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James Coats

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5 September 1843 · 10:00 Europe/London
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom · 54.60°N 5.93°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 Virgo · house 11

    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 Aquarius · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  4. Venus in Virgo · house 10

    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.

  5. Mars in Sagittarius · house 2

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  6. Jupiter in Aquarius · house 4

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Capricorn · house 3

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 5

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Aquarius · house 4

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Aries · house 6

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, 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.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 3

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, 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.

  12. Chiron in Leo · house 10

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 6

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

The tightest aspects

  1. Pluto Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.03°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Mars Chiron · trine, orb 0.47°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  3. Jupiter Neptune · conjunction, orb 0.53°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Pluto Chiron · trine, orb 0.59°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  5. Chiron Lilith · trine, orb 0.62°

    The injury that becomes a competence and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  6. Moon Mercury · trine, orb 1.02°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky