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Jean-Pierre Melville

20 October 1917 · 12:00 Europe/Paris
Paris, Île-de-France, France · 48.85°N 2.35°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 Libra · house 9

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  2. Moon in Sagittarius · house 12

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 9

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

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

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 11

    What you like, and how you go about liking it.

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  5. Mars in Leo · house 8

    How you go after what you want.

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  6. Jupiter in Gemini · house 5

    Where you want more room.

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Leo · house 7

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 2

    The urge to break something that still works.

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 7

    Where the edges go soft.

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

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 7

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Capricorn · house 1

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 2

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Virgo · house 8

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus Jupiter · opposition, orb 0.98°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the appetite for more room than is currently available face each other across the chart.

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

  2. Moon Mercury · sextile, orb 0.87°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Venus Lilith · square, orb 1.20°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  4. True Node MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 0.79°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Pluto True Node · opposition, orb 1.77°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived 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.

  6. Jupiter Lilith · square, orb 2.19°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky