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Curt John Ducasse

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Curt John Ducasse

7 July 1881 · 12:00 Europe/Paris
Angoulême, New Aquitaine, France · 45.65°N 0.15°E
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 Cancer · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 2

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Taurus · house 8

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  5. Mars in Taurus · house 8

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  6. Jupiter in Taurus · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    Where things are held in common, and where they end.

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 8

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  8. Uranus in Virgo · house 11

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  9. Neptune in Taurus · house 8

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 8

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    Where things are held in common, and where they end.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 3

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 8

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  13. Lilith in Leo · house 10

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Jupiter · opposition, orb 0.15°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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.

  2. Saturn Uranus · trine, orb 0.27°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.

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

  3. Mars Uranus · trine, orb 0.49°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.

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

  4. Mars Saturn · conjunction, orb 0.76°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. Sun Neptune · sextile, orb 0.65°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Venus Pluto · conjunction, orb 1.05°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what will not be negotiated with, only survived are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

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