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Piet Van Aken

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Piet Van Aken

15 February 1920 · 05:00 Europe/Brussels
Rumst, Flanders, Belgium · 51.08°N 4.42°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 Aquarius · house 2

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  2. Moon in Capricorn · house 1

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  3. Mercury in Pisces · house 2

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  4. Venus in Capricorn · house 1

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    In bearing and first impression.

  5. Mars in Scorpio · house 10

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  6. Jupiter in Leo · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Virgo · house 8

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 2

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 7

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 7

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Scorpio · house 10

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  13. Lilith in Sagittarius · house 12

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

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus True Node · sextile, orb 0.30°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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.

  2. Moon Uranus · sextile, orb 0.41°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Moon MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 0.47°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Uranus MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.89°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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. Mercury Uranus · conjunction, orb 1.26°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the impulse to break a pattern that still works are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Sun AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 1.05°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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