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Margaret of Valois

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Margaret of Valois

24 May 1553 · 16:03 Europe/Paris
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Île-de-France, France · 48.90°N 2.09°E
Placidus houses

Chiron not shown. The asteroid data files begin in 1200 and this birth is earlier, so there is no position to draw. Nothing else on the wheel is affected — the planets come from a different set of files that reaches much further back.

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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 Gemini · house 8

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  2. Moon in Gemini · house 9

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 9

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 9

    What you like, and how you go about liking it.

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  5. Mars in Leo · house 10

    How you go after what you want.

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  6. Jupiter in Leo · house 10

    Where you want more room.

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  7. Saturn in Pisces · house 5

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  8. Uranus in Libra · house 12

    The urge to break something that still works.

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Taurus · house 7

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  10. Pluto in Pisces · house 4

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  11. True Node in Leo · house 10

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    In the public record of a life.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Lilith in Cancer · house 9

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

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

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Mars · sextile, orb 0.05°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the capacity to want something and go at it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Moon Jupiter · sextile, orb 0.30°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply 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.

  3. Sun Pluto · square, orb 0.85°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

  4. True Node MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 1.09°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into 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.

  5. Pluto Lilith · trine, orb 1.00°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  6. Mercury AC Ascendant · trine, orb 1.21°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.

How these readings are put together →