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Jim Kincaid

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23 October 1934 · 23:10 America/Chicago
Houston, Texas, United States · 29.76°N 95.36°W
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 Scorpio · house 4

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 11

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  3. Mercury in Scorpio · house 4

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Libra · house 4

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

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  5. Mars in Virgo · house 2

    How you go after what you want.

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 4

    Where you want more room.

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued privately, and with more force than is displayed.

    In the foundations, where the line comes from.

  7. Saturn in Aquarius · house 8

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 10

    The urge to break something that still works.

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 2

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 1

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

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 7

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 11

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Leo · house 1

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Uranus · opposition, orb 0.68°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the impulse to break a pattern that still works face each other across the chart.

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

  2. Mars Jupiter · sextile, orb 0.72°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the appetite for more room than is currently available assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Moon Mercury · opposition, orb 1.44°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on face each other across the chart.

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

  4. Moon Saturn · square, orb 1.31°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it obstruct each other.

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

  5. Pluto AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 1.17°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the face a life presents before it says anything are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Venus AC Ascendant · square, orb 1.30°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the face a life presents before it says anything 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