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Jean-François Champollion

23 December 1790 · 02:00 Europe/Paris
Figeac, Occitanie, France · 44.61°N 2.03°E
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 Capricorn · house 3

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  2. Moon in Cancer · house 9

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  3. Mercury in Capricorn · house 3

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 3

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 3

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued soberly, and with the long arithmetic done.

    In the daily traffic of information.

  6. Jupiter in Libra · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  7. Saturn in Pisces · house 5

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  8. Uranus in Leo · house 10

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 1

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  10. Pluto in Aquarius · house 4

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, 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.

  11. True Node in Libra · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In bearing and first impression.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Cancer · house 9

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Taurus · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus True Node · sextile, orb 0.12°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Saturn MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.19°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  3. True Node MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.33°

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

  4. Venus Saturn · square, orb 0.40°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it obstruct each other.

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

  5. Moon Mars · opposition, orb 0.60°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  6. Mercury Chiron · opposition, orb 0.84°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the injury that becomes a competence face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

How these readings are put together →