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Olney H. Richmond

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22 February 1844 · 15:11 America/New_York
St. Johns, Florida, United States · 30.08°N 81.55°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 Pisces · house 8

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  2. Moon in Aries · house 10

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

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

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 7

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  4. Venus in Aries · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  5. Mars in Aries · house 10

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

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

  6. Jupiter in Pisces · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  7. Saturn in Aquarius · house 7

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 9

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

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

  9. Neptune in Aquarius · house 8

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  10. Pluto in Aries · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

    In the public record of a life.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 5

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, 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.

  12. Chiron in Leo · house 2

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Taurus · house 10

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Neptune Pluto · sextile, orb 0.25°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Mercury Venus · sextile, orb 0.54°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Mars AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.88°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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.

  4. Mars Pluto · conjunction, orb 1.09°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. Moon AC Ascendant · square, orb 1.23°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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 Neptune · sextile, orb 0.83°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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