← Catalogue · novelist, science fiction writer
Douglas Lain
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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 Capricorn · house 11
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
☽ Moon in Libra · house 9
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.
☿ Mercury in Capricorn · house 12 ℞
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♀ Venus in Scorpio · house 10
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
♂ Mars in Scorpio · house 9
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.
♃ Jupiter in Scorpio · house 10
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.
At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.
♄ Saturn in Taurus · house 4 ℞
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♅ Uranus in Libra · house 8
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
♆ Neptune in Sagittarius · house 10
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
♇ Pluto in Virgo · house 8
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
☊ True Node in Aquarius · house 1 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Aries · house 2
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.
⚸ Lilith in Virgo · house 8
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.
In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.
The tightest aspects
☿ Mercury ◻ ♅ Uranus · square, orb 0.22°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the impulse to break a pattern that still works obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
♃ Jupiter ⚹ AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.24°
The appetite for more room than is currently available and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♃ Jupiter ◻ ☊ True Node · square, orb 0.44°
The appetite for more room than is currently available and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
☉ Sun ◻ ♇ Pluto · square, orb 0.67°
The drive to be someone in particular 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.
♄ Saturn ☍ MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.65°
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
☿ Mercury △ ⚸ Lilith · trine, orb 0.75°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.