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François-Vincent Raspail

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François-Vincent Raspail

25 January 1794 · 22:00 Europe/Paris
Carpentras, 84, France · 44.06°N 5.05°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 Aquarius · house 4

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

    The drive to be someone in particular, 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.

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 2

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  3. Mercury in Capricorn · house 4

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, 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.

  4. Venus in Capricorn · house 4

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

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

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

  5. Mars in Libra · house 1

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

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 3

    Where you want more room.

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 8

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  8. Uranus in Leo · house 11

    The urge to break something that still works.

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Scorpio · house 2

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  10. Pluto in Aquarius · house 5

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  11. True Node in Leo · house 11

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Leo · house 10

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Virgo · house 12

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Pluto · square, orb 0.00°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived obstruct each other.

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

  2. Sun AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.04°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  3. Uranus True Node · conjunction, orb 0.26°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

  4. Jupiter Pluto · sextile, orb 0.23°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Moon Venus · sextile, orb 0.55°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. AC Ascendant MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.22°

    The face a life presents before it says anything 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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