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David Brinkley

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David Brinkley

10 July 1920 · 04:30 America/New_York
Wilmington, NC, United States · 34.24°N 77.95°W
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 2

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

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

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 11

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 2

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  5. Mars in Libra · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.

  6. Jupiter in Leo · house 3

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

  7. Saturn in Virgo · house 4

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, 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.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 9

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 3

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    In the daily traffic of information.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 1

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.

  11. True Node in Scorpio · house 5

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 11

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  13. Lilith in Sagittarius · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.

The tightest aspects

  1. Neptune Chiron · trine, orb 0.10°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  2. Uranus MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 0.40°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Mercury Neptune · conjunction, orb 0.49°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Mercury Chiron · trine, orb 0.59°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  5. Mars Lilith · sextile, orb 0.44°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Saturn Pluto · sextile, orb 0.58°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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