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Étienne-Jules Marey

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Étienne-Jules Marey

5 March 1830 · 20:00 Europe/Paris
Beaune, Bourgogne, France · 47.02°N 4.84°E
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 Pisces · house 5

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.

  2. Moon in Leo · house 10

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 4

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.

  4. Venus in Pisces · house 5

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 3

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 3

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

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

  7. Saturn in Leo · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 4

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

  9. Neptune in Capricorn · house 4

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.

  10. Pluto in Aries · house 6

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  11. True Node in Virgo · house 12

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 7

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  13. Lilith in Libra · house 1

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.46°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  2. Jupiter Lilith · square, orb 0.76°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  3. Jupiter AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.91°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the face a life presents before it says anything obstruct each other.

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

  4. Moon Chiron · square, orb 1.16°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  5. Saturn Lilith · sextile, orb 0.73°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Lilith MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.10°

    What was refused, and refuses in turn 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.

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