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Grandma Moses

7 September 1860 · 15:58 Europe/London
Greenwich, England, United Kingdom · 51.48°N 0.01°W
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 Virgo · house 8

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  2. Moon in Gemini · house 4

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

  3. Mercury in Virgo · house 7

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  4. Venus in Leo · house 7

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 1

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  6. Jupiter in Leo · house 7

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

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  7. Saturn in Virgo · house 7

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  8. Uranus in Gemini · house 5

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  9. Neptune in Pisces · house 2

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 3

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    In bearing and first impression.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Pisces · house 2

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

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus True Node · opposition, orb 0.03°

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

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

  2. Mercury Saturn · conjunction, orb 0.85°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Sun AC Ascendant · trine, orb 1.76°

    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.

  4. Venus Neptune · trine, orb 2.64°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  5. Sun Uranus · square, orb 3.21°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the impulse to break a pattern that still works obstruct each other.

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

  6. Moon Mercury · square, orb 3.41°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on obstruct each other.

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

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