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Louis XI of France

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Louis XI of France

3 July 1423 · 15:30 Europe/Paris
Bourges, 18, France · 47.08°N 2.40°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

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 8

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

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

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

  2. Moon in Capricorn · house 2

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 8

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 9

    What you like, and how you go about liking it.

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  5. Mars in Leo · house 9

    How you go after what you want.

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  6. Jupiter in Virgo · house 10

    Where you want more room.

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

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

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 11

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 4

    The urge to break something that still works.

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 9

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 8

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 9

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Lilith in Libra · house 11

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.12°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply 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.

  2. Moon Saturn · square, orb 0.39°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it obstruct each other.

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

  3. Uranus Neptune · trine, orb 0.79°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  4. Venus Neptune · conjunction, orb 1.68°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. True Node Lilith · square, orb 1.25°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  6. Sun Jupiter · sextile, orb 1.55°

    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.

How these readings are put together →