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Claude Durrens

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22 August 1921 · 08:00 Europe/Paris
Cenon, New Aquitaine, France · 44.86°N 0.53°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 Leo · house 12

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

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

  2. Moon in Aries · house 7

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 12

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

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

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 10

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

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

  5. Mars in Leo · house 11

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  6. Jupiter in Virgo · house 1

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  7. Saturn in Virgo · house 1

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    In bearing and first impression.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 6

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 11

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

  11. True Node in Libra · house 2

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 8

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Aquarius · house 5

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

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus True Node · square, orb 0.18°

    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.

  2. Moon Pluto · square, orb 0.75°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply 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.

  3. Neptune Chiron · trine, orb 0.62°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  4. Neptune Lilith · opposition, orb 0.78°

    The pull toward what has no edges 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.

  5. Venus AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.61°

    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.

  6. Sun Mercury · conjunction, orb 1.18°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

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