← Catalogue · university teacher, geneticist, human geneticist
James V. Neel
AAReading
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.
☉ Sun in Aries · house 8
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
☽ Moon in Gemini · house 10
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
☿ Mercury in Pisces · house 7
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
♀ Venus in Aquarius · house 6
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
♂ Mars in Pisces · house 7
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.
Across the table, wherever there is another party.
♃ Jupiter in Pisces · house 7
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.
In one-to-one dealings, allied or opposed.
♄ Saturn in Gemini · house 10
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.
At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.
♅ Uranus in Aquarius · house 6
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.
In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.
♆ Neptune in Cancer · house 11 ℞
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♇ Pluto in Cancer · house 10
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
☊ True Node in Aquarius · house 6 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued independently, and slightly against the grain.
In the unglamorous upkeep of a life.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Pisces · house 7
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
⚸ Lilith in Taurus · house 9
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.
The tightest aspects
♄ Saturn △ ☊ True Node · trine, orb 0.05°
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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.
☽ Moon ◻ ⚷ Chiron · square, orb 0.09°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
☽ Moon △ ♀ Venus · trine, orb 0.68°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♂ Mars ☌ ♃ Jupiter · conjunction, orb 0.72°
The capacity to want something and go at 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.
☉ Sun ◻ ♇ Pluto · square, orb 1.00°
The drive to be someone in particular 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.
☿ Mercury ☍ AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 1.02°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.