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Mary Strassmeyer

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5 August 1929 · 12:50 America/New_York
Cleveland, OH, United States · 41.50°N 81.70°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 Leo · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  2. Moon in Leo · house 10

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    In the public record of a life.

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 9

    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 Virgo · house 11

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  6. Jupiter in Gemini · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius · house 2

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

    In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 6

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 10

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 9

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  11. True Node in Taurus · house 7

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 7

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 3

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus Neptune · sextile, orb 0.10°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Jupiter Uranus · sextile, orb 0.30°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the impulse to break a pattern that still works assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Sun Uranus · trine, orb 1.52°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

  4. Moon Mercury · conjunction, orb 1.71°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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.

  5. Sun Chiron · square, orb 1.60°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  6. Mars Pluto · sextile, orb 1.18°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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