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Ferdinand Waldo Demara

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12 December 1921 · 07:30 America/New_York
Lawrence, MA, United States · 42.71°N 71.16°W
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 12

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

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

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

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 5

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  3. Mercury in Sagittarius · house 12

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 12

    What you like, and how you go about liking it.

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by aiming past the target on principle.

    In the part that operates without being watched.

  5. Mars in Libra · house 10

    How you go after what you want.

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Libra · house 9

    Where you want more room.

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 9

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 2

    The urge to break something that still works.

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 8

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 7

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Libra · house 9

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.

    In what is believed, and how far it is carried.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 3

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Aquarius · house 2

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus Uranus · square, orb 0.12°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the impulse to break a pattern that still works obstruct each other.

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

  2. Pluto Chiron · square, orb 0.12°

    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. Neptune True Node · sextile, orb 0.25°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Venus Saturn · sextile, orb 0.58°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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.

  5. Moon Neptune · square, orb 0.89°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

  6. Jupiter True Node · conjunction, orb 1.19°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →