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Jacques-Charles Derrey

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Jacques-Charles Derrey

22 September 1907 · 23:00 Europe/Paris
Toulouse, Occitanie, France · 43.60°N 1.44°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 Virgo · house 4

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

    At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.

  2. Moon in Aries · house 10

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 4

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

    At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.

  4. Venus in Libra · house 4

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

    At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 7

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  6. Jupiter in Leo · house 2

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  7. Saturn in Pisces · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 7

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 1

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 12

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In bearing and first impression.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 8

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 1

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

    At the threshold, before anything is said.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mars Lilith · opposition, orb 0.36°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn face each other across the chart.

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

  2. Uranus AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.62°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.

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

  3. Moon Mercury · opposition, orb 1.23°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on face each other across the chart.

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

  4. Saturn Pluto · square, orb 1.15°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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.

  5. Moon Chiron · sextile, orb 1.17°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Neptune MC Midheaven · trine, orb 1.24°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →

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