← Catalogue · harpist, religious leader, occultist

Edna Ballard

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25 June 1886 · 08:30 America/Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States · 41.85°N 87.65°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 Aries · house 9

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  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 Taurus · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  5. Mars in Virgo · house 2

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Virgo · house 2

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  7. Saturn in Cancer · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

    Among the people chosen rather than given.

  8. Uranus in Libra · house 2

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  9. Neptune in Taurus · house 10

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  11. True Node in Virgo · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, 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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 10

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

  13. Lilith in Aquarius · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Uranus · square, orb 0.21°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

  2. Mars Neptune · trine, orb 0.21°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  3. Venus Lilith · square, orb 0.38°

    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.

  4. Uranus Pluto · trine, orb 0.38°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  5. Lilith AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.62°

    What was refused, and refuses in turn 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.

  6. Mars Jupiter · conjunction, orb 0.74°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the appetite for more room than is currently available are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky