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 Leo · house 7

   Who you are being when you are most yourself.

   The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

2. ☽ Moon in Leo · house 8

   What makes you feel safe.

   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 Leo · house 7

   How you think, and how you say it.

   The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

   Across the table, wherever there is another party.

4. ♀ Venus in Cancer · house 6

   What you like, and how you go about liking it.

   What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

5. ♂ Mars in Libra · house 9

   How you go after what you want.

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

   In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

6. ♃ Jupiter in Taurus · house 4

   Where you want more room.

   The appetite for more room than is currently available, 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.

7. ♄ Saturn in Cancer · house 7

   The strict teacher you thank later.

   The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

8. ♅ Uranus in Aquarius · house 1 ℞

   The urge to break something that still works.

   The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

   Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

9. ♆ Neptune in Leo · house 7

   Where the edges go soft.

   The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

   In one-to-one dealings, allied or opposed.

10. ♇ Pluto in Cancer · house 6

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

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

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

11. ☊ True Node in Capricorn · house 1 ℞

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

12. ⚷ Chiron in Pisces · house 2 ℞

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

13. ⚸ Lilith in Cancer · house 6

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

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

    In the unglamorous upkeep of a life.

The tightest aspects

1. ♇ Pluto △ MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.11°

   What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

2. ♀ Venus ☌ ♇ Pluto · conjunction, orb 0.33°

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

3. ♀ Venus △ MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.44°

   What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

4. ♀ Venus ⚹ ♃ Jupiter · sextile, orb 0.44°

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

   Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

5. ♃ Jupiter ☍ MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.88°

   The appetite for more room than is currently available and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.

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

6. ♆ Neptune ◻ MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.95°

   The pull toward what has no edges and the direction a life is aimed in public obstruct each other.

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

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