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James Russell Lowell
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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.
☉ Sun in Pisces · house 11
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
☽ Moon in Aquarius · house 10
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
☿ Mercury in Aquarius · house 10
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.
At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.
♀ Venus in Capricorn · house 9
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.
♂ Mars in Aquarius · house 10
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued independently, and slightly against the grain.
In the public record of a life.
♃ Jupiter in Aquarius · house 10
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
♄ Saturn in Pisces · house 11
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.
In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.
♅ Uranus in Sagittarius · house 8
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
♆ Neptune in Sagittarius · house 8
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.
In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.
♇ Pluto in Pisces · house 11
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.
Among the people chosen rather than given.
☊ True Node in Aries · house 12 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Pisces · house 11
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
⚸ Lilith in Cancer · house 3
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
The tightest aspects
♅ Uranus ◻ ⚷ Chiron · square, orb 0.28°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
☽ Moon ☌ ♃ Jupiter · conjunction, orb 0.54°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the appetite for more room than is currently available are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
♇ Pluto ⚹ MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 0.76°
What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♅ Uranus ◻ ♇ Pluto · square, orb 1.41°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.
♇ Pluto ☌ ⚷ Chiron · conjunction, orb 1.68°
What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
AC Ascendant △ MC Midheaven · trine, orb 1.79°
The face a life presents before it says anything and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.