← Catalogue · resistance fighter, ethnologist, French resistance fighter, anthropologist
Germaine Tillion
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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.
☉ Sun in Gemini · house 9
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.
☽ Moon in Capricorn · house 4
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, 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.
☿ Mercury in Gemini · house 9
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.
In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.
♀ Venus in Taurus · house 8
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
♂ Mars in Capricorn · house 4
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.
At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.
♃ Jupiter in Cancer · house 10
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
♄ Saturn in Pisces · house 7
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
♅ Uranus in Capricorn · house 4 ℞
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued soberly, and with the long arithmetic done.
In the foundations, where the line comes from.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♆ Neptune in Cancer · house 10
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.
At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.
♇ Pluto in Gemini · house 9
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.
In what is believed, and how far it is carried.
☊ True Node in Cancer · house 10 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.
In the public record of a life.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Aquarius · house 5 ℞
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚸ Lilith in Cancer · house 10
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
The tightest aspects
♃ Jupiter ☍ ♅ Uranus · opposition, orb 0.43°
The appetite for more room than is currently available and the impulse to break a pattern that still works face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
☽ Moon ☌ ♂ Mars · conjunction, orb 0.55°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
♅ Uranus ☍ ♆ Neptune · opposition, orb 0.93°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.
♇ Pluto ☌ MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 0.93°
What will not be negotiated with, only survived 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.
☊ True Node ⚹ AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.65°
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♄ Saturn ☍ AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 1.24°
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.