← Catalogue · historian of science, science journalist, columnist, sport cyclist +4
Michael Shermer
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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.
☉ Sun in Virgo · house 12
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
☽ Moon in Capricorn · house 4
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.
☿ Mercury in Libra · house 12
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
♀ Venus in Scorpio · house 2
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.
♂ Mars in Capricorn · house 4
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.
At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.
♃ Jupiter in Cancer · house 10
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
♄ Saturn in Scorpio · house 2
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.
In resources, and in what is judged valuable.
♅ Uranus in Cancer · house 10
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.
At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.
♆ Neptune in Libra · house 1
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.
♇ Pluto in Leo · house 11
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
☊ True Node in Capricorn · house 4 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued soberly, and with the long arithmetic done.
In the foundations, where the line comes from.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Capricorn · house 4 ℞
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚸ Lilith in Scorpio · house 2
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued privately, and with more force than is displayed.
In the matter of keep and livelihood.
The tightest aspects
♂ Mars ⚹ ♄ Saturn · sextile, orb 0.08°
The capacity to want something and go at it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
AC Ascendant ◻ MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.17°
The face a life presents before it says anything and the direction a life is aimed in public obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
♃ Jupiter ☍ ⚷ Chiron · opposition, orb 0.32°
The appetite for more room than is currently available and the injury that becomes a competence face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
♀ Venus △ MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.68°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♆ Neptune ◻ ⚷ Chiron · square, orb 0.98°
The pull toward what has no edges and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
♃ Jupiter ◻ ♆ Neptune · square, orb 1.30°
The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.