Marc Bloch
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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 Cancer · house 8
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
☽ Moon in Virgo · house 10
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
☿ Mercury in Leo · house 8
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
♀ Venus in Gemini · house 7
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
♂ Mars in Libra · house 10
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
♃ Jupiter in Virgo · house 10
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.
At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.
♄ Saturn in Cancer · house 8
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.
In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.
♅ Uranus in Libra · house 10
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.
At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.
♆ Neptune in Taurus · house 6
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
♇ Pluto in Gemini · house 7
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.
Across the table, wherever there is another party.
☊ True Node in Virgo · house 9
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.
⚷ Chiron in Gemini · house 7
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.
In one-to-one dealings, allied or opposed.
⚸ Lilith in Aquarius · house 3
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
The tightest aspects
☽ Moon ◻ ⚷ Chiron · square, orb 0.04°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
☿ Mercury ⚹ ♀ Venus · sextile, orb 0.21°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♅ Uranus △ ♇ Pluto · trine, orb 0.37°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♆ Neptune ☍ AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.76°
The pull toward what has no edges and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
♂ Mars △ ♇ Pluto · trine, orb 0.91°
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.
♀ Venus ◻ ☊ True Node · square, orb 1.12°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.