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Jean-Philippe Toussaint
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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.
☉ Sun in Sagittarius · house 4
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.
☽ Moon in Pisces · house 6
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
☿ Mercury in Sagittarius · house 4
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.
At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.
♀ Venus in Capricorn · house 5
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
♂ Mars in Scorpio · house 3
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
♃ Jupiter in Libra · house 2
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.
♄ Saturn in Sagittarius · house 4
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by aiming past the target on principle.
In the foundations, where the line comes from.
♅ Uranus in Leo · house 11 ℞
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♆ Neptune in Scorpio · house 3
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.
In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.
♇ Pluto in Virgo · house 12
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
☊ True Node in Scorpio · house 3 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued privately, and with more force than is displayed.
In the daily traffic of information.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Aquarius · house 5
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
⚸ Lilith in Pisces · house 7
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
The tightest aspects
♀ Venus ◻ ♃ Jupiter · square, orb 0.14°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the appetite for more room than is currently available obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
☉ Sun ☍ MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.18°
The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
☽ Moon △ ♆ Neptune · trine, orb 0.45°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♂ Mars ◻ ⚷ Chiron · square, orb 0.47°
The capacity to want something and go at 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 ☍ ♇ Pluto · opposition, orb 0.78°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
♅ Uranus ☍ ⚷ Chiron · opposition, orb 1.45°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.