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Johannes Bosboom

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Johannes Bosboom

18 February 1817 · 16:30 Europe/Amsterdam
The Hague, South Holland, The Netherlands · 52.08°N 4.30°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 Aquarius · house 7

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  2. Moon in Pisces · house 8

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 6

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Aries · house 9

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 4

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  7. Saturn in Aquarius · house 7

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  8. Uranus in Sagittarius · house 4

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

  9. Neptune in Sagittarius · house 5

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  10. Pluto in Pisces · house 8

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  11. True Node in Gemini · house 10

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 8

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.

    Where things are held in common, and where they end.

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 9

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Lilith AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.41°

    What was refused, and refuses in turn and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  2. Venus Uranus · trine, orb 0.64°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.

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

  3. Neptune Pluto · square, orb 0.89°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what will not be negotiated with, only survived obstruct each other.

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

  4. Uranus Chiron · square, orb 0.94°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  5. Neptune Lilith · trine, orb 1.36°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  6. Sun True Node · square, orb 1.87°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

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