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Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard

19 June 1856 · 07:00 America/Chicago
Bloomington, IL, United States · 40.48°N 88.99°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 Gemini · house 12

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  2. Moon in Capricorn · house 6

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.

  3. Mercury in Cancer · house 12

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Gemini · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  5. Mars in Libra · house 3

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  6. Jupiter in Aries · house 9

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  7. Saturn in Cancer · house 12

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

  8. 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.

  9. Neptune in Pisces · house 9

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  11. True Node in Aries · house 10

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 7

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Libra · house 3

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Lilith · square, orb 0.10°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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. Pluto Chiron · square, orb 0.47°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  3. Venus Neptune · square, orb 0.67°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

  4. Moon Mars · square, orb 1.02°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it obstruct each other.

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

  5. Moon MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.23°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is aimed in public obstruct each other.

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

  6. Mercury Saturn · conjunction, orb 1.49°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →