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Maurice Herzog

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15 January 1919 · 03:30 Europe/Paris
Lyon, 69, France · 45.75°N 4.85°E
Placidus houses

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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 Capricorn · house 2

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  2. Moon in Cancer · house 8

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  3. Mercury in Capricorn · house 1

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 2

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  5. Mars in Aquarius · house 3

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Leo · house 9

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 3

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

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

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 8

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 8

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

    Where things are held in common, and where they end.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 4

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  13. Lilith in Libra · house 11

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Jupiter · conjunction, orb 0.61°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the appetite for more room than is currently available are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Saturn Uranus · opposition, orb 1.25°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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. Chiron AC Ascendant · trine, orb 1.20°

    The injury that becomes a competence 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.

  4. Venus Neptune · opposition, orb 1.89°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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.

  5. Mercury Chiron · square, orb 2.22°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  6. Moon Pluto · conjunction, orb 3.21°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

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