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Mike Barnicle

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Mike Barnicle

13 October 1943 · 09:05 America/New_York
Worcester, MA, United States · 42.26°N 71.80°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 Libra · house 11

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Aries · house 5

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 11

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

  4. Venus in Virgo · house 10

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

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

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 8

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  6. Jupiter in Leo · house 9

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 8

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Gemini · house 7

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 11

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.

    Among the people chosen rather than given.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 9

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  11. True Node in Leo · house 9

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    In what is believed, and how far it is carried.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Virgo · house 10

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

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

  13. Lilith in Leo · house 9

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

The tightest aspects

  1. Uranus Pluto · sextile, orb 0.07°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Sun Moon · opposition, orb 0.16°

    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.

  3. Venus Uranus · square, orb 0.41°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the impulse to break a pattern that still works obstruct each other.

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

  4. Mercury Neptune · conjunction, orb 0.49°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. True Node AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.52°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the face a life presents before it says anything obstruct each other.

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

  6. Mars Jupiter · sextile, orb 0.86°

    The capacity to want something and go at 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.

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky