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Christa McAuliffe

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Christa McAuliffe

2 September 1948 · 22:13 America/New_York
Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 42.36°N 71.06°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 Virgo · house 5

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

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

  2. Moon in Virgo · house 5

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

  3. Mercury in Virgo · house 5

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.

    In the things done because they are wanted.

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  5. Mars in Libra · house 6

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 7

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

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

  7. Saturn in Leo · house 4

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  8. Uranus in Cancer · house 2

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 6

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 4

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  11. True Node in Taurus · house 12

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Scorpio · house 6

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.

  13. Lilith in Pisces · house 11

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Lilith · opposition, orb 0.20°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what was refused, and refuses in turn face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  2. Mars Uranus · trine, orb 0.42°

    The capacity to want something and go at 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.

  3. Venus AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.38°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Mercury Uranus · square, orb 0.98°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the impulse to break a pattern that still works obstruct each other.

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

  5. Moon True Node · trine, orb 1.42°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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.

  6. Mars Saturn · sextile, orb 1.65°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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