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James Manby Gully

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James Manby Gully

14 March 1808 · 06:00 America/Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica · 18.00°N 76.79°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 Pisces · house 1

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

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

  2. Moon in Libra · house 7

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  3. Mercury in Aries · house 1

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 12

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  5. Mars in Aries · house 1

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In bearing and first impression.

  6. Jupiter in Pisces · house 12

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 8

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Scorpio · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Sagittarius · house 9

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Pisces · house 12

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

  11. True Node in Scorpio · house 8

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued privately, and with more force than is displayed.

    Where things are held in common, and where they end.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 1

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

    At the threshold, before anything is said.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun True Node · trine, orb 0.72°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.

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

  2. Moon Lilith · opposition, orb 0.98°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply 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.

  3. Saturn True Node · conjunction, orb 0.91°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Sun MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.19°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is aimed in public obstruct each other.

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

  5. Sun Saturn · trine, orb 1.62°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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 Lilith · sextile, orb 1.32°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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