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Ivano Fossati

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Ivano Fossati

21 September 1951 · 08:40 Europe/Rome
Genoa, Italy · 44.40°N 8.94°E
Placidus houses

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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 Virgo · house 11

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Gemini · house 8

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  3. Mercury in Virgo · house 11

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

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

  4. Venus in Virgo · house 10

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

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  5. Mars in Leo · house 10

    How you go after what you want.

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  6. Jupiter in Aries · house 6

    Where you want more room.

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 12

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  8. Uranus in Cancer · house 9

    The urge to break something that still works.

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 12

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  11. True Node in Pisces · house 5

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Sagittarius · house 3

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 9

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Chiron · square, orb 0.41°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  2. Mars Pluto · conjunction, orb 0.85°

    The capacity to want something and go at 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.

  3. Mercury True Node · opposition, orb 1.13°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into face each other across the chart.

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

  4. True Node Lilith · trine, orb 0.86°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  5. Jupiter Lilith · square, orb 1.87°

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

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

  6. Moon Saturn · trine, orb 2.59°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it run together easily.

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

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