← Catalogue · orientalist, university teacher, linguist, Protestant theologian
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 Taurus · house 12
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
☽ Moon in Taurus · house 12
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.
Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.
☿ Mercury in Gemini · house 12
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
♀ Venus in Aries · house 11
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
♂ Mars in Aries · house 11
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.
In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.
♃ Jupiter in Libra · house 5 ℞
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♄ Saturn in Aries · house 11
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.
Among the people chosen rather than given.
♅ Uranus in Taurus · house 11
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
♆ Neptune in Pisces · house 10
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
♇ Pluto in Aries · house 11
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
☊ True Node in Cancer · house 3 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Sagittarius · house 6 ℞
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚸ Lilith in Pisces · house 10
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.
At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.
The tightest aspects
☽ Moon ⚹ ♆ Neptune · sextile, orb 0.15°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♇ Pluto ◻ ☊ True Node · square, orb 0.33°
What will not be negotiated with, only survived 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.
☿ Mercury ⚹ ☊ True Node · sextile, orb 0.53°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
⚷ Chiron ☍ AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.73°
The injury that becomes a competence and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
☉ Sun ☌ ☽ Moon · conjunction, orb 1.31°
The drive to be someone in particular and the need for safety, and the habits that supply it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
♅ Uranus ◻ ☊ True Node · square, orb 0.97°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.