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Mal Blum

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7 July 1988 · 10:00 America/New_York
New York, NY, United States · 40.71°N 74.01°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 Cancer · house 11

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Aries · house 8

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 10

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

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

  4. Venus in Gemini · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

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

  5. Mars in Pisces · house 7

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  6. Jupiter in Taurus · house 9

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius · house 4

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Sagittarius · house 4

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Capricorn · house 5

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Scorpio · house 3

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Pisces · house 7

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Cancer · house 10

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  13. Lilith in Virgo · house 12

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Uranus · conjunction, orb 0.34°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against 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.

  2. Sun True Node · trine, orb 0.47°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.

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

  3. Mars Jupiter · sextile, orb 0.36°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the appetite for more room than is currently available assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Mars Saturn · square, orb 1.02°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it obstruct each other.

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

  5. Neptune AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.98°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  6. Moon Uranus · trine, orb 1.39°

    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.

How these readings are put together →