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Lendon H. Smith

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3 June 1921 · 00:10 America/Los_Angeles
Portland, OR, United States · 45.52°N 122.68°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 Gemini · house 3

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 2

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  3. Mercury in Cancer · house 5

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  4. Venus in Taurus · house 2

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 4

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  6. Jupiter in Virgo · house 7

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  7. Saturn in Virgo · house 7

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 1

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 6

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 5

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

  11. True Node in Libra · house 8

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  13. Lilith in Aquarius · house 12

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.34°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.

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

  2. Jupiter Uranus · opposition, orb 0.52°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the impulse to break a pattern that still works face each other across the chart.

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

  3. Chiron MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.63°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  4. Moon Mercury · sextile, orb 0.63°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Sun Neptune · sextile, orb 0.75°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Sun Chiron · sextile, orb 0.97°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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