← Catalogue · writer, novelist

Misha Defonseca

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12 May 1937 · 09:55 Europe/Brussels
Etterbeek, Brussels Capital, Belgium · 50.83°N 4.39°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 Taurus · house 11

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Gemini · house 11

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  3. Mercury in Taurus · house 11

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Aries · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  5. Mars in Sagittarius · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 6

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  7. Saturn in Aries · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 12

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

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

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 5

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 11

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

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

  13. Lilith in Scorpio · house 5

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.03°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  2. Jupiter Pluto · opposition, orb 0.58°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what will not be negotiated with, only survived face each other across the chart.

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

  3. Moon Neptune · square, orb 0.73°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

  4. Mars Saturn · trine, orb 0.91°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it run together easily.

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

  5. Mars AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.94°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  6. Neptune True Node · square, orb 1.04°

    The pull toward what has no edges 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.

How these readings are put together →

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