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 3
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
☽ Moon in Virgo · house 7
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
☿ Mercury in Gemini · house 4
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.
♀ Venus in Cancer · house 5
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
♂ Mars in Leo · house 6
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
♃ Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 10 ℞
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♄ Saturn in Leo · house 6
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.
In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.
♅ Uranus in Gemini · house 4
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.
At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.
♆ Neptune in Libra · house 8 ℞
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♇ Pluto in Leo · house 6
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by backing itself, publicly.
In the unglamorous upkeep of a life.
☊ True Node in Taurus · house 3
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.
In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.
⚷ Chiron in Scorpio · house 9 ℞
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚸ Lilith in Aquarius · house 12
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
The tightest aspects
♂ Mars ☍ AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.22°
The capacity to want something and go at it 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 ☍ MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 1.40°
The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
☽ Moon ◻ ☿ Mercury · square, orb 1.39°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
☿ Mercury ⚹ ♄ Saturn · sextile, orb 1.05°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♂ Mars ◻ MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.53°
The capacity to want something and go at 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.
♇ Pluto ◻ ☊ True Node · square, orb 1.35°
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.