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Philip K. Dick

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Philip K. Dick

16 December 1928 · 12:15 America/Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States · 41.85°N 87.65°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 Sagittarius · house 9

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  2. Moon in Aquarius · house 11

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  3. Mercury in Sagittarius · house 9

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

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

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 11

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 4

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  6. Jupiter in Taurus · house 1

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius · house 9

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by aiming past the target on principle.

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

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 1

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 6

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 4

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Gemini · house 2

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In bearing and first impression.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Sagittarius · house 9

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mars Neptune · sextile, orb 0.03°

    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.

  2. Mars MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.23°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.

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

  3. Venus Chiron · square, orb 0.22°

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

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

  4. Neptune MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.21°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  5. Jupiter MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.56°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  6. Sun Mercury · conjunction, orb 0.99°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →