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John Buck

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John Buck

27 April 1942 · 06:50 Pacific/Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand · 36.85°S 174.76°E
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 Taurus · house 1

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  2. Moon in Virgo · house 4

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  3. Mercury in Taurus · house 1

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In bearing and first impression.

  4. Venus in Pisces · house 11

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 2

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  6. Jupiter in Gemini · house 2

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

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

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 1

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    At the threshold, before anything is said.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 1

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

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

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 5

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 3

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  11. True Node in Virgo · house 5

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

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

  12. Chiron in Leo · house 3

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

  13. Lilith in Gemini · house 2

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus Jupiter · square, orb 0.36°

    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.

  2. Pluto AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.35°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived 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.

  3. Saturn Uranus · conjunction, orb 0.47°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Chiron MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.49°

    The injury that becomes a competence 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.

  5. Moon True Node · conjunction, orb 0.73°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Saturn Neptune · trine, orb 0.94°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky