← Catalogue · journalist, writer, literary critic, screenwriter +1
John Gregory Dunne
AAReading
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.
☉ Sun in Gemini · house 11
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
☽ Moon in Aquarius · house 8
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
☿ Mercury in Taurus · house 11
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
♀ Venus in Cancer · house 1
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, 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.
♂ Mars in Taurus · house 11
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.
In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.
♃ Jupiter in Leo · house 2
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.
♄ Saturn in Aquarius · house 8 ℞
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.
In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♅ Uranus in Aries · house 10
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.
♆ Neptune in Virgo · house 3
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
♇ Pluto in Cancer · house 1
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.
In bearing and first impression.
☊ True Node in Pisces · house 10 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Taurus · house 11
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.
Among the people chosen rather than given.
⚸ Lilith in Taurus · house 11
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
The tightest aspects
☽ Moon ◻ ☿ Mercury · square, orb 0.28°
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.
☉ Sun △ ♄ Saturn · trine, orb 0.63°
The drive to be someone in particular 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.
♀ Venus ☌ AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.95°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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.
☉ Sun ◻ ♆ Neptune · square, orb 1.18°
The drive to be someone in particular and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
☽ Moon ☍ ♃ Jupiter · opposition, orb 1.70°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the appetite for more room than is currently available face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
♇ Pluto △ MC Midheaven · trine, orb 1.19°
What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.