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Georges Balagny

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Georges Balagny

16 February 1837 · 12:00 Europe/Paris
Paris, France · 48.85°N 2.35°E
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 Aquarius · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  2. Moon in Cancer · house 1

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 9

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 9

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

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

  5. Mars in Leo · house 3

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  6. Jupiter in Leo · house 3

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 6

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 10

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

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

  9. Neptune in Aquarius · house 9

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued independently, and slightly against the grain.

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

  10. Pluto in Aries · house 11

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  11. True Node in Taurus · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 12

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 2

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Neptune · conjunction, orb 0.30°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Uranus True Node · sextile, orb 0.18°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

  3. Venus True Node · square, orb 0.39°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

  4. Mars Pluto · trine, orb 1.13°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  5. Sun AC Ascendant · trine, orb 1.36°

    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.

  6. Moon Pluto · square, orb 1.57°

    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.

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