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Morley Cowles Ballantine

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21 May 1925 · 17:40 America/Chicago
Des Moines, IA, United States · 41.60°N 93.61°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 Gemini · house 8

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 7

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

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

  3. Mercury in Taurus · house 7

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

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  4. Venus in Gemini · house 8

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 9

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 1

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 5

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 10

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 9

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  11. True Node in Leo · house 10

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 6

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 9

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Jupiter · trine, orb 0.17°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

  2. Venus True Node · sextile, orb 0.73°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Chiron AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 1.49°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.

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

  4. Mercury True Node · square, orb 1.54°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.

  5. Mars Saturn · trine, orb 1.94°

    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.

  6. Moon Neptune · square, orb 2.24°

    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.

How these readings are put together →