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Jean K. Shepherd

AA

26 July 1921 · 20:50 America/Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States · 41.85°N 87.65°W
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 Leo · house 6

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  2. Moon in Aries · house 2

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  3. Mercury in Cancer · house 5

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

  4. Venus in Gemini · house 4

    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 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 Virgo · house 7

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  7. Saturn in Virgo · house 7

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 1

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    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 Leo · house 6

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 5

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

  11. True Node in Libra · house 8

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 2

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

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Aquarius · house 12

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Uranus Pluto · trine, orb 0.11°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  2. Mercury Chiron · square, orb 0.16°

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

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

  3. Moon True Node · opposition, orb 0.23°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into face each other across the chart.

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

  4. Neptune Chiron · trine, orb 0.84°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  5. Neptune Lilith · opposition, orb 1.18°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what was refused, and refuses in turn face each other across the chart.

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

  6. Venus True Node · trine, orb 1.74°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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.

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky