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Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
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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 Libra · house 5
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
☽ Moon in Libra · house 5
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.
In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.
☿ Mercury in Libra · house 5
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.
In the things done because they are wanted.
♀ Venus in Virgo · house 4
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.
♂ Mars in Virgo · house 4
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.
At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.
♃ Jupiter in Virgo · house 4
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.
In the foundations, where the line comes from.
♄ Saturn in Gemini · house 12 ℞
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♅ Uranus in Capricorn · house 8
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
♆ Neptune in Capricorn · house 7
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
♇ Pluto in Aries · house 11 ℞
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
☊ True Node in Sagittarius · house 6 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Aries · house 11 ℞
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.
In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚸ Lilith in Aries · house 11
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.
Among the people chosen rather than given.
The tightest aspects
☽ Moon ◻ ♅ Uranus · square, orb 0.06°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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.
♀ Venus ◻ ☊ True Node · square, orb 0.30°
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.
♄ Saturn ☌ AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.45°
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the face a life presents before it says anything are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
♄ Saturn △ MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.42°
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♂ Mars ☌ ♃ Jupiter · conjunction, orb 0.57°
The capacity to want something and go at it and the appetite for more room than is currently available are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
☉ Sun ☍ ⚷ Chiron · opposition, orb 0.96°
The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.