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Jim Bouton

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Jim Bouton

8 March 1939 · 20:50 America/New_York
Newark, New Jersey, United States · 40.74°N 74.17°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 Pisces · house 5

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 1

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  3. Mercury in Aries · house 6

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 4

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.

  5. Mars in Sagittarius · house 3

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  6. Jupiter in Pisces · house 5

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

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

  7. Saturn in Aries · house 6

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 7

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 11

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 10

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Scorpio · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    In bearing and first impression.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Cancer · house 9

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Aquarius · house 4

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mars AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.06°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Mars Neptune · square, orb 0.95°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

  3. Mercury Chiron · square, orb 1.16°

    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.

  4. True Node Lilith · square, orb 0.92°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  5. Jupiter Uranus · sextile, orb 0.94°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the impulse to break a pattern that still works assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Mercury Venus · sextile, orb 1.10°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →