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James Cagney

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James Cagney

17 July 1899 · 09:00 America/New_York
New York, NY, United States · 40.71°N 74.01°W
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 Cancer · house 11

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 12

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  5. Mars in Virgo · house 1

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 2

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius · house 4

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Sagittarius · house 3

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Gemini · house 10

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  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.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 4

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

  12. Chiron in Sagittarius · house 3

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Leo · house 11

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mars Saturn · square, orb 0.14°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it obstruct each other.

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

  2. Pluto Lilith · sextile, orb 0.35°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Pluto AC Ascendant · square, orb 1.01°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the face a life presents before it says anything obstruct each other.

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

  4. Moon AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 1.44°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply 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.

  5. Saturn Pluto · opposition, orb 1.93°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived face each other across the chart.

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

  6. Moon Lilith · square, orb 2.10°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

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