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Curt Sachs
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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 Cancer · house 4
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.
☽ Moon in Leo · house 5
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
☿ Mercury in Leo · house 5
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.
In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.
♀ Venus in Taurus · house 1
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.
♂ Mars in Taurus · house 1
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.
In bearing and first impression.
♃ Jupiter in Taurus · house 1
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.
At the threshold, before anything is said.
♄ Saturn in Taurus · house 1
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.
♅ Uranus in Virgo · house 6
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
♆ Neptune in Taurus · house 1
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.
In bearing and first impression.
♇ Pluto in Taurus · house 2
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.
☊ True Node in Sagittarius · house 9 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, 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.
⚷ Chiron in Taurus · house 1
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.
At the threshold, before anything is said.
⚸ Lilith in Leo · house 5
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by backing itself, publicly.
In the things done because they are wanted.
The tightest aspects
♄ Saturn △ ♅ Uranus · trine, orb 0.59°
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.
☽ Moon ◻ ♆ Neptune · square, orb 0.97°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
☿ Mercury ☌ ⚸ Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.99°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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 △ MC Midheaven · trine, orb 1.81°
The capacity to want something and go at 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.
♃ Jupiter ☌ ♆ Neptune · conjunction, orb 1.96°
The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
☉ Sun ⚹ ♄ Saturn · sextile, orb 1.63°
The drive to be someone in particular 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.