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Jean-Frédéric Van der Rit

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25 March 1823 · 09:00 Europe/Brussels
Brussels, Belgium · 50.85°N 4.35°E
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 Aries · house 11

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Virgo · house 5

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

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

  3. Mercury in Pisces · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  4. Venus in Aries · house 11

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

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

  5. Mars in Aries · house 11

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

    Among the people chosen rather than given.

  6. Jupiter in Gemini · house 12

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 12

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  9. Neptune in Capricorn · house 7

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  10. Pluto in Aries · house 11

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 9

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 11

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

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

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

The tightest aspects

  1. Pluto Lilith · square, orb 0.01°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  2. Sun Mars · conjunction, orb 0.01°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the capacity to want something and go at it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Mercury Neptune · sextile, orb 0.06°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Saturn Neptune · trine, orb 1.02°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  5. Mercury Saturn · sextile, orb 1.08°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Sun True Node · sextile, orb 1.38°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

How these readings are put together →