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Mighty Sparrow

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Mighty Sparrow

9 July 1935 · 06:00 America/Chicago
Grenada, Mississippi, United States · 33.77°N 89.81°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 Cancer · house 12

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  2. Moon in Libra · house 4

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 12

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  4. Venus in Virgo · house 2

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  5. Mars in Libra · house 4

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 5

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Pisces · house 9

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 10

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 1

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  11. True Node in Capricorn · house 7

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 11

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  13. Lilith in Virgo · house 3

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.00°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

  2. Moon True Node · square, orb 0.13°

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

  3. Saturn Lilith · opposition, orb 0.39°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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.

  4. Neptune Chiron · square, orb 0.87°

    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.

  5. Jupiter Neptune · sextile, orb 1.07°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Moon Mars · conjunction, orb 2.32°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

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