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Édouard Cortès
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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 Leo · house 10
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
☽ Moon in Taurus · house 7
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
☿ Mercury in Leo · house 10
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.
At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.
♀ Venus in Virgo · house 11
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
♂ Mars in Virgo · house 11
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.
In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.
♃ Jupiter in Gemini · house 9
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.
♄ Saturn in Taurus · house 8
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
♅ Uranus in Virgo · house 11
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.
Among the people chosen rather than given.
♆ Neptune in Taurus · house 8
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.
In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.
♇ Pluto in Gemini · house 8
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
☊ True Node in Scorpio · house 2
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.
⚷ Chiron in Taurus · house 8
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.
Where things are held in common, and where they end.
⚸ Lilith in Virgo · house 11
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
The tightest aspects
☽ Moon △ ♅ Uranus · trine, orb 0.53°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♅ Uranus ☌ ⚸ Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.52°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
♀ Venus △ ♄ Saturn · trine, orb 0.80°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♀ Venus ◻ ♃ Jupiter · square, orb 0.85°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the appetite for more room than is currently available obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
☽ Moon △ ⚸ Lilith · trine, orb 1.05°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
⚷ Chiron ⚹ MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 0.59°
The injury that becomes a competence and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.