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Luigi Illica

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Luigi Illica

9 May 1857 · 05:30 Europe/Rome
Castell'Arquato, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 44.85°N 9.87°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 Taurus · house 12

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 6

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 1

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

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

  4. Venus in Taurus · house 12

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  5. Mars in Taurus · house 12

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    In the part that operates without being watched.

  6. Jupiter in Aries · house 12

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  7. Saturn in Cancer · house 2

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 12

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  9. Neptune in Pisces · house 11

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 12

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

  11. True Node in Aries · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 10

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  13. Lilith in Scorpio · house 6

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Venus · opposition, orb 0.80°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near face each other across the chart.

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

  2. Sun Moon · opposition, orb 1.13°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the need for safety, and the habits that supply it face each other across the chart.

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

  3. Pluto MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.94°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived 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.

  4. Mars Uranus · conjunction, orb 1.48°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. Saturn Lilith · trine, orb 1.42°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  6. Sun Venus · conjunction, orb 1.93°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

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