← Catalogue · writer, biographer

Michel Carrouges

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22 February 1910 · 11:50 Europe/Paris
Poitiers, New Aquitaine, France · 46.58°N 0.34°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 Pisces · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  2. Moon in Leo · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 9

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 9

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  5. Mars in Taurus · house 12

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  6. Jupiter in Libra · house 5

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Aries · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 2

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 1

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    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 Gemini · house 12

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 10

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  13. Lilith in Libra · house 5

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun True Node · square, orb 0.04°

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

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

  2. Moon Jupiter · sextile, orb 0.09°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the appetite for more room than is currently available assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. AC Ascendant MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.09°

    The face a life presents before it says anything and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  4. Pluto MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.18°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  5. Pluto AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.27°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the face a life presents before it says anything are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Venus Mars · square, orb 0.52°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the capacity to want something and go at it obstruct each other.

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

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky