Sun in Virgo · house 8

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

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

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 10

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  3. Mercury in Virgo · house 9

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 7

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  5. Mars in Virgo · house 9

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 12

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  8. Uranus in Cancer · house 7

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  9. Neptune in Aries · house 3

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 4

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, 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.

  11. True Node in Libra · house 9

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 2

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Libra · house 9

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Venus · sextile, orb 0.30°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Venus MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.42°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is aimed in public obstruct each other.

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

  3. Moon Chiron · trine, orb 0.86°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  4. Venus True Node · square, orb 0.92°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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. True Node MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 1.34°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Sun Uranus · sextile, orb 1.38°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the impulse to break a pattern that still works assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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