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Fritz Brandau

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10 January 1911 · 10:35 Europe/Berlin
Düsseldorf, Germany · 51.22°N 6.78°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 Capricorn · house 11

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 2

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

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

  3. Mercury in Capricorn · house 11

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Capricorn · house 12

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  5. Mars in Sagittarius · house 9

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  7. Saturn in Aries · house 1

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 11

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued soberly, and with the long arithmetic done.

    Among the people chosen rather than given.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 5

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 4

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, 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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Taurus · house 2

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 12

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

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

  13. Lilith in Sagittarius · house 9

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

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus Saturn · square, orb 0.04°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it obstruct each other.

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

  2. Saturn Chiron · sextile, orb 0.03°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Sun Mercury · conjunction, orb 0.08°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Moon True Node · conjunction, orb 0.36°

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

  5. Sun Neptune · opposition, orb 1.16°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the pull toward what has no edges face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  6. Mercury Neptune · opposition, orb 1.09°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the pull toward what has no edges face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

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