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José van Dam
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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.
☉ 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.
☽ Moon in Taurus · house 7
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
☿ Mercury in Leo · house 9
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.
♀ Venus in Cancer · house 8
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
♂ Mars in Virgo · house 10
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.
At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.
♃ Jupiter in Taurus · house 7
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.
Across the table, wherever there is another party.
♄ Saturn in Taurus · house 7
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.
In one-to-one dealings, allied or opposed.
♅ Uranus in Taurus · house 7
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
♆ Neptune in Virgo · house 10
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.
In the public record of a life.
♇ 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.
☊ True Node in Libra · house 11
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
⚷ Chiron in Cancer · house 9
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.
⚸ Lilith in Aries · house 5
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
The tightest aspects
☽ Moon △ ♆ Neptune · trine, orb 0.24°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♄ Saturn ☍ AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.26°
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
♃ Jupiter ☌ ♄ Saturn · conjunction, orb 0.73°
The appetite for more room than is currently available and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
♃ Jupiter ☍ AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.99°
The appetite for more room than is currently available and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
☉ Sun ☌ MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 1.19°
The drive to be someone in particular 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.
☽ Moon ☌ ♅ Uranus · conjunction, orb 1.50°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply 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.