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Pu Songling

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Pu Songling

5 June 1640 · 20:00 Asia/Shanghai
Zibo, Shandong, China · 36.79°N 118.06°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 Gemini · house 6

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  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 Gemini · house 6

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Taurus · house 5

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  5. Mars in Aquarius · house 2

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 1

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    In bearing and first impression.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Pisces · house 2

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  8. Uranus in Libra · house 10

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Scorpio · house 11

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 5

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 11

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 5

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

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

  13. Lilith in Taurus · house 4

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn True Node · square, orb 0.27°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

  2. Saturn Pluto · square, orb 0.78°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived obstruct each other.

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

  3. Mars AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.77°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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. Pluto True Node · opposition, orb 1.05°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Moon Jupiter · conjunction, orb 1.50°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the appetite for more room than is currently available are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Moon Lilith · trine, orb 1.37°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →