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Jacques Ellul

6 January 1912 · 16:00 Europe/Paris
Bordeaux, New Aquitaine, France · 44.84°N 0.58°W
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 Capricorn · house 7

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  2. Moon in Leo · house 2

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  3. Mercury in Sagittarius · house 6

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 6

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

  5. Mars in Taurus · house 11

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 6

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by aiming past the target on principle.

    In the unglamorous upkeep of a life.

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aries · house 11

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Lilith · trine, orb 0.20°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  2. Lilith MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 0.23°

    What was refused, and refuses in turn and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Pluto True Node · sextile, orb 0.29°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Saturn MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 0.43°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Uranus True Node · square, orb 1.21°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

  6. Venus Chiron · square, orb 1.40°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

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