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.
☉ Sun in Taurus · house 12
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
☽ Moon in Scorpio · house 6
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
☿ Mercury in Aries · house 11
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
♀ Venus in Taurus · house 12
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.
Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.
♂ Mars in Aries · house 11
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.
In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.
♃ Jupiter in Libra · house 5 ℞
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♄ Saturn in Libra · house 5 ℞
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.
In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♅ Uranus in Scorpio · house 7 ℞
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♆ Neptune in Sagittarius · house 8 ℞
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♇ Pluto in Libra · house 5 ℞
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.
In the things done because they are wanted.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
☊ True Node in Leo · house 3 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Taurus · house 12
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.
In the part that operates without being watched.
⚸ Lilith in Scorpio · house 6
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.
In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.
The tightest aspects
☿ Mercury ☍ ♇ Pluto · opposition, orb 0.38°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.
☽ Moon ☌ ⚸ Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.59°
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.
♅ Uranus ◻ MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.30°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is aimed in public obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
♂ Mars △ ♆ Neptune · trine, orb 1.69°
The capacity to want something and go at it and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♃ Jupiter ☌ ♄ Saturn · conjunction, orb 2.18°
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.
♂ Mars ⚹ MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 1.55°
The capacity to want something and go at it and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.