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Howard V. Herndon

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7 September 1880 · 03:58 America/Chicago
Austin, TX, United States · 30.27°N 97.74°W
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 Virgo · house 2

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

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

  2. Moon in Libra · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Virgo · house 1

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

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

  4. Venus in Libra · house 2

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  5. Mars in Libra · house 2

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  6. Jupiter in Aries · house 9

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Aries · house 9

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Virgo · house 2

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  9. Neptune in Taurus · house 10

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Capricorn · house 5

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 10

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    In the public record of a life.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Gemini · house 11

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Lilith · sextile, orb 0.18°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Venus Mars · conjunction, orb 0.41°

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

  3. Neptune AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.35°

    The pull toward what has no edges 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.

  4. Moon Jupiter · opposition, orb 0.56°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the appetite for more room than is currently available face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Sun Neptune · trine, orb 0.90°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  6. Uranus MC Midheaven · trine, orb 1.11°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky