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Marvin Gaye

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Marvin Gaye

2 April 1939 · 12:00 America/New_York
Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 38.90°N 77.04°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 Aries · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  2. Moon in Virgo · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Aries · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Pisces · house 8

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 6

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  6. Jupiter in Pisces · house 9

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  7. Saturn in Aries · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

    In the public record of a life.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 3

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 1

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Scorpio · house 4

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Cancer · house 12

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

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

  13. Lilith in Aquarius · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Jupiter Neptune · opposition, orb 0.13°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges face each other across the chart.

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

  2. Moon Jupiter · opposition, orb 0.68°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the appetite for more room than is currently available 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 Neptune · conjunction, orb 0.81°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Sun Lilith · sextile, orb 0.62°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Sun Mercury · conjunction, orb 1.13°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Venus Chiron · trine, orb 1.72°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

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