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Lorenzo de' Medici

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Lorenzo de' Medici

10 January 1449 · 07:30 Europe/Rome
Florence, Tuscany, Italy · 43.78°N 11.25°E
Placidus houses

Chiron not shown. The asteroid data files begin in 1200 and this birth is earlier, so there is no position to draw. Nothing else on the wheel is affected — the planets come from a different set of files that reaches much further back.

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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 Capricorn · house 1

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  2. Moon in Aries · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 1

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 1

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    In bearing and first impression.

  5. Mars in Pisces · house 2

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 10

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  7. Saturn in Virgo · house 8

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Cancer · house 6

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 8

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 7

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Pisces · house 2

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  12. Lilith in Virgo · house 8

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Uranus True Node · trine, orb 0.30°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.

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

  2. Mars AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.42°

    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.

  3. Saturn True Node · opposition, orb 0.65°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into face each other across the chart.

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

  4. Sun Jupiter · sextile, orb 0.72°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the appetite for more room than is currently available assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Mars Lilith · opposition, orb 1.31°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn face each other across the chart.

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

  6. Moon AC Ascendant · square, orb 1.52°

    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.

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