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Louise Bourgeois

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Louise Bourgeois

25 December 1911 · 10:00 Europe/Paris
Paris, Île-de-France, France · 48.85°N 2.35°E
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 Capricorn · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Aquarius · house 1

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, 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.

  3. Mercury in Capricorn · house 11

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Scorpio · house 9

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  5. Mars in Taurus · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 9

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 2

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 12

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 6

    The pull toward what has no edges, 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.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 5

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aries · house 2

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 11

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued soberly, and with the long arithmetic done.

    Among the people chosen rather than given.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Chiron · sextile, orb 0.01°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Moon Mars · square, orb 0.10°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it obstruct each other.

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

  3. Jupiter Chiron · square, orb 0.10°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  4. Sun Mercury · conjunction, orb 0.56°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. Uranus True Node · square, orb 0.52°

    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.

  6. Sun Chiron · sextile, orb 0.58°

    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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