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Herbert Thomas Potter

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20 May 1925 · 23:05 Pacific/Auckland
Christchurch, New Zealand · 43.53°S 172.63°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 Taurus · house 4

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Taurus · house 3

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

  4. Venus in Gemini · house 4

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, 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.

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 5

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 9

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 2

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 6

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 5

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  11. True Node in Leo · house 6

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 5

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

    In the things done because they are wanted.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Mercury · conjunction, orb 0.02°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Lilith MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.70°

    What was refused, and refuses in turn and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  3. Venus True Node · sextile, orb 1.35°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Chiron AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 1.54°

    The injury that becomes a competence 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. Saturn Pluto · trine, orb 2.34°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  6. Saturn True Node · square, orb 2.37°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

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