← Catalogue · lawyer, minister, politician

Paul Segers

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12 October 1870 · 03:30 Europe/Brussels
Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium · 51.22°N 4.40°E
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 Libra · house 2

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 1

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Libra · house 1

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In bearing and first impression.

  5. Mars in Leo · house 11

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  6. Jupiter in Gemini · house 10

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius · house 4

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  8. Uranus in Cancer · house 11

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  9. Neptune in Aries · house 8

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 9

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 10

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 7

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Taurus · house 9

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Mars Neptune · trine, orb 0.19°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  2. Mercury Venus · conjunction, orb 0.21°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Mercury Chiron · opposition, orb 0.26°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the injury that becomes a competence face each other across the chart.

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

  4. Venus Chiron · opposition, orb 0.47°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the injury that becomes a competence face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Pluto AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.48°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived 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. Moon Lilith · conjunction, orb 1.28°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →

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