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Conrad Aiken
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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.
☉ Sun in Leo · house 7
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
☽ Moon in Sagittarius · house 10
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
☿ Mercury in Leo · house 7
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.
Across the table, wherever there is another party.
♀ Venus in Gemini · house 5
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
♂ Mars in Cancer · house 6
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
♃ Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 11 ℞
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♄ Saturn in Leo · house 7
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by backing itself, publicly.
In one-to-one dealings, allied or opposed.
♅ Uranus in Libra · house 8
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
♆ 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.
♇ Pluto in Gemini · house 4
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.
At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.
☊ True Node in Cancer · house 6
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.
In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.
⚷ Chiron in Cancer · house 6
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.
In the unglamorous upkeep of a life.
⚸ 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
♀ Venus ☍ ♃ Jupiter · opposition, orb 0.92°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the appetite for more room than is currently available face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
♀ Venus ☌ ⚸ Lilith · conjunction, orb 1.11°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
♂ Mars ☍ AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 1.45°
The capacity to want something and go at it and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
☉ Sun ☌ ☿ Mercury · conjunction, orb 2.05°
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.
☽ Moon ☍ ♆ Neptune · opposition, orb 2.10°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
☽ Moon ⚹ AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 1.50°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.