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Léon Spilliaert

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Léon Spilliaert

21 July 1881 · 10:00 Europe/Brussels
Ostend, Flanders, Belgium · 51.22°N 2.93°E
Placidus houses

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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.

  1. Sun in Cancer · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  2. Moon in Gemini · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  3. Mercury in Cancer · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Gemini · house 9

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

  5. Mars in Taurus · house 8

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  6. Jupiter in Taurus · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 8

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    Where things are held in common, and where they end.

  8. Uranus in Virgo · house 12

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  9. Neptune in Taurus · house 8

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 9

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 3

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 8

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  13. Lilith in Leo · house 10

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Uranus · trine, orb 0.03°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.

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

  2. Sun AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.22°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Jupiter Chiron · conjunction, orb 0.39°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Sun Pluto · sextile, orb 0.36°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. AC Ascendant MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.45°

    The face a life presents before it says anything 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.

  6. Mars Jupiter · conjunction, orb 0.68°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the appetite for more room than is currently available are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →