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9 December 1898 · 11:45 America/Los_Angeles
San Luis Obispo, CA, United States · 35.28°N 120.66°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 Sagittarius · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  2. Moon in Libra · house 8

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  3. Mercury in Capricorn · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 9

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  5. Mars in Leo · house 6

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius · house 9

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

  8. Uranus in Sagittarius · house 9

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by aiming past the target on principle.

    In what is believed, and how far it is carried.

  9. Neptune in Gemini · house 4

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 3

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Capricorn · house 11

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Sagittarius · house 9

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 5

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus Chiron · conjunction, orb 0.16°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Saturn MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 0.31°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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.

  3. Venus Uranus · conjunction, orb 0.35°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the impulse to break a pattern that still works are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Saturn Pluto · opposition, orb 0.45°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Chiron AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.40°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the face a life presents before it says anything obstruct each other.

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

  6. Uranus Chiron · conjunction, orb 0.51°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →