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John Cowsill

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2 March 1956 · 00:35 America/New_York
Newport, RI, United States · 41.49°N 71.31°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 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 12

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

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

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  4. Venus in Aries · house 5

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

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

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 1

    The capacity to want something and go at it, 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.

  6. Jupiter in Leo · house 9

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius · house 12

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  8. Uranus in Cancer · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Scorpio · house 11

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 9

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    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 Aquarius · house 2

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 2

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Mercury · square, orb 0.44°

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

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

  2. Sun True Node · square, orb 1.04°

    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.

  3. Venus Jupiter · trine, orb 1.12°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

  4. Uranus Neptune · square, orb 1.45°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

  5. Saturn AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 1.77°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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. Mars Neptune · sextile, orb 1.40°

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

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →