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Henri de Bornier

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Henri de Bornier

24 December 1825 · 10:00 Europe/Paris
Lunel, Occitanie, France · 43.68°N 4.14°E
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 Capricorn · house 11

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  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 Capricorn · house 11

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  5. Mars in Libra · house 8

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  6. Jupiter in Virgo · house 7

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 4

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 12

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  9. Neptune in Capricorn · house 11

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued soberly, and with the long arithmetic done.

    Among the people chosen rather than given.

  10. Pluto in Aries · house 1

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

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

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 10

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 2

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 2

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Pluto · square, orb 0.17°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

  2. Venus Jupiter · square, orb 0.34°

    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.

  3. Mercury Chiron · square, orb 0.55°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  4. Mercury Mars · square, orb 0.71°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the capacity to want something and go at it obstruct each other.

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

  5. Mars Saturn · trine, orb 0.72°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it run together easily.

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

  6. Saturn Chiron · sextile, orb 0.53°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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