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Marsilio Ficino

28 October 1433 · 13:26 Europe/Rome
Figline Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy · 43.62°N 11.47°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 Scorpio · house 9

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  2. Moon in Capricorn · house 12

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  3. Mercury in Scorpio · house 9

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

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

  4. Venus in Virgo · house 7

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

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 12

    How you go after what you want.

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

  6. Jupiter in Leo · house 7

    Where you want more room.

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  7. Saturn in Aquarius · house 1

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 3

    The urge to break something that still works.

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 7

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 6

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Capricorn · house 11

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  12. Lilith in Sagittarius · house 11

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

The tightest aspects

  1. Uranus AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.23°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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. Sun Uranus · opposition, orb 0.42°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the impulse to break a pattern that still works face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  3. Moon Pluto · opposition, orb 0.44°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  4. Sun AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.65°

    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.

  5. Mars MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 0.55°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Sun True Node · sextile, orb 0.67°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky