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Germain Nouveau

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Germain Nouveau

31 July 1851 · 10:00 Europe/Paris
Pourrières, 83, France · 43.51°N 5.73°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 Leo · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  2. Moon in Virgo · house 12

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 11

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 9

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  6. Jupiter in Libra · house 1

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, 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.

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 7

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

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

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 7

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  9. Neptune in Pisces · house 5

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 7

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    In one-to-one dealings, allied or opposed.

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 10

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Sagittarius · house 3

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Pisces · house 5

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Uranus · conjunction, orb 0.25°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Moon Chiron · square, orb 0.65°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  3. Jupiter Chiron · sextile, orb 0.54°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Mars AC Ascendant · trine, orb 1.47°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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.

  5. Sun AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 1.58°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Mars Neptune · square, orb 1.92°

    The capacity to want something and go at 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.

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