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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

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6 March 1940 · 20:30 Europe/Paris
Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France · 47.39°N 0.70°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 Pisces · house 6

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

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

  2. Moon in Aquarius · house 5

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

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

  3. Mercury in Aries · house 6

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Aries · house 7

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

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

  5. Mars in Taurus · house 8

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  6. Jupiter in Aries · house 7

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  7. Saturn in Aries · house 7

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

    In one-to-one dealings, allied or opposed.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 12

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Libra · house 1

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

  12. Chiron in Cancer · house 10

    The injury that becomes a competence, 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.

  13. Lilith in Pisces · house 6

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus Saturn · conjunction, orb 0.65°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Mercury Pluto · trine, orb 0.68°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  3. Moon True Node · trine, orb 0.83°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.

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

  4. Jupiter Chiron · square, orb 0.78°

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

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

  5. Uranus Lilith · sextile, orb 0.55°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. AC Ascendant MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.35°

    The face a life presents before it says anything 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.

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