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Pierre Reverdy

13 September 1889 · 09:00 Europe/Paris
Narbonne, Occitanie, France · 43.18°N 3.00°E
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 Virgo · house 11

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 7

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

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

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 12

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

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

  4. Venus in Leo · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  5. Mars in Leo · house 10

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 2

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  7. Saturn in Leo · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    In the public record of a life.

  8. Uranus in Libra · house 12

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

  9. Neptune in Gemini · house 8

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 8

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 9

    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 long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Cancer · house 9

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 9

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Uranus Chiron · square, orb 0.02°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  2. Sun Chiron · sextile, orb 0.33°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Jupiter AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.46°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Moon True Node · sextile, orb 1.34°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Pluto MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 1.10°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Moon MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.99°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply 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.

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