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Della Reese

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Della Reese

6 July 1931 · 10:00 America/Detroit
Detroit, Michigan, United States · 42.33°N 83.05°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 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Pisces · house 7

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  3. Mercury in Cancer · house 11

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

  4. Venus in Gemini · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  5. Mars in Virgo · house 1

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

    Among the people chosen rather than given.

  7. Saturn in Capricorn · house 5

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 12

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  11. True Node in Aries · house 8

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  13. Lilith in Pisces · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus Lilith · square, orb 0.18°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

    The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.

  2. Saturn Pluto · opposition, orb 0.22°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  3. Mercury Chiron · sextile, orb 0.65°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Moon Jupiter · trine, orb 1.05°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

  5. Mercury Saturn · opposition, orb 1.13°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  6. Sun Mars · sextile, orb 0.89°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the capacity to want something and go at it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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