← Catalogue · short story writer, prose writer, translator, playwright +5
Ivan Turgenev
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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.
☉ Sun in Scorpio · house 9
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.
☽ Moon in Aries · house 2
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.
☿ Mercury in Scorpio · house 9
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.
In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.
♀ Venus in Capricorn · house 12
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
♂ Mars in Scorpio · house 10
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
♃ Jupiter in Capricorn · house 12
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.
Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.
♄ Saturn in Pisces · house 2 ℞
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, 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.
♅ Uranus in Sagittarius · house 11
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
♆ 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.
♇ Pluto in Pisces · house 2 ℞
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.
In resources, and in what is judged valuable.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
☊ True Node in Aries · house 3
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
⚷ Chiron in Pisces · house 2 ℞
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.
In the matter of keep and livelihood.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚸ Lilith in Cancer · house 6
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
The tightest aspects
☉ Sun ☌ ☿ Mercury · conjunction, orb 0.37°
The drive to be someone in particular 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.
♆ Neptune ◻ ♇ Pluto · square, orb 0.29°
The pull toward what has no edges 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.
♂ Mars ☌ MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 0.39°
The capacity to want something and go at it and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
♄ Saturn ⚹ AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.27°
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♀ Venus △ ☊ True Node · trine, orb 0.85°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♃ Jupiter ☌ AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 1.07°
The appetite for more room than is currently available and the face a life presents before it says anything are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.