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John Partridge

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John Partridge

28 January 1644 · 14:27 Europe/London
East Sheen, United Kingdom · 51.46°N 0.27°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 Aquarius · house 8

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

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

  2. Moon in Libra · house 4

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 8

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 9

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 6

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Aries · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  7. Saturn in Aries · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  8. Uranus in Scorpio · house 5

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  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 Gemini · house 11

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Virgo · house 4

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, 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.

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 12

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Libra · house 4

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Neptune · trine, orb 0.11°

    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.

  2. Moon Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.29°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Neptune Pluto · opposition, orb 0.38°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what will not be negotiated with, only survived face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  4. Saturn Pluto · sextile, orb 0.27°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Sun Mercury · conjunction, orb 0.52°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Venus Uranus · square, orb 1.44°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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.

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