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Ferdinand de Saussure

26 November 1857 · 15:00 Europe/Zurich
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland · 46.20°N 6.15°E
Placidus houses

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Reading

Put together from what the tradition attributes to each body, sign and house — a portrait to enjoy, not a verdict. The positions beside it are the part that can be checked.

  1. Sun in Sagittarius · house 7

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  2. Moon in Pisces · house 12

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  3. Mercury in Sagittarius · house 8

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.

  4. Venus in Scorpio · house 7

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  5. Mars in Libra · house 6

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Taurus · house 1

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Cancer · house 4

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 1

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In bearing and first impression.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Pisces · house 12

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 12

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Pisces · house 12

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.

    In the part that operates without being watched.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 10

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

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

  13. Lilith in Sagittarius · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

The tightest aspects

  1. Jupiter Chiron · square, orb 0.43°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  2. Moon Saturn · trine, orb 0.59°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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.

  3. Moon Uranus · sextile, orb 0.59°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Pluto AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.93°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the face a life presents before it says anything are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. Mercury Chiron · sextile, orb 0.89°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Mars Chiron · trine, orb 1.51°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →