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John Gates

AA

9 September 1942 · 11:26 America/Los_Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States · 34.05°N 118.24°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 Virgo · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  2. Moon in Virgo · house 10

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 11

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  4. Venus in Leo · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  5. Mars in Virgo · house 10

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.

    In the public record of a life.

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 7

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  8. Uranus in Gemini · house 7

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  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.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  11. True Node in Virgo · house 10

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Leo · house 9

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

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

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 8

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Saturn · trine, orb 0.05°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it run together easily.

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

  2. Uranus True Node · square, orb 0.30°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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. Sun AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.59°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Moon Uranus · square, orb 1.20°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works obstruct each other.

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

  5. Moon True Node · conjunction, orb 1.50°

    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. Chiron MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 1.74°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

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