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Ormond McGill

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15 June 1913 · 17:15 America/Los_Angeles
Palo Alto, CA, United States · 37.44°N 122.14°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 7

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

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

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 12

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

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

  3. Mercury in Cancer · house 8

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  4. Venus in Taurus · house 6

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

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

  5. Mars in Aries · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 2

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 7

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

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 8

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

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 8

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  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 Pisces · house 4

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.

    In the foundations, where the line comes from.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Venus · sextile, orb 0.04°

    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.

  2. Pluto True Node · square, orb 0.11°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived 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. Mars Pluto · sextile, orb 0.14°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Jupiter Chiron · sextile, orb 0.23°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Saturn MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.10°

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

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

  6. Venus MC Midheaven · trine, orb 1.39°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →