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Ian Thorpe

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Ian Thorpe

13 October 1982 · 10:52 Australia/Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 33.87°S 151.21°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 Libra · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  2. Moon in Leo · house 8

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 9

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  4. Venus in Libra · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

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

  5. Mars in Sagittarius · house 11

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.

    In the public record of a life.

  8. Uranus in Sagittarius · house 11

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

  9. Neptune in Sagittarius · house 12

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  10. Pluto in Libra · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 6

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 5

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 12

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.24°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

  2. Saturn Neptune · sextile, orb 0.19°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Mercury Uranus · sextile, orb 0.43°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the impulse to break a pattern that still works assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Venus Lilith · square, orb 1.02°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  5. Jupiter Lilith · sextile, orb 1.34°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Saturn Pluto · conjunction, orb 2.10°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

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