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Kees Verkerk

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Kees Verkerk

28 October 1942 · 02:15 Europe/Amsterdam
Maasdam, Netherlands · 51.79°N 4.56°E
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 Scorpio · house 3

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  2. Moon in Gemini · house 10

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  4. Venus in Libra · house 3

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

  5. Mars in Libra · house 3

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.

    In the daily traffic of information.

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Gemini · house 10

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.

    In the public record of a life.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 2

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 12

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

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

  11. True Node in Virgo · house 1

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

    In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Leo · house 12

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

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 11

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

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

The tightest aspects

  1. Chiron AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.39°

    The injury that becomes a competence 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.

  2. Mars Chiron · sextile, orb 0.75°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Mars AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 1.13°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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. Venus AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 1.21°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Moon Mercury · trine, orb 1.98°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on run together easily.

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

  6. Mars Jupiter · square, orb 1.85°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the appetite for more room than is currently available obstruct each other.

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

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