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George Edward Backus

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24 May 1930 · 10:47 America/Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States · 41.85°N 87.65°W
Placidus houses

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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.

  1. Sun in Gemini · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  2. Moon in Aries · house 9

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  3. Mercury in Taurus · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Gemini · house 11

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  5. Mars in Aries · house 9

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

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

  6. Jupiter in Gemini · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

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

  7. Saturn in Capricorn · house 5

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 9

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

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

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 1

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 12

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

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

  11. True Node in Taurus · house 9

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 10

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

  13. Lilith in Aquarius · house 6

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

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Pluto · square, orb 0.19°

    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. True Node MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 0.25°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Uranus AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.34°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

  4. Mars Jupiter · sextile, orb 0.47°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the appetite for more room than is currently available assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Sun Neptune · square, orb 1.90°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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. Chiron AC Ascendant · square, orb 1.67°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the face a life presents before it says anything obstruct each other.

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

How these readings are put together →