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Jean-François Portaels

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Jean-François Portaels

30 April 1818 · 01:00 Europe/Brussels
Vilvoorde, Belgium · 50.93°N 4.43°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 Taurus · house 3

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  2. Moon in Pisces · house 1

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  3. Mercury in Taurus · house 4

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, 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.

  4. Venus in Taurus · house 3

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

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

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 6

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 12

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  7. Saturn in Pisces · house 1

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In bearing and first impression.

  8. Uranus in Sagittarius · house 11

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Sagittarius · house 11

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Pisces · house 2

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  11. True Node in Taurus · house 3

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    In the daily traffic of information.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 2

    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 was refused, and refuses in turn, 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.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon True Node · sextile, orb 0.02°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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. Venus AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.13°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  3. Sun True Node · conjunction, orb 0.25°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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 Moon · sextile, orb 0.27°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the need for safety, and the habits that supply it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Neptune Pluto · square, orb 0.37°

    The pull toward what has no edges 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.

  6. Chiron MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.76°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky