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 Capricorn · house 2

   The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

2. ☽ Moon in Scorpio · house 12

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

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

3. ☿ Mercury in Capricorn · house 2

   The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

   In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

4. ♀ Venus in Pisces · house 4

   What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

5. ♂ Mars in Cancer · house 8 ℞

   The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

   Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

6. ♃ Jupiter in Libra · house 11

   The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

   Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

7. ♄ Saturn in Aquarius · house 3

   The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

   In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

8. ♅ Uranus in Capricorn · house 2

   The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued soberly, and with the long arithmetic done.

   In the matter of keep and livelihood.

9. ♆ Neptune in Capricorn · house 2

   The pull toward what has no edges, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

10. ♇ Pluto in Scorpio · house 12

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

11. ☊ True Node in Sagittarius · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

12. ⚷ Chiron in Leo · house 9 ℞

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

13. ⚸ Lilith in Pisces · house 4

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

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

The tightest aspects

1. ♂ Mars ◻ ♃ Jupiter · square, orb 0.05°

   The capacity to want something and go at it and the appetite for more room than is currently available obstruct each other.

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

2. ♅ Uranus ☌ ♆ Neptune · conjunction, orb 0.35°

   The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

   Neither can act without the other coming along.

3. ☽ Moon △ ♀ Venus · trine, orb 0.86°

   The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near run together easily.

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

4. ♀ Venus △ ♂ Mars · trine, orb 1.04°

   What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the capacity to want something and go at it run together easily.

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

5. ⚸ Lilith ☍ MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 1.41°

   What was refused, and refuses in turn 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.

6. ☉ Sun ⚹ ♇ Pluto · sextile, orb 1.30°

   The drive to be someone in particular and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

   Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →