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 Scorpio · house 12

   Who you are being when you are most yourself.

   The drive to be someone in particular, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

2. ☽ Moon in Taurus · house 6

   What makes you feel safe.

   The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

3. ☿ Mercury in Scorpio · house 12 ℞

   How you think, and how you say it.

   The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

   Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

   Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

4. ♀ Venus in Libra · house 10

   What you like, and how you go about liking it.

   What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

5. ♂ Mars in Libra · house 11

   How you go after what you want.

   The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

   Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

6. ♃ Jupiter in Taurus · house 5 ℞

   Where you want more room.

   The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

   Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

7. ♄ Saturn in Taurus · house 5 ℞

   The strict teacher you thank later.

   The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

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

   Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

8. ♅ Uranus in Taurus · house 6 ℞

   The urge to break something that still works.

   The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

   In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

   Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

9. ♆ Neptune in Virgo · house 10

   Where the edges go soft.

   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 Leo · house 8 ℞

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, 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.

11. ☊ True Node in Libra · house 10 ℞

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

12. ⚷ Chiron in Leo · house 8 ℞

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

13. ⚸ Lilith in Aries · house 4

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

The tightest aspects

1. ☽ Moon ☌ ♅ Uranus · conjunction, orb 1.07°

   The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

   Neither can act without the other coming along.

2. ♀ Venus ☍ ⚸ Lilith · opposition, orb 1.12°

   What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn face each other across the chart.

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

3. ☉ Sun ☍ ♅ Uranus · opposition, orb 1.38°

   The drive to be someone in particular 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.

4. ♃ Jupiter ☌ ♄ Saturn · conjunction, orb 1.40°

   The appetite for more room than is currently available and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

   Neither can act without the other coming along.

5. ☽ Moon △ ♆ Neptune · trine, orb 1.89°

   The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

6. ☉ Sun ☍ ☽ Moon · opposition, orb 2.45°

   The drive to be someone in particular and the need for safety, and the habits that supply it face each other across the chart.

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

How these readings are put together →