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Norman McLaren

11 April 1914 · 20:10 Europe/London
Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom · 56.12°N 3.94°W
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 Aries · house 6

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 1

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  3. Mercury in Pisces · house 5

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  4. Venus in Taurus · house 7

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  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 Aquarius · house 4

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 8

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 3

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 9

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 8

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  11. True Node in Pisces · house 4

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 4

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

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

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 6

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

The tightest aspects

  1. Lilith MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.06°

    What was refused, and refuses in turn and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  2. Saturn True Node · square, orb 0.20°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against 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. Sun Mars · square, orb 0.37°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the capacity to want something and go at it obstruct each other.

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

  4. Saturn Lilith · sextile, orb 0.98°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Saturn MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 1.05°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Mercury Neptune · trine, orb 1.57°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

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