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 Sagittarius · house 4

   The drive to be someone in particular, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

   At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.

2. ☽ 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.

3. ☿ Mercury in Sagittarius · house 4

   The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

   At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

4. ♀ Venus in Aquarius · house 5

   What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

5. ♂ Mars in Cancer · house 10 ℞

   The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

   Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

6. ♃ Jupiter in Taurus · house 8 ℞

   The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

   Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

7. ♄ Saturn in Sagittarius · house 4

   The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by aiming past the target on principle.

   In the foundations, where the line comes from.

8. ♅ Uranus in Aries · house 7

   The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

9. ♆ Neptune in Virgo · house 12 ℞

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

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

   Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

10. ♇ Pluto in Cancer · house 10 ℞

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, 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.

11. ☊ True Node in Gemini · house 9 ℞

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

12. ⚷ Chiron in Taurus · house 8 ℞

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

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

13. ⚸ Lilith in Sagittarius · house 3

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

The tightest aspects

1. ☽ Moon △ ♆ Neptune · trine, orb 0.13°

   The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

2. ☿ Mercury ◻ AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.26°

   The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.

3. ☉ Sun ☌ ♄ Saturn · conjunction, orb 0.55°

   The drive to be someone in particular 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.

4. ♇ Pluto ⚹ AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.40°

   What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

   Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

5. ♀ Venus ◻ ♃ Jupiter · square, orb 0.64°

   What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the appetite for more room than is currently available obstruct each other.

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

6. ☽ Moon △ ♃ Jupiter · trine, orb 0.78°

   The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →