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Mae West

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17 August 1892 · 22:30 America/New_York
Brooklyn, New York, Kings County, NY, United States · 40.65°N 73.95°W
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 Leo · house 4

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  2. Moon in Cancer · house 2

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  3. Mercury in Virgo · house 5

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  5. Mars in Aquarius · house 10

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Virgo · house 5

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

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

  8. Uranus in Scorpio · house 6

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  9. Neptune in Gemini · house 1

    The pull toward what has no edges, 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.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 1

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

    In bearing and first impression.

  11. True Node in Taurus · house 12

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Leo · house 4

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

  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 Uranus · trine, orb 0.01°

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

  2. Mercury Pluto · square, orb 0.09°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what will not be negotiated with, only survived obstruct each other.

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

  3. Sun AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.48°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

  4. Sun Jupiter · trine, orb 0.69°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

  5. Uranus MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.57°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

  6. Mars Pluto · trine, orb 0.88°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

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