← Catalogue · writer, translator, literary critic, playwright +1
Ludwig Rubiner
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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.
☉ Sun in Gemini · house 9
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.
☽ Moon in Sagittarius · house 3
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
☿ Mercury in Cancer · house 10
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 vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
♀ Venus in Taurus · house 8
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
♂ Mars in Aries · house 7
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
♃ 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.
♄ 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.
♅ Uranus in Virgo · house 11
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
♆ 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.
♇ Pluto in Taurus · house 8
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.
In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.
☊ True Node in Sagittarius · house 3 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.
In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Taurus · house 8
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.
Where things are held in common, and where they end.
⚸ Lilith in Cancer · house 10
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.
At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.
The tightest aspects
☿ Mercury ⚹ ♆ Neptune · sextile, orb 0.34°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♀ Venus △ ♅ Uranus · trine, orb 0.78°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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.
☿ Mercury ⚹ ♃ Jupiter · sextile, orb 0.73°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the appetite for more room than is currently available assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♃ Jupiter ☌ ♆ Neptune · conjunction, orb 1.08°
The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
☽ Moon △ ♂ Mars · trine, orb 1.38°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
AC Ascendant ◻ MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.33°
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.