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Cornelius de Pauw

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18 August 1739 · birth time unknown
Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands · 52.37°N 4.89°E
Houses suppressed

No birth time. Date known, time unknown. Houses and angles cannot be drawn. The wheel below shows the planets, which a date alone can fix to within a degree — but no Ascendant, Midheaven or house cusps, because those move a full circle every twenty-four hours.

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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

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

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

  2. Moon in Aquarius

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

  3. Mercury in Virgo

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

  4. Venus in Leo

    What you like, and how you go about liking it.

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

  5. Mars in Virgo

    How you go after what you want.

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

  6. Jupiter in Gemini

    Where you want more room.

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

  7. Saturn in Cancer

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn

    The urge to break something that still works.

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Cancer

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

  10. Pluto in Scorpio

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

  11. True Node in Leo

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Gemini

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

  13. Lilith in Cancer

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.25°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Moon Chiron · trine, orb 1.09°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  3. Neptune Pluto · trine, orb 0.97°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  4. Mercury Saturn · sextile, orb 0.92°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.

  5. Venus Jupiter · sextile, orb 0.95°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the appetite for more room than is currently available assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Venus Pluto · square, orb 1.53°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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.

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky