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Madame de Pompadour

29 December 1721 · 10:15 Europe/Paris
Paris, Île-de-France, France · 48.85°N 2.35°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 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 Taurus · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Sagittarius · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

  5. Mars in Taurus · house 2

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius · house 9

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  8. Uranus in Libra · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  9. Neptune in Taurus · house 3

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Virgo · house 7

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 5

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    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 Cancer · house 5

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

The tightest aspects

  1. Neptune AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.04°

    The pull toward what has no edges 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.

  2. Venus MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 0.11°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Saturn MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 0.48°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Moon Lilith · sextile, orb 0.43°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Venus Saturn · conjunction, orb 0.59°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Moon Neptune · conjunction, orb 0.73°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

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