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James V. Edmundson

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18 June 1915 · 21:00 America/Los_Angeles
Hollywood, CA, United States · 34.10°N 118.33°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 Gemini · house 5

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  2. Moon in Virgo · house 8

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  3. Mercury in Cancer · house 6

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Gemini · house 4

    What you like, and how you go about liking it.

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  5. Mars in Taurus · house 4

    How you go after what you want.

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Pisces · house 2

    Where you want more room.

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

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

  7. Saturn in Cancer · house 6

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 1

    The urge to break something that still works.

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 7

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 6

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

    In the unglamorous upkeep of a life.

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 1

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    In bearing and first impression.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 2

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  13. Lilith in Gemini · house 4

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Uranus MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.14°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

  2. Sun Jupiter · square, orb 0.23°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the appetite for more room than is currently available obstruct each other.

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

  3. Venus Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.36°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Mars True Node · square, orb 0.75°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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.

  5. Moon Mercury · sextile, orb 1.21°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Jupiter AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 1.08°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →