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Laurence Foley

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5 October 1942 · 09:47 America/New_York
Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 42.36°N 71.06°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 Libra · house 11

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Leo · house 9

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 11

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Libra · house 11

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.

    Among the people chosen rather than given.

  5. Mars in Libra · house 11

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 7

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Gemini · house 7

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 11

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

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

  10. 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.

  11. True Node in Virgo · house 10

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

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

  12. Chiron in Leo · house 9

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    In what is believed, and how far it is carried.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 8

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Jupiter · square, orb 0.09°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.

  2. Sun Mars · conjunction, orb 0.14°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the capacity to want something and go at it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Moon AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.32°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the face a life presents before it says anything obstruct each other.

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

  4. Mars Saturn · trine, orb 0.60°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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.

  5. Sun Saturn · trine, orb 0.74°

    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.

  6. Uranus True Node · square, orb 0.58°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

How these readings are put together →

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