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Jaap Bakema

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Jaap Bakema

8 March 1914 · 16:00 Europe/Amsterdam
Groningen, Netherlands · 53.22°N 6.57°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 Pisces · house 7

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  2. Moon in Cancer · house 11

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  3. Mercury in Pisces · house 7

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Pisces · house 7

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.

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

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 11

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  6. Jupiter in Aquarius · house 6

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 6

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 11

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

    Among the people chosen rather than given.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Pisces · house 7

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

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

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 7

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 8

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. True Node Chiron · conjunction, orb 0.12°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Saturn Lilith · sextile, orb 0.37°

    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.

  3. Jupiter Uranus · conjunction, orb 0.74°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the impulse to break a pattern that still works are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Jupiter Lilith · sextile, orb 0.92°

    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.

  5. Jupiter Saturn · trine, orb 1.29°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available 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.

  6. Venus MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 1.12°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →